Founded in 1969 by Dr Bish Agrawal, ABC Consultants is the pioneer of organized recruitment services in India. Over the past five decades, we have acted as preferred talent acquisition partners to multinationals and leading Indian businesses to emerge as the leading talent solutions provider in India. This combined with our role as trusted consultants for Indian professionals translates into our core capability - Building Careers. Building Organisations.

ABC’s roots in management consulting bring a unique approach to recruitment at senior and middle management levels .

We recruit across various industry sectors for multinational corporations as well as leading Indian business houses and have helped shaped the careers of over 1,65,000 professionals in our 50 year history.

Our network includes 9 offices spread across 8 major Indian cities. We have over 465 consultants who have over 2800 man years of experience with leading Indian and international companies and operate within domain-specialist teams spread across the country, providing customized talent solutions across 25 industry practices.

ABC is proud of its long standing relationships in the industry and 75% of its revenues come through its existing clients.

The ABC journey Over the Years

1969 (July 1)

Bish Agrawal founded Associated Business Consultants (soon rechristened as ABC Consultants)

Located in Kolkata as a management consulting firm that quickly evolves into India’s first organised recruitment firm
1970s & 1980s

ABC grows beyond Kolkata and opens offices across major cities in India.

Rapidly becomes a household name amongst corporates and professionals across levels, locations and industries. Businesses include Recruitment, management consulting and HR consulting
1996

Executive search arm of the group was formed as ABC Search
1997

HR consulting arm of the group forms JV with Watson Wyatt Worldwide to launch Watson Wyatt (HR Consulting) in India. ABC eventually exits HR & Management Consulting to focus exclusively on Recruitment

ABC Placements created as volume hiring arm of the group
1998

ABC Search joined Accord Group Worldwide in early 1998 and was rebranded as Accord Group India in 2000
2005

JV with Manpower Inc – the volume recruitment business was sold to Manpower as part of JV
2006

Accord co - founded AltoPartners, now a top 10 global network of retained search firms across the world
2011

Launched FlexAbility, as an Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solution provider. Signed partnership with Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS), the world’s leading independent RPO company

Launched HeadHonchos (www.headhonchos.com), India’s first online career services marketplace for senior professionals

Launched project hiring business unit, HeadCount
2011

ABC logo was changed after
43 years
2012

A group advisory board was created to oversee group strategy and governance
2014

The search arm of ABC, Chairman’s High Circle, spun out and joined Stanton Chase International
2015

ABC reorganized from a location (branch) to a national Industry vertical-led structure
2017

Stanton Chase merged into Accord India to create one of India’s leading retained search firms

ABC merges HeadHonchos into QuezX.com, India’s leading recruitment aggregator and takes a majority stake in the combined entity