The Times Group

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 with Sahu Jain family owning a majority stake in The Times Group. The Times Group has over 11 employees and revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.[2]

Bennett Coleman and Company Limited
Private
Industry
Founded4 November 1838 (1838-11-04)
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people
Products
Revenue ₹9,055 crore (US$1.3 billion) (2018)[1].
₹681 crore (US$95 million) (2018)[1]
Number of employees
11,000 (2014)[2]
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.timesofindia.com

History

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 Ramkrishna Dalmia.[11][12]

Ramkrishna Dalmia (7 April 1893 – 26 September 1978) was a pioneer industrialist and founder of the Dalmia-Jain group or Dalmia Group and The Times Group. The name is variously written as Ram Krishan Dalmia and Ram Kishan Dalmia.In 1947, Dalmia engineered the acquisition of the media giant Bennett, Coleman by transferring monies from a bank and an insurance company of which he was the Chairman. In 1955, this came to the attention of the socialist parliamentarian Feroze Gandhi who was part of the ruling Congress party headed by his estranged father-in-law Jawaharlal Nehru. In December 1955, he raised the matter in Parliament, documenting extensively the various fund transfers and intermediaries through which the acquisition had been financed. The case was investigated by the Vivian Bose Commission of Inquiry.

In the court case that followed, where he was represented by the leading British attorney Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, he was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail. But for most of the jail term he managed to spend in hospital. Upon his release his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain to whom he had entrusted running of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. rebuffed his efforts to resume command of the company.

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]
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 Music and Entertainment news 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
TBS Solution - A Complete Business Solution
Business Service & Solution
Founded2004
Headquarters
Maharashtra 
180,000,000 Canadian dollar[15] (2016) 
Number of employees
11,002[16] (2014) 
ParentDKS Solution
Websitehttp://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. Times Group, others put $20 million into Square Yards in Sep 2019

Times Internet
Times Internet
Founded1999 (1999)
HeadquartersGurgaon, India
Key people
  • Satyan Gajwani (Vice Chairman)
  • Gautam Sinha (CEO)
IndustryInternet services
ParentThe Times Group
SubsidiariesSee below
URLtimesinternet.in
Main article: Times Internet

Times Internet is an Indian company which owns, operates and invests in various Internet-led products, services and technology.

Radio Mirchi
Main article: Radio Mirchi

Radio Mirchi is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India.

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See also
  • Publications of The Times Group

References
  1. Dutta, Arnab (3 January 2019). "Times Group's net profit slides again in FY18, registers 6.84% dip". Business Standard India. Business Standard.
  2. "Times Group may go for an IPO 'in the long run'". Business Standard. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. "Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  4. "BENNETT COLEMAN AND COMPANY LIMITED". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  5. James Crabtree, Mumbai (23 March 2015). "Uber in tie-up with Times of India digital arm". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. "Details of most circulated publications for the audit period July - December 2013". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  7. The Bombay times and journal of commerce, 1838-1859. National Library of Australia. 1838.
  8. "Bombay Times - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  9. "The Times of India". www.firstversions.com. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  10. "3rd November 1838: The Times of India, the newspaper, was founded". www.mapsofindia.com. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  11. Rajan, Nalini (9 August 2005). Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9788132102618.
  12. Kasbekar, Asha (2006). Pop Culture India!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851096367.
  13. Auletta, Ken (8 October 2012). "Citizens Jain". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  14. TimesNow. "Times - Movies and News Pack - Times Network News HD Premium Pack Price and Channel List". TimesNow. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  15. http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/media-business/the-bccl-empiretowering-over-the-competition-10255.
  16. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/times-group-may-go-for-an-ipo-inlong-run/488673/.

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