Indian Institute of Management Lucknow have seen a glorious day when placements concluded with 100 per cent records. The B School has received total 528 offers for the batch of 366. IIM Lucknow mentions that by far, this is the largest graduating batch to be placed across all IIMs. Among the offers there were 70 Pre Placement Offers (PPOs) and 213 lateral offers  

A total of 206 companies participated in the placement process. Out of them 53 companies were first time recruiters. key recruiters were Accenture, Avendus Capital, Capgemini, Citibank, Kraft Foods Cadbury, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, KPMG, McKinsey and Co., Tata Administrative Services and The Boston Consulting Group.

The key sectors in which the recruitment took place were Consulting, Finance, Sales and Marketing, IT and Telecom industry. The Consulting sector saw 82 recruitments. Some of the notable firms making the offers were Accenture, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Headstrong, KPMG, McKinsey and Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Boston Consulting Group and Virtusa among others. Aon Hewitt also offered roles in HR Consulting.

In the Finance sector, positions offered were in Investment Banking, Proprietary Trading,Treasury, M & A and Global Risk Management to name a few. Prominent financial firms include Amex, Avendus Capital, Axis Bank, Baring Private Equity Partners, CRISIL, DBS, Edelweiss, Futures First, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, ICICI Prudential, IIFL, Indus Valley Partners, JM Financial, JP Morgan, Karvy, Kotak Wealth Management, Nomura, SBI Capital, Standard Chartered and Yes Bank among many others.

In Sales and Marketing sector, the key recruiters were Asian Paints, Aviva, Britannia, Castrol, Dabur, GSK Consumer, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods Cadbury, Marico, Nokia, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Ranbaxy, Raymond and Reliance among others. Conglomerates such as Adani Group, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Jindal Group, Larsen & Toubro, RPG and Suzlon were prominent recruiters. Asian Paints, L’Oreal, Olam International, Philips and Target offered lucrative Supply Chain Management profiles.