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GRI - G4 COMPLIANT
In Accordance - Comprehensive

Triple Bottom Line Performance

ITC: Creating 6 million sustainable livelihoods

Environment

Carbon Positive: 10 Consecutive years

Water Positive: 13 years in a row

Solid Waste Recycling Positive: for the last 8 years

  • Soil & Moisture conservation to over 2,00,000 hectares

    ITC's Watershed Development Programme, designed to assist farmers in identified moisture-stressed areas, increased by an additional 63,492 hectares in 2014-15 taking the total area covered under the programme to 212,200 hectares.

  • Use of Renewable Energy

    Over 43% of ITC's total energy requirements was met from carbon neutral fuels such as biomass, wind and solar.

  • Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain

    All ITC's premium luxury Hotels are LEED® Platinum certified (certification is in progress for the super premium ITC Grand Bharat which opened recently).

  • Over 1,95,000 hectares greened

    Out of this, ITC's Social Forestry Programme cumulatively covers 69,421 hectares in 3,985 villages, impacting over 72,000 poor households.

  • Wellbeing Out of Waste (WOW)

    The 'Wellbeing Out of Waste' initiative inculcates the habit of source segregation and recycling. The initiative currently extends to Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and some towns of Telangana.

Economic

ITC has created multiple drivers of growth by developing a portfolio of world-class Indian businesses and brands.

Over the last nineteen years:
Net Revenue grew at a compound rate of 15% annually
Net Profit grew at 20.9% per annum
Total Shareholder Returns (measured in terms of increase in market capitalisation and dividends) grew at a compound annual growth rate of 24.3%.
  • Diversified multi-business conglomerate spanning FMCG, Hotels, Paperboards & Packaging, Agri Business and Information Technology
  • Market capitalisation: $ 40 billion
  • Turnover: Nearly $ 8 billion
  • ITC Group provides direct employment to more than 32,000 people

Social

ITC's Social Investments Programme is spread over 14 states covering 71 districts.

  • Primary Education Initiative:

    Benefitting 4,20,000 children During 2014-15, a new initiative called the ‘Read India Programme’ reached out to 36,000 children. In addition, another 34,000 children were covered by Supplementary Learning Centres, taking the total number of children benefitted to 4,20,000.

  • ITC e-Choupal:

    Empowering 4 million farmers ITC's globally acknowledged e-Choupal initiative is the world’s largest rural digital infrastructure benefitting over 4 million farmers

  • Over 45,000 sustainable livelihoods for rural women

    These women were gainfully employed either through micro-enterprises or assisted with loans to pursue income generating activities

  • Animal husbandry services for 12,00,000 milch animals

    The programme for genetic improvement of cattle through artificial insemination to produce high-yielding crossbred progenies is implemented through 256 Cattle Development Centres covering over 10,000 villages.

  • Afforestation programme generates nearly 90 million person-days of employment
  • ITC's bio-diversity programme now covers at 3,191 hectares

    The objective is to protect native flora and fauna and providing other eco-system services

  • ITC's Vocational Training programme - Training over 22,000 youth

    This program played an active role in building and upgrading skills of marginalised youth to better meet the emerging needs of the job market.

Figures in this section are as on June 2015. Figures in the rest of the Report pertain to the Financial year 2014-15.

Chairman's Statement