Ahmedabadruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Pharmaceuticals
Zydus Lifesciences, Torrent Pharma, Intas, Amneal, Claris
Ahmedabad is one of India's two great pharmaceutical clusters, with a dense supply chain in bulk drugs and formulations running out along the Sanand and Vatva belts.
Financial services & fintech
GIFT City IFSC, NSE IX, India INX, Bank of America, HSBC
GIFT City in neighbouring Gandhinagar is India's only International Financial Services Centre — a separate regulatory regime with tax concessions, and unusually for Gujarat, an area where alcohol service has been permitted since December 2023.
Textiles & apparel
Arvind Ltd, Ashima, Chiripal, Aarvee Denim
Called the Manchester of India for a century, and still one of the world's largest denim producers. Arvind alone has supplied most global denim brands at some point.
Chemicals & industrial
Adani Group, Nirma, Torrent Power, Atul, GACL
The Adani Group is headquartered here, and the Gujarat chemical corridor is the largest in India. Gujarat produces a disproportionate share of the country's industrial output from a small share of its population.
Automotive & engineering
Tata Motors (Sanand), Maruti Suzuki (Hansalpur), MG Motor (Halol), Bosch
Sanand, half an hour west of the city, went from farmland to a major auto cluster inside fifteen years after Tata moved the Nano plant here from West Bengal in 2008.
Education & research
IIM Ahmedabad, CEPT University, NID, PRL, ISRO Space Applications Centre
IIM Ahmedabad and the National Institute of Design are India's most selective business and design schools, and both sit on campuses designed by Louis Kahn and Charles Correa respectively.
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