Prestigious B-school XLRI on Friday announced that it had achieved 100 per cent placement in the summer internship programme for the batch of 2018-20 comprisisng 362 students.

The internship process saw participation of over 95 companies, offering roles across domains like consulting, finance, sales and marketing, operations, business development, human resource and industrial relations.

Sources said several new companies joined the elite list of headhunters this year. The highest stipend offered was Rs 1.65 lakh per month.

The Boston Consulting Group, AT Kearney, Accenture Strategy, EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC recruited students in the consulting discipline while P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, ITC India and AB InBev were among regular recruiters from the FMCG sector.

Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Avendus Capital, JPMorgan Chase, CitiBank, Kotak Wealth, Maitreyi Capital Advisors, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and Edelweiss represented the financial services sector.

Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group, RP Goenka, Mahindra and Bharti Airtel offered general management roles while General Electric, Shell, Samsung Electronics, Bharti Airtel and Star also extended offers to candidates.

“This has been a good year for summer recruitments. We are extremely grateful to all companies for reaffirming their trust in the XLRI brand and our student community. We sincerely hope that our relationship with the recruiting organisations will go from strength to strength and continue to be mutually beneficial in the years ahead,” said Uday Damodaran, chairperson (placements).

He added that a notable characteristic of the recruitment process this year was the excellent placements across consulting and operations domains.