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• Tata leads bids for Jaguar, Land Rover

  - 2008-01-04

  DETROIT -- An Indian car maker that will unveil the world's cheapest car next week may soon produce two of the world's premier brands as well. Ford Motor Co. named Tata Motors Ltd. the top bidder for its Jaguar and Land Rover brands Thursday and entered into...

  Tags: Branding, FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Government, Jaguar, Land Rover, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Tata Motors, Tata Steel Ltd.

• Brazil, India will spur coal output: Mozambique, blessed with plentiful natural resources, will soon be able to exploit its large coal reserves through a deal with a Brazilian company. India's Tata Steel is also poised to follow suit. Neil Ford reports

  - 2007-10-01

  Mozambique's success in re-establishing a viable economy since the end of the civil war in 1992 has been well documented. A decade of 10% growth annually enabled the country to rebound from the years of devastation. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Improvements to port, rail and power sector infrastructure have helped...

  Tags: coal, FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Investment, Tata Steel Ltd.

• European shares dip, but Corus rockets on Tata takeover

  - 2007-01-31

  LONDON AFP — European stocks have fallen as caution prevailed before a US interest rate decision, but shares in London-listed Corus surged after Tata Steel clinched a multi-billion-dollar takeover of the group. The British capital's FTSE 100 index of top shares shed 0.10 percent Wednesday to 6,235.50 points in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, chip, FINANCE, HARDWARE, Semiconductors, Tata Steel Ltd.

• India's Tata plans to up bid for Britain's Corus: report

  - 2007-01-02

  NEW DELHI AFP — India's Tata Steel is expected to raise its bid for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus by seven to 10 percent within the next fortnight, the Business Standard financial daily has reported. The Tata group, locked in a fight with Brazilian rival CSN for Britain's biggest steel company, is...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, India, Tata Steel Ltd.

• Steelmaker CSN tops Tata's bid for Corus Group

  - 2006-12-12

  LONDON -- Brazilian steelmaker CSN raised the stakes in the takeover war for Britain's Corus Group PLC on Monday, making a 4.9 billion pound ($9.6 billion) bid that topped a sweetened offer by Tata Steel of India. Companhia Siderurgica Nacional SA's offer of 515 pence ($10) per share...

  Tags: Corus Group, FINANCE, Investment, Tata Steel Ltd.

• TATA SHOWS INDIAN FIRMS' METTLE WITH BID FOR CORUS

  - 2006-12-01

  INDIA In what is the largest-ever acquisition by an Indian company, Tata Steel, India's second largest steel maker, has bid £4.55 ($8.67) a share for a majority stake in Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group. The Corus board of directors approved the deal and has recommended it to shareholders. Tata,...

  Tags: Corus Group, FINANCE, India, Investment, Manufacturing, Tata Steel Ltd.

• Corus looks for bid from CSN to counter Tata offer

  - 2006-11-27

  LONDON AFP — British steel maker Corus has said it wants to postpone a shareholders' vote for two weeks on a takeover bid from Tata Steel of India to allow time for Brazilian producer CSN to make a counter-offer. "The Board of Corus has decided that it is in the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, shareholder, Tata Steel Ltd.

• India's Tata Steel keeps quiet on Corus intentions

  - 2006-11-25

  NEW DELHI AFP — India's Tata Steel would not comment on whether it was staying in the race for Corus Group after investors allied to Brazilian steelmaker CSN were reported to have scaled up their combined stake in the Anglo-Dutch company to more than 15 percent. "We have nothing to...

  Tags: Corus Group, FINANCE, Investment, Tata Steel Ltd.

• Brazil's CSN hopes to make formal bid for Corus before December 4

  - 2006-11-24

  LONDON AFP — Brazilian steel firm CSN wants to make a rival bid for Corus before the Anglo-Dutch group's shareholders meet on December 4 to consider an offer from India's Tata Steel. Companhia Siderurgica Nacional announced on November 11 that it had made a informal bid approach to Corus, setting...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Tata Steel Ltd.

• Nerves Of Steel Ratan Tata pulls off a spectacular $8-billion (Rs 36,800 crore) deal to buy the Anglo-Dutch Corus and pole-vaults his company into the global league.

  - 2006-11-19

  Last November, Tata group chairman Ratan Tata played host to Jim Leng, Chairman of Corus Steel PLC, who was in Mumbai on a rare visit. The meeting was held in the Tata bastion in Mumbai, Bombay House. To most people, it could have just passed off as a routine meeting...

  Tags: Corus Group, FINANCE, Investment, Strategy, Tata Steel Ltd.