Ratan Tata is an 81 year old Indian investor, industrialist, philanthropist. He was formerly the chairman of Tata Sons company of which he now serves as chairman emeritus. He was also formerly the chairman of Tata Group for 14 years and then an interim chairman for 2 years. As a businessman, Tata started and set some high standards for ethics in the business.
In this article, you will learn about Ratan Tata income, earnings, salary, early life and other information.
Ratan Tata Life
Ratan Tata was born to Naval Tata on 28th December 1937 in Bombay under Bombay Presidency of British India (currently in Maharashtra). Naval Tata was a director in many of the Tata companies and a Padma Bhushan recipient.
Tata attended multiple schools including the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and Campion School and finally graduated from Riverdale County School in New York. He then pursued a Bachelors of Architecture degree in Architecture with Structural Engineering from Cornell University and graduated in 1959.
Tata joined the Tata Group at the very bottom by working on the shop floor of Tata Steel. He then got promoted to management in the 1970s and when JRD Tata retired in 1991, he named him as his successor as the chairman of the Tata Group. Tata companies saw a golden era under Ratan Tata as revenues went up by 40 per cent and profits went up by 50 per cent during his 21 years as chairman.
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Ratan Tata is credited with the globalization of Tata Group as he acquired many foreign brands to expand Tata Group’s footprint to the world. He got Tata Steel to acquire Corus, Tata Tea to acquire Tetley and Tata Motors to acquire Jaguar Land Rover among many other companies. Tata soon became a global brand and started to see a lot of revenue from around 100 countries.
RATAN TATA INCOME 2020: 850 MILLION DOLLARS (APPROX)
Ratan Tata Income
Ratan Tata income comes from his shares in the different Tata companies and his different investments in various companies. He, along with the Tata family own over 66% of the Tata companies through their trust.
Ratan Tata earnings in his last year of being chairman of the Tata Group was around Rs. 70 lakhs per year, which changed depending on revenue.
Ratan Tata net worth is at present around 850 million dollars. On paper, as he oversees the trust that controls the Tata family shares, he is the richest Indian, but Tata Group has committed 65% of profits or dividends from the Tata companies to charity, hence Ratan Tata’s net worth has always remained under a billion dollars.
He has invested from his personal savings to many companies which have added to Ratan Tata income. He invested Rs. 95 lakhs in Ola and Rs. 1 crore in Paytm. He has also invested in Snapdeal, Dogspot, Nestaway, Teabox, Cashkaro, in bitcoin company Abra and finally bought a stake in mobile manufacturer Xiaomi from his personal wealth.
Ratan Tata House and Cars
Ratan Tata house includes a lavish seafront property in Colaba, Mumbai named “Bakhtawar”. He bought this house in 2015 and it is reportedly worth Rs. 150 crores. The house is three storied and every floor has two levels. The ground floor has a kitchen, a study, a living room and a bedroom.
The first floor has a study, bedrooms and a living area. The second floor has his personal gym, a modern media room and a bedroom. The top floor has an infinity pool, a bar, and a sun deck. The basement of the houses has parking space for 10 – 12 cars and servants quarters.
Ratan Tata cars include a Tata Nexon worth Rs. 7 lakhs, a Ferrari California worth Rs. 3.5 crores, a Honda Civic worth Rs. 20 lakhs, a Mercedes Benz 500 SL worth Rs. 1 crore, a Land Rover Freelander worth Rs. 45 lakhs, a Mercedes Benz W124 worth Rs. 23 lakhs, a Cadillac XLR worth Rs. 75 lakhs, a Chrysler Sebring, a Mercedes S Class worth Rs. 2.75 crores, and a Tata Indigo Marina worth Rs. 5 lakhs custom made to house his dogs.
That is a very extensive collection which shows his admiration for cars.
Conclusion
Ratan Tata is one of the leading philanthropists in India as he ensures that Tata group donates to different causes like education, rural development and medicine, among others.
Tata Group not only donates in India but it donates for causes abroad as well, famously donating 50 million dollars to Harvard Business School for setting up of an executive centre in the campus. It also gave 35 million dollars to Carnegie Mellon University for research on cognitive systems and autonomous cars.
Tata has been showered with prestigious awards. He has won numerous entrepreneurial accolades and has been featured on Forbes Powerful Men list multiple times. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2000 and Padma Vibhushan in 2008 by the Indian government and Legion of Honour in 2016 by the French government.
Ratan Tata is an inspiration in terms of hard work and for setting up high standards of ethics and proper work culture in the country and the youth will benefit immensely from looking up to him as their idol and role model.
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