Awards & Accolades

Major Awards 2012-13

Harvard Business Review ranked ITC Chairman Y C Deveshwar as the 7th Best Performing CEO in the World in its January-February 2013 edition.
• ITC Chairman Mr Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Business Leader of the Year Award by the All India Management Association (AIMA).
• ITC was presented the World Business and Development Award at the historic Rio+20 UN Summit for its Social and Farm Forestry initiative.
• ITC has been 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.
• ITC has won the prestigious 12th Businessworld FICCI CSR Award in the Large Enterprise category. The award recognises the most socially responsible Indian corporates in CSR.
• ITC bagged the Best Overall Corporate Social Responsibility Performance Award at the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) & Subir Raha Centre for Corporate Governance - CSR Awards 2012.
• ITC was conferred Business Leader in FMCG at the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards 2012.
• ITC’s Agri Business Division has won two awards at the fourth edition of the Rural Marketing Association of India Corporate Awards 2012. Mr S Sivakumar, Chief Executive of the Agri Business Division, was conferred the Special Inaugural Award for Leadership Role in Rural Marketing.
• ITC’s Hotels Division was recognised as a ‘Standout Winner’ in Sustainability at the Global Vision Awards, Travel + Leisure, U.S.
• ITC’s Corporate Communications Department received the ABCI (Association of Business Communication of India) Awards in 3 categories.
• ITC’s Corporate Communications Department was the winner of the highest number of prizes at the 34th National Public Relations Society of India Awards with five first prizes in various categories.
• ITC’s super premium luxury hotel, ITC Grand Chola in Chennai, secured a 5 Star GRIHA, the highest national rating for Green Buildings. The award was presented by the Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee.
• The National Tourism Awards recognised ITC Maurya for ‘Best Facilities for Differently Abled Guests’ and ITC Gardenia for being the ‘Best Eco Friendly Hotel.’
• ITC has bagged the Corporate Excellence Award, 2012, conferred by the Indian Institute of Material Management (IIMM), for its contribution to society and the Indian economy through excellence in Supply Chain Management (SCM).

• ITC was presented the CII Water Excellence Award 2012. The Packaging & Printing Factory, at Tiruvottiyur, Paperboards Units at Kovai and Bhadrachalam received the CII award for the ‘Best Water Efficient Units’. ITC’s Watershed Development Programme received the award for ‘Excellent Water Management Initiative’.
• ITC’s Units at Bengaluru, Saharanpur, Kolkata and Pune received the coveted British Safety Council Sword of Honour Award.
• ITC’s factories at Munger, Bengaluru, Saharanpur, Kolkata and Pune received the prestigious Five Star rating from the British Safety Council for implementing and demonstrating benchmarked International standards in Occupational Health and Safety.
• ITC’s Foods Unit at Haridwar received a Commendation Certificate from CII, in the Category - ‘Large Food Businesses - Manufacturing’ for the year 2012.
• ITC’s WOW - Wealth Out of Waste Initiative won the CII Best Environmental Practices Awards 2012 in the categories of ‘Most Useful Environmental Project 2012’ and ‘Innovative Environmental Project’.
• ITC’s Paperboards Unit at Bollaram has won the Silver at the FICCI Safety Excellence Award in the medium size industry category.
• ITC’s Munger Unit has been recognised as an ‘Energy Efficient Unit’ at the 13th CII National Awards for Excellence in Energy Management, 2012.
• The Packaging Factory and Warehouse Project, Haridwar has won the British Safety Council International Safety Award – 2012.
• ITC won the CIO Advisory's Top Green IT Enterprise Award and the Nasscom Best IT User Award in 2012.
• ITC’s Classmate brand won the Gold Award at EEMAX 2012 for use of Digital Marketing in Event and Activation for ITC Classmate’s Man of the Match campaign.
• ITC Grand Chola won the Development of the Year Award in the Luxury and Upscale category, conferred by the Hotel Investment Forum India (HIFI) in 2013.
• ITC Sonar, Kolkata, won the ‘Best in Resource Efficiency’ award at Wild Asia’s Responsible Tourism Awards, Singapore, 2012.
• ITC Mughal’s Kaya Kalp – The Royal Spa received the Favourite Hotel Spa Award for the year 2012 at the Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Award ceremony.
• ITC’s branded cuisine restaurants - Bukhara & Dum Pukht, were the only Indian restaurants among the Miele Top 20 Asia’s Best Restaurant Awards, Singapore.
• ITC’s restaurant - Dum Pukht was recognised amongst ‘Classic Restaurant of the World’ by Conde Nast Traveller, U.K.

• ITC’s signature cuisine restaurant - Bukhara awarded ‘Restaurant of the Year’ at the NDTV Lifestyle Awards in 2013.
• Bukhara, Dum Pukht, Kebabs & Kurries, Dakshin, Pan Asian, West View, EDO, Ottimo, Dublin – awarded ‘Best in category’ at the Times Food Awards, 2012.
• Fortune Hotels won the award for the ‘Best First Class Business Hotel Chain’ at the Today’s Traveller Awards Ceremony in 2012.
• Vivel was voted as one of the top 5 ‘Most Exciting Brands’ in Personal Care by Brand Equity, The Economic Times.
• Wills Lifestyle was rated ‘Superbrand 2012’ by the Superbrands Council of India.
• John Players was ranked amongst top 5 ‘Most Exciting’ and top 10 ‘Most Trusted’ apparel brands by Brand Equity, The Economic Times.
• ITC’s Packaging & Printing Unit at Tiruvottiyur was awarded the Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certification by the Rainforest Alliance.