Starbucks Algerian store in Algiers. In January 2011, Starbucks and Tata Coffee, Asia's largest coffee plantation company, announced plans for a strategic alliance to bring Starbucks to India and also to source and roast coffee beans at Tata Coffee's Kodagu facility. Despite a false start in 2007, in January 2012, Starbucks announced a 50:50 joint venture with Tata Global Beverages called Tata Starbucks. Tata Starbucks will own and operate Starbucks outlets in India as "Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance"". Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. In February 2011, Starbucks started selling their coffee in
MTS India MTS India Mobile TeleSystems India (MTS India), was the joint venture and Indian subsidiary of the Russian mobile operator MTS. The company was headquartered in New Delhi, India. MTS India provided wireless voice, broadband Internet, messaging and data services in India. On 1 November 2017, MTS India merged with Reliance communication. The company was acquired by Reliance Communications (RCom) on 14 January 2016 in an all stock deal, in which SSTL received a 10% share in RCom. SSTL was merged into RCom on 31 October 2017. Sistema, the largest public diversified corporation in Russia, acquired a 10% stake in Shyam