The Times Group
Private | |
Industry | Mass media |
Founded | 4 November 1838 |
Headquarters | Kolkata,West Bengal,India |
Key people | Indu Jain (Chairperson) Samir Jain (Vice-Chairman) Vineet Jain (Managing Director) Raj Jain (Chief Executive Officer) |
Products | Publishing Broadcasting Radio Film Entertainment Web portal MX Player |
Revenue | ₹9,055 crore (US$1.3 billion) (2018)[1] |
₹681 crore (US$95 million) (2018)[1] | |
Number of employees | 11,000 (2014)[2] |
Website | www |
Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited,[3][4] commonly known as The Times Group, is India’s largest media conglomerate, according to Financial Times as of March 2015.[5] The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in May 2014 that the Times of India had the largest circulation of any English-language newspaper in the world, with 3,321,702 average qualifying sales.[5][6] The company remains a family-owned business as the descendants of Sahu Jain own a majority stake in The Times Group. The Times Group has over 11,000 employees and revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.[2]
History[edit]
On 3 November 1838 the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was first published, a predecessor of what would become the Times of India.[7][8][9] While starting as a biweekly paper, it was converted to a daily in 1850 and in 1859 the paper was merged with two other papers into the Bombay Times and Standard under editor Robert Knight.[9][10] Two years later, in 1861, the paper got a more national scope with the title The Times of India. Subsequently the paper saw its ownership change several times until 1892 when an English journalist named Thomas Jewell Bennett along with Frank Morris Coleman (who later drowned in the 1915 sinking of the SS Persia) acquired the newspaper through their new joint stock company, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL).[9][10] At the time, some 800 people were employed by the paper.
The company, by that time consolidated in the Times of India Group, was taken over from its British owners in 1946 by industrialist Ramakrishna Dalmia.[11][12] He would in 1955 be convicted for embezzlement.
During his time in prison the company was run by his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain. Jain would buy the company a few years later and the company would be primarily run by his family in the years after.[12][13] The company expanded its presence in the Indian media sphere by founding different papers and local editions of the Times of India.[10]
Television channels[14][edit]
Channel | Language | Category | SD/HD availability | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Movies Now | English | Movies | SD+HD | |
MNX | English | Movies | SD+HD | |
MN+ | English | Movies | HD only | |
Romedy Now | English | Movies | SD+HD | |
Zoom | Hindi | Youth | SD only | |
Times Now | English | News | SD+HD | |
Times Now World | English | News | HD only | replaced Times Now HD |
Mirror Now | English | News | SD only | |
ET Now | English | Business | SD only |
Times Business Solutions Limited[edit]
Business Service & Solution | |
Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | |
180,000,000 Canadian dollar[15] (2016) | |
Number of employees | 11,002[16] (2014) |
Parent | DKS Solution |
Website | http://www.tbsl.in/ |
Times Business Solutions - A division of Times Internet Limited is a limited company, wholly owned by Bennett Coleman Company Limited (The Times Group). TBS develops web sites within areas such as recruitment, real estate and matrimonials.
TBS started as a division of BCCL in 2004 with the mission to create an exchange for job seekers and employers on the internet. With the growth of internet attaining rapid speed and being a highly profitable venture, Times Business Solutions - A division of Times Internet Limited was born as the "Internet Initiatives" of BCCL.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Times Group's net profit slides again in FY18, registers 6.84% dip". Business Standard. 3 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Times Group may go for an IPO 'in the long run'". Business Standard. 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "BENNETT COLEMAN AND COMPANY LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ a b James Crabtree, Mumbai (23 March 2015). "Uber in tie-up with Times of India digital arm". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "Details of most circulated publications for the audit period July - December 2013". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ The Bombay times and journal of commerce, 1838-1859. National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Bombay Times - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ a b c "The Times of India". www.firstversions.com. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ a b c "3rd November 1838: The Times of India, the newspaper, was founded". www.mapsofindia.com. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ Rajan, Nalini (9 August 2005). Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9788132102618.
- ^ a b Kasbekar, Asha (2006). Pop Culture India!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851096367.
- ^ Auletta, Ken (8 October 2012). "Citizens Jain". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ TimesNow. "Times - Movies and News Pack - Times Network News HD Premium Pack Price and Channel List". TimesNow. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/media-business/the-bccl-empiretowering-over-the-competition-10255.
- ^ http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/times-group-may-go-for-an-ipo-inlong-run/488673/.
Further reading[edit]
- Auletta, Ken (8 October 2012). "Citizens Jain - Why India's newspaper industry is thriving". The New Yorker. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- Thakurta, Paranjoy Guha (11 November 2012). "The Times, the Jains, and BCCL". The Hoot. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- "Gigantic List of Companies Owned by The TIMES Group". MelodyFuse. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- The Times Of India Group at the Wayback Machine (archived January 29, 2015)
- Times Business Solutions Limited
- Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd at Crunchbase
- The Times Group companies grouped at OpenCorporates