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Tata Group searches internally for successor to chairman Chandrasekaran

Tata Group searches internally for successor to chairman Chandrasekaran
Tata’s big boss hunt to find replacement for Chandrasekaran focuses on Group backyard · telegraphindia.com

The Tata Group is a huge Indian company family that makes steel, cars, software, tea, and even runs an airline.

The person in charge, N. Chandrasekaran, is going to leave his job in February.

So the group needs to find a new boss.

The search is mostly looking at people who already work inside the company.

One very important person in this decision is Noel Tata, because the family charity he leads controls most of the group.

The new boss will have a hard job because the airline Air India is losing a lot of money, and Tata Digital is also struggling.

The top candidates include the leaders of Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, and Tata Chemicals.

The next boss will need to fix difficult businesses, not just take care of easy ones.

Choosing someone from inside the group might be the safest option.

That is because knowing how the whole company works may be the key to fixing it.

Key facts

Group
Tata Group
Outgoing chairman
N. Chandrasekaran, stepping down when his term ends next February
Key power broker
Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, which controls about two-thirds of Tata Sons
Leading candidates
T.V. Narendran, Shailesh Chandra, Praveer Sinha, R. Mukundan
Air India loss
Rs 26,800 crore in the last financial year
Tata Steel output
Record 23.4 million tonnes from Indian operations in the year to March 2026
Tata Chemicals profit
Fell 81% year-on-year to Rs 60 crore in the quarter to June 2026
Tata Motors sales
Passenger vehicle sales rose 46% year-on-year in the April-June 2026 quarter to over 182,000 vehicles

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