ITC India Limited
Type	Public (BSE:ITC)
Founded	August 24, 1910 Radha Bazar Lane, Kolkata, India
Headquarters	Virginia House, Kolkata, India
Key people	Y C Deveshwar, Chairman K Vaidyanath, Director, CFO: Partho Chatterjee
Industry	Tobacco, Foods, Hotels
Products	Cigarettes, Packaged Food, Hotels, Apparel
Revenue	$3.5 billion USD (2005)
Employees	20,000 (2006)
Website	www.itcportal.com

ITC Limited which previously stood for Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited^[1], is one of India's foremost private sector companies with a market capitalisation of more than US $ 10 billion and a turnover of US $ 3.5 billion. Rated among the World's Best Big Companies by Forbes magazine, ITC ranks third in pre-tax profit among India's private sector corporations. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Bombay Stock Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (Marathi:मुंबई शेयर बाजार) (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai; popularly called The Bombay Stock Exchange, or BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... , “Calcutta” redirects here. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... , “Calcutta” redirects here. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Y C Deveshwar is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ITC Ltd. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. ... A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ... Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured. ... The hospitality industry is a 3. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into textile. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... USD redirects here. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about work. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The private sector of a nations economy consists of all that is outside the state. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, mkt. ... Look up Turnover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Alternate meaning: For the Boston Brahmin family associated with John Forbes Kerry, see Forbes family. ... Net profit is an accounting term which is commonly used in business. ...

List of products and brands

ITC has a diversified presence in

• Cigarettes: W. D. & H. O. Wills, Insignia, India Kings, Classic, Gold Flake, Navy Cut, Scissors, Capstan, Berkeley, Bristol and Flake
• Hotels: ITC-Welcomgroup Hotel Chola
• Paperboards & Specialty Papers:ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards Limited"ITC Tribeni Tissues Division" Now there are four units under one name --> Paper Boards and Specialty Papers Division, Unit - Bhadrachalam, Tribeni, Bollarum and Kovai.
• 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
• Personal Care: Essenza Di Wills
• Greeting Card: Expressions
• Information Technology: ITC Infotech India Limited
• Safety Matches: iKno, Mangal Deep, VaxLit, Delite and Aim
• Stationery: Classmate, Paperkraft, Saathi

While ITC is an outstanding market leader in its traditional businesses of Cigarettes, Hotels, Paperboards, Packaging and Agri-Exports, it is rapidly gaining market share even in its nascent businesses of Packaged Foods & Confectionery, Branded Apparel and Greeting Cards. The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. ... W. D. & H. O. Wills was a British Tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The hospitality industry is a 3. ... An International Paper mill in South Carolina The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American (United States, Canada), northern European (Finland, Sweden) and East Asian countries (such as Japan). ... Agriculture (from Agri Latin for ager (a field), and culture, from the Latin cultura cultivation in the strict sense of tillage of the soil. A literal reading of the English word yields tillage of the soil of a field.) is the production of food, feed, fiber and other goods by... Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans or animals. ... It has been suggested that Candy be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into textile. ... A greeting card is a folded card featuring a message of greeting or other sentiment. ... Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. ... An igniting match A match is a consumable tool for producing fire under controlled circumstances on demand. ... Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, erasers, paper clips, staples, etc. ...

ITC's Classmate is India's largest Notebook brand. ITC is already India's largest marketer of Paper Stationery products through its brands like Classmate, Paperkraft and Saathi. ITC's Classmate Young Author Contest is one of its kind conducted for school kids to support budding young talented authors in 4000 schools in 25 states across India. For every notebook sold, ITC spends Re.1 in social causes including rural education. Further "Classmate" notebooks have excellent brand recall among students making it one among few non-food brand to have such an achievement among kids. When ITC entered this field, it was highly unorganized and branding was never heard of. ITC has completely changed the way the Stationery business is placed in the country today.

ITC's wholly owned Information Technology subsidiary, ITC Infotech India Limited, is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities in providing end-to-end IT solutions, including e-enabled services and business process outsourcing. ITES means IT (Information Technology) Enabled Services. ... Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the leveraging of technology or specialist process vendors to provide and manage an organisations critical and/or non-critical enterprise processes and applications. ...

The company is headed by Yogesh Chander Deveshwar. It employs over 20,000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is listed on Forbes 2000. Y C Deveshwar is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ITC Ltd. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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. In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term that refers to the various businesses involved in the food production chain, including farming, seed, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesaling, processing, distribution, and retail sales. ... Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

Corporate philanthrophy

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, ITC eChoupal services, through 6400 eChoupals 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 [1] 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. Sign in a rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China An artists rendering of an aerial view of the Maryland countryside: Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank, 1918-1986), Aerial Series: Ploughed Fields, Maryland, 1974, acrylic and mixed materials on apertured double canvas, 52... Health care or healthcare is one of the worlds largest and fastest growing professions. ... LLGHHHHHHHHHK BNMNKBV JKVGKJJH JHVG KJVH KJV KJV JKV JV JV KJFYG KHV KJV gfnnnnnnnnnnhngjkv jh b ... Veterinary medicine is the application of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. ... A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization which is not a part of a government. ...

Forbes ranking

ITC features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2006 at position 1. The Forbes Global 2000 - is an annual ranking of the top 2000 corporations in the world by Forbes magazine. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official company website
• Official website of Wills Lifestyle
• Official website of John Players
• Official website of Miss Players
• Official website of ITC Infotech
• Official website of Kitchens of India
• Unofficial ITC Blog

References

1. ^ History and Evolution of ITC Limited. ITC Limited. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.

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