New Delhi: Four months after taking charge of Tata Motors Ltd, Guenter Butschek is preparing to introduce several changes at India’s largest auto maker that will realign verticals such as production, supply, research and development and human resources, in an attempt to remove operational bottlenecks. Currently, these verticals function independently and report directly to the managing director, resulting in a lack of coordination at Tata Motors. The company has often been found wanting at processing demand for its vehicles in the market.

Tata Motors wants to make design the heart of its passenger vehicle business in the home market. Like Apple, which has redefined the way companies sell experiences, Tata Motors wants to connect with the consumers’ senses, not only sell them vehicles. The attempt has been happening for a while now in three design centres of the company — Pune, Italy and Coventry (UK). This is redefining the way the company thinks and connects with the millennials, key target group for most consumer companies.

Shares of Tata Motors and Tata Motors DVR (differential voting rights) have touched their respective 52-week highs on the BSE in intra-day trade Tuesday on strong retail sales in May by its UK subsidiary and luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

“The all-new Jaguar F-PACE helped propel JLR to its best ever May, with retail sales of 44,946 vehicles, up 18% on May 2015,” Tata Motors said in a press release.

The Indian Army, under its welfare and development initiative, Operation Sadbhavna has tied up with Tata Motors for training of Kashmir youth as Automobile Service Technicians.

The first thirteen-week certified training course has been scheduled at the TATA Motors facility at Ropar, Punjab. 29 younsters from Kashmir have been selected for this course.

Tata Motors today reported a 1 per cent growth in sales at 40,071 units in May compared with 39,496 in the same month last year.

Domestic sales of Tata Motors’ commercial and passenger vehicles rose 2 per cent at 35,643 units during the month as against the same period of previous year.

Tata Motors reported stellar numbers for the March quarter, with 19 per cent year-on-year consolidated revenue growth at Rs 80,684 crore.

Strong sales growth of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) across geographies and robust commercial vehicle in the domestic market drove the growth.

India's Tata Motors is in talks with a local manufacturer in Iran to set up a joint venture for assembling its petrol cars here, as it looks to tap the fast growing market that has just emerged from sanctions.

Tata Motors is talking to Iran Khodro company for a joint venture to assemble knocked down units of the petrol versions of its models, including the latest compact car Tiago, Bolt and Zest, which are powered by the company's new Revotron petrol engines, sources said here. Knocked down version of the cars will be imported and assembled at Iran Khodro's manufacturing facility after adding local contents like tyres and batteries.

Tata Motors plans to raise Rs 300 crore through issuance of second series of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) to bankroll its expansion plan.

The fund-raising is part of the company's plan to mop up Rs 4,400 crore through issuance of NCDs in one or more tranches on a private placement basis.

Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) on Monday posted a 11 per cent increase in its April sales at 41,341 units, helped by incremental volumes of the new compact Jaguar XE.

Retail sales for the month of April were up year-on-year across all regions 25 per cent in the UK, 11 per cent in China, 10 per cent in Europe and two per cent in North America.

While Indian pharmaceutical companies and infotech companies are leading India Inc in research and development (R&D) expenses and patent applications, but a majority of local companies are lagging global peers in R&D spending.

According to statistics of the stock exchanges, pharmaceutical firm, Lupin spent the most in R&D as percentage of its net sales (8.9 per cent), Tata Motors spent the maximum in value terms (Rs 2,200 crore) in the financial year 2015.

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