Master Tobacco Company — Mumbai, Maharashtra
Built on precision.
Sustained by trust.
Master Tobacco Company — Mumbai, Maharashtra
Built on precision. Sustained by trust.
It started not with a factory, but with a conviction — that the best way to understand a product is to make it yourself. It was a deliberate move: closer to the process, closer to the quality, closer to the relationships that matter.
Decades later, Master Tobacco Company stands as one of the group's earliest and most enduring platforms — a contract manufacturing partner to ITC Limited, operating inside one of India's most structured and quality-sensitive manufacturing ecosystems.
It started not with a factory, but with a conviction — that the best way to understand a product is to make it yourself. It was a deliberate move: closer to the process, closer to the quality, closer to the relationships that matter.
Decades later, Master Tobacco Company stands as one of the group's earliest and most enduring platforms — a contract manufacturing partner to ITC Limited, operating inside one of India's most structured and quality-sensitive manufacturing ecosystems.
6.5 Million sticks
6.5 M
sticks
6.5 Million sticks
Annual production capacity
Annual production capacity
100%
1.5
Billion
1.5
Billion
Quality compliance
Quality compliance
~85%
~85%
~85%
Factory efficiency level
Factory efficiency level
~40 years
~40 years
~40 years
Avg. operator experience
Avg. operator experience
Manufacturing
Based out of Mumbai, the facility produces 69mm cigarettes for ITC's bulk brands across the region. The floor runs on high-performance German making and packing machinery, supported by state-of-the-art quality equipment and work practices benchmarked to the best in the global tobacco industry. Co-located with LVIL's corporate headquarters, the unit reflects the precision and reliability that a five-decade ITC partnership demands.
Based out of Mumbai, the facility produces 69mm cigarettes for ITC's bulk brands across the region. The floor runs on high-performance German making and packing machinery, supported by state-of-the-art quality equipment and work practices benchmarked to the best in the global tobacco industry. Co-located with LVIL's corporate headquarters, the unit reflects the precision and reliability that a five-decade ITC partnership demands.
German Engineering
Zero-Compromise Quality
Global Benchmarks
69mm bulk brands
Mumbai region
Mumbai region
Zero-Compromise Quality
69mm bulk brands
Institutional partnerships
MTC operates as a contract manufacturing partner for ITC Limited — one of India's most quality-sensitive and institutionally demanding manufacturing ecosystems.
Recognised by ITC's Life Sciences Division for cigarette quality performance
MTC operates as a contract manufacturing partner for ITC Limited — one of India's most quality-sensitive and institutionally demanding manufacturing ecosystems.
Recognised by ITC's Life Sciences Division for cigarette quality performance
ITC Limited
Workforce & experience
The machines did not build this business. The people did. The operators, technicians, and production managers on this floor carry an average of nearly 40 years of experience — people who have spent their working lives mastering a craft, and whose institutional memory is the kind of asset that cannot be replicated or replaced. That continuity is what makes MTC more than a facility. It makes it a living record of manufacturing discipline.
The machines did not build this business. The people did. The operators, technicians, and production managers on this floor carry an average of nearly 40 years of experience — people who have spent their working lives mastering a craft, and whose institutional memory is the kind of asset that cannot be replicated or replaced. That continuity is what makes MTC more than a facility. It makes it a living record of manufacturing discipline.
Machine operators
Technicians
Production managers
Machine operators
Technicians
Production managers
"Over the decades, Master Tobacco Company has grown through operational discipline, manufacturing consistency, and long-standing institutional relationships."
"Over the decades, Master Tobacco Company has grown through operational discipline, manufacturing consistency, and long-standing institutional relationships."
- Akash Agarwal: chairman and managing director
- Akash Agarwal: chairman and managing director
