Itc-company profile

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ITC LIMITEDITC LIMITEDCOMPANY PROFILECOMPANY PROFILE

BY-G.RAVINDRA MURTYBY-G.RAVINDRA MURTY

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ITCITC LimitedLimitedENDURING VALUES

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ITC One of India’s Most Valuable Corporations

One of India’s premier private limited groups with over 97 years of experience

Large and established Distribution Network

Having market capitalization of US $ 15 billion

Annually turnover of the company is US $ 4.75 billion

It is one of the 8 Indian Companies to feature in ‘Forbes A-list’ for 2004

It has more then 21,000 employees at more then 60 location across India with 4,86,000 share holders.

Rated as: The Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2006 at position 1171. Third in pre-tax profit among India's private sector corporations. No. 1 in FMCG Sector by IMRB-Business world Survey 2006.

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ITC History Of The Company

On 24th August 1910 the Company was incorporated as a Private Company under the name, Imperial Tobacco Co.of India Ltd.

On 27th October 1954 The Company was converted into a Public Limited Company.

The name of the Company was changed from the Imperial Tobacco Co. of India Ltd., to India Tobacco Co. Ltd., in May 1970.

On October 1972 Company entered into hotel business.

On 2000 Company has launched a project "e-Choupal" in Bhopal to Web-enable farmers to make a beginning in agricultural e-trade.

During the same year ITC has launched Wills Sport, a full range of internationally styled premium wear for men and women.

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ITC GROUP OVERVIEW

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ITC - Business Portfolio

HOTELS & I.T.

FMCG & CIGRATES

Agri Business PAPERBOARD & PACKAGING

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FMCG - Cigarettes

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ITC’s Cigarettes BusinessITC’s Cigarettes Business Market leader in India

Powerful brands across segments

Highly popular portfolio of brands includes Insignia, India Kings, Classic, Gold Flake, Silk Cut, Navy Cut, Scissors, Capstan, Berkeley, Bristol and Flake.

Extensive FMCG distribution network Direct servicing of 85000 markets & nearly 2 million

retail outlets

About 71% of the total turnover depends upon this business.

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ITC’s FMCGITC’s FMCG Business(1)Business(1) FOODS:ITC made its entry into the branded & packaged Foods business in August 2001

Famous brands in this section are:Kitchens of India Aashirvaad Sunfeast mint-o Candyman Bingo!

Lifestyle retailing ITC made its presence through its Wills Lifestyle chain of exclusive specialty stores

Famous brands in this section are: Wills Sport Essenza Di Wills Wills Signature John Players Miss Players

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ITC’s FMCGITC’s FMCG Business(2)Business(2) GREETING GIFTING & STATIONARY

ITC's stationery brands Paper Kraft & Classmate are the most widely distributed brands across India.

For every Classmate notebook purchased by a consumer, ITC contributes Re. 1 to its rural development initiative that supports among other projects, primary education in villages.

Famous brands in this section are: Paper Kraft Classmate Expressions Greeting Cards

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Hotels & I.T.Hotels & I.T.

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ITC’s Hotel BusinessITC’s Hotel Business

ITC made its entry into the HOTELS business in 1975 from chennai.

It consists of over 70 hotels across India

These include super deluxe and five star hotels, heritage palaces, havelis and resorts and full service budget hotels.

The 440-room ITC Maurya, Delhi has played host to a galaxy of world dignitaries, including Bill Clinton and Bill Gates.

Its Restaurant Bukhara voted the Best Restaurant in Asia and is the only Indian restaurant to feature in the list of 50 Best Restaurants in the World.

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ITC’s Information & Technology BusinessITC’s Information & Technology Business

ITC InfoTech, a global IT services company, is today one of India’s fastest growing IT and ITES service providers.

providing outsourced IT solutions and services to leading global customers.

ITC InfoTech has a strength of over 2,000 employees and delivery centers across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific that serve Fortune-listed companies in 42 countries.

ITC InfoTech conforms to the highest standards in international process Quality.

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Agri BusinessesAgri Businesses

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ITC’s Agri-Business(1) ITC's International Business Division (IBD) is the country's second largest exporter of agri-products with exports of over Rs. 1000 Crores (Rs. 10 billion).

IBD domestic sales of agri-products are in excess of Rs. 1500 Crores (Rs. 15 billion).

IBD currently focuses on exports of :

•Feed Ingredients – Soyameal•Foodgrains - Rice (Basmati & Non Basmati), Wheat, Pulses•Edible Nuts - Sesame Seeds, HPS Groundnuts, Castor oil•Marine Products - Shrimps and Prawns•Processed Fruits - Fruit Purees/Concentrates, IQF/Frozen Fruits, Organic Fruit Products, Fresh Fruits•Coffee & Spices - Coffee, Black Pepper, Chilly, Turmeric, Ginger, Celery and other Seed Spices

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ITC’s Agri-Business(2)IBD starts e-choupal for the Indian formers:

Over 38000 villages linked through around 6400 e-Choupals Servicing over 3.5 million farmersFormers sell their products directly to the company •12 ‘Choupal Saagars’ operational; 8 more to be launched

shortly (40 nos. over the next 18 months)

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Paperboards, PaperPaperboards, Paper&&

PackagingPackaging

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ITC’s Paperboard business

ITC's Paperboards business has a manufacturing capacity of over 360,000 tones per year.

India's market leader across all carton-consuming segments including cigarettes, foods, beverages any many more.

ITC's Paperboard products include : packaging boards - coated folding box boards, solid bleached sulphate boards,white lined chipboards,liquid packaging boards, poly extruded coated boards for food and barrier packaging cast coated papers and boards.

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ITC’s Paperboard business

The Company's full range of products is depicted in the chart below

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BORD OF DIRECTORSBORD OF DIRECTORS

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BORD OF DIRECTORSBORD OF DIRECTORS

Y C Deveshwar Y C Deveshwar, an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi joined ITC Limited in 1968. He was appointed as a Director on the Board of the Company in 1984 and became the Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board on January 1, 1996. Between 1991 and 1994, he led Air India as Chairman and Managing Director.

CHAIRMAN:

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J P Daly.C R Green. S H Khan. S B Mathur. D K Mehrotra. P B Ramanujam. Basudeb Sen. Ram S Tarneja. B Vijayraghavan

BORD OF DIRECTORSBORD OF DIRECTORSExecutive Directors:

Anup Singh. S S H Rehman. K Vaidyanath.

Non-Executive Directors:

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Accolades & Awards

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Accolades & Awards (1)• Golden Peacock Global Award for Corporate Social Responsibility in

Emerging economies for 2005 by World Council for Corporate Governance for

the e-choupal arecognizes& farm forestry initiatives

• 2005 Golden Peacock Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance

• ITC Centre,Gurgaon awarded Platinum Green building rating by US

Green Building Council -Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

– largest Platinum rated building in the world; 7th such building in the world

• Bhadrachalam paperboard unit :

– adjudged ‘Greenest paper mill in India’ by The Centre for Science &

Environment; won the Greentech Environment Excellence Gold Award

• ‘John Players’ adjudged the ‘Most Admired Shirt Brand of the Year’ at the

Lycra® Images Fashion Awards (LIFA) awards in Jan’06

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Accolades & Awards (2)

• E-Choupal initiative continues to win global recognition:

–Stockholm challenge award 2006 in the economic development category which recognises initiatives that leverage information technology to improve living conditions and foster economic growth in all parts of the world.

–First Indian company to win the development gateway award 2005 for the most exemplary contribution in the field of information & communication technologies (ICT) for development during the last 10 years.

–World business award 2004: international chamber of commerce & the HRH prince of Wales & international business forum.

–Harvard university case study.

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