The 'Tata Crucible Campus Quiz' – Expanding horizons!

The Tata Crucible Campus Quiz made its international debut with the Singapore edition in 2007. The 2008 edition in Singapore also saw strong participation from campuses across the city-state. The UK edition debuted in 2008 and was held at Imperial College's South Kensington Campus.

To broaden the scope of the event, the concept of the grand International Final was conceived as a face-of between the top 2 teams from Singapore, London 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.

The 3rd edition of the quiz in Singapore will be held on 23rd October, 2009 with its share of thrills and suspense for the student community there.

TATA PRESENCE IN SINGAPORE

Singapore is an extremely important market and hub for Tata companies. The Asia-Pac headquarters of TCS, offices of Tata Communications, NatSteel; Tata Technologies, Voltas, Tata Chemicals, Tata Power and Tata International among others are located in Singapore. The Tata Group has an employee base of 2000+ people in Singapore.

The Tata Crucible Campus Quiz offers a unique opportunity to Singapore's student community to involve themselves with the subject of international business, in an engaging and intellectually stimulating contest. It comes from Tata group of companies, which has its own structured engagement activities for global talent development (including an International Internship Program and MoUs with a number of universities including SMU, NUS and NTU). Thus, the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz seeks to add value to both; students as well as Tata.

ABOUT TATA

Tata companies operate in seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. They are, by and large, based in India and have significant international operations. The total revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $62.5 billion in 2007-08, with 61 per cent of this coming from business outside India, and they employ around 350,000 people worldwide. The Tata name has been respected in India for 140 years for its adherence to strong values and business ethics.

There are 27 publicly listed Tata enterprises and they have a combined market capitalisation of around $60 billion, and a shareholder base of 3.2 million. The major Tata companies are Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Tea, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.

Tata Steel became the sixth largest steel maker in the world after it acquired Corus. Tata Motors is among the top five commercial vehicle manufacturers in the world and has recently acquired Jaguar and Land Rover. TCS is a leading global software company, with delivery centres in the US, UK, Hungary, Brazil, Uruguay and China, besides India.  Tata Tea is the second largest branded tea company in the world, through its UK-based subsidiary Tetley. Tata Chemicals is the world's second largest manufacturer of soda ash and Tata Communications is one of the world's largest wholesale voice carriers.