Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
Tata Group
Global rank: 50
Brand value: $15,085 million
Market cap: $103,720 million
Finally, Ratan Tata has enough reasons to smile.
The $68-billion conglomerate, Tata Group, has become the first Indian brand to figure in the top 50 global companies.
The ranking by international brand consultancy Brand Finance is a shot in the arm for the Tata Group chairman, who had found himself at the centre of a raging controversy over taped conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and members of the media and polity.
Ratan Tata had later dragged the government to court for invading his privacy.
The most recent Global 500 report by Brand Finance shows that despite the controversies, Tata Group's brand value has soared to $15.08 billion for the current year compared to $11.2 billion last year.
In effect, it has moved up 15 places - from rank 65 to 50 - in the last one year, says Brand Finance.
"The Tatas have broken the global brand barriers. It has shown that there was no glass ceiling after all and that value-driven value creation was a far more sustainable model to have," says Unni Krishnan, managing director, Brand Finance India.
But the Tatas are not the only company among the top 500.
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: B Mathur/Reuters
Reliance Industries
Global rank: 133
Brand Value: $6.99 billion
Industry: Conglomerate.
Founded: 1966 as Reliance Commercial Corporation.
Founder: Dhirubhai Ambani.
Headquarters: Mumbai.
Key people: Mukesh Ambani (Chairman & MD).
Revenue: $47.63 billion (2009-10).
Net income: $3.51 billion (2009-10).
Total assets: $55.72 billion (2009-10).
Employees: 23,365 (2010).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
State Bank of India
Global rank: 171
Brand value: $5.67 billion
Industry: Banking and financial services.
Founded: July 1, 1955.
Headquarters: Mumbai.
Key people: O P Bhatt (chairman).
Revenue: $29.71 billion (2010).
Profit: $2.6 billion (2010).
Total assets: $323.0 billion (2010).
Employees: 200,229 (2010)
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Indian Oil Corporation
Global rank: 232
Brand value: $4.35 billion
Industry: Oil and gas.
Founded: 1964.
Headquarters: New Delhi.
Key people: Ranbir Singh Butola (chairman).
Revenue: $60.54 billion (2009-10).
Net income: $2.27 billion (2009-10).
Total assets: $34.361 billion (2009-10).
Employees: 34,363 (2010).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Sivaram V/Reuters
Bharti Airtel
Global rank: 282
Brand value: $3.69 billion
Industry: Telecommunications.
Founded: July 7, 1995.
Founder: Sunil Bharti Mittal.
Headquarters: New Delhi.
Key people: Sunil Mittal (Chairman and MD).
Revenue: $9.290 billion (2010).
Profit: $2.079 billion (2010).
Total assets: $15.527 billion (2010).
Employees: 18,354 (December 2010).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters
Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Global rank: 347
Brand value: $3.09 bilion
Industry: Oil and gas.
Founded: 1976.
Headquarters: Mumbai.
Key people: R K Singh (Chairman & MD).
Revenue: $27.51 billion (2010).
Net income: $381.84 million) (2010).
Total assets: $13.762 billion (2010).
Employees: 13,898 (2009).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Reuters
Infosys Technologies
Global rank: 378
Brand value: $2.91 billion
Industry: IT services and consulting.
Founded: July 2, 1981.
Founders: N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora.
Headquarters: Bengaluru.
Key people: N R Narayana Murthy (Chairman), Kris Gopalakrishnan (CEO & MD) and S D Shibulal (COO & director).
Revenue: $4.69 billion (2010).
Profit: $1.29 billion (2010).
Total assets: $6.150 billion (2010).
Employees: 127,779 (Dec 2010).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
ICICI Bank
Global rank: 442
Brand value: $2.50 bilion
Industry: Banking and financial services.
Founded: 1955.
Headquarters: Mumbai.
Key people: K V Kamath (Chairman), Chanda Kochhar (MD & CEO) and N S Kannan (CFO).
Revenue: $13.23 billion (2009).
Profit: $1.08 billion (2010).
Total assets: $108.7 billion (2010).
Employees: 74,056 (2010).
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9 Indian brands amongst world's 500 best
Photographs: Vincent Kessler/Reuters
Wipro
Global rank: 474
Brand value: $2.35 billion
Industry: IT services and consulting.
Founded: 1945.
Founder: M H Premji.
Headquarters: Bengaluru.
Key people: Azim Premji (chairman) and T K Kurien (CEO).
Revenue: $6.03 billion (2010).
Profit: $1.02 billion (2010).
Total assets: $7.498 billion (2010).
Employees: 119,491 (December 2010).
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