Tata Motors, part of India's Tata Group under chairman Ratan Tata, completed its 2.3 billion dollar acquisition of Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover luxury car brands in June 2008, just months before the global financial crisis put severe strain on the newly combined business. Jaguar Land Rover went on to become a major profit driver for Tata Motors within a few years, marking one of the most prominent instances of an Indian company acquiring a storied Western luxury brand. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Tata Motors 2008 acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover from Ford, financed through a mix of debt and equity during a global credit crunch, is a finance-practice case study in cross-border acquisition financing.
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Jaguar Land Rover has been a subsidiary of India-based Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles (formerly Tata Motors) since they founded it as a holding company for the acquisition of Jaguar Cars and Land Rover from Ford in 2008.
- Associated With: Tata Group
- Associated With: Ratan Tata
- Associated With: Finance
- Companies Involved: Tata Motors
- Companies Involved: Jaguar Land Rover
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