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Any other business

Why Ratan Tata is still Britain’s greatest inward investor

Also in Any Other Business: the balance of payments; and a new job for Mossack Fonseca

9 April 2016

9:00 AM

9 April 2016

9:00 AM

If asked to pick the UK’s inward investor of the century so far I would, without hesitation, name Ratan Tata, the anglophile former patriarch of the eponymous Indian conglomerate that bought Tetley the tea-maker for £271 million in 2000, Corus the Anglo-Dutch steel-maker for £6.2 billion in 2007, and Jaguar Land Rover — from Ford — for £1.3

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