GREAT HONOUR - BY QUEEN OF BRITAIN
Queen's honour: For Sir Ratan Tata
Goodmorning Everybody
QUEEN of BRITAIN = The queen on Thursday conferred the rank of Knight Comm-
ander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [KBE] on former Chairman
of the Tata group, Ratan Tata. He is the first Indian to recieve this honour.
The KBE is one of the highest honours given by the Queen of Civillians. It is comm-
only given to the Diplomatic Service and Overseas list but is also given to Britons
based abroad or in an honorary capacity to foreign nationals.
Ratan Tata was given the hounour for his "Service to UK-India relations, inward
investment to the UK and philanthropy". The former Chairman of Tata group under
whose leadership the group's revenues grew exponentially - retired on the Dec 2012
after a 50-year run at the helm. Cyrus Mistry took over as the new Chairman.
The Tata group is highly popular in the UK. British car brands Jaguar and Land
Rover became part of the Tata group in 2008. The company employs over
16,000 people its manufacturing facilities in the UK, Including 3,500 engineers at
its two product Research and development.centres. Around 78% of Land Rovers
are exported to 169 countries while Jaguar exports 70% of its products to 63 count-
ries around the world.
The Tata group purchased Corus Steel UK in 2007, later Corus Steel integrated
into as Tata Europe as a steel maker in Europe its steel plants spread across UK,
Netherland, France.
Tata Limited was established in London in 1907 to be Tata group's representative
in Europe. Tata companies have operations and a 60,000 strong workforce spread
across Europe. Tata's association with the UK academia also dates back to the
establishment of the Sir Ratan Tata Department at the London School of Econo-
mics. = TOI.
IT IS GREAT HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE FOR SIR RATAN TATA TO HAVE
CONFERRED FROM THE QUEEN OF BRITAIN THE RANK OF KNIGHT
COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
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