ITC has intiated ICT application in form of e-chopual by its agribusiness division.

1. Submitted To:
Prof. Neha Saini
Submitted By:
Monika (2719)
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2. Introduction about ITC
ITC has established vital brands in
• Branded Foods space (Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Dark
Fantasy, Delishus, Bingo!, Yippee!, Candyman, mint-
o, Kitchens of India)
• Personal Care products (Essenza Di Wills, Fiama
Di Wills, Vivel, Engage and Superia)
• Education & Stationery products (Classmate and
Paperkraft)
• Lifestyle Apparel (Wills Lifestyle and John Players)
• Agarbattis (Mangaldeep)
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3. Contd….
Creating Enduring Value
• Today ITC is the country's leading FMCG marketer.
• Market leader in the Indian Paperboard and Packaging
industry.
• Pioneer in farmer empowerment through its wide-reaching
Agri Business.
Global Exemplar in Sustainability
• ITC is carbon-positive, water-positive, and solid waste
recycling positive.
• 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.
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4. ITC Businesses
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5. ITC Cigarettes
• Market leader in India.
• Powerful brands across segments.
• Highly popular brands of portfolio includes
Insignia,Indiakings,Classic,Gold Flake,Silk cut,Navy
cut,Capstan,Flake.
• About 71% of total turnover depends on this business
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6. ITC Hotel Business
• ITC made its entry in the HOTELS Business in 1975 from
Chennai.
• It consists of over 70 Hotels across India.
• These includes super deluxe and five star hotels,heritage
places,havelis and resorts and full service budget hotels.
• Its Restaurant Bukhara voted the Best Restaurant in Asia
and is the only restaurant to feature in the list of 50 Best
Restaurants in the world.
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7. ITC Information & Technology Business
• ITC Info Tech, a global IT services company,is today one of
India’s fastest growing IT and ITES service providers.
• Providing outsourced IT solutions and services to leading
global customers.
• ITC Info Tech has a strength of over 2000 employees and
delivery centres across North America,Europe and Asia-
Pacific that served Fortune-listed companies in 42
countries.
• ITC Info Tech conforms to the highest standards in
International Process Quality.
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8. ITC Paperboard Business
• ITC’s Paperboards business has a manufacturing capacity of
over 360,000 tones per year.
• India’s market leader across all carton-consuming segments
including cigarettes,foods,beverages and many more.
• ITC’s Paperboards products include:
1. Packaging boards-coated folding box boards
2. Solid bleached sulphate boards
3. White lined chipboards
4. Liquid packaging boards
5. Poly extruded coated boards for food and barrier
packaging
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9. ITC FMCG Business
• Foods
ITC made its entry in branded and packaged food business in Aug
2001.
• Famous brands in this section are as follows:
1. Kitchens of India
2. Aashirwad
3. Sunfeast
4. Mint-o
5. Candyman
6. Bingo!
• Lifestyle Retailing
ITC made its presence through WILLS LIFESTYLE chains of exclusive
specialty stores
• Greeting Gifting and Stationary
ITC’s Stationary bands Paper Kraft & Classmate are the most widely
used brands across India.
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10. ITC e-choupal 10
ITC Agri-business Division
ITC's Agri Business Division is the country's
second largest exporter of agri-products. It
currently focuses on exports and domestic trading
of:
• Feed Ingredients - Soyameal
• Food Grains - Wheat
• Marine Products - Shrimps and Prawns
• Processed Fruits - Fruit Purees/Concentrates,
IQF/Frozen Fruits, Organic Fruit Products
• Coffee

11. E-choupal
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12. Introduction
• E-Choupal in hindi means “village meeting place”.
• Launched in 2000 and promoted by YC Deveshwar
Chairman ITC.
• Developed by Agribusiness division of ITC.
• Conceived to tackle the challenges posed by unique
features of Indian agriculture – fragmented farms,
weak infrastructure and the involvement of
numerous intermediaries.
• It is a virtual market place where farmers can
transact directly with a processor and realize better
price for their produce.
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13. Characteristics of E-Choupal
• Used for many commodities and multiple transactions.
• Use local people and talent and develops local
leaders(sanchalak).
• Customer centric.
• Nurtures local entrepreneurs.
• Extended to local as well as global procures.
• Farmers carries a local kiosk and receives a spot quote
from the sanchalak. If the farmer accepts the quote , he
can transport the produce directly to an ITC collection
center and gets payment within two hours.
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14. Before E-choupal - Farm to Factory
Gate
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15. ITC Business model – E-Choupal
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16. E-Choupal portal
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17. Project Goals
Help in enhancing farm productivity by
• Disseminating latest information on district level
weather forecast for shorter and medium terms.
• Best practices in farming.
• Supply of quality inputs (seed, herbicide, fertilizer,
pesticide etc) in the village itself.
Help improve price realization for farm produce by
• Making available live data on markets viz. location/
buyer wise prices offered.
• International market prices of relevant agri-
commodities.
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18. Contd…
• Expert opinion on expected future price movements.
• Historical and Up-to-date information on supply &
demand.
Helps minimize transaction costs in marketing farm
produce by
• Buying output at farmer’s doorsteps.
• Through transparent pricing & weight management
practices.
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19. Commodity Procured
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20. Benefits derived
• Accurate weighing, faster processing time and
prompt payment.
• Access to a wide range of information including
market price knowledge, weather, scientific farming
practices, farmer peer groups, soil-testing and
market trends.
• Helps farmers to decide when, where, and at what
price to sell.
• ITC employees imparts operational knowledge of
computer and internet to him so that he can perform
his task efficiently & effectively.
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21. Contd..
• Serves as both a social gathering place for exchange
of information and e-commerce hub.
• Encourage local participation.
• Farm linkages in more than 14 states.
• Benefits around 4 million farmers.
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22. Choupal Saagar
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23. Introduction
• Choupal Saagar, a physical infrastructure hub that comprises
collection and storage facilities and a unique rural
hypermarket that offers multiple services under one roof.
• Incorporates farmer facilitation centers with services such as
sourcing, training, soil testing, health clinic, banking,
investment services, fuel station etc.
• 24 'Choupal Saagars' have commenced operations in the
states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
• ITC is engaged in scaling up the rural retailing initiative to
establish a chain of 100 Choupal Saagars in the near future

24. Benefits derived
• Option of selling to Choupal Saagar or Mandies
• In some crops, farmers earns higher prices than selling to
Mandies
• Availability of Loan facilities
• Availability of brands/quality products at best prices
• Exposure to latest information
• Difference in net earning will be high if saving on commission
to middle man & cost of transport are considered.

25. A tale of E-Choupal
• e-Choupal.MKV
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