In a long-awaited top management succession planning exercise, corporate giant Larsen and Toubro on Friday appointed K Venkataramanan as CEO and managing director, while its current chief A M Naik would remain executive chairman for the next five years.
Shares of the company were trading at Rs 1240.10 apiece on the BSE at 1350 hours, down 1.23 per cent from the previous close.
The economic slowdown has made it difficult for companies to record financial closure of a few awarded projects.