IIM-L: 114 firms participate in Summer placements

More than 32 pc students chose the financial sector as their preferred vertical. The major I-Banking/ PE firms in this sector included Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Baring Private Equity Partners, O3 Capital, 2i Capital, Seedfund, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs. Also, banks like Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, RBS Group, American Express, ICICI bank and Axis Bank participated in the process.

34 pc students opted for Strategy & Consulting firms like McKinsey & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewitt Consulting, Frost & Sullivan. General Management profiles wre offered by from TAS and Aditya Birla Group.

Sales and marketing sector was preferred by 90 students and was represented by organizations such as HUL, P&G;, Nokia, Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Alshaya, Bharti Group, ITC, Marico, Asian Paints, Dabur, Colgate Palmolive, Cadbury and Reckitt Benckiser. The institute strengthened its relationship with regular recruiters such as L&T;, RPG, Futures First, IBM, Cognizant, Wipro and TCS while fostering new relationships with firms like Merrill Lynch, 2i Capital, Microsoft, IMACS, Diageo, Seedfund, Emergent Ventures and others.

Several students will be pursuing internships in locations like Singapore, London, Switzerland, United States and the Middle East. International locations were offered by McKinsey & Co., Aditya Birla Group, TAS, HUL, P&G;, Cognizant, Diageo and Alshaya Group.

For the first time, IIM Lucknow had a day aStart-Up slota dedicated for hosting entrepreneurial ventures. The day saw participation from more than 20 entrepreneurial ventures across verticals. These included firms launched by IIM-L alumni. Students greeted these firms and 35 chose to intern with these firms over other lucrative offers.