FMCG major Hindustan Unilever was the top recruiter in the second cluster of the summer placement process for the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad’s (IIMA), post-graduate programme in management (PGP) class of 2023, the premier business school said.
The second cluster of the summer placement process was held virtually on Friday because of the ongoing pandemic. The recruiters who participated in the second cluster comprised seven cohorts, viz. advertising & media, consumer electronics, consumer goods & durables, consumer services, conglomerates, retail B2B & B2C, and pharma & healthcare.
“We saw a large pool of recruiters with around 50 firms participating in the process. Overall, Hindustan Unilever was the top recruiter with 14 offers,” IIMA said in a statement late on Friday night.
Recruiters in the consumer goods and durables segment included regular recruiters like AB InBev, Asian Paints, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Dabur, HUL, ITC, Kimberly Clark, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, Reckitt, and Wipro Consumer Care, among others.
TAS was the top recruiter in the conglomerates’ cohort with seven offers. The cohort also included Adani, ABG, Piramal, Mahindra, Reliance, CK Birla, and Bajaj.
Amazon made 11 offers, the highest in the retail B2B B2C cohort, which also saw the participation of Flipkart.
The media and advertising cohort saw great participation from recruiters like MXPlayer and Disney, while firms like Stryker and Dr. Reddy’s participated in the pharma & healthcare cohort. New recruiters in the cohort included Apicore, PhableCare and PharmEasy.
The third cluster will be conducted on November 22, IIMA said.