Titan: The Outsourcing Journey
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Case Details:
Case Code : OPER016
Case Length : 11 Pages
Period : 1999 - 2002
Organization : TITAN
Pub Date : 2002
Teaching Note : Available
Countries : India
Industry : Watch manufacturing
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Background Note
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Titan was promoted as Titan Watches Ltd. jointly by Questar Investments Limited
(a Tata group company), Tata Sons, Tata Press and the Tamilnadu Industrial
Development Corporation Limited (TIDCO).
The company was incorporated in July 1984 in Chennai, India, in technical
collaboration with one of the world's largest manufacturers of watch movements,
France Ebauches, a French company. Unlike Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), the
leading manufacturer of mechanical watches at that time, Titan Watches decided
to concentrate on manufacturing quartz watches. The company established its
first manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu in 1987.
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The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, set up with technical know-how
from Europe and Japan, had an installed capacity of 3.5 million watches per
annum. In 1988, the company established a component manufacturing facility
and in 1990, it started a case manufacturing plant, both located close to
the Hosur plant. In 1992, the company integrated backwards to manufacture
step motors4. During the same period,
it began manufacturing electronic circuit blocks, used in its watch
movements. The Rs 2.7 billion watch and clock manufacturing facilities were
spread over a built-up area of 42,000 square metres.
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The company
also set up a watch assembly unit with a capacity of 5 lakh watches in
Dehradun, Uttaranchal. In 1992, Titan Watches entered into a joint
venture with Timex Corporation of USA to market Timex watches in India.
The same year the company set up a joint venture with the Economic
Development Board of Goa to manufacture electronic circuit boards in Goa
in an effort towards indigenization. Titan set up its fully integrated,
Rs 400 million jewellery plant in 1994 over a built-up area of 13,500
square metres in Hosur. The plant had a capacity of manufacturing four
tonnes of gold a year. Due to poor market response the company
discontinued the manufacture of jewelry watches. |
The company also set up a separate manufacturing facility for
solid link, sheet metal bracelets, alarm timepieces and premium table clocks in
1995. In 1995, Titan Watches overtook the market leader HMT by selling 3.2
million watches against the latter's 3 million...
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