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ITC LTD.: Toward a Triple Bottom Line Performance

The case describes the opportunities and challenges in the cigarette industry in India. The description suggests that there are tremendous opportunities for growth in the cigarette industry. However, there are challenges due to the health hazards associated with cigarette smoking, distortion in the tax system as applied to the cigarette industry, and restrictions on smoking placed by new legislation. Further, there are challenges in the market due to smuggling, contraband products, and other issues. The case presents ITC Limited as a dominant player in the industry with a significant dependence on tobacco and tobacco products promising to pursue the triple bottom line approach by focusing on economic, environmental and social value. There is a need for the company to decide on some directions for the future to live up to the promise of a triple bottom line approach. The case, based on the real issues faced by ITC Limited, will allow students to understand the dilemmas the firm faced in trying to meet the social demands to ban or restrict smoking. Any decision to stop producing and selling cigarettes has negative implications for the business. How does ITC Limited arrive at the right balance?

 

 

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ITC ensured compliance with every new law, policy and regulation from the government’s end. As the Indian government passed cigarettes and other tobacco product act, 2003, the company stopped advertising the products and reaching out to the potential customers. The company further displayed pictures of the potential 

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