The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta closed its summer placement program on the 28th of January after successfully placing the entire batch. As in the past many years, IIM Calcutta has the largest batch of students across all business schools in the country and placing all of them successfully reinforces the strong recruiter perception that IIM Calcutta has traditionally enjoyed.

Some facts and figures about Summers 2004:

1st year batch: 250 students.

A total of 93 firms participated in the process and made a total of 290 offers.

A total of 20 foreign offers were made.

These included firms that have usually recruited from campus such as ABN Amro, Accenture, American Express, Anand Bazaar Patrika, Asian Paints, Ashok Leyland, AV Birla Group, Bharat Petroleum, Bank of America, Cadbury, Castrol, Citibank, Coca Cola, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Covansys, Credit Capital Research, CRISIL, Deutsche Bank, Dr. Reddy's, Direm, DSP Merrill Lynch, Exide, Gillette, Glaxo SmithKline, GVFL, HSBC (Investment and Commercial Banking), H&R Johnson, IBM, ICICI, Infosys, ITC, Indian Oil, JM Morgan Stanley, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Kotak, Lafarge, Lehman Brothers, Madura Coats, Marico, Murugappa Group, National Kidney Foundation (Singapore), Nokia, Olam International, Patni, Pepsico, Philips, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Ranbaxy, Reckitt Benckiser, Satyam, Sify, Standard Chartered, TAS, TATA Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Unilever, UTI Bank, Wipro, WeP, and Wockhardt, Zee Turner among others.

A number of new firms participated as well. To name a few: Action Aid, Agrotech, Aviva, C&K Management, Dabur, Darashaw, Edelweiss Capital, Eicher GoodEarth, Escorts Mutual Fund, EXL Services, Fritolay, Hewlett Packard, ICICI Prudential, International Finance Corporation (of the World Bank Group), ING Vyasa Bank , ISRO, Jubilant Organosys, Principal Asset Management, Prodex Technologies, Progeon, Reliance Mutual Funds, State Bank of India, SBI Capital Markets, Skytech, TATA AIG, TATA Elxsi, Verve Consultancy and Whirlpool.

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