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This Yearbook, of CII-ITC Sustainability Awards, showcases winners that have embedded sustainability in their business strategies and practices – driven by the fact that given the rapidly changing markets and industry structures, they need to invest in sustainability to become more competitive and remain relevant.

Sustainable business is increasingly important in attaining a competitive advantage. Winners of the CII-ITC Sustainability Awards have successfully embedded sustainability into their systems, people, and processes. This report discusses how embedding principles of sustainability has strengthened the connection between corporate responsibility and competitiveness for these organizations, and can for others as well. 

Yearbook 2015, of CII-ITC Sustainability Awards, showcases good practices of winners that have embedded sustainability in their business strategies and practices – driven by the fact that given the rapidly changing markets and industry structures, they need to invest in sustainability to become more competitive and remain relevant. 

This publication records the evolution of sustainability practices in business in India via the journey of CESD in its first decade, 2006-2015. It presents compelling drivers for business to integrate management systems, report sustainability performance and practices, take these practices to supply chain and take responsibility for it, and for best results put everything in a comprehensive Sustainability Management Framework.

CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2016 Yearbook showcases good practices of winners and of applicants that qualified for site assessments. These applicants have embedded sustainability in business strategies and processes, driven by the fact that given the rapidly changing markets and industry structures, they need to invest in sustainability to become more competitive and remain relevant.