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XLRI Placements Create New Records in a Unique Year The FMCG Sector had 25 accepted offers (15% of the batch). Companies that made offers comprised regular big shots: Asian Paints, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, GlaxoSmithKline, HLL, ITC, Marico, Nestle, Pepsi, Reckitt Benckiser and Seagram. While ITC recruited 6 XLers, Asian Paints and Coke closely followed with 5 and 4 respectively. Banks and Financial Institutions made their presence felt in a remarkable manner this year: Banking Majors included ABN Amro, Citibank, HSBC Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Standard Chartered and UTI Bank. Standard Chartered had the highest number of accepted offers at 6, closely followed by UTI Bank with 5. Financial Institutions that had accepted offers were GE Money, GECIS, NCDEX and SBI Caps. The sunrise Insurance Sector was a big hit this time with AIG, ICICI Lombard and ICICI Prudential having 12 accepted offers amongst them. ICICI Prudential and AIG had 6 and 4 accepted offers, respectively. Together, Banks, Financial Institutions and the Insurance Sector recruited 31% of the batch. Consulting Firms accounted for 13% of the batch - the elite club had Accenture Business Consulting, BCG, Ernst & Young, Hewitt Associates, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. While Hewitt had 6 accepted offers, E & Y had 5. Recruiters from the Pharmaceutical Sector - Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Novartis and Ranbaxy - accounted for 6% of the batch. The Telecom Sector picked up 4% of the batch with majors Bharti and Mahindra British Telecom (MBT).
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