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Trading name
  
ZEEL

CEO
  
Punit Goenka (Jul 2008–)

Founder
  
Subhash Chandra

Industry
  
Mass media

Headquarters
  
Mumbai

Founded
  
October 1992

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Type
  
Public BSE: 505537, NSE: ZEEL

Key people
  
Subhash Chandra (Chairman)Mufaddal Kaizar (MD & CEO)

Products
  
Broadcasting, publishing, cable, movie production

Revenue
  
₹6,020 crore (US$890 million) (2016)

Stock price
  
ZEEL (NSE) ₹ 535.50 +3.10 (+0.58%)31 Mar, 3:30 PM IST - Disclaimer

Parent organizations
  
Essel Group, News Corporation

Subsidiaries
  
Dish TV, 9X Media, Taj Television

TV shows
  
Jamai Raja, Jodha Akbar, Qubool Hai, Khana Khazana, Pavitra Rishta


Similar
  
Zee TV, Dish TV, Zee Telugu

Profiles

Punit goenka md ceo of zee entertainment enterprises limited


Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (ZEEL) is an Indian media and entertainment company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. A subsidiary of the Essel Group the company's founder and managing director is Subhash Chandra and its CEO is Mufaddal Kaizar. The Company has 35 channels serving Indian content across India and 169 countries, with the latest being World is One News.

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History

The company was launched on 15 December 1991 and was previously known as Zee Telefilms until 2006, when it was renamed and the news and entertainment units were spun off into four smaller divisions. ZEEL currently operates over 34 different television channels, a cable company Siti Cable, a record label Zee Music Company, a production company and other businesses as well. It has expanded operations abroad, with several of its channels available in the UK and US as well as Africa and Asia.

In 2002 ZEEL acquired a majority stake (51%) in ETC Networks. In 2006, they acquired Integrated Subscriber Management Services Limited and in November 2006, ZEEL acquired an interest (50%) in Taj television TEN Sports.

In February 2010 ZEEL acquired an additional stake (95%) in TEN Sports.

As Zee Telefilms, the company formed part of BSE Sensex from 2000-2005. The news and regional entertainment channel business was spun off into a separate company in 2006 under the corporate banner Zee News Ltd (ZNL).

Fox also holds an approximate 30% interest in Tata Sky Limited which owns and operates a DTH platform in India. The Company has a 50/50 joint venture, Star Den, with Den Networks Limited to perform channel placement services in India. In May 2011, Star Den entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Zee Turner Limited and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (“ZEEL”) to distribute and market all channels owned by the Company and ZEEL, their respective affiliated channels and other third party channels in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

It also owns a music label, "Zee Music Company".

In 2016, Zee launched Zee Mundo, the first ever Spanish-language Bollywood movie channel.

Movie productions

In 2008, Zee Networks launched Zee Motion Pictures, an independent subsidiary of Zee Entertainment Enterprises focusing on development, production, distribution and marketing of mainstream films multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam. Zee Motion Pictures also operates Zee Limelight. Gadar: Ek Prem Katha,Natsamrat,Sairat and Rustom include their successful productions.

References

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Wikipedia


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