NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: The brand new Tata Sons chairman has to cope with three main money losers – Air India, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing and Tata Digital – with govt treating the salt-to-airline conglomerate as a strategic companion in a few of these sectors.With army plane being developed within the personal sector for the primary time and drones and different rocket launch methods within the works, govt is watching the developments at Bombay Home, though it has maintained a transparent distance to date.For the group, new companies together with Air India, Tata Digital and Tata Electronics, reported losses of virtually Rs 29,000 crore final yr. These are companies that got here into the Tata fold throughout N Chandrasekaran’s reign at Tata Sons. In case of Air India, semiconductors and electronics manufacturing, govt is leaning on the 158-year-old group to develop India as a hub. And, these are additionally segments the place Chandra’s observe document got here underneath scrutiny.Air India’s losses greater than doubled to Rs 22,238 crore in 2025-26 and the turnaround is a number of years away. Equally, within the case of chip making, for which the group has bagged orders, it will take time for the enterprise to interrupt even. On the optimistic aspect, with revenues of over Rs 1.3 lakh crore, Tata Electronics has emerged because the group’s fourth-largest firm by income.Final yr, Tata Digital reported losses of Rs 4,974 crore, widening from Rs 4,610 crore in FY25 at the same time as revenues grew to Rs 35,990 crore. It is a ship which the group is making an attempt to regular, with the corporate present process three management reshuffles since its inception in 2019.Tata Digital’s massive guess BigBasket, which the Tata Group entity purchased in a deal valued at $1.5-2 billion in 2021 was a late entrant to the 10-minute supply house, ceding a lot of the market share to Everlasting’s Blinkit, Swiggy’s Instamart and youthful startup Zepto. At present, BigBasket holds solely round 4-5% share within the fast commerce house, far behind Blinkit which owns over 40%. The aggressive panorama has solely intensified with the aggressive ramp-up by Amazon and Flipkart.Tata Digital’s Neu, positioned as a brilliant app has probably not been in a position to create a dent out there. There may be an absence of clearer worth addition and proposition for purchasers for the Neu product, mentioned Satish Meena, founder at Datum Intelligence.
