Ratan Tata, who has died aged 86, became chairman of his family’s huge but ramshackle Indian business conglomerate in 1991 and over the next two decades transformed it into a thrusting multinational,

Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata's meeting with Ford chairman Bill Ford in the USA in 1999 turned out to be a significant juncture in his career as he, nine years later, acquired Jaguar Land Rover.

Jaguar Land Rover paid tribute to Ratan Tata, attributing their global success to his visionary leadership. Tata, who passed away recently at 86, was instrumental in the Tata Group's acquisition of JLR in 2008,