Overview of ITC ITC was incorporated on 24th August 1910 under the name Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited. Progressively‚ as the Company ’s ownership Indianised‚ the name of the Company was changed to I.T.C. Limited in 1974. As ITC has a wide range of businesses such as Cigarettes & Tobacco‚ Hotels‚ Information Technology‚ Packaging‚ Paperboards & Specialty Papers‚ Agri-business‚ Foods‚ Lifestyle Retailing‚ Education & Stationery and Personal Care - the full stops in the Company
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The ITC eChoupal Initiative Wednesday‚ January 23‚ 2013 Background: Soybeans and their derivatives constituted two-thirds of ITC’s agricultural business. ITC had an integrated presence throughout the entire value chain‚ from procurement to export. Farmers had traditionally relied on choupals‚ an informal assembly‚ as their only source of agricultural knowledge and sold soybeans at the closest market‚ or mandi‚ to traders employed by ITC. Despite success of soybean products in domestic and
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The ITC eChoupal Initiative The case is about a technology based transition of soybean supply chain from traditional flow to a more efficient method. Case first talks about the traditional way of soybean supply chain. In the traditional method‚ farmers are taking their product to local markets called “mandi”. They had difficulties in taking their product to far market places‚ and there they do not know the expected price of their product. So middlemen can play with the price in the local market
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Contribution of ITC e-Choupal Towards India’s Dream of Inclusive Growth Submitted By Ritika Gauba Lecturer Faculty of Management Studies- -Institute of Rural Management (FMS-IRM)‚ Jaipur Mobile No. 8290292216 Email – ritikagauba@yahoo.co.in “A quiet digital revolution is reshaping the lives of farmers in remote Indian villages. In these villages‚ farmers grow soyabeans‚ wheat and coffee in small plots of land‚ as they have for thousands of years. A typical village has no reliable electricity
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About E-Choupal [pic] ITC’s International Business Division‚ one of India’s largest exporters of agricultural commodities‚ has conceived e-Choupal as a more efficient supply chain aimed at delivering value to its customers around the world on a sustainable basis. The e-Choupal model has been specifically designed to tackle the challenges posed by the unique features of Indian agriculture‚ characterised by fragmented farms‚ weak infrastructure
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American Journal of Economics and Business Administration 2 (2): 179-184‚ 2010 ISSN 1945-5488 © 2010 Science Publications e-Choupal: Hope or Hype? Neeraj Dangi and Harjit Singh Department of Management‚ Institute of Management Education‚ Sahibabad (Ghaziabad)‚ India Abstract: Problem statement: This case looked at the cost benefit factor of e-Choupal model in rural India from socio-economic perspective since it is being projected as one of the models of rural empowerment. Questions were
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ITC- A CASE STUDY By: MIT SHAH‚ MBA.Tech EXTC‚ II Year‚ M624 ITC Limited or ITC is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata‚ West Bengal. Its diversified business includes five segments: Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)‚ Hotels‚ Paperboards & Packaging‚ and Agri Business & Information Technology. The following is the case study which studies the type of management‚ organizational culture‚ PEST analysis and CSR policies incorporated by ITC Limited. The key features of the strategies and policies
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Developing a Rural Market e-hub The case study of e-choupal experience of rrc B. Bowonder‚ Vinay Gupta and Amit Singh Abstract potential to‚male significant.inroads in a traditional agrarian economy like India. Indian agro-sector has been‚ exploiting the benefits to rcr. jnnovative lCi ’apptication platforms are being created by private sector players in conjunction with local farmers. one such private initiative has been by ITC Ltd in the state-of M.onvu piuJ"r6. rt n"‚ helped the farmers in
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Case Study Report The ITC eChoupal Initiative Index Contents Page No. 1. Executive Summary..................................................................................3 2. Issue...............................................................................…………………3 3. Environmental and Root Case Analysis........................
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1. What problems do you think ITC is going to face in the future due to ban in cigarette advertising? Answer ITC’s cigarettes are manufactured in state-of-the-art factories at Bengaluru‚ Munger‚ Saharanpur‚ Kolkata and Pune‚ with cutting-edge technology & excellent work practices benchmarked to the best globally. An efficient supply-chain & distribution network reaches India’s popular brands across the length & breadth of the country. because the government want to reduce the number
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