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ITC Limited
FormerlyImperial Tobacco Company of India Limited (1910–1970)
India Tobacco Company Limited (1970–1974)
I.T.C. Limited (1974–2001)
ITC Limited (2001–present)
Company type Public
ISIN INE154A01025
Industry Conglomerate [1]
Predecessor W.D. & H.O. Wills
Founded24 August 1910;114 years ago (1910-08-24) [2]
Headquarters
Virginia House, Chowringhee Road, Kolkata
,
India
Area served
Key people
Sanjiv Puri
(Chairman & MD) [3]
Products
Brands
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹79,568 crore (US$9.5 billion) (2024)
Increase2.svg₹27,147 crore (US$3.3 billion) (2024)
Increase2.svg₹20,751 crore (US$2.5 billion) (2024)
Total assets Increase2.svg₹91,826 crore (US$11 billion) (2024)
Total equity Increase2.svg₹74,890 crore (US$9.0 billion) (2024)
Number of employees
33,824 (2023)
Divisions ITC Hotels
ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division
ITC Infotech
Sunrise Foods
Website www.itcportal.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Footnotes /references
[5] [6] [7] [8]

ITC Ltd. is an Indian Tobacco Company multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Kolkata, India. [9] It has a presence across six business segments, namely FMCG, hotels, agribusiness, information technology, paper products, and packaging. [10] It generates a plurality of its revenue from tobacco products. [11] In terms of market capitalization, ITC is the second-largest FMCG company in India and the third-largest tobacco company in the world. [12] [13] [14] It employs 36,500 people at more than 60 locations across India. [15] Its products are available in 6 million retail outlets in India and exported to 90 countries. [16] [5]

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History

ITC Infotech campus in Bangalore ITC-COX-TOWN-BLR-1.png
ITC Infotech campus in Bangalore

Tobacco business and early years

"ITC Limited" was originally named "Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited", succeeding Imperial Brands and W.D. & H.O. Wills on 24 August 1910 as a British-owned company registered in Kolkata. [17] [18] Since the company was primarily based on agricultural resources, it ventured into partnerships in 1911 with farmers from the southern part of India to source leaf tobacco.[ citation needed ] [19] Under the company's umbrella, the "Indian Leaf Tobacco Development Company Limited" was formed in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in 1912. [20] The first cigarette factory of the company was set up in 1913 in Bangalore.[ citation needed ]

In 1928, construction began for the company's headquarters, the 'Virginia House' at Calcutta. [21] ITC acquired Carreras Tobacco Company's factory at Kidderpore in 1935 to further strengthen its presence.[ citation needed ] ITC helped set up an indigenous cigarette tissue-paper-making plant in 1946 to reduce import costs significantly. Then, a factory for printing and packaging was set up in Madras in 1949.[ citation needed ] The company acquired the manufacturing business of Tobacco Manufacturers (India) Limited and the complementary lithographic printing business of Printers (India) Limited in 1953. [22]

Name

Established in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited, the company was renamed as the India Tobacco Company Limited in 1970 and later to I.T.C. Limited in 1974. In 2001 the company was renamed ITC Limited, where "ITC" is no longer an acronym. [23] [24]

Shareholding and listings

ITC's equity shares are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE). [25] The company's Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. ITC is a constituent of two major stock market indices of India: BSE SENSEX and NIFTY 50 of NSE. [26]

In July 2023, ITC Ltd.'s board of directors approved in principle the demerger of its hotel business and the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary called ITC Hotels. [27] [28]

As of March 2024, British American Tobacco is the largest shareholder in the company with a 25.5% stake, followed by Life Insurance Corporation of India which holds 15.2%. [29]

Employees

As per the annual report of the company, ITC had more than 28,000 employees as of 31 March 2020. [30]

ITC's former chairman and CEO Yogesh Chander Deveshwar (d. 2019) is a recipient of Padma Bhushan from the Government of India; he was named the seventh-best-performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review in 2013. [30] [31]

Meera Shankar, Indian ambassador to the USA between 2009 and 2011, joined the board of ITC Limited in 2012 as the first woman director in its history. [32] She is an additional non-executive director of the company. [33]

Sanjiv Puri is the Chairman & Managing Director of ITC Limited. Puri was appointed as a Wholetime Director on the Board of ITC with effect from 6 December 2015, Chief Executive Officer in February 2017 and re-designated as the Managing Director in May 2018. He was appointed as the Chairman effective 13 May 2019. [34] Sanjiv Puri is also the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2024-25. [35]

Cultural initiatives

ITC founded and runs the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in 1978 to promote Hindustani classical music. The Academy is based in Kolkata. [36]

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