[5] The company now operates in the food and beverages industry, with ~56% of their revenue coming from India while the rest is from their international businesses.

[7] In the early 1980s, the tea industry in India was experiencing rising input and labour costs and dwindling margins as well as high taxes.

In 1993, they entered into a joint venture with Allied Lyons PLC in the UK to form Estate Tata Tetley.

In the mid-1990s, Tata Tea attempted to buy Tetley and the Lankan JVC acquired 51% shareholding in Watawala Plantations Ltd.

At the time, Tetley was the world's second-largest tea company after Unilever's Brooke Bond-Lipton and had an annual turnover of £300 million.

It was the market leader in Britain and Canada and a popular brand in the United States, Australia and the Middle East.

[citation needed] From 2005, Tata Tea began a restructuring exercise to divest direct ownership of plantations in India, a process facilitated by subsidised loans from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.

[citation needed] The international trade union IUF criticized the company in 2009 for not allowing statutory maternity leave to pregnant tea pluckers, and for locking out 1,000 workers on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal for so long that the local government began distributing food coupons for emergency rations to workers and their families.

[11] In May 2010, a crop sprayer died of suspected poisoning on a Tata estate in Assam, leading to protests at which two more workers were shot dead by riot police.

Tata Consumer Products Limited has subsidiaries in Australia, Great Britain, The United States of America, Czechia and India.

Beverages are part of our everyday life and yet they also sprinkle some magic on it—moments of reflection, sharing, inspiration and laughter...moments that take us away from the ordinary.

"[32] In January 2014, Tata Consumer Products Limited and International Finance Corporation (IFC) which is part of World Bank were criticized for poor working conditions, low wages, and gross human rights violations in a report released by Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School.

[35] In October 2015, a movement of 6,000 female labourers calling themselves "Pempilai Orumai", or women's unity laid siege to the Munnar tea estates, one of Kerala's most popular tourist destinations and owned subsidiaries of Tata Tea's plantation in Kerala.

Trade and tourism were brought to a near standstill but, after nine days of protest and marathon negotiations overseen by the chief minister of the state, it gave in.

[citation needed] The spark that ignited the protest was a decision to cut the 20% bonus paid to tea pickers, but its roots go much deeper than that.

"Part of the women's complaint is that they live in one-bed huts without toilets and other basic amenities and, while they earn significantly more than the tea workers in Assam, they say the ₹230 (US$2.70) (£2.30) they are paid for a day's work is half what a daily wage labourer in Kerala would get.

"[36] The maximum stake is being held with Indian promoters of the business i.e., TATA Group with a percentage share of 34.66%.