In choosing Gujarat, Mr Tata compared the helpful efficiency of its chief minister, Narendra Modi, with the Trinamool Congress's rabble-rousing leader, Mamata Bannerjee.
So although some flaky businesses do shelter under the Tata umbrella, figures shown to The Economist suggest that Tata's overall profitability has recovered after a slump due to its acquisition splurge (see chart 4).
While the Hungarians hung out in Tata, the German side had their own train troubles.
The chief executives of multinational companies such as Unilever, Celtel and Tata have joined together to form the non-profit 'B Team' alliance.
In 1954 they waited for days in the town of Tata until the worst of the trouble had ended in the capital.
Equally, letting Messi come back late and not starting him in the first game in January is nothing new: Pep Guardiola did it four years in a row and Tata Martino did the same.
"You lot only ever talk about results," Tata Martino complained one day, but that was pretty much the last thing they talked about.
Tata Martino admitted that his wife bought his lucky pistachio polo shirts from the local El Corte Inglés on the day they arrived in Barcelona.
Tata Steel: "Outside Europe other countries are becoming more integrated and forming other trading blocs, and there would be a danger that the UK would find itself isolated and without the necessary power to successfully negotiate trade deals.
The B Team brings together an initial 14 leaders from major corporations around the world, including Unilever, Natura, Celtel, Tata and Kering, in an attempt to enlarge projects that demonstrate that long-term business success can be built only by prioritising people and planet alongside profit.
In India foreign carmakers have found it hard to make money, says Xavier Mosquet of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), because the market is relatively small and dominated by two local firms, Maruti and Tata, along with South Korea's Hyundai.
