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VISION & DIRECTION

Yesterday's foundation. Tomorrow's interest.

We don't chase trends.
We set them.

LVIL enters this chapter carrying something most enterprises spend decades trying to acquire: credibility. The 50-year ITC relationship, the five-star hotel, the 55-acre campus, the 900-strong workforce — these are not starting points for the next phase. They are the foundation it stands on. The question now is not whether LVIL can scale. It is how far, how fast, and in which direction.

Professionalise

Expand

Decarbonise

Institutionalise

VISION

"LVIL's 10-year ambition is to become a professionally governed, asset-backed platform that scales across sectors and geographies while preserving the discipline, quality, and long-term ownership mindset of a third-generation group."

The ambition is not to become unrecognisable. The ambition is to become undeniably institutional — while staying unmistakably LVIL. That balance — scale without the loss of character — is the hardest thing to achieve in business, and the most valuable thing to preserve.

FOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE

Professionalise

Build governance, systems, and talent structures that can operate with institutional-grade rigour — while retaining the ownership mindset that makes family businesses durable.

Expand

Scale existing platforms and selectively enter new sectors, geographies, and asset classes — only where LVIL's five investment filters are met. Capital follows discipline here, not momentum.

Decarbonise

Build a long-term sustainability infrastructure across every vertical. Not a reporting target — an operating transformation.

Institutionalise

Convert a family-owned group into a platform that outlasts any individual — through systems, people, processes, and a governance framework designed for generations, not quarters.

How we operate every single day.

"To operate and grow our businesses with the discipline of institutional capital and the commitment of family stewardship — delivering quality in every product, consistency in every partnership, and sustainability in every decision."

The tension in that sentence — institutional capital versus family stewardship — is intentional. Institutional capital is patient, disciplined, and process- driven. Family stewardship is personal, long-term, and identity-driven. LVIL has always operated at the intersection of both. That is not a compromise. It is a competitive advantage.

THREE DELIVERY COMMITMENTS

Quality in every product

ITC's Life Sciences Division recognised cigarette quality leadership at MTC. HyPro DOC exported to Japan. A five-star standard maintained for 40 years in Aurangabad.

Consistency in every partnership

Cargill, Bunge, ITC, — each chose LVIL not once, but across cycles. That is what consistency, over time, looks like in a balance sheet.

Sustainability in every decision

2,500+ trees at Solvex. Rainwater harvesting on-site. 2 MWp solar live. These decisions were made before they were fashionable — because the group thinks in decades.

STRATEGIC THESIS

One thesis Three platforms. All pointing in the same direction.

"LVIL builds and operates in essential sectors where quality, compliance, operating discipline, and patient capital create long-term value."

The group's diversification is not random. Every vertical was chosen because it operates in an essential sector — food, hospitality, manufacturing, — where quality, compliance, operating discipline, and patient capital create compounding long-term value.

FOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE

Agri-processing

Food and feed security. Soy oil for food markets; DOC and HyPro DOC for animal nutrition and export. Processing capability, export orientation, manufacturing discipline.

Food security · Export markets

Hospitality

Regional growth and experience infrastructure. Serves corporate travel, MICE, weddings, industrial demand. Place-making, service excellence, long-term asset ownership.

MICE · Corporate · Experience

Tobacco manufacturing

Precision, compliance, institutional trust. The group's original industrial DNA. A regulated sector requiring quality, compliance, and reliability above all else.

Precision · Compliance · Trust

VALUES

At LVIL, values are not declarations. They are decisions — repeated across generations.

Whom to partner with. What to build. Where to invest. How to operate. How long to stay committed. Every value below is mapped to a real business event — not a mission statement exercise.

Trust

• 50-year ITC relationship

Trust is not proclaimed at LVIL — it is accumulated. From manufacturing to hotel management, ITC has extended its brand, its operations, and its reputation into LVIL's hands across five decades. That is the most credible trust certificate in Indian business.

Operational excellence

• MTC: 85% efficiency 40-yr avg workforce

Master Tobacco Company is benchmarked against the leading ITC factories in India and holds its position through precision execution. An 85% production efficiency rate and a workforce averaging 40 years of experience are not metrics — they are culture made visible.

Quality

• ITC Life Sciences recognition

• HyPro DOC: exported to Japan

Quality at LVIL has been externally validated at the highest levels — ITC's Life Sciences Division recognised cigarette quality leadership at MTC. HyPro DOC from Solvex reaches Japan. When the world's most demanding buyers choose your product, quality is no longer an aspiration. It is a fact.

Bold but disciplined growth

• Hotel Rama: 1984 pivot

• Aurangabad before it was obvious

In 1984, pivoting from tobacco manufacturing into hospitality required conviction — not evidence. The Aurangabad market was not yet proven. But the asset was right, the partner was ITC, and the long-term thesis was sound. That is what bold-but-disciplined looks like: not reckless, not timid. Deliberate.

Execution discipline

• Rama Tower: 136 to 228 rooms

• 12 months, no disruption

Expanding a live five-star hotel from 136 to 228 rooms in fourteen months — without disrupting ongoing operations — is an execution statement. It says: when we commit, we deliver. On time, on standard, without drama.

Sustainability

• 2 MWp solar live

• 2,500+ trees at Solvex

• Rainwater harvesting

The 2,500 trees at Solvex were not planted for a report. The solar plant was commissioned to become energy reliant and achieve zero plastic use in hotels. The rainwater harvesting systems were installed quietly, years ago. LVIL's sustainability story is not new. The language around it is. The hotel is also in process to apply for green certification making it stand tall on its promise to sustainability.

5 YEAR CAPITAL PLAN

Capital follows conviction, not trends.

The group's 5-year capital roadmap is not a growth-at-any-cost agenda. It is a reinvestment strategy — one that strengthens what already works, modernises what can be better, and reaches for new platforms only where the fundamentals are unambiguous.

"LVIL's 5-year capital roadmap is to reinvest in its core platforms, expand sustainability infrastructure, modernise operations, and pursue selective asset-backed growth where quality, discipline, and long-term value creation are visible."

Core first

Reinvest in quality, efficiency, and competitiveness across all existing platforms before pursuing new ones

Selective growth

New platforms only where all five investment filters are met — not for scale alone

Long-term lens

Every capital decision evaluated for its impact on the group's position across the next generation

WHERE CAPITAL IS DIRECTED

Hospitality

Experience, MICE, sustainability

Upgrading the guest experience at WelcomHotel Rama International. Strengthening MICE infrastructure for corporate and large-format events. Embedding sustainability-led infrastructure across the property.

Renewable energy

Solar expansion, storage, efficiency

Additional solar capacity beyond the current 2 MWp. Storage feasibility studies. Energy-efficiency systems across hotels and agri-processing. Green infrastructure that reduces operating costs and carbon intensity simultaneously.

Renewable energy target by July 2026:

Manufacturing & Agri-processing

Automation, exports, specialisation

Automation and equipment upgrades at Solvex and MTC. Export readiness for HyPro DOC — already reaching Japan. Product specialisation around Sakhi in consumer edible oils. Modernisation of the group's original industrial DNA.

Selective new platforms

Adjacent, disciplined, asset-backed

New geographies, adjacent verticals, industrial and logistics assets, hospitality-linked platforms — considered only where LVIL's five investment filters are fully satisfied. No diversification for its own sake. No entry without a durable asset thesis.

WHERE THIS IS ALL GOING

Quiet confidence for four decades. Driven by the same discipline.

LVIL does not need to announce its ambition. It already has the assets, the relationships, the people, and the philosophy. What the next decade requires is the courage to apply that platform more aggressively — to new geographies, new verticals, and new standards of institutional excellence.

The founder turned a cigarette manufacturing factory into an empire. The next generation's mandate is to turn an empire into an institution.

10-year

Ambition horizon — professionally governed, asset-backed, multi-sector platform

4 ambitions

Professionalise · Expand · Decarbonise · Institutionalise

5 filters

Every new investment must clear all five — durable asset, structural demand, operational advantage, downside protection, generational compounding

6 values

Each mapped to a real decision — not a declaration. Trust, excellence, quality, boldness, execution, sustainability.

VISION & DIRECTION

Yesterday's foundation. Tomorrow's interest.

We don't chase trends.We set them.

We don't chase trends.We set them.

"LVIL's 10-year ambition is to become a professionally governed, asset-backed platform that scales across sectors and geographies while preserving the discipline, quality, and long-term ownership mindset of a third-generation group."

"LVIL's 10-year ambition is to become a professionally governed, asset-backed platform that scales across sectors and geographies while preserving the discipline, quality, and long-term ownership mindset of a third-generation group."

How we operate every single day.

How we operate every single day.

"To operate and grow our businesses with the discipline of institutional capital and the commitment of family stewardship — delivering quality in every product, consistency in every partnership, and sustainability in every decision."

"To operate and grow our businesses with the discipline of institutional capital and the commitment of family stewardship — delivering quality in every product, consistency in every partnership, and sustainability in every decision."

One thesis Three platforms. All pointing in the same direction.

One thesis Three platforms. All pointing in the same direction.

"LVIL builds and operates in essential sectors where quality, compliance, operating discipline, and patient capital create long-term value."

"LVIL builds and operates in essential sectors where quality, compliance, operating discipline, and patient capital create long-term value."

At LVIL, values are not declarations. They are decisions — repeated across generations.

At LVIL, values are not declarations. They are decisions — repeated across generations.

Capital follows conviction, not trends.

Capital follows conviction, not trends.

"LVIL's 5-year capital roadmap is to reinvest in its core platforms, expand sustainability infrastructure, modernise operations, and pursue selective asset-backed growth where quality, discipline, and long-term value creation are visible."

"LVIL's 5-year capital roadmap is to reinvest in its core platforms, expand sustainability infrastructure, modernise operations, and pursue selective asset-backed growth where quality, discipline, and long-term value creation are visible."

Quiet confidence for four decades. Driven by the same discipline.

Quiet confidence for four decades. Driven by the same discipline.

The founder turned a cigarette manufacturing factory into an empire. The next generation's mandate is to turn an empire into an institution.

The founder turned a cigarette manufacturing factory into an empire. The next generation's mandate is to turn an empire into an institution.

We don't chase trends.
We set them.

We don't chase trends.
We set them.