Titan Company

Titan Company Ltd.
Public
Industry Lifestyle
Founded 1984
Headquarters Bengaluru[1], India
Area served
 Global
Key people
Products Watches, Jewellery, precision engineering, Bags, Perfumes, belts, wallets and Eyewear
Revenue ₹119 billion (US$1.9 billion) (2015)[2]
₹8.00 billion (US$120 million) (2015)[2]
Number of employees
 7,560 (2015) [3]
Parent Tata Group
TIDCO
Website www.titan.co.in

Titan Company Limited (earlier known as Titan Industries Limited) is an Indian luxury goods company. It is a joint venture between the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO).

It commenced operations in 1984 under the name Titan Watches Limited. In 1994, Titan diversified into jewellery with Tanishq and subsequently into eyewear with Titan Eyeplus. In 2013, Titan entered the fragrances segment with the brand SKINN[4] and, later that year, it ventured into the helmets category under its brand Fastrack.[5] Also, Titan announced recently (during the last quarter of 2016) about launching a series of affordable Smartwatches under its brands like Sonata and Fastrack soon.[6]

Today, Titan Company is Tata Group’s largest consumer company.[7]

About the company

The Titan [|T|ata |I|ndustries + |TA|mil |N|adu] Watch Project began with the signing of a joint venture of Tata Industries with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) in June 1984. Titan Watches Ltd. commenced production in the year 1986 and hit the market in March 1987 with its brand ‘Titan’. In 1993, the name of the company was changed with effect from 21 September from Titan Watches, Ltd. to Titan Industries Ltd., in view of the fact that the company's products consisted of not only watches but also jewellery.[8] In 1996, Titan Industries Ltd. entered the jewellery segment with a brand launch ‘Tanishq'. A brief joint venture with the American brand, Timex, between 1992 and 1998, focusing on market mass. Fastrack[9] – the youth watch and accessories brand was launched in 2005. In the year 2011, Titan announced the acquisition of Swiss watch maker Favre Leuba [10] to enter into the European market.

Board of Directors/Senior Management[11]

Position Personnel
Chairman Vikram Kapur[12]
Managing Director Bhaskar Bhat
Nominee N N Tata
Independent Director T K Balaji
Independent Director Vinita Bali
Independent Director Hema Ravichandar
Independent Director Das Narayan Das
Independent Director Ireena Vittal
Independent Director Ashwani Puri
Director Harish Bhat
Director Atulya Misra[13]
Director T K Arun
Company Secretary A R Rajaram

Subsidiaries

Subsidiary companies include Titan Time Products Limited and Favre Leuba AG (FLAG).

Awards

Titan Company is awarded in many national and international forums for various activities and categories.

Corporate
Watches
Jewellery
Eyewear
Precision engineering

References

  1. ↑ "Company Profile". Tata Group.
  2. 1 2 "Titan Company Ltd, TITAN:NSI financials - FT.com". markets.ft.com. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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  4. ↑ Badrinath, Raghuvir (2013-09-16). "Titan launches 'Skinn' fragrance line". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  5. ↑ PTI. "Titan launches helmets under Fastrack brand". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Titan soon coming up with affordable smartwatches". www.moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  7. ↑ indiainfoline.com. "Titan company | Stock to watch : Titan". Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  8. ↑ "Titan eyes growth in jewellery". 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  9. ↑ "A brand on the Fastrack". The Hindu Business Line. 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  10. ↑ "Titan to acquire Swiss watch brand Favre Leuba for Rs 13.6 cr". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  11. ↑ "Company news, Company Analysis, Company Announcement, Company Disclosure". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  12. ↑ Bureau, Our (2012-10-26). "Vikram Kapur is chief of Titan Industries". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  13. ↑ Govind, Deepti (2017-04-04). "TIDCO nominates director to Titan’s board". http://www.livemint.com/. Retrieved 2017-04-04. External link in |work= (help)
  14. ↑ National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities - 2014
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  18. ↑ Award at the CII 24th Kaizen national awards
  19. ↑ "Good Design Award 2014" by design Council of Japan for Skeletal Edge
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  23. ↑ "World Quality Congress & Awards". www.worldqualitycongress.org. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  24. ↑ Bureau, Our (2014-04-10). "Tanishq makes the Interbrand APAC list". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
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  29. ↑ State Safety Awards
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