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J. R. D. Tata was born on 29 July 1904 to an Indian Parsi family in Paris, France. He was the second child of businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife, Suzanne "Sooni" Brière . [ 2 ] His father was the first cousin of Jamsetji Tata , a pioneer industrialist in India.
He joined Tata Sons as an unpaid apprentice in 1925. In 1938, at the age of 34, JRD was elected Chairman of Tata Sons making him the head of the largest industrial group in India. Under his chairmanship, the assets of the Tata Group grew from US$100 million to over US$5 billion. [8]
Therefore Ratanji was a maternal cousin of Jamsetji and belonged to the broader Tata family. He married Suzanne RD Tata, a French Catholic, and had five children, including: J. R. D. Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993), son of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata by his wife Suzanne.
J. R. D. Tata was chairman of Tata Group 1938–1991. J. R. D. Tata was made chairman of the Tata Group in 1938. Under his chairmanship, the assets of the Tata Group grew from US$101 million to over US$5 billion.
Panoramic view of the JRD Tata Sports Complex. They play their home games at JRD Tata Sports Complex, popularly known as "The Furnace". The club is the only club in the Indian Super League to have a stadium of its own. The stadium was named after the former Tata Group chairman J. R. D. Tata. The stadium was originally built in 1991, with a ...
Suzanne RD Tata This page was last edited on 12 February 2024, at 03:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Ratanji Tata (1871–1918), financier and philanthropist, son of Jamsetji Tata; J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993), Indian pioneer aviator and founder of Tata Airlines; Naval H. Tata (1904–1989), industrialist, recipient of Padma Bhushan; Ratan Naval Tata (1937–2024), chairman of the Tata Group (1991–2012) Simone Tata (born 1930), chairperson of ...
He founded Titan as a joint venture with J. R. D. Tata in 1986, with support from the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation. [4] He had suggested the idea of a watchmaking company to Tata in the 1970s, who liked it, but bureaucratic hassles took time till the company was opened in 1986 in Hosur. [5] [6] [7]