Old ITC Shares: What They Are Worth and How to Recover Them
Certificates may carry the name: Imperial Tobacco Company of India; India Tobacco Company
Reviewed 16 September 2026
In short
ITC runs its own share registry, the ITC Investor Service Centre in Kolkata, so requests on old ITC certificates go there rather than to an outside registrar. Old holdings have multiplied: ITC split each ₹10 share into ten ₹1 shares in 2005, issued bonus shares several times, including 1:1 in 2010 and 1:2 in 2016, and in January 2025 gave one ITC Hotels share for every ten ITC shares.
Corporate actions that changed the holding
- 1989, 1991, 1994Bonus issuesAsk the Investor Service Centre to confirm the ratios for your folio.
- 2005Bonus issue and share splitFace value sub-divided from ₹10 to ₹1 in September 2005, so each share became ten.
- 2010Bonus issue, 1:1One bonus share for every share held.
- 2016Bonus issue, 1:2One bonus share for every two shares held.
- 2025ITC Hotels demergerOne ITC Hotels share for every ten ITC shares. Record date 6 January 2025; ITC Hotels listed on 29 January 2025.
We haven't listed ratios for the earlier bonus issues because we haven't verified them. ITC's Investor Service Centre confirms the current holding on any folio.
Who to write to
ITC Limited, Investor Service Centre (in-house)
- Address
- Virginia House, 37 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata 700071
- Phone
- 033 2288 6426 / 033 2288 0034
- isc@itc.in
- Online requests
- eform.itcportal.com
Registrars change. Confirm the current one on the company’s investor page before posting anything, and see how to find a company’s registrar.
How the shares are recovered
- The shares are in your name and you have the certificates
Update KYC on the folio if needed, then dematerialise them so they can be sold.
- The shareholder has died
The nominee, surviving joint holder or legal heirs claim through transmission.
- You bought the shares on paper before April 2019
SEBI's special window, open until 4 February 2027, lets you complete the transfer.
- The certificates are lost or damaged
The registered holder or heirs apply for duplicates, credited to demat.
- The shares or dividends were transferred to IEPF
Claim them back from the IEPF Authority with Form IEPF-5.
- The certificate is in an old or merged company name
The holding may now sit with a renamed or successor company.
Questions we are asked about ITC shares
Who is ITC's share registrar?
ITC handles its registry in-house through the ITC Investor Service Centre, Virginia House, 37 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata 700071 (isc@itc.in).
How much has an old ITC holding grown?
The 2005 split alone multiplied the number of shares by ten, and bonus issues added more. The Investor Service Centre can confirm the exact current holding for a folio.
Do physical ITC shareholders get ITC Hotels shares?
Shareholders on the register on 6 January 2025 were entitled to one ITC Hotels share per ten ITC shares. Ask the Investor Service Centre how the entitlement for a physical folio is held and credited.
Sources
Free valuation of old shares
Send us the company name and folio number from the certificate. We work out what the holding is worth today, after bonuses, splits and mergers.