ITC Limited which previously stood for 'Imperial Tobacco Company', 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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securites (i. ... The Bombay Stock Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai; popularly called The Bombay Stock Exchange, or BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...   (IPA: [] Bengali: কলকাতা) (formerly  ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ...   (IPA: [] Bengali: কলকাতা) (formerly  ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. ... 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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Tourism. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into textile. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... 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, Gold Flake, Navy Cut, Scissors, Capstan, Berkeley, Bristol and Flake
• Hotels: ITC-Welcomgroup Hotel Chola
• Paperboards & Specialty Papers:ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards Limited
• 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, 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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Tourism. ... An International Paper mill in South Carolina The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American (United States, Canada), northern European (Sweden, Finland) and East Asian countries (such as Japan). ... Farmlands in Hebei province, China. ... Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans or animals. ... A confection selection The term confectionery refers to food items that are (or at least are perceived to be) rich in sugar. ... 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 is already India's second 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 2006, ITC eChoupal services, through 6100 eChoupals across 8 states, reach more than 4 million farmers in about 36,000 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 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 1171. The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 corporations in the world by Forbes magazine. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

External links

• Official site
• ITC Infotech Web page
• Unofficial ITC Blog

The company's original name is Imperial Tobacco Company and not Indian Tobbaco Company as mentioned Please visit http://www.itcportal.com/the_itc_profile/history_evolution.html