Who owns Tata group and who runs it?

Tata GroupNot any single Tata family member.At the top of the group sit charitable trusts created by successive generations of the Tata family. Together, philanthropic trusts own about two-thirds of Tata Sons, the group’s principal investment holding company and promoter.Two trusts dominate this ownership structure: The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT). Together, they own 51.54% of Tata Sons, giving the two trusts alone an absolute majority.Noel Tata chairs Tata Trusts, the umbrella under which the principal Tata charitable trusts operate. He does not personally own their Tata Sons shares: The assets belong to charitable trusts, whose decisions are taken through their respective boards of trustees. Tata Sons, sits at centre of the commercial group as its principal investment holding company and promoter. Individual Tata companies operate under their own boards.The trusts that own Tata SonsTata.com describes the structure this way: “Tata Sons is principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. 66% of share capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts, which support education, health, livelihood generation, and art and culture. Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors.”The two largest trusts, SDTT and SRTT, together own 51.54% of Tata Sons. The other shareholder trusts take the charitable-trust holding to roughly two-thirds, but SDTT and SRTT are overwhelmingly the largest shareholders.Separately, M K Tata Trust holds 2,421 shares of Tata Sons, according to a 2024 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal judgement. The shares were settled into the trust as corpus when it was created in 1959. Tata’s public description of its overall ownership structure rounds the philanthropic trusts’ combined holding in Tata Sons to 66%.