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ITC Limited
Type	Public (BSE:ITC)
Founded	24 August 1910
Headquarters	Kolkata, India
Key people	Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Chairman; K. Vaidyanath, Director, Partho Chatterjee, CFO
Industry	Tobacco, foods, hotels, stationery, greeting cards
Products	Cigarettes, packaged food, hotels, apparel
Revenue	▲ $4.75 billion USD (2006)
Employees	21,000 (2007)
Website	www.itcportal.com

ITC Limited which previously stood for Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited,^[1] is an Indian conglomerate with a turnover of US $ 4.75 billion. It ranks third in pre-tax profit among India's private sector corporations.The company has its registered office in Kolkata.

The company is currently headed by Yogesh Chander Deveshwar. It employs over 20,000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is listed on Forbes 2000. The Training Centre of the company is in Munger, Bihar. ITC is also known as "Chatkal" (especially in Munger).

[edit] List of products & brands

ITC has a diversified presence in

Cigarettes: W. D. & H. O. Wills, Gold Flake, Navy Cut, Insignia, India Kings, Classic Verve , Classic, Silk Cut, Scissors, Capstan, Berkeley, Bristol and Flake
Hotels: ITC Welcomgroup Hotels, Palaces and Resorts is India's second largest hotel chain with over 80 hotels. Based out of Hotels Division Headquarters at the ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon, ITC Welcomgroup is also the exclusive franchisee of The Luxury Collection brand of Starwood Hotels and Resorts in India
Paperboards & Specialty Papers: ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards Limited & ITC Tribeni Tissues Division are now under one roof --> Paper Boards and Specialty Papers Division. There are 4 Units under one umbrella - Bhadrachalam, Tribeni, Bollarum and Kovai.ITC PSPD
Packaging & Printing Business: India's Largest Packaging Solution provider with In-house film manufacturing capability. Multi-locational manufacturing facilities to cater to domestic and export requirements.Product Range includes Cartons (Folding & Fluted), Flexibles (Reels & Pouches), Shoulder Box, HL's & CBO, Printed Cork Tipping, Gaywraps. ITC PPB
Agricultural Industry: Agri-Business, Leaf Tobacco, Gold Ribbon, Blue Ribbon, Aqua Kings, Aqua Bay, Aqua Feast and Peninsular
Packaged Foods & Confectionery: Kitchens of India, Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Mint-O, Candyman, Bingo Snacks
Branded Apparel: Wills Lifestyle, John Players, Miss Players
Toiletries: Essenza Di Wills, Fiama Di Wills, Superia, Vivel Di Wills, Vivel
Education & Stationery Products: Expressions,Classmate, Paperkraft
Information Technology: ITC Infotech
Safety Matches: iKno, Mangaldeep, VaxLit, Delite(Discontinued) and Aim Brands acquired from Wimco (Western India Match Company): Ship , Homelite (Swedish Matches)
Incense Sticks: Mangaldeep, Spriha,Yantraani

While ITC continues in its traditional businesses of Cigarettes, Hotels, Paperboards, Packaging and Agri-Exports, it is gaining market share in its nascent businesses of Packaged Foods & Confectionery, Branded Apparel and Greeting Cards.

ITC's wholly owned Information Technology subsidiary, ITC Infotech India Limited, is pursuing emerging opportunities in providing end-to-end IT solutions, including e-enabled services and business process outsourcing.

[edit] Rural Initiatives

ITC's Agri-Business is India's second largest exporter of agricultural products. ITC is one of the India's biggest foreign exchange earners (US $ 2 billion in the last decade). The Company's 'e-Choupal' initiative is enabling Indian agriculture significantly enhance its competitiveness by empowering Indian farmers through the power of the Internet. This transformational strategy, which has already become the subject matter of a case study at Harvard Business School, is expected to progressively create for ITC a huge rural distribution infrastructure, significantly enhancing the Company's marketing reach.

The company places computers with Internet access in rural farming villages; the e-Choupals serve as both a social gathering place for exchange of information (choupal means gathering place in Hindi) and an e-commerce hub. What began as an effort to re-engineer the procurement process for soy, tobacco, wheat, shrimp, and other cropping systems in rural India has also created a highly profitable distribution and product design channel for the company—an e-commerce platform that is also a low-cost fulfillment system focused on the needs of rural India. The e-Choupal system has also catalyzed rural transformation that is helping to alleviate rural isolation, create more transparency for farmers, and improve their productivity and incomes.

[edit] Corporate philanthropy

ITC Echoupal creatively leverages information technology to set up a meta-market in favour of India's small and poor farmers, who would otherwise continue to operate and transact in 'un-evolved' markets.

As of July 2007, services through 6400 e-choupal across 8 states, reach more than 4 million farmers in about 40,000 villages. ITC intends scaling up the initiative with 20,000 choupals and 700 saagars to reach 10 million farmers in 100,000 villages by 2010.

Free access to Internet is also opening windows of rural India to the world at large. ITC eChoupal e-choupal is now being regarded as a reliable delivery mechanism for resource development initiatives. Its potential is being tested through pilot projects in healthcare, educational services, water management and cattle health management with the help of several service providers including non-governmental organizations.

[edit] Forbes ranking

ITC features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2007 at position 1256 ^[2].

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ "History and Evolution of ITC Limited". ITC Limited. http://www.itcportal.com/the_itc_profile/history_evolution.html. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
^ The Global 2000 - Forbes.com

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[0] "History and Evolution of ITC Limited". ITC Limited. http://www.itcportal.com/the_itc_profile/history_evolution.html. Retrieved 2007-09-23.

[1] The Global 2000 - Forbes.com

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