ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate established in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited. It has diversified into five business segments: FMCG, hotels, paperboards & packaging, agri business, and IT. With over 25,000 employees across 60 locations, ITC has an annual turnover of $8.31 billion and a market capitalization of $45 billion. Its businesses include tobacco, hotels, paper, packaging, agriculture, personal care, and IT.

2. INDIAN TOBACCO COMPANY: AN OVERVIEW
• ITC Limited or ITC is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.
• Its diversified business includes five segments: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Hotels,
Paperboards & Packaging, Agri Business & Information Technology.
• Established in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited, the company was
renamed as the Indian Tobacco Company Limited in 1970 and further to I.T.C. Limited in 1974.
• The company completed 100 years in 2010, and as of 2012-13, had an annual turnover of
US$8.31 billion and a market capitalization of US$45 billion.
• It employs over 25,000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is part of Forbes
2000 list.

3. HISTORY OF THE COMPANY
• ITC was incorporated on August 24, 1910 under the name Imperial Tobacco Company of India
Limited. As the Company's ownership progressively Indianised, the name of the Company was
changed from Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited to India Tobacco Company Limited
in 1970 and then to I.T.C. Limited in 1974.
• In recognition of the Company's multi-business portfolio encompassing a wide range of
businesses - Fast Moving Consumer Goods comprising Foods, Personal Care, Cigarettes and
Cigars, Branded Apparel, Education and Stationery Products, Incense Sticks and Safety
Matches, Hotels, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Agri-Business and Information
Technology - the full stops in the Company's name were removed effective September 18, 2001.
• In 1975, the company acquired a hotel in Chennai, which was renamed the 'ITC-Welcomgroup
Hotel Chola' now renamed to MyFortune, Chennai.

5. VISION & MISSION OF THE COMPANY
VISION
Sustain ITC's position as one of India's most valuable corporations through world class
performance, creating growing value for the Indian economy and the Company's stakeholders.
MISSION
To enhance the wealth generating capability of the enterprise in a globalising environment,
delivering superior and sustainable stakeholder value.

6. BUSINESS AREAS OF ITC LIMTED
ITC has very wide area of business it operates its businesses all the crucial sectors
of the society which include the following areas and it also give contribution in the
development of the economy.
• FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS
• HOTELS
• PAPERBOARDS & SPECIALITY PAPERS
• PACKGING
• AGRI BUSINESS
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• ITC`s BRANDWORLD
• GROUP COMPANIES
• PERSONAL CARE

7. 1. FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS(FMCG)
• The FMCG sector of ITC includes the following brands.

8. 2. HOTELS
• Launched in 1975, ITC Hotels, India's premier chain of luxury hotels, has become synonymous
with Indian hospitality.
• ITC Hotels pioneered the concept of 'Responsible Luxury' in the hospitality industry, drawing
on the strengths of ITC groups' exemplary sustainability practices. Responsible Luxury
personifies an ethos that integrates world-class green practices with contemporary design
elements to deliver the best of luxury in the greenest possible manner.

9. CNTD……
• With more than 100 hotels in over 70 destinations, ITC Hotels has set new
standards of excellence in the hotel industry in Accommodation, Cuisine,
Environment and Guest Safety.

10. 3. PAPERBOARDS& SPECIALITY PAPERS
• ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division is India's largest, technologically advanced and
most eco-friendly, paper and paperboards business.
• The business caters to a wide spectrum of packaging, graphic, communication, writing, printing
and specialty paper requirements through its four world-class manufacturing units, 8 sales
offices and a network of more than 60 dealers in India, along with a robust international trade
network of distributors / agents and 6 finishing operations close to the market for providing
faster service to the customers.

12. 4. PERSONAL CARE
• ITC forayed into the Personal Care business in July 2005.
• In the short period since its entry, ITC has already launched an array of brands,
each of which offers a unique and superior value proposition to discerning
consumers. After an extensive consumer research and product development,
ITC's personal care portfolio brings world-class products with clearly
differentiated benefits to quality-seeking consumers.

13. 5. AGRI BUSINESS
• ITC's pre-eminent position as one of India's leading corporates in the agricultural sector is based
on strong and enduring farmer partnerships that has revolutionized and transformed the rural
agricultural sector. One of the largest exporters of agri products from the country, ITC sources
the finest of Indian Feed Ingredients, Food Grains, Marine Products, Processed Fruits & Coffee.
• ITC's Agri Business Division is the country's second largest exporter of agri-products. It
currently focuses on exports and domestic trading of:
• Feed Ingredients - Soyameal
• Food Grains - Wheat & Wheat Flour, Rice, Pulses, Barley & Maize
• Marine Products - Shrimps and Prawns
• Processed Fruits - Fruit Purees/Concentrates, IQF/Frozen Fruits, Organic Fruit Products
• Coffee

15. COMPETITORS OF ITC LTD
• As we all know without competition we cannot calculate our growth as well as
we cannot make changes in the product. When any company establishes its
business in any area it has to face many competitors in the same area. In case of
ITC Ltd it has many competitors in FMCG sector some of them are:
• Parle
• Britannia
• Patanjali
• Priyagold

19. CONCLSION
ITC is a sound established company in the FMCG sector. ITC is having the
consumers spread all over the country. If the company can enter into the chocolate
industry where there are only two competitors i.e., Cadbury & nestle. ITC through
its brand image can give great competition to the competitors. ITC must try to
improve in scm and to have a strong distribution in rural markets.