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Bismyth piefed.social Bismyth@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-08-04
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Me: I need a car. Tata: here you go. Me: Thanks, now if only I had steel to build a skyscraper, electricity to power it, a satellite internet link, enterprise software for my business, an industrial excavator, an air conditioner, agricultural pesticide, a home loan, a mutual fund portfolio, a life insurance policy, an online pharmacy app, a grocery delivery service, an electronics store, a fashion boutique, a diamond necklace, a wristwatch, a packet of salt, a box of tea, a bag of coffee, a bottle of mineral water, a table at Starbucks, a room at a 5-star hotel, an airline ticket, and a military armored vehicle... Tata: You're not gonna fucking believe this
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Kevin programming.dev technohacker@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-01
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It's genuinely impressive how many domains they've conglomerated into, I'd compare them to Samsung. Kinda helps that the family is more of the industrialist kind rather than the pure corpo kind, though I really wouldn't be surprised if they had controversies of their own

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Haha. Love a suffocating conglomerate that has privatized all my country's domestic utilities and critical infrastructure. Lolz.

Great add. 5/7. tips fedora

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TheMightyCat ani.social TheMightyCat@ani.social
Joined: 2025-06-30
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It's genuinely impressive how many domains they've conglomerated into, I'd compare them to Samsung. Kinda helps that the family is more of the industrialist kind rather than the pure corpo kind, though I really wouldn't be surprised if they had controversies of their own

though I really wouldn’t be surprised if they had controversies of their own

https://nos.nl/zoeken?q=tata&page=1

Pick any article here really, its all controversy.

Tata steel is not really a well liked name in the netherlands

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Lemon it's called vertical integration

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JusticeForPorygon lemmy.blahaj.zone JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-01-19
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It's genuinely impressive how many domains they've conglomerated into, I'd compare them to Samsung. Kinda helps that the family is more of the industrialist kind rather than the pure corpo kind, though I really wouldn't be surprised if they had controversies of their own

I was just about to make a joke about Samsung in South Korea

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Chronographs lemmy.zip Chronographs@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-15
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My first time ever hearing of the tata group

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Wholesome failure of antitrust law.

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doleo lemmy.one doleo@lemmy.one
Joined: 2023-06-15
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Haha. Love a suffocating conglomerate that has privatized all my country's domestic utilities and critical infrastructure. Lolz. Great add. 5/7. tips fedora

Yeah idk what exactly is supposed to be nice about this meme

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Kevin programming.dev technohacker@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Haha. Love a suffocating conglomerate that has privatized all my country's domestic utilities and critical infrastructure. Lolz. Great add. 5/7. tips fedora

I'm not sure it's all of them really. Electricity, water, waste disposal and intra state roads are usually state/city owned utilities in India, with Highway, Railway and most of the Oil and Gas ones under the central government. Some are taken up by both, like public education. Even for the ones that Tata and Reliance are fairly nestled in, there's government owned competitors (ex. Steel manufacture and Telcom)

I'm necessarily summarising here, but there's a non-negligible level of public sector competition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Sector_Undertakings_in_India

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Kevin programming.dev technohacker@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-01
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though I really wouldn’t be surprised if they had controversies of their own https://nos.nl/zoeken?q=tata&page=1 Pick any article here really, its all controversy. Tata steel is not really a well liked name in the netherlands

Oof, yeah that's rough. Thanks for sharing this though, this is the first time I'd heard of Tata owning steel manufacture overseas too

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kunaltyagi programming.dev kunaltyagi@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Haha. Love a suffocating conglomerate that has privatized all my country's domestic utilities and critical infrastructure. Lolz. Great add. 5/7. tips fedora

Most "family" businesses (like Chaebols in Korea, Keiretsu in Japan) are diversified to reduce risk.

This is in fair contrast to vertical integration often seen in Western companies (and also some rare instances when the state orders it) who only diversify when opportunities arise, not for risk reduction.

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