Y C Deveshwar

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To take the Rs 49,000 crore ITC to the top slot in the highly competitive FMCG business will require some aggression

Under Deveshwar, who died on Saturday, aged 72, ITC posted a 10-fold growth in revenues to Rs 51,582 crore and a 33-fold rise in pre-tax profit to Rs 14,958 crore

One of India's longest serving corporate chiefs, he transformed ITC from a tobacco company to a retail and FMCG major

Only Kumar Mangalam Birla earned more as non-executive chairman in FY17

Shareholders to vote on proposal to pay him a remuneration of Rs 1 cr a month in its AGM on July 28

During FY16, Deveshwar's remuneration stood at Rs13.73 crore.

Y C Deveshwar, who diversified ITC beyond tobacco, is winner of BS Lifetime achievement award 2016

In his last AGM speech, the executive chairman & CEO of ITC says the company has a Rs 1-lakh crore FMCG goal by 2030

A sterling innings from ITC's longest-serving chairman

Over the next year, Deveshwar will in his non-executive, mentoring role have to ready the next generation of leaders at ITC

As the challenges for its businesses rise, the company is making a number of internal changes to prepare a second line of leaders

To get three-year term as non-executive chairman from Feb; firm to create CEO's post; AGM to ratify Sanjiv Puri, Rajiv Tandon's appointment as directors

ITC buys two-thirds of tobacco from Andhra Pradesh and the remaining one-third from Karnataka for its cigarette manufacturing division