ITC Hotels

Type Public
Industry Hospitality
Founded 1975
Kolkata
Headquarters ,
India
Number of locations 190
Area served India
Key people Y C Deveshwar
Owner ITC
Website www.itchotels.in

ITC Hotels is India's third largest hotel chain with over 100 hotels.[1] It is based in the Hotels
Division Headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.[2] It is part of the ITC Limited group of
companies.[3][4] ITC Hotels is regularly voted amongst the best employers in Asia in the
hospitality sector.[5]

History OF ITC:-
ITC Limited entered the hotel business on 18 October 1975 with the opening of a hotel in
Chennai, which was renamed Hotel Chola.[6] ITC Hotels has a reputation of playing host to
visiting royalty and world leaders time and again.[7][8][9][10]

ITC brands:-
ITC Grand Maratha Hotel, Mumbai

ITC Kohenur Hyderabad, Telangana

Lavasa Fortune Hotel courtyard, Lavasa, Maharashtra

The group today operates under several distinct brands:

 Fortune Hotels, which has 54 hotels with 4,446 rooms in 41 cities across India[11]

 Welcom Heritage Hotels

ITC Hotels:-
 ITC Grand Bharat, Gurgaon

 ITC Maurya, New Delhi

  ITC Maratha, Mumbai

 ITC Grand Central, Mumbai

 ITC Sonar, Kolkata

 ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata

 ITC Fortune Park BBD Lucknow

 ITC Grand Chola, Chennai

 ITC Narmada, Ahmedabad (Opening in 2019)

 ITC Gardenia, Bangalore

 ITC Windsor, Bangalore

 ITC Kakatiya, Hyderabad

 ITC Kohenur, Hyderabad[12]

 ITC Rajputana, Jaipur

 ITC Mughal, Agra

 ITC Grand Goa Resort and Spa, Goa (Previously, Park Hyatt Goa, before acquisition)
[13][14]

 ITC hotel Colombo, Colombo (Opening in 2020)

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Tourism for Tomorrow AwardsGlobal Tourism

Business AwardFINALIST: ITC Hotels, IndiaITC Hotels,
headquartered in India, is the second largest hotel chain in the country and
operates over 100 hotels in 90 locations, including the ITC Hotels: Luxury
Collection, WelcomHotel/Sheraton, Fortune Hotels, and WelcomHeritage
brands. The company operates under a philosophy of “Responsible
Luxury,” which manifests itself as an ethos of integrating the highest level of
international green best practices with contemporary eco-‐design
principles.ITC Hotels is the first hospitality chain to have all their premium
properties (their 10 ITC Hotels: Luxury Collection) LEED® Platinum
certified. ITC Hotels alsoowns and operates the first hotel in the world –the
ITC Sonar –to earn carbon credits under the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol’s
Clean Development Mechanism. In addition, their headquarters building is
also LEED certified.In addition, ITC’s WelcomHeritage brand is committed
to the restoration of the cultural heritage of India’s old palaces, spectacular
forts, smaller ‘havelis’ (homes of nobility), and colonial /heritage buildings,
as well, and to developing high standards of heritage hospitality that protect
and promote India’s rich culture, handicrafts and cuisine.By implementing
programmes to support training, capacity building and employment of
people with disabilitiesthrough their People with Disabilities programme, the
hotel group also makes a strong commitment to being socially responsible.

ABOUT ITC:

ITC is one of India's foremost private sector companies with a market capitalisation of US $
52 billion and Gross Sales Value of US $ 10 billion. ITC has a diversified presence in FMCG,
Hotels, Packaging, Paperboards & Specialty Papers and Agri-Business. ITC's aspiration to be
an exemplar in sustainability practices is manifest in its status as the only company in the
world, of its size and diversity, to be carbon, water and solid waste recycling positive. In
addition, ITC's businesses and value chains create sustainable livelihoods for more than 6
million people, a majority of whom represent the poorest in rural India.

Our Profile:-
ITC is one of India's foremost multi-business enterprises with a market capitalisation of US $
52 billion and Gross Sales Value^ of US $ 10 billion. ITC is rated among the World's Best
Big Companies, Asia's 'Fab 50' and the World's Most Reputable Companies by Forbes
magazine and as 'India's Most Admired Company' in a survey conducted by Fortune India
magazine and Hay Group. ITC also features as one of world's largest sustainable value
creator in the consumer goods industry in a study by the Boston Consulting Group. ITC has
been listed among India's Most Valuable Companies by Business Today magazine. The
Company is among India's '10 Most Valuable (Company) Brands', according to a study
conducted by Brand Finance and published by the Economic Times. ITC also ranks among
Asia's 50 best performing companies compiled by Business Week.

Multiple Drivers of Growth

ITC's aspiration to create enduring value for the nation and its stakeholders is manifest in its
robust portfolio of traditional and greenfield businesses encompassing Fast Moving
Consumer Goods (FMCG), Hotels, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Agri-
Business, and Information Technology. This diversified presence in the businesses of
tomorrow is powered by a strategy to pursue multiple drivers of growth based on its proven
competencies, enterprise strengths and strong synergies between its businesses.

The competitiveness of ITC's diverse businesses rest on the strong foundations of

institutional strengths derived from its deep consumer insights, cutting-edge Research &
Development, differentiated product development capacity, brand-building capability,
world-class manufacturing infrastructure, extensive rural linkages, efficient trade
marketing and distribution network and dedicated human resources. ITC's ability to
leverage internal synergies residing across its diverse businesses lends a unique source of
competitive advantage to its products and services.

Within a relatively short span of time, ITC has established vital brands like Aashirvaad,
Sunfeast, Fabelle, Sunbean, Dark Fantasy, Mom's Magic Bingo!, Yippee!, Candyman, mint-o,
Kitchens of India, Farmland, B Natural, ITC MasterChef in the Branded Foods space;
Essenza Di Wills, Fiama, Vivel, Engage, Savlon, Charmis, Shower to Shower and Superia in
the Personal Care products segment; Classmate and Paperkraft in Education & Stationery
products; Wills Lifestyle in the Lifestyle Apparel business; Mangaldeep in Agarbattis and
Aim in the Safety Matches segment. This growth has been rated by a Nielsen Report to be the
fastest among the consumer goods companies operating in India.

Creating Enduring Value

Today, ITC is India's leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods company, the clear market leader
in the Indian Paperboard and Packaging industry, a globally acknowledged pioneer in farmer
empowerment through its wide-reaching Agri Business and a trailblazer in green hoteliering.
ITC Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary, is one of India's fast-growing IT companies in the
mid-tier segment. This portfolio of rapidly growing businesses considerably enhances ITC's
capacity to generate growing value for the Indian economy.

ITC's Agri-Business is one of India's largest exporters of agricultural products. The ITC
Group's contribution to foreign exchange earnings over the last ten years amounted to nearly
US$ 6.8 billion, of which agri exports constituted 57%. The Company's 'e-Choupal' initiative
has enabled Indian agriculture significantly enhance its competitiveness by empowering
Indian farmers through the power of the Internet. This transformational strategy has already
become the subject matter of a case study at Harvard Business School apart from receiving
widespread global acclaim.

As one of India's most valuable and respected corporations, ITC is widely perceived to be
dedicatedly nation-oriented. ITC believes that its aspiration to create enduring value for
the nation provides the motive force to sustain growing shareholder value. ITC practices
this philosophy by not only driving each of its businesses towards international
competitiveness but by also consciously contributing to enhancing the competitiveness of the
larger value chain of which it is a part. ITC group directly employs more than 32,000 people
and the Company's Businesses and value-chains generate around 6 million sustainable
livelihoods many of whom live at the margin in rural India.

Global Exemplar in Sustainability

Acknowledged as a global exemplar in sustainability, ITC is the only enterprise in the
world, of comparable dimensions to be carbon-positive, water-positive, and solid waste
recycling positive. A testimony to its commitment to a low carbon growth path - over 41% of
the total energy requirements of ITC is met from renewable sources. All ITC's premium
luxury hotels are LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified
making it the "greenest luxury hotel chain" in the world. ITC's Paperboards and Paper
business is an icon of environmental stewardship.

ITC's production facilities and hotels have won numerous national and international awards
for quality, productivity, safety and environment management systems. ITC was the first
company in India to voluntarily seek a corporate governance rating.

The Company continuously endeavours to enhance its wealth generating capabilities in a

globalising environment to consistently reward more than 9,00,000 shareholders, fulfill the
aspirations of its stakeholders and meet societal expectations.

^ Gross Sales Value (net of rebates) includes all taxes (GST, Compensation Cess, VAT, Excise
Duty, NCCD, etc.)