Me: I need a car. Tata: here you go. Me: Thanks, now if only I had steel to build a skyscraper, electricity to power it, a satellite internet link, enterprise software for my business, an industrial excavator, an air conditioner, agricultural pesticide, a home loan, a mutual fund portfolio, a life insurance policy, an online pharmacy app, a grocery delivery service, an electronics store, a fashion boutique, a diamond necklace, a wristwatch, a packet of salt, a box of tea, a bag of coffee, a bottle of mineral water, a table at Starbucks, a room at a 5-star hotel, an airline ticket, and a military armored vehicle... Tata: You're not gonna fucking believe this
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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Haha. Love a suffocating conglomerate that has privatized all my country's domestic utilities and critical infrastructure. Lolz.

Great add. 5/7. tips fedora

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Most "family" businesses (like Chaebols in Korea, Keiretsu in Japan) are diversified to reduce risk.

    This is in fair contrast to vertical integration often seen in Western companies (and also some rare instances when the state orders it) who only diversify when opportunities arise, not for risk reduction.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'm not sure it's all of them really. Electricity, water, waste disposal and intra state roads are usually state/city owned utilities in India, with Highway, Railway and most of the Oil and Gas ones under the central government. Some are taken up by both, like public education. Even for the ones that Tata and Reliance are fairly nestled in, there's government owned competitors (ex. Steel manufacture and Telcom)

    I'm necessarily summarising here, but there's a non-negligible level of public sector competition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Sector_Undertakings_in_India

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