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Industry
  
Media

Website
  
The Indian Express

Founder
  
Ramnath Goenka

Headquarters
  
New Delhi

Owner
  
Viveck Goenka

Customer service
  
0120 665 1500

Founded
  
1932

Type of business
  
Private

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CEO
  
George Varghese (Aug 2013–)

Profiles

Indian Express Limited is an Indian news media publishing company. It publishes several widely circulated dailies, including The Indian Express and The Financial Express in English, the Loksatta in Marathi and the Jansatta in Hindi. The company's newspapers are published from over a dozen cities daily, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Jammu, Coimbatore and Chennai. Its weekly entertainment magazine Screen, covering Indian film industry, also has a popular following.

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The company was founded by Ramnath Goenka in 1932 and is now run by his adopted son (and actual grandson), Viveck Goenka, who holds the titles of Chairman and Managing Director. Viveck's son Anant (born to his first wife, Ananya) has recently been inducted into the company.

In the 2014 Indian Readership Survey, the Media Research Users Council did not list The Indian Express in ranking the top ten Indian English dailies by size of readership, so less than 361,000 readers. According to comScore reports, its website was India's third largest English-language news website reaching over 6 million unique visitors a month in India on desktop and laptop computers. In 2015, The Indian Express App won gold for the Best Mobile News Service in South Asia at the World Association of Newspapers' Asian Digital Media Awards.

The group holds the "Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism" awards in 15 categories for both print and broadcast journalism, which each carry a cash prize of INR 100,000. There are additional prizes of INR 250,000 for "Journalism of Courage" and "Journalist of the Year". The awards were instituted on 12 April 2006 by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, at a formal event in a hotel in New Delhi.In November 2015, actor Aamir Khan's interview with Anant Goenka at the Ramnath Goenka Awards went viral and was broadcast on almost every news channel in the country.

On November 2, 2006, the Indian Express Group signed a print syndication deal with The Economist, which included allowing the Indian Express Group to publish surveys, some reports, and various other content published in The Economist magazine.

Publications

The following brands and concerns are owned by the Group:

  • The Indian Express - a national daily (English)
  • The Sunday Express - a news weekly
  • The Financial Express - a business daily
  • Loksatta - Marathi daily
  • Lokprabha - Marathi weekly
  • Jansatta - Hindi daily for North India
  • Screen, - Periodical dealing with the film and entertainment industry
  • Express Online - the portal for hosting IndianExpress.com, FinancialExpress.com, ScreenIndia.com, Loksatta.com and Lokprabha.com, ExpressCricket.in, and KashmirLive.com
  • Business Publications Division

    Established in 1990, the division manages leading B2B publications and events catering to major industry verticals like Information Technology, Hospitality & Travel, Pharma & Healthcare, etc.

  • Publications
  • Information Technology
  • Express Computer - India’s Foremost & Oldest Enterprise IT Monthly Magazine
  • providing Technology update for the Enterprise, Government and PSU.

  • Hospitality & Travel
  • Express Hospitality - Fortnightly that provides hospitality professionals a complete perspective of the business, covering the latest news, happenings, trends, reviews, special reports, industry events and expert opinions.
  • Express TravelWorld - Fortnightly for Travel enthusiasts.
  • Pharma & Healthcare
  • Express Pharma - A source of reportage, opinion and analysis aimed primarily at the pharmaceutical production and distribution channel -manufacturers, distributors, stockists, retailers and large institutional buyers. It focuses on pharmaceutical issues and trends from a business perspective.
  • Express Healthcare - It provides usable information via a combination of sectoral news, product information, sales and marketing strategies, market analysis and inside information.
  • Events
  • Information Technology
  • Technology Senate [Enterprise IT Event]
  • Technology Sabha [Government & PSU]
  • Technology Big 3
  • Technology Summit
  • Hospitality & Travel
  • HospitalityWorld
  • TravelWorld
  • Pharma & Healthcare
  • HealthcareWorld
  • Awards
  • Information Technology
  • Express Intelligent Enterprise Awards
  • Express Security Strategist Awards
  • Express Uptime Champion Awards
  • Hospitality & Travel
  • Express TravelWorld Awards
  • Pharma & Healthcare
  • Express Pharma Excellence Awards
  • Express Healthcare Excellence Awards
  • Express Events

  • Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
  • Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards
  • Financial Express Best Bank Award
  • The Express Group Book Series

    The Express Book Series was instituted in 2007 with the launch of India Empowered, a compilation of articles written under the India Empowered campaign that appeared in The Indian Express. Over the years 21 books have been released by renowned authors including P. Chidambaram, Tavleen Singh, N.K. Singh, Arun Shourie, Harsha Bhogle, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Jerry Rao. The Express Book Series has also released titles under the Express Group such as India Empowered, India’s Elected, Inside 26/11, 187 Lives, The Prize Stories and many more.

    Express Towers

    Indian Express Limited earlier owned a 25 storey building named Express Towers at Marine Drive, Mumbai. The building houses offices of several corporate entities. In the year 2013, Pune based Panchsheel bought the building for 900 crores.

    Express Avenue

    Express Avenue is a shopping mall in Chennai promoted by Express Infrastructure, a subsidiary of the Indian Express Group.

    References

    Indian Express Limited Wikipedia


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