Tata International Limited A Tata Group Company

Established in ***2, Tata International has evolved from an export house into an international business company with a global turnover of US$ **0 million in ******7. In international trading, it encompasses the entire value chain from sourcing products to delivery. The company has taken on various value-added roles and has stakes in a cross-section of businesses. It's business lines include leather, engineering and pharmaceutical products. With the worldwide reach provided by a well-integrated network that spans the globe, the company has strengthened its capability to source globally, deliver world class quality, work with global brands, and has developed some key international alliances for sustaining future growth. Its major markets are Europe, Africa, SAARC, ASEAN, West Asia, the Far East, and Oceania. Tata International is a member of the Tata Group - India's best known industrial group, with an estimated turnover of US $ *8.8 billion (equivalent to 3.2 % of India's GDP). Besides its trading house profile the company has stakes in mines, a five star hotel, distributorships, trailer and railway wagon manufacturers and IT ventures; it has customer support facilities for Tata vehicles, design studios for leather, and warehouses dotted across the world. In tune with the Tata ethos, Tata International is a signatory to the United Nations' Global Compact. The R&D division of Tata International's Leather GBU, the company's only manufacturing operation, fosters environmental projects that look at the future needs of the leather industry, including patented technologies for energy generation from waste and for leather processing. In this respect, in ***3 the company won the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Environmental Protection and in ***5 it won the TERI Corporate Environmental Award.