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ITC Limited

Type

Public

Traded as

BSE: 500875
NSE: ITC
BSE SENSEX Constituent
CNX Nifty Constituent

Industry

Conglomerate

Predecessor

W.D. & H.O. Wills

Founded

August 24, 1910[1][2]

(as Imperial Tobacco Company of India)

Headquarters

Kolkata, West Bengal, India[3]

Key people

Y C Deveshwar, (Chairman)[4]

Products

Tobacco, hotels, paperboards & specialty papers,packaging, agribusiness, packaged foods &confectionery, IT, branded apparels, personal
care, stationery, safety matches and other FMCG products

Revenue

INR 48,176 Crores (US$ 7.81 billion) (2013-14)[5]

Operating

INR 13,051.89 Crores (US$ 2.11 billion) (2013-14)[5]

income

Net income

Total assets

Total equity

Number of

INR 8,990.62 Crores (US$ 1.45 billion) (2013-14)[5]

INR 39,929 Crores (US$ 6.47 billion) (Mar 2014)[5]

INR 26,262.02 Crores (US$ 4.27 billion) (Mar 2014)[5]

25,959 (Mar 2013)[6]

employees

Divisions

ITC Infotech, Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

Website

www.itcportal.com

ITC Limited or ITC is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.[3] Its diversified business includes five segments: Fast
Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Hotels, Paperboards & Packaging, Agri Business & Information Technology.[7]
Established in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited, the company was renamed as the Indian Tobacco Company Limited
in 1970 and further to I.T.C. Limited in 1974. The periods in the name were removed in September 2001 for the company to be renamed as
ITC Ltd.[2] The company completed 100 years in 2010[8][9][10][11] and as of 2012-13, had an annual turnover of US$8.31 billion [12] and a market
capitalisation of US$45 billion.[6] It employs over 25,000 people[6] at more than 60 locations across India and is part of Forbes 2000 list.
Contents
[hide]

1 History

2 Products and Brands

o

2.1 Cigarettes

2.2 Other businesses

3 Shareholding and listings

4 Employees

5 Outreach
o

5.1 e-Choupal

5.2 ITC Sangeet Research Academy

6 Awards and recognitions

7 See also

8 References

9 External links

History[edit]
ITC was formed on 24 August 1910 under the name of Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited, [2] and the company went public on 27
October 1954.[1] The earlier decades of the company's activities centered mainly around tobacco products. In the 1970s, it diversified into
non-tobacco businesses.[1]
In 1975, the company acquired a hotel in Chennai, which was renamed the 'ITC-Welcomgroup Hotel Chola' (now renamed to MyFortune,
Chennai).[2]
In 1985, ITC set up Surya Tobacco Co. in Nepal as an Indo-Nepali and British joint venture, with the shares divided between ITC, British
American Tobacco and various independent domestic shareholders in Nepal. In 2002, Surya Tobacco became a subsidiary of ITC and its
name was changed to Surya Nepal Private Limited. [13]
In 2000, ITC launched the Expressions range of greeting cards,[14][15] the Wills Sport range of casual wear,[16] and a wholly owned information
technology subsidiary, ITC Infotech India Limited.[17]
In 2001, ITC introduced the Kitchens of India brand of ready-to-eat gourmet Indian recipes.[18]
In 2002, ITC entered the confectionery and staples segments[19][20][21] and acquired the Bhadrachalam Paperboards Division[22] and the safety
matches company WIMCO Limited.[23]
ITC entered the Agarbattis (incense sticks) business in 2003, selling its products under the Mangaldeep brand.
ITC diversified into body care products in 2005. [24][25]
In 2010, ITC launched its handrolled cigar - Armenteros - in the Indian market.[26]
The company began online sales in 2014.[27]
ITC is today the only company in world to be carbon positive, water positive, and solid waste recycling positive. Almost 40% of the energy
consumed in the ITC is from renewable sources.[citation needed]

Products and Brands[edit]

Gold Flake cigarettes

Cigarettes[edit]
ITC Ltd sells 80 percent of the cigarettes in the India, where 275 million people use tobacco products and the total cigarette market is worth
close to $6 billion (around Rs.35,000 crore) [28][29]
ITC's major cigarette brands include W.D. & H.O. Wills, Gold Flake Kings, Gold Flake Premium,Gold Flake Super Star, Navy
Cut,Insignia, India Kings, Classic (Verve, Menthol, Menthol Rush, Regular, Citric Twist, Mild & Ultra Mild), 555, Silk
Cut, Scissors, Capstan,Berkeley, Bristol, Lucky Strike, Players, Flake and Duke & Royal.[30][31]

Other businesses[edit]

Foods: ITC's major food brands include Kitchens of India; Aashirvaad, Mint-o, gum-o, B
natural, Sunfeast, Candyman, Bingo! andYippee!.[32] ITC is India's largest seller of branded
foods with sales of over Rs. 4,600 crore in 2012-13. [33] It is present across 5 categories in the
Foods business namely Staples, Snack Foods, Ready-To-Eat Foods, Juices and
Confectionery.[32]

Lifestyle apparel: ITC sells its products under the Wills Lifestyle and John Players brands.
Wills Lifestyle was accorded the Superbrand status and John Players was included in the top
10 Most Trusted Apparel Brands 2012 by The Economic Times. [6]

Personal care products include perfumes, haircare and skincare categories. Major brands
are Fiama Di Wills, Vivel, Essenza Di Wills, Superia andEngage.[34][35]

Stationery: Brands include Classmate, PaperKraft and Colour Crew.[36] Launched in

2003, Classmate went on to become India's largest notebook brand in 2007. [37][38]

Safety Matches and Agarbattis: Ship,[39] i Kno and Aim brands of safety matches[40] and
the Mangaldeep brand of agarbattis (Incense Sticks).[41]

Hotels: ITC's Hotels division (under brands including WelcomHotel) is India's second largest
hotel chain with over 90 hotels throughout India. [42] ITC is also the exclusive franchisee in India
of two brands owned by Sheraton International Inc. Brands in the hospitality sector owned and
operated by its subsidiaries includeFortune Park Hotels and WelcomHeritage Hotels.[42]

Paperboard: Products such as specialty paper, graphic and other paper are sold under the ITC
brand by the ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division. [43]

Packaging and Printing: ITC's Packaging and Printing division operates manufacturing
facilities at Haridwar and Chennai and services domestic and export markets.[44]

Information Technology: ITC operates through its fully owned subsidiary ITC Infotech India
Limited, which is a SEI CMM Level 5 company.[45]

Shareholding and listings[edit]

ITC's equity shares are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange of India and Calcutta Stock Exchange.[46][47] The
company's Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.[48]

Shareholders (as on 31-March-2013)

Shareholding[6]

Foreign companies (mainly British American Tobacco Company)

30.54%

Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)

19.68%

Banks, Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies and Mutual Funds

33.44%

Bodies Corporate

04.91%

Public and Others

11.13%

GDRs

00.30%

Total

100.00%

Employees[edit]
As per the Annual report of the company, it had 25,962 employees as on 31 March 2013, [6] out of which 3,043 were women.[12] It spent Rs.
2,145 crores on Employee benefits during the FY 2012-13. [5] During the same year, its attrition rate was 12%. [12]
Its Chairman Y C Deveshwar has won renowned awards and recognitions including Padma Bhushan from Govt. of India [6][49][50] and 7th best
performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review.[51]
Meera Shankar, Indian ambassador to USA between 2009 and 2011, joined the board of ITC Limited as the first woman director in its history.
[52]
She is an additional non-executive director of the company.[53]

Outreach[edit]
e-Choupal[edit]
Main article: E-Choupal
ITC's e-Choupal initiative is designed to make the power of the Internet available to Indian farmers. [54] The company places computers with
Internet access in rural farming villages, serving both as a social gathering place for exchange of information (choupal means gathering
place in Hindi) and an e-commerce hub. As of July 2010, services through 6,500 e-Choupal across 10 states reach more than 4 million
farmers in about 40,000 villages. The potential of e-Choupal is also being tested through pilot projects in healthcare, educational
services, water management and cattle health management. In 2008, this initiative was recognised in the list of "Innovations to make
markets more inclusive for the poor" in World Development Report Sep-2008 by the World Bank.[55]

ITC Sangeet Research Academy[edit]

Main article: ITC Sangeet Research Academy
ITC Sangeet Research Academy is a Hindustani classical music academy established in 1977 and located in Kolkata. [56] Some noted
musicians are associated with this academy.[57]

Awards and recognitions[edit]

In 1994 and 1995, the ILTD Division in Chirala and Anaparti won the "Best of all" Rajiv Gandhi
National Quality Award[58]

ITC features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2012 at position 841.[7] In the same
rankings, the company's market value placed it as the 184th largest company in the world.
[7]
Forbes has also included the company in Asia's Fab 50 Companies list. [59]

In 2013, ITC was ranked the third most admired company in India by Fortune.[60]

In 2011, all of ITCs super premium luxury hotels were accorded LEED Platinum certification,
making ITC Hotels the Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain in the World. [61][62]

In 2010, ITC was ranked 6th amongst global consumer goods companies in sustainable value
creation during 2005-09, by Boston Consulting Group.[63]

It received the National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance from the Institute of
Company Secretaries of India in 2007.[1][64]

In 2006, ITC's e-Choupal program won the Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 in the Economic
Development category. This program enables over 3.5 million farmers to access crop-specific
and customised information in their native village habitat and language. [65][66]

In 2014, The Brand Trust Report, published by Trust Research Advisory, a brand analytics
company, ranked ITC in the 9th position among India's most trusted brands in the Diversified
sector.[67]

Tobacco industry

Tobacco smoking

Smoking in India

See also[edit]

Companies portal

[[Portal:Sustainab

development|Sustainab

development portal]]

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