Awards & Accolades
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Major Awards 2014-15
ITC was ranked as 'India's Most Admired Company' in a survey conducted by Fortune India magazine and Hay Group.
- ITC featured among the top 3 Companies in terms of corporate reputation in the 2014-15 Nielsen Corporate Image Monitor. It has also retained the top position in terms of being 'the most active in CSR' for the fourth year in a row.
- ITC Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Indian Visionary - Business Leader Award by The Economic Times, India's leading business daily, for being the country's most visionary corporate leader who has made "significant contribution to business growth, organisational transformation and setting forth examples of industry initiatives and trends".
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Management Man of the Year Award by the Bombay Management Association (BMA) in recognition of his contribution to entrepreneurship, the management movement and Indian Industry.
- ITC was voted the 'Buzziest Brand' in the 'Corporate' category by afaqs, one of the world's largest marketing and advertising portals. In addition 'Sunfeast' and 'Vivel' were voted 'Buzziest Brands' in the Foods and Personal Care categories, respectively.
- ITC received the CSR Impact Award in the 'Livelihoods' category, conferred by NGOBOX, Asia's biggest development sector platform.
- ITC was conferred the Legal Era IP Award for the 'Best IP Team of the Year- FMCG'.
- ITC's Foods Business received the 'Overall Excellence in Procurement Award' and 'Outstanding Green Initiative Award' from Conference Asia.
- ITC was selected as the top Indian company in the 'Cigarettes Sector' at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards, 2014.
- ITC Hotels won the 'Best Luxury Hotel Chain of the Year' award at the 10th Hospitality India and Explore the World Annual International Awards.
- ITC's Education and Stationery Products Brand, 'Classmate' was voted the "Most Popular School Accessories Brand" at the 'Child Most Popular Awards' 2014.
- ITC's Packaging & Printing Business won 4 'World Star Awards' from the World Packaging Organisation, 4 'Asia Star Awards' from the Asian Packaging Federation and 17 'India Star Awards' from the Indian Institute of Packaging for excellence in packaging solutions.
- ITC Windsor, Bengaluru received the 'National Energy Management Award 2014', while the Bhadrachalam and Kovai Units of ITC's Paperboards Business received the 'Excellent Energy Efficient Unit' awards from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
- ITC Grand Chola was named the 'Best Business Hotel' at the 3rd Annual Lonely Planet Magazine Travel Awards 2014. The Hotel was also accorded the 'Signum Virtutis' (Seal of Excellence) in the Hotels & Resorts category at the Seven Star Global Luxury Awards.
- ITC's Corporate Communications Department bagged three First prizes and one Third prize at the prestigious Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) National Awards 2014.
- ITC's Karnataka Green Leaf Threshing Project at Mysore received the 'Gold' rating from the Indian Green Building Council.
- ITC's Unit at Bhadrachalam won the first prize in the manufacturing category of Six Sigma Case Study Contest organised by the Indian Statistical Institute in Bengaluru.
- ITC's Factory at Bengaluru received the 'Overall Leader' Award at the Frost & Sullivan Green Manufacturing Excellence Award & Summit 2014.
- The Kovai Unit of ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Business received the Tamil Nadu state award for Green Initiatives and Environmental Best Practices.
- ITC's Units at Bengaluru and Saharanpur received the 'Platinum' and 'Gold' Awards, respectively at the India Manufacturing Excellence Awards (IMEA) instituted by Frost & Sullivan and The Economic Times.
Major Awards Over the Years
- Harvard Business Review ranked ITC Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar as the 7th Best Performing CEO in the World in its January-February 2013 edition.
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2011).
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Global Leadership Award by the US India Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce (2010).
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was presented the Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award by Shri M Hamid Ansari, Hon'ble Vice President of India (2014).
- ITC was presented the World Business and Development Award at the Rio+20 UN Summit for its Social and Farm Forestry initiative (2012).
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Business Leader of the Year Award by the All India Management Association (AIMA) (2012).
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar received the Business Person of the Year Award from UK Trade & Investment (2006).
- Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was awarded the SAM/ SPG Sustainability Leadership Award in Zurich (2007).
- ITC's Chief Financial Officer, Mr Rajiv Tandon, was ranked the 'Best Overall CFO' at the 'Business Today-Yes Bank Best CFO Awards 2013'. He was also declared the winner in the category of 'Sustained Wealth Creation (large companies)'.
- ITC was presented the AIM Asian CSR Award by the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR), in recognition of its contribution to the creation of sustainable livelihoods and fostering economic growth in rural communities in India (2012).
- ITC won the prestigious 12th Businessworld FICCI CSR Award in the Large Enterprise category. The award recognises the most socially responsible Indian corporates in CSR (2012).
- ITC received the FICCI Outstanding Vision Corporate Triple Impact Award (2008).
- ITC was conferred the FICCI Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural and Community Development (2010).
- ITC was conferred the National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (2007).
- ITC was ranked 2nd among top Indian companies in the first of its kind Standard & Poor Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance ratings (2008).
- ITC was ranked 2nd among top companies in India and 7th in Asia in the first of its kind Asian Sustainability Rating released by CSR Asia (2010).
- ITC became the first Indian Company to gain Membership with WWF-GFTN for Responsible Forestry (2010).
- ITC was ranked the world's 6th largest sustainable value creator among consumer goods companies according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (2010).
- ITC won the top UNIDO Award at the International Conference on Sharing Innovative Agri Business Solutions at Cairo (2008).
- ITC was conferred the Corporate Social Responsibility Crown Award for Water Practices from UNESCO and Water Digest (2008).
- ITC was conferred the Asian CSR Award for Environmental Excellence by the Asian Institute of Management (2007).
- ITC was the 1st Indian Company and 2nd in the world to win the Development Gateway Award for its trail-blazing e-Choupal initiative (2005).
- ITC's e-Choupal initiative received the Inaugural World Business Award from UNDP (2004).
- ITC e-Choupal won the Stockholm Challenge Award (2006).
- ITC was rated amongst Asia-Pacific's 50 biggest listed companies in 'Asia Fab 50' by Forbes (2010).
- All ITC's super premium luxury hotels have been accorded LEED® Platinum certification, making ITC Hotels the 'Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain in the World' (2011).
- ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Units at Bhadrachalam, Bollaram, Kovai and Tribeni are FSC Chain of Custody certified (2011).
- ITC's Unit in Bhadrachalam was awarded the Forest Stewardship Council Forest Management (FSC-FM) certification by the SmartWood Programme of the Rainforest Alliance (2011).
