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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. 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.
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'. New Age International; 1 January 2007 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. . p. 466, 469–70.Susan M. Martin.
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'. NIAS Press; January 2005 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. . p. 232, 239. The manufacturing units were spread over India in Maharahstra,

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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 born Indian industrialist, philanthropist, aviator and former chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Rata ...

.Shrinivas Pandit.
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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

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

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