| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Founder(s) | Ramnath Goenka |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
| Owner(s) | Viveck Goenka |
| Website | The Indian Express |
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.[1]
The company was founded by Ramnath Goenka in 1932 and is presently run by his adopted son, Viveck Goenka who holds the titles of Chairman and Managing Director.
In the second round of the 2008 Indian Readership Survey, the Media Research Users Council reported that The Indian Express ranks 7th in ranking of Indian English dailies by size of readership (with 1.8 million readers) and that Loksatta is the 5th most widely read Marathi daily (with 3.9 million readers).[2]
The Group also sponsors the "Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism" awards in 14 categories which carry a cash prize of INR 100,000 in each category, except for the prize for "Journalist of the Year" which carries a INR 250,000 reward. The awards were instituted on 12 April 2006 by the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at a formal event in a hotel in New Delhi. [3]
On November 2 2006, The Indian Express Group signed a 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.[4]
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Currently, the following brands and concerns are owned by the Group:
Established in 1990, the division manages leading B2B publications and events catering to major industry verticals like Information Technology, Hospitality & Travel, Pharma & Healthcare, etc. [5]
A media school from Indian Express Group.[6]
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 Avenue is a shopping mall in Chennai promoted by Express Infrastructure, a subsidiary of The Indian Express Group.