Bombay House
building in India
Bombay House is a historic privately owned building in the city of Mumbai, India that serves as the head office of the Tata Group.
Situated near Hutatma Chowk, it was completed in 1924 and has been the Tata Group's headquarters ever since. The building is a four-story colonial structure built with Malad stone and was designed by Scottish architect George Wittet who designed over 40 buildings for the group and later became the head of Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Limited, now Tata Motors.
The building houses the office of chairman and all top directors of Tata Sons, the holding company. Core companies of the group-Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals, Tata Power, Tata Industries, and Trent Limited operate out of the Bombay House.
History
A plot of ground measuring 2,365 yd2 (1,977 m2) was put up by the Bombay Municipality for sale in Bombay (now Mumbai) and then purchased by the Tata Group. It was observed that the various Tata concerns could not be accommodated in Navsari buildings and Navsari Chambers which they had been occupying since 1904. The Tata Group is perhaps the only Indian corporate to name its headquarters after a city where it started its journey. Bombay House, the global corporate HQ of the group. At that time, the group ran four businesses-textiles, hotels, steel and power-under the leadership of Sir Dorabji Tata, the elder son of group founder Jamsetji Tata.
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