Samir Jain

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Samir Jain
Born (1954-03-11) 11 March 1954
New Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Citizenship Indian
Occupation Vice-Chairman of
The Times Group
Spouse(s) Meera Jain
Children Trishla Jain
Parents Indu Jain
Ashok Kumar Jain
Relatives Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain

Samir Jain (born 1954) belongs to the Sahu Jain family and is the current Vice-Chairman of India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., parent company of The Times of India and other large newspapers. He is a spiritualist[citation needed], an entrepreneur, an educationalist, a humanist[citation needed], a patron of art and culture[citation needed]. In his capacity as Vice-Chairman of The Times Group, Samir has since infused new energy into the growth of India's largest media house.[citation needed]

Education and Personal Life

Samir Jain was educated at St. Stephen's College earning a degree in B.A. Programme. He is married to Meera Jain and is father to Trishla Jain who is a well-known artist.[1][2][3]

Career

In 1975 Samir joined the family owned Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. as a junior executive.[4] Over the next 7 years he gained experience and was soon managing the company's media interests while his father Ashok Jain managed the non-publishing parts. By 1982 Samir was vice chairman and running the entire company as his father pursued by charges of fraud and suffering from a weak heart departed to seek medical treatment in the United States.[4] Samir spent the 1980s remaking Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) into an innovative marketing company. He sensed the zeitgeist and was poised when the liberalisation reform in 1991 allowed a new Indian with money to spend and immediate desires to gratify. His business proposition was simple: he would connect sellers of goods to this vast market of consumers. He was the first in media industry to dispense with the post of an Editor.

During Samir's time, the Times of India has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.[5][6][7][8]

Newspapers

The magazines run by the The Times Group are:[9]

Along with the above, the group also publishes several supplements for their magazines.

Apart from a number of publications, the group also controls Times Now, India's most wide-reaching[12] television news network. The group also owns the popular movie channel Movies Now.

References

  1. ↑ Trishla Jain - Artist
  2. ↑ "Trishla Jain's arty evening!". The Times Of India. 2010-10-26. 
  3. ↑ Dasgupta, Reshmi R (2010-10-24). "Cupcakes & Sunlight: Trishla Jain's artworks - The Economic Times". The Times Of India. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Auletta. Page 55.
  5. ↑ "TOI Online is world's No.1 newspaper website". The Times Of India. 2009-07-12. 
  6. ↑ The Hindu News Update Service
  7. ↑ List of newspapers in the World by circulation
  8. ↑ Top 10 English Dailies: Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 — Quarter 1 | Newswatch
  9. ↑ The Times Group Products
  10. ↑ World Press Trends 2008. World Association of Newspapers. 2008. p. 14. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 
  11. ↑ "World's Largest English Daily Publisher Said to Weigh India IPO". Bloomberg. 2011-02-16. 
  12. ↑ http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../Times-Now-most-watched.../7607495.  Missing or empty |title= (help)

Further reading

External links

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