She visited India as a tourist in 1953, where she met Naval H. Tata.
They married in 1955, and Simone settled in Mumbai permanently.
[2] Simone and Naval are the parents of Noel Tata.
Simone Tata joined the Lakmé board in 1962, when it was a minor subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills, as managing director in 1961, rising to become its chairperson in 1982, and was non-executive chairman of Trent Limited until 30 October 2006.
[4] Seeing growth in the retail sector, in 1996, Tata sold Lakmé Cosmetics to Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), and created Trent Limited with money from the sale.