Tata plans to integrate food and beverage businesses into a single company

Evaluating proposal to combine foods, beverages, add dairy

Tata Group, India’s biggest conglomerate, is evaluating a proposal to integrate its food and beverage businesses into a single company, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The Mumbai-headquartered group is considering separating the salt and branded lentils businesses of Tata Chemicals Ltd. and folding them into Tata Global Beverages Ltd., according to the people who asked not to be named because the information is private. It’s also weighing merging Tata Coffee Ltd., which owns coffee plantations and tea gardens, with the beverages company, and entering dairy, they said.

The proposal is part of Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran’s larger strategy to combine related