Top Programs in Consumer Goods
This article is part of the “2020 Ranking of MBA Development Programs”. At the time of this writing, our Development Program Directory has 535 programs, with this article focusing on the top ten!
The top spots in the Consumer Goods industry in this year’s rankings are AB InBev’s Global MBA Program (USA) and Global MBA Internship and Burger King’s MBA Program, taking first, second and third place respectively. Unsurprisingly, AB InBev has taken some top spots this year, in fact the programs which are ranked first and second in the Consumer category were ranked second and third in our Top Development Programs for the year as well.
It is interesting to note that Amazon is not on this list. While they do sell many consumer goods, and produce a few of their own, the vast majority of the retail side of their business is as a platform for third parties to sell their products. In contrast, all the companies in our ranking for Top Programs in Consumer goods are the primary producers of all the goods which they sell. As a result, while Amazon is clearly one of the world’s largest sellers of consumer goods, we found that including it in this list would skew the results, and consider Amazon to be primarily in the Technology industry.
When taking a closer look at the top programs in Consumer Goods, you will see that over half of thm in this year’s ranking are in the Food and Beverage sector, with the remainder being in Technology and Clothing. This makes sense when you consider that food and beverages have a fairly inelastic demand, so market swings should have a smaller overall impact on those companies, which in turn would allow them a more stable platform and having a constant influx of new talent into the industry should be less of a risk for them.
With that being said, while they don’t make up a majority, the number of programs in our Top 10 this year which are also in the Technology sector have tripled from the previous year, which only had Apple in ninth place. The addition of both Philips and Samsung to our top ranking programs is congruent with many of our other rankings this year, of the sustained and rapid growth of the Technology industry as a whole, and the growing interest of candidates towards industries and careers which also have a technical background or requirements.
TOP PROGRAMS IN CONSUMER GOODS
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