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VST Industries Limited July 6, 2026 The General Manager The Manager Listing Department Listing Department BSE Limited National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers “Exchange Plaza” Dalal Street, Fort Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E) Mumbai – 400 001 Mumbai – 400 051 STOCK CODE : 509966 STOCK SYMBOL : VSTIND Dear Sir/Madam, Sub : Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report (BRSR) Please find enclosed a copy of the Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report (BRSR) forming part of the Annual Report 2026. Please take the same on record. Yours faithfully, For VST INDUSTRIES LIMITED PHANI K. MANGIPUDI Company Secretary & Vice President – Legal & Secretarial Encl : As above. Registered Office: Azamabad, Hyderabad – 500 020; Phone: 91-40-27688000; Fax:91-40-27615336; CIN: L29150TG1930PLC000576; Email:corporate@vstind.com; website: www.vsthyd.com 1 2 STATUTORY REPORTS 3 99 BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY & SUSTAINABILITY REPORT SECTION A: GENERAL DISCLOSURES I. Details of the listed entity 1. Corporate Identity Number (CIN) of the Listed Entity L29150TG1930PLC000576 2. Name of the Listed Entity VST Industries Limited 3. Year of incorporation 10th November 1930 4. Registered office address 1-7-1063/1065, Azamabad, Hyderabad – 500 020, Telangana, India 5. Corporate address 1-7-1063/1065, Azamabad, Hyderabad – 500 020, Telangana, India 6. E-mail investors@vstind.com 7. Telephone 040-27688000 8. Website www.vsthyd.com 9. Financial year for which reporting is being done FY 2025-26 10. Name of the Stock Exchange(s) where shares are listed BSE/NSE 11. Paid-up Capital 1,69,86,11,200 12. Name and contact details (telephone, email address) of the Mr. Phani K Mangipudi is Company Secretary & Vice President - Legal & Secretarial person who may be contacted in case of any queries on the Telephone: +91 040 2768 8000, BRSR report E-mail: phanimangipudi@vstind.com 13. Reporting boundary - Are the disclosures under this report We do not have any subsidiary company/ companies, hence disclosures under this report made on a standalone basis (i.e. only for the entity) or on are made on a standalone basis. a consolidated basis (i.e. for the entity and all the entities which form a part of its consolidated financial statements, taken together). 14. Name of assurance provider Not Applicable 15. Type of assurance obtained Not Applicable II. Products/services 16. Details of business activities (accounting for 90% of the turnover): Description of Main Activity Description of Business Activity % of Turnover of the entity 1 Manufacturing of Cigarettes Manufacturing & marketing cigarettes 100% containing tobacco 17. Products/Services sold by the entity (accounting for 90% of the entity’s Turnover): S. % of total Turnover Product/Service NIC Code No. contributed 1 Cigarettes containing tobacco 12003 84.8% 2 Unmanufactured tobacco 46202 15.2% 100 VST INDUSTRIES LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2025-26 III. Operations 18. Number of locations where plants and/or operations/offices of the entity are situated: Number of Location Number of plants Total offices National 1 13 14 International 0 0 0 19. Markets served by the entity: a. Number of locations Locations Number National (No. of States) 26 States, 6 Union Territories International (No. of Countries) 8 b. What is the contribution of exports as a percentage of the total turnover of the entity? c. A brief on types of customers O ur customer base comprises adult smokers across diverse socio-economic segments in India. We have structured our product portfolio into two distinct categories: New Age Brands (NABs), which cater to evolving consumer preferences, and Growth Heritage Brands (GHBs), which address established demand segments. This segmentation enables a balanced approach to market responsiveness and portfolio management. IV. Employees 20. Details as at the end of Financial Year (FY 2025-26): a. Employees and workers (including differently abled S. Total Male Female Particulars No. (A) No. (B) % (B/A) No. (C) % (C/A) EMPLOYEES 1. Permanent (D) 359 349 97 10 3 2. Other than 0 0 0 0 0 Permanent (E) 3. Total Employees 359 349 97 10 3 (D+E) WORKERS 4. Permanent (F) 353 353 100 0 0 5. Other than 0 0 0 0 0 Permanent (G) 6. Total workers (F+G) 353 353 100 0 0 1 2 STATUTORY REPORTS 3 101 b. Differently abled Employees and workers: S. Total Male Female Particulars No. (A) No. (B) % (B/A) No. (C) % (C/A) DIFFERENTLY ABLED EMPLOYEES 1. Permanent (D) 0 0 0 0 0 2. Other than 0 0 0 0 0 Permanent (E) 3. Total differently 0 0 0 0 0 abled employees (D+E) DIFFERENTLY ABLED WORKERS 4. Permanent (F) 0 0 0 0 0 5. Other than 0 0 0 0 0 permanent (G) 6. Total differently 0 0 0 0 0 abled workers (F + G) 21. Participation/Inclusion/Representation of women Total No. and percentage of Females (A) No. (B) % (B/A) Board of Directors 8 1 12.50 Senior Management Personnel 7 0 0 22. Turnover rate for permanent employees and workers (Disclose trends for the past 3 years) FY 2024-25 FY 2023-24 (Turnover rate in FY 2025-26 (Turnover rate in previous the year prior to the previous (Turnover rate in current FY) FY) FY) Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Permanent Employees 23% 30% 23% 33% 40% 34% 21% 0% 21% Permanent Workers 7% 0% 7% 10% 0% 10% 3% 0% 3% V. Holding, Subsidiary and Associate Companies (including joint ventures) 23. (a) Names of holding/subsidiary/associate companies/joint ventures Name of the holding / Indicate whether holding/ Does the entity indicated at column A, S. subsidiary/associate % of shares held Subsidiary/Associate/Joint participate in the Business Responsibility No. companies/joint by listed entity Venture initiatives of the listed entity? (Yes/No) ventures (A) None VI. CSR Details 24. (i) Whether CSR is applicable as per section 135 of Companies Act, 2013 (Yes/No): Yes (ii) Turnover (in ): 20,41,95,39,036 (iii) Net worth (in ): 14,45,67,20,765 102 VST INDUSTRIES LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2025-26 VII. Transparency and Disclosures Compliances 25. Complaints/Grievances on any of the principles (Principles 1 to 9) under the National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct: FY 2025-26 FY 2024-25 Grievance Redressal (Current Financial Year) (Previous Financial Year) Stakeholder Mechanism in Place No. of No. of group from whom (Yes/No) (If yes, then complaints complaints complaint is provide web-link for No. of pending No. of pending received grievance redress complaints resolution complaints resolution policy) filed during at close of Remarks filed during at close of Remarks the year the year the year the year Communities Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None Investors Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None (other than shareholders) Shareholders Yes* 19 0 None 67 0 None Employees and Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None workers Customers Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None Value Chain Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None Partners Other Yes 0 0 None 0 0 None (please specify) * Shareholder complaints are received either through dedicated email provided by VST or routed to us through SEBI regulators as governed by the statute. These complaints are reviewed by a committee headed by an independent director, i.e., stakeholders relationship committee. 26. Overview of the entity’s material responsible business conduct issues Please indicate material responsible business conduct and sustainability issues pertaining to environmental and social matters that present a risk or an opportunity to your business, rationale for identifying the same, approach to adapt or mitigate the risk along-with its financial implications, as per the following format Financial implications Indicate of the risk or S. Material issue whether risk Rationale for identifying the In case of risk, approach to opportunity No. identified or opportunity risk/opportunity adapt or mitigate (Indicate positive (R/O) or negative implications) 1 Energy Risk • Energy management • We track energy Negative reduces operational consumption at the costs and mitigates the facility level and use risk of supply scarcity. this data to identify • Effectiv [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]