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Bennett, Coleman & Co

Plenty in a name

The one with the curious name is the runaway leader, setting benchmarks in programming, standardisation and localisation. "At the launch, people were congratulating me as the CEO for the brand name of Radio Mirchi. But Radio Mirchi...

Virgin Radio: All about Absolute Radio and TOI Group

The new owners of Virgin Radio make for an unlikely pairing: a local radio group that runs two stations in Oxford and the parent company of the Times of India, the English-language broadsheet with the largest circulation in the...

Times Group Acquires UK’s Virgin Radio For $105 Million

This is probably the largest deal in Indian media, and of course the largest overseas acquisition by an Indian media group. The Times of India group (Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd), which runs India’s largest selling English daily The...

The Ghost Still Walks

The bookseller, located on a Matunga sidewalk, grins knowingly when I approach him. Today, an assortment of adults—most veering dangerously towards middle and old age—continue to seek out Indrajal comics from raddi shops in every...

Sahara signs Pvt Treaties with BCCL

NEW DELHI: Sahara India Group has signed a Private Treaties deal with Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd to expand the possibilities of mutual benefit and contribute to their respective business interests. Sahara India Group is a multi-business conglomerate with diversified interests, including finance,...

Magazines see no issues with growth in India

Mumbai: When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine Vogue in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages. Now, the publisher is preparing to launch its luxury men's magazine GQ and expects a similar rush of advertisers in Asia's...

India magazine industry thriving as big players moving in

From specialist magazines on whisky, golf and parenting, to regional-language newspapers and financial dailies, new titles are coming thick and fast in one of the few markets in the world where advertising and readership for print media are expanding.

India's Bennett, Coleman & Co. assigned 'AAA/P1+' ratings - Crisil

MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Indian rating agency Crisil said it assigned ratings of 'AAA/Stable/P1+' on the debt programmes of Bennett, Coleman & ... ... MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Indian rating agency Crisil said it assigned ratings of 'AAA/Stable/P1+' on the debt...

Newsprint price spiral spells bad news for media

The bad news for newspaper publishers ? and there are over 40,000 newspapers in India ? has just grown worse. The price of newsprint, imported or indigenous, is set to touch $1,000 per tonne, and this ... The bad news for newspaper publishers — and there are over 40,000...

Bennett, Coleman picks up 3.3% stake in SKC Retail

Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL), publishers of The Times of India and the Economic Times, has acquired a 3.3 per cent stake in Chennai-based SKC Retail Limited for a consideration of approximately Rs ... Warning: Unknown: The session id contains illegal characters, valid...