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The company also has franchisee/joint venture assembly operations in Kenya, Bangladesh, Ukraine,
Russia, Senegal and South Africa. Tata offers custom-designed offerings through leading-edge R&D.
In 1966, the company established its Engineering Research Centre for building pioneering technologies
and products. It has R&D centers in locations like Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow and Dharwad in India
and in South Korea, United Kingdom and Spain.
Tata Motors was the fi rst company which developed the fi rst indigenously developed light commer-
cial vehicle and India’s fi rst sports utility vehicle. Tata launched the Indica in 1998, India’s fi rst fully
indigenous passenger car. Within two years ...