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Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has appointed G. Krishnakumar as the Chairman and Managing Director of the company. Krishnakumar has been associated with BPCL for 36-years, leading the organisation’s customer-centric ventures into convenience retailing, premium fuels and new tech and digital initiatives in the company.
“Krishnakumar has developed and nurtured winning brands like Petro Card, SmartFleet, Speed, In & Out, which have been significant contributors to BPCL’s differentiated customer value proposition in the marketplace, reinforcing the Pure for Sure customer promise,” said BPCL in a press statement.
Prior to his elevation to the board, as the head of BPCL’s Lubricants business, he spearheaded brand MAK’s aggressive growth in the domestic and international markets, and in the expansion of the product portfolio to cover new and emerging industrial, agricultural, passenger and commercial vehicle segments.
