I t seems as if the curtains have been rung down on the 1 st chapter of the Tata Group, Shapoorji Pallonji or SP Group saga that began centuries ago as fellow members of the Parsi community aiming to make a mark on the Indian business scene. For very long many even in business circles knew that the SP group was the single biggest shareholder of the Tata Group. A private joke some of us had when involved with the SP group and dealing with a Tata company as customer was ā we are your biggest shareholder not your vendor. When Ratan Tata flagged off a massive exercise to find and appoint a successor to himself and we kept reading of some or the other high profile name being in contention that when Cyrus Mistry was selected, it was a anti climax. If you are going to find someone within the family why make such a hullaballoo was a question that was asked. The new Chairman was feted, greeted and introduced to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, Chief Minister...
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