Article: Indian automaker gains new foothold in Detroit

DETROIT - Tata Motors, the Indian automaker that's about to burst onto the global scene as the new owner of Jaguar and Land Rover and a long-term partner for Ford Motor Co., is the other face of globalization.

It is a foreign company that employs hundreds of people in Detroit and plans to boost its work force substantially in the region over the next three years.

"We are adding people in Detroit," said Warren Harris, chief executive officer of Tata's Michigan-based Incat engineering group.

At a time when the common perception is that Indian companies pay low wages and pilfer well-paying jobs from the United States, Incat just won a contract for its employees in Oakland County, Mich., to ...

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