Tata Consumer Products Share Price

Tata Consumer Products is a Mumbai-based fast-moving consumer goods company that is part of the Tata Group. Kolkata is the company's registered office. It is the world's second-largest tea producer and distributor and a major coffee grower.

Tata Consumer Products, formerly Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL), was founded in February 2020 when Tata Chemicals' consumer products company amalgamated with Tata Global Beverages. The company now works in the food and beverage industry, with India accounting for 56% of sales and the rest coming from worldwide operations.

Tata Salt, Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Good Earth Tea, Tata Sampann, and Tata Starbucks are among the Indian and worldwide brands the firm now holds following the merger. In India, Tata Tea is the most popular tea brand, whereas Tetley is the most popular tea brand in Canada and the second most popular in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Tata Consumer Product Ltd – Growth History and Empire Expansion

The company was formed as a private limited company on 18th October 1963 and was changed to a public limited company on 8th May 1963. The company cultivates tea, coffee, cardamom, and other plantations and manufactures, distributes, and exports instant, blended, and packet teas.

It has an instant tea factory in Munnar, Kerala, and blending and packaging plants in Bangalore, Karnataka, and Naine, Allahabad (UP). In 1968, the company's business was harmed by high development costs for marketing and producing instant tea using the green leaf technique, a previously untested commercial process with enormous potential.

By 1971 around 50,000 shares were issued in May 1863, and 94,00 shares, valued at Rs 87.50 per share, were paid up in December 1963. In October 1964, 6,000 shares were distributed without payment in cash. The ownership structure of several Finlay Tea Associates was changed, resulting in the Consolidated Tea and Lands Co. (India) Ltd. being a wholly-owned subsidiary of James Finlay, whilst The Amalgamated Tea Estates Co.

In 1977 the company allotted the Finlay Tea Associates INR 19,80,000 No. of equity shares of INR 10 each at par, which was recorded as fully paid-up, and the remaining INR 9.52 crores were held back as unsecured loans with simple interest accruing at a rate of 5% per annum starting on 1st January 1976. In prop. 1:3, 20,00,000 bonus shares were awarded in 1979. On 1st December 1982, James Finlay and McLeod Russel sold all their share stakes to Tata Industries Ltd.

Tata Industries, for its part, offered the entire lot of 3.2 million shares at par with the company's current Indian shareholders in the proportion of 2:3. In 1984 the company established a wholly-owned subsidiary investment company called Bambino Investment and Trading Co. (Pvt.) Ltd.

The Company Incorporated was founded in the United States of America as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company by acquiring Tritea Incorporated's instant tea processing facilities in Florida in 1986. In 1989, a new mix called 'Prestige' was introduced. In Kerala, the company established a bottom mushroom-producing plant. Higher output was hampered by frost damage to the southern estates, followed by severe drought conditions that lasted until April 1992.

The "Chakra Gold" premium dust brand was introduced. Tata Tea introduced a new brand, 'Tata Tea Agni.' in 2005. Tata tea launched Tata Tea GOLD in 2009. In 2012, Tetley Tea celebrated its 175th anniversary. On 29th November 2015, Tata Global Beverages Ltd (TGBL) launched an instant coffee product in the Indian market under the brand name 'Tata Coffee Grand.'

Presence of Tata Consumer Product and Plants

To encompass the variety of health and nutritious beverages, it wishes to penetrate, the firm was renamed Tata Global Beverages (now Tata Consumer Products Limited). Tata Consumer Products Limited, through its subsidiaries, produces 7 billion kg of tea in India, owns 54 tea estates, operates ten tea blending and packaging factories, and employs roughly 59,000 people.

In India and Sri Lanka, the firm owns 51 tea farms, primarily in Assam, West Bengal in eastern India, and Kerala in the south. The corporation is the world's largest producer of Assam and Darjeeling teas and the second-largest producer of Ceylon tea.

Tata Consumer Products Limited was founded in 1964 as a joint venture with James Finlay and Company in the United Kingdom to create value-added tea. It today has a product and brand presence in 50 countries. It was one of the first global corporations in India. Tata Consumer Products Limited and its subsidiaries are mostly focused on branded tea product offers, but they also have a large involvement in plantation activity in India and Sri Lanka.

 Tata Consumer Products Limited's consolidated global branded tea business accounts for roughly 86% of its total revenue, with the remaining 14% coming from bulk tea, coffee, and investment income. Tata Consumer Products Limited produces over 30 million kg of black tea per year on an area of about 159 square kilometres (61 square miles) under tea cultivation. [requires citation] Instant tea is used to produce light density 100% teas, iced tea mixes, and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages.

Tata Tea, Tetley, Kannan Devan, Chakra Gold, and Gemini are among the five brands owned by Tata Consumer Products Limited in India. In Munnar, Kerala, the company operates the largest export-oriented instant tea processing facility outside the United States (KOSHER and HACCP certified). Tata Consumer Products Limited has operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Czech Republic, and India.

The shareholding of the company as of March 2022 comprised of the following:-

1. Promoters- 34.71%

2. Foreign Institutional Investors - 25.24%

3. Domestic Institutional Investors- 12.55%

4. The public in general- 27.48%

4. Government- 0.01%

5. Result Highlights for Q4 of FY 2021-22 

6. Sales INR 1948 crores

7. EPS 2.24

8. EBIDTA 315 crores

9. PBT 273 crores

Key CSR Initiatives

●  Jaago Re!

With the campaign "Jaago Re!" Tata Global Beverages collaborated with Janaagraha on a voter registration drive. Following that, the business shifted its focus to anti-corruption efforts. The website Jaago Re! promotes discussion on this and other social concerns. 

●  Scholarships

On 17th March 2013, Tata Global Beverages awarded eight students from Brunel University's 'Urban Scholars' programme the Tata Global Beverages Re-imagination Scholarships. The pupils were instructed to produce an essay on the following topic. "A hot cup of tea on a chilly morning, a cup of coffee shared with a friend, a cool drink after a long hike. Beverages are a part of our daily lives. Still, they also provide a touch of magic—moments of introspection, sharing, inspiration, and laughter...moments that take us away from the mundane. What, in your opinion, constitutes a magical beverage moment?"