Company Profile

Titan Industries is India's leading manufacturer of watches and jewellery and the world's sixth largest manufacturer brand of watches. Established in 1984 as a joint venture between the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, the company transformed the Indian watch market, offering quartz technology with international styling, manufactured at its state-of-the-art factory at Hosur, Tamil Nadu. In 1995, the company diversified into jewellery under the brand Tanishq.

Leveraging its understanding of different segments in the watch market, the company launched a second independent watch brand — Sonata — as a value brand to those seeking to buy functionally styled watches at affordable prices. It also entered the segment of premium fashion watches by acquiring a license for global brands such as

Tommy Hilfiger. Titan has also diversified into fashion eyewear with its Fastrack Eye Gear sunglasses. Further, Titan leveraged its manufacturing competencies and branched into precision engineering products and machine building in 2003.