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Sanjiv Puri, the fast-moving ITC CEO

Puri tells Shyamal Majumdar how ITC is planning to enter every category that can be called FMCG

Sanjiv Puri
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Sanjiv Puri. Illustration: Binay Sinha

Shyamal Majumdar
The venue has to be predictable when you are having lunch with Sanjiv Puri in the national capital — it’s Prive, the private membership club on the 28th floor of ITC Maurya. Since he’s always on the wing, ITC’s chief executive officer (CEO), who took charge just three months ago, doesn’t have the time to follow the standard “Lunch with BS” format of choosing a restaurant for us to host him. Instead, he has invited me to his favourite spot.

I find out soon that one of the privileges of having lunch with CEOs in their own backyards is that

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