Tata Crucible - ‘The Campus Quiz’ seeks to bring together the sharpest young minds in UK to take on the heat of an exciting business quiz. It is a team based contest with 2 participants per team (from same college/university). The Quiz made its debut in the United Kingdom for the first time in 2008 where some of the best universities including Oxford, Cambridge, LBS, LSE, Imperial & Warwick battled for the crowning glory of business quizzing.

The 2nd edition of the quiz in UK will be held on 22nd November, 2009 with its share of thrills and suspense for the student community there.

Last year, to broaden the scope of the event, the concept of the grand International Final was conceived as a face-off between the top 2 teams from UK, Singapore and India. In what could be aptly called the Clash of the Titans, IIM Calcutta from India won the International Championship for 2009 ahead of London Business School (UK), SMU (Singapore), MICA (India), SIM (Singapore) and Oxford University (UK) at the mega event held in Mumbai, India in April 2009.

Running successfully for last 5 years in India, the international edition of the Tata Crucible Quiz was launched in 2007 for campus students in Singapore. The 3rd edition of the campus quiz in Singapore is scheduled to take place in October, 2009. The Top 2 teams from UK will get a chance to take on winners from Singapore & India in the world finals in India.

To know more about Tata Crucible, visit www.tatacrucible.com

‘Tata Crucible-UK 2009’ is brought to you by the Tata group, a $70 billion group of companies based in India with significant international operations. To know more, visit www.tata.com

Tata Presence in UK

Tata has more than a century of experience and leadership in the UK, its leading international market. Having established Tata Limited in 1907 to represent the Group in Europe, Tata has grown to become the largest Indian employer in the UK, comprising 19 companies and a 47,000-strong workforce spread across the region.

Tata companies include some well-known brands in the UK, among them: Tetley Tea, Corus, Jaguar, Land Rover, Tata Consultancy Services, Quilon and The Bombay Brasserie. In addition, Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), Brunner Mond, Tata Motors and Taj Hotels are all significant players in their respective fields.

The Tata group of companies has a long and cherished association with UK academia that dates back to the establishment of the Sir Ratan Tata Department at the London School of Economics in 1912 (subsequently called the Department of Social Sciences)..

In 1920 the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge moved to its current Trumpington Street site thanks to a donation from Sir Dorabji Tata, an alumnus of the institution. The site remains the prime location for teaching and much of the Department's research. Today, Tata companies continues to forge new links with the UK’s leading academic institutions. In 2009, it established a special initiative the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES) in partnership with the University of Cambridge UK & University of California, Berkeley,USA. In the last 2 years, nine Cambridge students have visited India for an 8-week summer internship at different Tata community initiatives.

Details of Tata operations in UK are available on http://uk.tata.com