Tata Consumer Products facts for kids
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Formerly
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Tata Tea Limited Tata Global Beverages Limited |
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| ISIN | ISIN: [https://isin.toolforge.org/?language=en&isin=INE192A01025 INE192A01025] |
| Industry | Fast-moving consumer goods |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, India |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chairman) Sunil D’Souza (CEO & MD) |
| Revenue |  ₹17,811 crore (US$3.0 billion) (FY2025) |
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Operating income
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₹1,776 crore (US$300 million) (FY2025) |
| ₹1,380 crore (US$230 million) (FY2025) |
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| Total assets | ₹31,977 crore (US$5.4 billion) (FY2025) |
| Total equity | ₹21,390 crore (US$3.6 billion) (FY2025) |
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Number of employees
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4,517 (2024) |
| Parent | Tata Group |
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| Footnotes / references Financials as of 31 March 2025[update]. |
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Tata Consumer Products Limited is a big Indian company that makes everyday items like food and drinks. It's part of the famous Tata Group. Its main office is in Kolkata, and its head office is in Mumbai. It's one of the world's biggest companies for making and selling tea. It also produces a lot of coffee.
This company used to be called Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL). In February 2020, the part of Tata Chemicals that made consumer products joined with Tata Global Beverages. This created Tata Consumer Products. Now, the company works in the food and drinks business. About 56% of its money comes from India. The rest comes from its businesses around the world. After the merger, the company owns popular Indian and international brands. These include Tata Salt, Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Good Earth Tea, Tata Sampann, and Tata Starbucks.
Tata Tea is the most popular tea brand in India. Tetley is the top-selling tea brand in Canada. It is also the second most popular in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Contents
How the Company Grew
Starting Out: The 1980s
In the early 1980s, making tea in India became more expensive. Costs for materials and workers went up. Also, taxes were high. India faced strong competition in the world market. Other countries, like China, were also selling a lot of tea.
In 1983, Tata Tea bought shares from the James Finlay group. This made Tata Tea its own company. That same year, the company decided to focus on selling branded products. They launched their first brand, Tata Tea. Later, they added other brands like Kannan Devan, Agni, Gemini, and Chakra Gold. Even though India was the biggest tea market, it took time for people to buy branded tea.
In 1987, Tata Tea started a company in the United States called Tata Tea Inc.
Growing Globally: The 1990s
In the 1990s, Tata Tea wanted to sell its brands all over the world. In 1992, they teamed up with Britain's Tetley Tea to export products. They also bought a large part of Consolidated Coffee Ltd., which became Tata Coffee Ltd. They even started a joint company to manage farms in Sri Lanka. Tata Tea Inc. in the United States made and sold instant tea. This tea came from their facilities in Munnar and Kerala. In 1993, they joined with Allied Lyons PLC in the UK to form Estate Tata Tetley.
By 1999, Tata Tea's brands made up 25% of the market in India. The company had 74 tea gardens. They produced 6.2 crore kilograms of tea each year. Two-thirds of this was packaged and branded. Towards the end of the year, a drought in India affected the tea business. Also, Russia, which used to buy a lot of Indian tea, stopped buying for a while.
Big Changes: The 2000s
In 2000, Tata Tea bought the Tetley Group from the United Kingdom. This was a very large purchase for an Indian company at the time. Tetley was the world's second-largest tea company. It was very popular in Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East.
Tetley started in 1837. It was the first British tea company to sell tea bags in the UK in 1953. Later, they introduced round tea bags in 1989. In 1997, they made a "no drip, no mess" drawstring bag. Today, Tetley brings in about two-thirds of Tata Tea's total sales.
From 2005, Tata Tea started to change how it owned tea farms in India. They sold off direct ownership of some plantations. The World Bank's International Finance Corporation helped them with loans for this.
In 2006, Tata Tea bought Eight O'Clock Coffee. This was a coffee company based in the U.S.
Recent Growth: 2010 to Today
On January 30, 2012, Tata Consumer Products Limited and Starbucks created a joint company. It's called Tata Starbucks Limited. This company owns and runs Starbucks coffee shops in India. The stores opened in 2012, first in Delhi and Mumbai. These coffee shops get their coffee beans from Tata Coffee, which is another company under Tata Consumer Products Limited.
On May 15, 2019, Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) announced a big change. Their Consumer Products Business would join with TGBL to become Tata Consumer. This change officially happened on February 7, 2020. After this, TGBL was renamed Tata Consumer Products Limited. Now, Tata Consumer Products brings together many food and drink brands. These include Tata Salt, Tata Tea, Tata Sampann, Tetley, Soulfull, and Himalayan mineral water.
In November 2021, Tata Consumer Products took full control of Tata SmartFoodz Limited. In May 2022, Tata Consumer Products announced that Tata Coffee would join with them. This merger was completed in late 2023. In July 2022, Tata Consumer Products launched new honey products and fruit preserves. These were sold under their Himalayan brand. Also in July 2022, the company started selling plant-based meat products. These are called Tata Simply Better.
In January 2024, Tata Consumer bought Capital Foods. This company owns the Ching's Secret and Smith & Jones brands. They also bought Organic India.
How the Company Works
The company changed its name to Tata Global Beverages (now Tata Consumer Products Limited). This was to show they wanted to get into healthy drinks too. Through its smaller companies, Tata Consumer Products Limited makes 7 crore kilograms of tea in India. It manages 54 tea farms and ten tea mixing and packaging factories. About 59,000 people work for the company. The company owns 51 tea farms in India and Sri Lanka. Many are in Assam, West Bengal, and Kerala. The company is the biggest maker of Assam tea and Darjeeling tea. It is also the second-largest maker of Ceylon tea.
Tata Consumer Products Limited started in 1964. It was a joint venture with James Finlay and Company from the United Kingdom. They wanted to make more valuable tea products. Now, Tata Consumer Products Limited sells products and has brands in 50 countries. It is one of India's first multinational companies. The company and its smaller businesses mainly focus on branded tea products. But they also have a big part in growing tea in India and Sri Lanka.
Most of Tata Consumer Products Limited's money comes from its branded tea business around the world. About 86% of its sales come from this. The rest comes from bulk tea, coffee, and other investments. The company has about 159 square kilometers of land for growing tea. They produce about 30 million kilograms of black tea every year. Instant tea is used for light teas, iced tea mixes, and ready-to-drink beverages.
Tata Consumer Products Limited owns five brands in India: Tata Tea, Tetley, Kannan Devan, Chakra Gold, and Gemini. The company has a special factory in Munnar, Kerala, that makes instant tea only for export. This is the biggest factory of its kind outside the United States. Tata Consumer Products Limited has smaller companies in Australia, Great Britain, The United States of America, Czechia, and India.
Brands and Products
Tata Consumer Products makes many different items. Here are some of their main brands and products:
Tea Products
- Tata Tea
- Good Earth Teas
- Tetley
- 1868 by Tata Tea
- Teapigs
- Vitax
- Joekels
- Organic India - Teas & infusions
Coffee Products
- Tata Coffee Grand
- Eight O'Clock Coffee
- Sonnets by Tata Coffee
- Tata Coffee Gold
- Tata Coffee Quick Filter
- Tata Coffee Cold Coffee
Liquid Drinks
- Tata Copper+
- Himalayan Natural Mineral Water
- Tata Gluco+
- Tata Fruski
Food Items
- Tata Salt
- Ching's Secret
- Smith & Jones
- Tata Sampann
Herbal Supplements
- Organic India - Herbal supplements
Helping Communities
Jaago Re! Campaign
Tata Global Beverages worked with Janaagraha on a project called "Jaago Re!" (which means "Wake Up!"). This campaign encouraged people to register to vote. After that, the company used the campaign to speak out against unfair practices. The Jaago Re! website helps people talk about these and other important social issues.
Scholarships for Students
On March 17, 2013, Tata Global Beverages gave out special scholarships. These were called the Tata Global Beverages Re-imagination Scholarships. Eight students from the 'Urban Scholars' program at Brunel University in London received them. To get the scholarship, students had to write an essay. The essay topic was about how drinks create special moments in our lives.
Who Owns the Company
The largest part of the company is owned by the Indian founders, the TATA Group, with 34.66% of the shares. Investment groups called Mutual Funds own 14.86%. Foreign investors (FPIs) own 17.05%. Regular people who are not big investors own 20.38% of the shares.
| Shareholders (as on 31 March 2024) | Shareholding |
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| Promoter | 33.55% |
| FIIs | 25.46% |
| DIIs | 17.39% |
| Government | 0.01% |
| Public | 23.59% |
| Total | 100.0% |
More to Explore
- History of tea in India
- Munnar Tea Museum
- Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company
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