Inside Tata Digital's plan to integrate online businesses and launch a super app
Tata Digital president Mukesh Bansal (left) and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran.
Synopsis
Having struck back-to-back deals to boost its consumer internet play through acquisitions such as BigBasket, 1mg and Cultfit (which is currently a minority investment), the Tata Group is piecing together its first major foray into a new business area after its entry into the aviation sector in 2013.
Bengaluru/Mumbai: A gathering in Mumbai in the last week of June set the ball rolling on the Tata Group’s ambitious digital plan. Among those at the meeting held in the backdrop of the conglomerate’s annual general meeting were Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran and Tata Digital chief executive Pratik Pal. Also present was Tata Digital’s
newly designated president Mukesh Bansal, a startup entrepreneur who’s built companies such as fashion
