Manager - Supply Chain Management

Company Brief:

ITC Limited is an Indian company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has a diversified presence across industries such as cigarettes, FMCG, hotels, packaging, paperboards and specialty papers and agribusiness. The company has a total of 13 businesses in 5 segments. Also there are 90 countries where ITC exports its products and its products are available in 6 million retail outlets.

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. The company now stands renamed to ITC Limited, where "ITC" today is no longer an acronym or an initialised form.

The company completed 100 years in 2010 and as of 2020–21, had an annual turnover of US$10.26 billion, EBITDA of $2.52 billion and a market capitalisation of US$33.8 billion. It employs over 28000 people at more than 60 locations and over 200 manufacturing locations across India and is part of the Forbes 2000 list. Within a relatively short span of time, ITC has built 25 mother brands, many of which are market leaders in their segments. ITC’s world-class Indian brands anchor competitive and inclusive value chains that create, capture and retain larger value within the country.

Product/Business Portfolio:

ITC categorizes its business portfolio under 6 major categories:

1. FMCG

ITC is one of the largest players in the FMCG industry in India. FMCG is also ITC’s largest business division, both in terms of revenue and in terms of scale. ITC forayed into the FMCG business in 2001 and it has been a consistent growth since then. The FMCG business is divided into 7 sub categories

(a) Foods

ITC’s branded packaged foods is one of the fastest growing business segments in India. The following brands come under the foods division:

• Sunfeast
• Aashirvaad
• Bingo
• Kitchens of India
• Yippee
• B-Natural
• Mint-O
• Candyman
• GumOn
• Fabelle
• Sunbean
• Wonderz Milk
• ITC Master Chef
• Farmland

(b) Personal Care

ITC’s personal care business was launched in 2005 and it boasts an array of brands ranging from skincare to hygiene

• Essentia Di Wills
• Dermafique
• Fiama
• Vivel
• Engage
• Superia
• Nimyle
• Nimeasy
• Nimwash
• Savlon
• Shower to Shower
• Charmis

(c) Education and Stationery

ITC entered in this segment in 2002, launched Classmate in 2003 and became the largest stationery brand in the country

• Classmate
• Paperkraft

(d) Lifestyle Retailing

• WLS

(e) Agarbattis

• Mangaldeep

(f) Safety Matches

• Aim
• Homelites

(g) Cigarettes

ITC started in India with the tobacco business in 1910, and is the market leader in India in the cigarettes category

• Insignia
• India Kings
• Classic
• Gold Flake
• American Club
• Wills Navy Cut
• Players
• Scissors
• Capstan
• Berkeley
• Bristol
• Flake
• Silk Cut
• Duke & Royal

2. Hotels

Launched in 1975, ITC Hotels is India’s premium chain of luxury hotels, pioneering the concept of ‘Responsible Luxury’.

• ITC Hotels
• Welcomhotel
• Fortune Hotels
• WelcomHeritage

3. Paperboards and Speciality Paper

ITC Paperboards is the leader in volume, product range, market reach and environmental performance and a clear market leader. Their product range includes:

• Virgin Boards
• Recycled Boards
• Barrier Coated Boards
• Biodegradable Barrier Coated Boards
• Graphic Boards
• Communication Paper
• Wrapping Paper
• Decor

4. Packaging

ITC’s Packaging and Printing business is the largest value added convertor of paperboard packaging in South Asia

• Carton Board Packaging
• Flexible Packaging
• Tobacco Packaging
• Green Packaging

5. Agri Business

ITC is one of India’s largest integrated agri business enterprise with presence across every node of the value chain

• Feed Ingredients
• Food grains
• Marine Products
• Processed fruits
• Coffee

6. Information Technology

ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider

Subsidiaries

• Surya Nepal Private Limited
• Landbase India Limited
• Russell Credit Limited
• Srinivasa Resorts Limited
• Fortune Park Hotels Limited
• WelcomHotels Lanka Pvt Ltd, Sri Lanka
• Technico Pty Limited

E-Choupal

ITC created E-Choupal as the largest internet based rural infrastructure that is empowering farmers by creating a digital ecosystem for Crop Advisory, Crop monitoring, farmer forums and a marketplace for agri inputs, promoting digital economy in the rural parts of the country and revamping the entire agricultural supply chain

ITC has developed a 360 degree model to raise farmer incomes, all round the year with integrated agri interventions, covering more than 2000 farmers across the country

ITC’s Water Stewardship Mission

ITC is the only company in the world that has been positive for 18 years and that runs various programmes like Watershed Development projects and Water Management projects for drought proofing fields, rejuvenation of river basins and rainwater harvesting

ITC Sab Saath Badhein : Empowering Rural Communities

ITC, through its various initiatives is empowering rural communities in the villages across India

• Livestock Development
• Vocational training
• Education
• Women empowerment
• Integrated Waste Management
• Sanitation

Recent Mergers and Acquisitions:

• ITC acquired spices manufacturer Sunrise Foods Pvt Ltd in a deal worth Rs. 2150 crores in May 2020
• In May 2018, ITC acquired the floor cleaner brand Nimyle for an undisclosed amount
• Eyeing growth in the skincare segment, ITC acquired the skincare brand Charmis in 2017
• Termed as one of the largest acquisitions of the FMCG sector, ITC acquired the antiseptic brand Savlon and Shower to Shower in 2015 from Johnson & Johnson

Top 5 Competitors:

• HUL
• Tata Group
• Nestle India Ltd
• P&G
• Dabur

Recent News and Developments:

• Amid slump in the hospitality industry, ITC announced its plans to expand its Welcomhotel brand to 25 properties
• ITC funded Kolkata based Medica Superspeciality Hospital to set up a 200 bed covid facility
• ITC became the first hotel chain in the world to receive platinum level certification in infection risk management
• ITC comes together with Karnataka govt to execute the Watershed Development Programme for drought proofing farmlands in the state
• ITC clocked a 3X growth in their frozen foods business during the pandemic
• At the 20th ICSI National Awards, ITC was adjudged as the ‘Best Governed Company’ in 2020

Main Roles offered to Students:

Much like other major FMCG and Conglomerates in the country, ITC recruits students from premier engineering and management institutes for their flagship training programme known as AUT or Assistants Under Training, where fresh graduates are centrally inducted into various business divisions of the organization.