Tata Oil Mills Company also known as TOMCO, was a

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and part of

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. It was incorporated on 10 December 1917 with head office at

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Dorabji Tata Sir Dorabji Tata (27 August 1859 – 3 June 1932) was an Indian businessman of the British Raj, and a key figure in the history and development of the Tata Group. He was knighted in 1910 for his contributions to industry in British India. ...

. It was into manufacture and sale soaps, detergents, cooking oils, glycerine, cattle and poultry feeds, de-oiled meals, oil cakes and fish products.H. R. Machiraju.
Merchant Banking, Principles And Practice
'. New Age International; 1 January 2007 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. . p. 466, 469–70.Susan M. Martin.
The Up Saga
'. NIAS Press; January 2005 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. . p. 232, 239. The manufacturing units were spread over India in Maharahstra,

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

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and

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. In 1952, Lakme was started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills by

JRD Tata Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French-Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy ...

.Shrinivas Pandit.
Creative Businesswoman:Simone
'. Tata McGraw-Hill Education; 1 August 2007 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. . p. 27. The company owned famous bathing soap brands like ''Hamam'', ''Okay'', ''Moti'' to name a few, they also had a detergent brand named as ''Magic''. During early 1990s Tata's wanted to move out of businesses that did not meet their long term strategy and TOMCO was sold to their competitors

Hindustan Lever Limited Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purif ...

and it was amalgamated into HLL on 28 December 1994 with retrospective effect from 1 April 1993.

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