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financial statement analysis of ITC ltd.
Term paper
(SML401)
On
Financial Statement Analysis
Of
India Tobacco Company
(I.T.C)

Supervisor Prof.:
Dr. Shveta Singh
Department Of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Submitted By:
Anil Kumar (2010me10649)
Mandeep Singh (2010ME10690)
Vijender Godara (2010me10739)

What Is ITC Ltd.?

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. The Company now stands rechristened 'ITC LIMITED'. Though the first six decades of the Company's existence were primarily devoted to the growth and consolidation of the Cigarettes and Leaf Tobacco businesses, the Seventies witnessed the beginnings of a corporate transformation that would usher in momentous changes in the life of the
Company ITC's Packaging & Printing Business was set up in 1925 as a strategic backward integration for ITC's Cigarettes business. It is today India's most sophisticated packaging house. In 1975, the Company launched its Hotels business with the acquisition of a Hotel in Chennai which was rechristened 'ITC-Welcom group Hotel Chola (now renamed My Fortune, Chennai). The objective of ITC's entry into the hotels business was rooted in the concept of creating value for the nation. ITC chose the Hotels business for its potential to earn high levels of foreign exchange,

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