Ratan Tata in letter says will maintain 'Tata culture and value system'

Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata attends the annual general meeting of Tata Steel Ltd., in Mumbai, India August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ratan Tata, interim chairman at the Tata Sons conglomerate, reassured employees on the future of the group and its companies, in a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Tata reinstated that the decision to change the leadership at Tata Sons was a difficult but well-deliberated one taken for the future success of the group, and to maintain the Tata culture and value system.

The letter, sent to employees on Tuesday, comes a week after Tata sacked its chairman Cyrus Mistry. The ousted chairman and the Tata group have traded barbs in public on a near daily since then.

(Reporting by Aditi Shah; Editing by Euan Rocha)