Thread: Tata may start giving a damn about Australia.

11% does not normally involve operational control, but it may lead to some interest in the question as to why the operator wants to use their competitor's vehicles, and perhaps even some action to change the operator's mind.

But this investment is almost certainly directed at getting Tata involved in renewable energy as a counter for their carbon intensive steel interests, looking to the future of carbon trading.

John

Tata is a huge company at the forefront of the Indian economy...and not to be ignored.

Geodynamics is a very small innovative Australian company with a vision... a base load power supply for a previously coal dependant economy.

Land Rover doesn't register on this Richter Scale. So lets not kid ourselves.

Tata will get a non executive directorship on the board for 10% of the share holding. What are the rest of us doing?

Buy shares.

Hi there

It looks like Tata Industries may be starting to have an interest in Australia! One of it's subsidiaries Tata Power, is planning to take an 11% share in Geodynamics an Australian company planning to build a geothermal power plant in South Australia. Indian giant Tata invests in Australia - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News

I wonder if it will also translate into improvements in service and promotion of the Defender models as viable options for industries in Australia or like other business will they purchase 4WDs from their automotive compeditors T*#%&@?

Thanks for this post Diana:

TATA are doing well currently in SA within the Mining Industry - especailly with the promotion of the TATA truck range. We now have quite a few 8x8 TATA truck being used for drill plats and they have been well received by the people whom use them.

These trucks look like something out of the Russia Army - but there build quality is great and very capable off-road, and before some one asks they also build Fire Engines in all wheel drive configeration.

As for the Defender range of vehicles within the Mining Industry - I am not sure due to the alloy panels and our highly corosive enviroment. But I assure you many in the mining industry are looking at replacement general work vehicles due to the problems with the new V8 diesel TOYOTA's.

Wayne

Whereis India getting all the coin...do they have the baby bonus there? or is this what happens when a country doesn't waste money on the dole?

India is infact a very wealthy country. They just dont share it and have a disproportionate share of poor or destitute people. And they pay their employees peanuts same as China. Thats why international companies take a lot of their operations to India as they welcome it, unlike China.

Does this mean a geothermal Defender is in the works??

Originally Posted by DirtyDawg

Whereis India getting all the coin...do they have the baby bonus there? or is this what happens when a country doesn't waste money on the dole?

As with China, India has, over the last fifty years or so, developed an enormous domestic market (heavily tariff protected) due to the rapidly growing middle class.

Traditionally, the middle class market (which is where the opportunities are - unlike lower class they have spare money, and unlike upper class there are a lot of them in a developed economy) has been concentrated in North America, Europe, and Japan, with negligible markets outside these areas (Australia, NZ etc are too small to matter), but it is now estimated that by 2010 the majority of middle class people will live in China and India.

This is what India has that we don't - a huge domestic market for just about everything, simply because of their population base. And Tata has grown with it, and in the last ten or fifteen years has expanded beyond India, largely by takeovers, able to finance these by their domestic muscle. (A local example of similar activities would be BHP, which started major overseas takeovers twenty-five years ago with Utah - but their market was not mainly domestic, so less dependent on population).

I do not think it has anything to do with what governments waste money on, but certainly has to do with whether governments allow accumulation of capital and allow enterprise to be rewarded (and allow failures to fail), which implies that governments do not waste too much money.

John

Originally Posted by ellard

...TATA are doing well currently in SA within the Mining Industry - especailly with the promotion of the TATA truck range. We now have quite a few 8x8 TATA truck being used for drill plats and they have been well received by the people whom use them.

These trucks look like something out of the Russia Army - but there build quality is great and very capable off-road, and before some one asks they also ...

... Wayne

Wayne

I have never heard of 8 X 8 TATAs.

I have however heard of and seen video of the Tatra brand made in the Czech Republic and very Russian Army looking . . . . because they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Epd4WZypvA






Both of the above are Tatra's.

http://www.fozfogotrucks.com/video/F..._9-20-2006.mpg

Diana

Addit: Have been searching all day to find a TATA 8 X 8 and the best I can find is a 4 X 4 truck, although they do make 6 X 4 so it may be possible to make a 6 X 6 however the diff ratios are different and it would be not much better than the WWII GMC deuce and a half or the Studebaker, not the independant suspension of the Tatra.

mmmmmmmmmmmm tatra