ITC: SECURING THE FUTURE

A SNAPSHOT OF ITC’S SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES

C O N T E N T
ITC’s Businesses

ITC e-Choupal Ecosystem

ITC’s Sustainable Agriculture Programme ITC’s Skilling and Vocational Training Initiative

ITC’s Afforestation Programme ITC’s Health & Sanitation Initiative

ITC’s Soil & Moisture Conservation Programme ITC: Pioneering the Green Building Movement in India

ITC’s Livestock Development Programme ITC Hotels: Responsible Luxury

ITC’s Women Empowerment Programme Renewable Energy at ITC

ITC’s Primary Education Programme ITC’s Well-being Out of Waste (WoW) Initiative

ITC Green Temple Initiative

ITC’s Partnerships
ITC: GLOBAL EXEMPLAR IN SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainable The only Carbon Water Solid Waste Renewable

livelihoods Company in Positive Positive Recycling energy:
supported the world 14 years 17 years Positive About 41% of
by ITC’s to be: 12 years total energy
businesses: consumption
Over
6 million

Pioneer of green
building movement
in India: Established
25 green Buildings World’s greenest World’s highest World’s largest World’s first LEED®
luxury hotel chain: rated green LEED® Platinum Platinum certified
ITC Hotels building: certified green hotel: data centre:
ITC Green Centre, ITC Grand Chola, ITC Sankhya,
Gurugram Chennai Bengaluru
 ITC Ranked No.1 globally amongst
peers* and No.3 overall on ESG
performance in the Food Products
1 industry by Sustainalytics - a global ESG
rating company.
(*comprising companies with market capitalisation between
USD 38 Bln. and USD 51 Bln.)

ITC rated AA by MSCI - ESG: Highest

Amongst Global Tobacco Companies
and Domestic FMCG Peers
 ITC’s
BUSINESSES
Spanning all three sectors
of the Indian economy - ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata
Agriculture,
FMCG Businesses Hotels
Manufacturing and l India’s leading FMCG marketer l One of India’s pre-eminent
Services l ITC Foods is the third largest hospitality chains
in India l Pioneer in Green Hoteliering

Agri Business Paperboards, Paper & Packaging Information Technology

l India's foremost Agri Business Player l Market leader in Indian Paperboards, l Specialized global technology services
l Pioneer in rural transformation paper and packaging industry provider
through ITC e-Choupal l An icon of environmental
l One of India’s largest exporters of stewardship 03
agricultural commodities
 ITC: TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC
Gross Sales Value* : Total Shareholder Returns CAGR since 1996 : Market Capitalisation :
Over $10.5 Billion (FY 19) 22.3% (upto 31st March, 2019) Over $50 Billion
(as at 31st March, 2019)

Contribution to the Central & State Governments : Amongst Top 3 contributors (Pvt. Sector Co.s)
Nearly 80% of value-added to the Exchequer

*Gross Sales Value includes GST, GST Compensation Cess, Service Tax, VAT, Luxury Tax etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL
Carbon Positive : Water Positive : Solid Waste Recycling Positive :
14 years 17 years 12 years

Renewable Energy : 14 ITC Hotels are

41% 25 Platinum Rated LEED® Platinum Certified
Green Buildings
of total consumption Green Buildings

SOCIAL
ITC e-Choupal : Afforestation : Watershed Development : Livestock Development :
Livelihoods generated :
Over 6 million 4 million Over 7,50,000 Over 10,85,000 Over 18,00,000
farmers empowered acres greened acres covered milch animals covered

Women Empowerment : Primary Education : Skilling & Vocational training : Health & Sanitation :
Over 65,000 Over 7,20,000 Over 74,000 Over 36,000
rural women benefitted children benefitted youth benefitted. toilets built.

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ITC’s SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH
l The inspiration to serve a larger national purpose is at the core
of ITC's vision to build a globally competitive and profitable
Indian enterprise that makes an exemplary contribution to create
larger societal value. This is manifest in ITC's 'Nation First- Sab
Saath Badhein' philosophy.
l Making societal value creation the bedrock of its corporate
strategy, ITC has pursued innovation in business models that
synergise the building of economic, ecological and social capital
as a unified strategy.
l At ITC, the commitment to create an enterprise of tomorrow
resides in its chosen strategy to pursue 'Responsible
Competitiveness' - a socio-economic construct that underpins
the Company's objective to be future ready whilst ensuring that
growth is sustainable and inclusive.

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 ITC e-CHOUPAL ECOSYSTEM
lEmpowering Farmers l Enabling Sustainable Agriculture l Contributing to
Climate Resilience l Enhancing Productivity and Market Linkages
Benefitting 4 million Farmers
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 Transplanter Sprinklers

Sustainable Agricultural Practices

Drip Irrigation Zero Tillage

ITC’s SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME
l Multiplying Farmers’ Income
l Enabling Climate Smart Agriculture

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 ITC’s AFFORESTATION PROGRAMME
Greening over 7,50,000 acres & generating 135 million
person-days of employment

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ITC: CHAMPIONING WATER STEWARDSHIP
Covering over 1 million acres
lImproving Soil Fertility and Moisture Conservation l Mobilizing Public-Private-People
Partnerships l Water use efficiency through Demand Management

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 ITC’s LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
l Income Diversification l Alternative Livelihood to Farmers
Covering over 18,00,000 milch animals
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ITC’s WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
PROGRAMME
Economically empowering over 65,000 women
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 ITC’s PRIMARY EDUCATION
PROGRAMME
Benefitting Over 7,20,000 rural children
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ITC’s SKILLING & VOCATIONAL
TRAINING INITIATIVE
Over 74,000 youth trained
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 ITC’s HEALTH AND SANITATION
INITIATIVE
l 95% of project villages declared ‘Open Defecation Free’
Over 36,000 low-cost sanitary units constructed
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 ITC - Pioneering the Green
Building Movement in India
l 14 ITC Hotels are LEED® Platinum Certified
l ITC has 25 Platinum-rated green buildings
l The ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon,
headquarters of ITC Hotels Division, is the
highest rated green building in the world
l ITC Grand Chola in Chennai is the world’s
largest LEED® Platinum hotel
l Recently, ITC Sankhya, the ITC Group’s data
centre in Begaluru, received the LEED®
Platinum certification, becoming the
world’s first data centre to receive USGBC’s
highest certification

ITC Green Centre, Gurgaon

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 ITC HOTELS
Redefining Hospitality with ‘Responsible Luxury’
l Over 100 hotels across 70 destinations

16 ITC Grand Bharat, Gurgaon

RENEWABLE
ENERGY AT ITC
About 41% of ITC’s total
energy consumption is
met from renewable
sources

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 ITC's INTEGRATED WASTE
MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
l OptimizingPackaging and Resource Conservation l ITC's Well-being Out of
Waste (WoW) programme enables Source Segregation, Collection and Recycling of
Municipal Waste l WoW reaches out to 8.9 million citizens l ITC is developing
scalable models for Plastic Waste Management and Recycling
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 Tamil Nadu
Temples Covered
Arulmigu Kapaleeshwarar
& Sri Anantha Padmanabha
Swamy, Chennai
Sri Ranganatha Swamy,
Trichy

Total waste managed

on site
118 MT
Total Waste composted
103 MT
Revenue from compost
ITC Green Temple Project - ` 51,000
Setting a Zero Waste Example Bio-gas generated
Three of Tamil Nadu’s revered temples have been leading by example. Partnering 3,800 Cum
with ITC in 2017, they have adopted a closed loop model of solid waste
management.The huge amount of organic waste generated from daily offerings Savings on LPG
and cow dung from their Goshalas(cow sheds) is utilised in bio-composters and
bio-gas plants.By recycling this waste on site, the temples are turning their ` 2,12,000
premises into zero garbage zones, benefitting both the temples and their Figures are for all 3 temples & pertain
neighbourhoods with cleaner and healthier surroundings. As an extension of to the period January 2017-March 2018
this progeamme, ITC has shared best practices with 63 spoke temple stakeholders.
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ITC’s STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
PPPs Technical Village-based
Collaborations Institutions &
61 PPPs to-date other Partnerships
24 technical
l PPPs Covering areas of national
priorities such as Watershed
collaborations with
Development, Sustainable national & global Enduring partnerships
Agriculture,Solid Waste organisations with 86 best-in-class
Management and Financial
Inclusion. NGOs
l Agriculture, Water &
l Partnership with NITI Aayog, Biodiversity – CGIAR, World
the policy think tank of the Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),
Government of India, to l Both thematic experts and
International Union for grass-root NGOs
progressively benefit 2 million Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
farmers in 25 districts under International Water l Village Institutions
the Aspirational Districts Management Institute (IWMI),
Programme - 8850 Groups,
Tamil Nadu Agricultural
Institute (TNAI) - 1,45,000 Members.
l Partnership with National Bank
for Agriculture and Rural and others
Development (NABARD) and l Financial Literacy-CRISIL
several State Government Foundation

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ITC AND SDGs
Themes SDG Linkage

Social Forestry

Water Stewardship

Climate Smart Agriculture

Integrated Animal Husbandry

Women Empowerment

Primary Education

Vocational Training

Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

Mother and Child Health (MCH)

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