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  • Collaboration is key to expanding financial literacy and equity culture in 'Unmetro' regions Mumbai

    Dainik Bhaskar hosts financial seminar in Mumbai

    By A Correspondent

     

    DB Corp Limited (DBCL) announced the successful conclusion of its event last week that saw a representation of over 70 professionals from the financial services industry including top merchant bankers, analysts from reputed broking houses as well as leading media and advertising agencies.

     

    The event with theme “India’s growing equity culture” Joint Secretary – DIPAM, Ministry of Finance Dr Dheeraj Bhatnagar as Chief Guest who also delivered the keynote address. Bhatnagar reiterated the government’s efforts and commitment to reforms that have paved the way for stronger economic growth. Dr Bhaskar Das, Executive President, DB Corp presented the current capital market environment and how equity has been delivering breakthrough performance as an asset class triggering more allocation towards financial savings, primarily driven post demonetisation. Dr Das also discussed the key IPO markets in India, Dainik Bhaskar Group’s presence in these regions and how leading publications as Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar are supporting the industry to expand the nascent equity culture across India’s tier 2 and 3 cities which have emerged as the country’s new growth engines.

     

    Said Girish Agarwaal, Promoter-Director, DB Corp: “These are exciting times that the country is witnessing. With key reforms paving the way for stronger economic and industrial progress, India is moving on to the next phase of productive growth. India’s macroeconomic fundamentals demonstrate that the economy is now poised to take off. As India’s largest media conglomerate, Dainik Bhakar Group through its publications in four languages, 66 print editions across 12 states; has been playing an active role in supporting the expanding equity culture in India. We are even more committed to extend our strengths to the financial services industry in particular; to expand financial and capital market literacy to reach out to retail investors across India. While significant potential across industries is being gradually unlocked, a key aspect of this future progress also includes the simultaneous growth of India’s retail investor community. Discussing the way forward based on a collaborative approach, was the primary objective of the successful event. We thank Dr. Bhatnagar for gracing the event and all our guests who made the discussions so engaging.”

     

     

  • Veteran mediaperson Dr Bhaskar Das has joined the Dainik Bhaskar group as Executive President today

    BD joins DB today, as Exec President

    Bhaskar Das

    By A Correspondent

    Pardon the licence we’ve taken to play with the initials of two institutions in India’s media and entertainment and sector. An all-new journey in the lives of the two Bhaskars of medialand begins today. Veteran mediaperson Dr Bhaskar Das has joined the Dainik Bhaskar group today (Nov 2) as Executive President. Das has spent over three decades with The Times of India group and the last five-odd years with the Zee group.

    As reported by MxMIndia on September 11, Das’ contract expired with the Zee group in late October.

    This is a group-level position, and we are told by sources that Das will report to Bhaskar group director Girish Agarwaal and will work along with Satyajit Sengupta, chief of corporate sales and marketing, who incidentally also worked with The Times of India group before he joined DB.

  • All state COOs of DB group will report to Bhatia, in the move which will be effective November 2

    Harrish Bhatia to move as President – Print at Dainik Bhaskar

    By A Correspondent

     

    Harrish M Bhatia

    Harrish M Bhatia, CEO  of M​y​ FM,  is being elevated and brought back to DB group core business of print media  as President. In the new role, all state COOs of DB group, will report to him. This move will be effective starting November​ 2, ​2017.

     

    Bhatia joined M​y​ FM in Oct​ ’2001 and spent 16 years of his career with ​the group. Prior to moving to the ​r​adio division of the group​,​ he spent around ​six​ years in print  where he was head of the Rajasthan Unit. Subsequently, he laid the foundation of Divya Bhaskar in Gujarat and also led the Corp​orate​ Sales & Marketing vertical of the ​p​rint ​b​usiness.  Then in the year 2007, he took charge of ​the ​radio ​b​usiness and established M​y​ FM.

     

    ​Speaking​ on the ​development, Sudhir Agarwal, Managing Director, DB Corp Ltd​ said:, “Harrish is an old hand in the system, with his vast exposure across brands and categories and deep understanding of the various functions in the Print business, he will be able to take the business to new heights. I wish him all the very best in the new role.”

     

    Rahul Namjoshi, who was earlier the Corporate Sales Head, has been elevated as Business Head, MY FM keeping in view Bhatia’s movement into print business. In his new role​,​ ​Namjoshi will report to Pawan Agarwal, Deputy Managing Director. ​Namjoshi joined the organi​s​ation in March​ 20​07 and held the role of Regional Head Gujarat and Cluster Head – NCR till 2012. In 2012 he moved into the role of National Corporate Sales Head and has been also handling the client solutions team and the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

     

    ​Added Pawan Agarwal​: “Rahul has been with us since 2007, his strong understanding of the radio business both at the retail and corporate level made him the obvious choice for us, I am sure M​y​ FM will achieve new heights under his leadership.”

     

     

  • The state's deputy chief ministers Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya were present

    DainikBhaskar.com recognises UP visionaries

    By A Correspondent

     

    DainikBhaskar.com, the flagship portal of the of DB Corp, honoured bisionaries of Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow on May 27. The state’s deputy chief ministers Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya were present.

     

    Talking about the initiative, Gyan Gupta, CEO, DB Digital, commented, “Visionaries of UttarPradesh was aimed to reinforce our heritage as a socially responsible brand and help develop a platformto felicitate such phenomenal personalities to acknowledge their efforts and selfless contribution towards building the state of Uttar Pradesh. We are overwhelmed with the response received in the first edition and extend our heartfelt wishes to all.”

     

  • With this launch, DB Corp Ltd now publishes seven newspapers with 63 editions across 14 states across India

    Dainik Bhaskar launches Surat edition

    By A Correspondent

     

    DB Corp Limited (DBCL) announced the launch of Dainik Bhaskar’s new edition from Surat in Gujarat. With this launch, DB Corp Ltd now publishes seven newspapers with 63 editions across 14 states across India.

     

    Commenting on DainikBhaskar’s successful Surat foray, Girish Agarwaal, Promoter Director, DB Corp Limited: “With the launch of Dainik Bhaskar in Surat, we have consolidated our presence and stronghold in Gujarat. Surat is a vast and unique market, with a developed industrial belt which is home to some of India’s leading corporates across textile, Information Technology and diamond polishing sectors. The region is taking progressive strides in expanding its infrastructure, transport, communications facilities and also has a strong cultural heritage.”

     

    Added Satyajit Sengupta, Chief Corporate Sales & Marketing Officer, DB Corp: “Our single-minded aim has always been to offer a world class, news-led product for consumers seeking not only news but analysis with insightful perspectives, issues that create a progressive impact on daily life, global developments and a segment of engaging content offering readership delight. At Bhaskar, brand building begins from the first day of our surveys when our research team first interacts with potential customers to introduce the product, the company and solicits views and feedback on their requirements, which in turn forms the basis of new product creation. All our activities have been focused on the single objective of creating a strong product with high value proposition. We look forward to fortifying our presence further in Surat and emerge as the choicest medium for advertisers.”

     

  • DBCL is the only Indian company to feature in the Top 25 Winners Gallery

    Dainik Bhaskar bags 2 platinums for ‘Zidd Karo, Duniya Badlo’

    By A Correspondent

     

    DB Corp has bagged two platinum awards from the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) for its campaign ‘ZiddKaro, DuniyaBadlo’.

     

    The awards were conferred for Dainik Bhaskar Group’s Annual Report FY 16 and for the Corporate Calendar 2017 at LACP Spotlight Awards 2016/17 organised by LACP. The Annual Report and calendar themed ‘Zidd’ were ranked at 4th and 5th positions respectively in the overall top 25 global list. The DainikBhaskar Group is the only Indian company to feature in the Top 25 Winners Gallery.

     

    Commenting on the win, Kaacon Sethi, Chief Corporate Marketing Officer, Dainik Bhaskar Group said: “We are honoured to receive the LACP recognition. We have imbibed the ‘ZiddKaroDuniyaBadlo’ philosophy that drives us to go that extra mile to transform intent and determination into action. We sincerely appreciate this recognition as it provides us with further impetus to do more.”

     

     

  • The musical extravaganza sponsored by Colors, was powered by Dainik Bhaskar, in association with Mahindra & Mahindra Limited

    11th edition of Khumaar takes place in Mumbai

    By A Correspondent

     

    The eleventh edition of Adveritising Club Chief Operating Officer Bipin R Pandit’s Khumaar took place on Sunday, February 5, 2017 at Indian Education Soceity’s Manik Sabhagriha in Mumbai. The musical extravaganza sponsored by Colors, was powered by Dainik Bhaskar, in association with Mahindra & Mahindra Limited and was attended by 650 music enthusiasts and several professionals from A&M.

     

    The theme this year was ‘Valentine Special – Only Romantic Songs’. A fine blend of old and new songs were rendered by nine singers of repute who are hugely experienced and sing professionally for their living. Khumaar unearths talent and gives scope to a budding artist under the segment ‘Khumaar Ki Khoj’, said Bipin Pandi. “The pleasure of giving a platform to a talented person gives immense satisfaction that is beyond description in words,” he added.

     

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  • Amongst individual sites, www.dainikbhaskar.com continues at the second place as the second largest news site in India with 820 million page views

    Dainik Bhaskar emerges second largest digital media group in India

    By A Correspondent

     

    DB Corp Limited (DBCL) announced that according to ComScoreratings of November 2016, DB Digital is now the second largest digital media group in India. Bhaskar Group sites at the second place, dominates the position with 1.02 billion page views which stands with a wide lead of around three times to the media house at the third place.

     

    Across all digital properties demonstrating steady growth, unique visitors has risen by 124 per cent YOY to 33.4 million in November 2016 from 14.9 million in November 2015 and page views grew by 228per centYOY to 1.02 billion for the month of November 2016 from 312 million in November 2015. DB Digital’s improving operational performance driven by various advertising monetisation efforts, hyper-local news and content coverage and exciting audience activation are also translating into better revenue growth for the business.

     

    Commenting on the launch, Pawan Agarwal, Deputy Managing Director, D B Corp Ltd said “There could not have been a better start to the new year. DB Digital’s acknowledgement as the second largest digital group is a reflection of our total commitment to our vision to create the most preferred destination for content by leveraging the digital revolution taking place in India. Our strategy has centred on ensuring that our digital content and all our platforms are consistently evolving to ensure stronger audience engagement through news coverage across over 800 cities. We are also working hard to create efficient monetization models to boost our profitability structures. Our mobile focus since the past two years has yielded very encouraging results and we believe that through DB Digital’s differentiated WAP and web enabled properties, there’s tremendous potential to be capitalised, considering that the digital market in India is still at a nascent stage.”

     

  • This was shared by the I&M minister while releasing the Press In India Report 2015-16 prepared by Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI)

    Dainik Bhaskar is largest circulated daily, as per RNI report

    By A Correspondent

     

    DB Corp Limited (DBCL), publishers of Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar, Divya Marathi and Saurashtra Samachar, have announced that Dainik Bhaskar it is the largest circulated multi-edition daily in India. This was shared by Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Government of India while releasing the Press In India Report 2015-16 prepared by Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI).

     

    This year Dainik Bhaskar was ranked world’s fourth largest circulated daily by WAN-IFRA in its World Press Trends 2016 report, notes a communiqué, adding: “Audit Bureau of Circulation, in its latest audit report of Jan-Jun 2016, has also ranked Dainik Bhaskar as India’s largest circulated daily.”

     

    Girish Agarwal

    Following this development, Girish Agarwal, Director, Dainik Bhaskar Group said “This is truly a great moment for us. All our hard work and sincere efforts has culminated into this recognition and in being crowned the undisputed leader by RNI

     

    We are excited about the future and look forward to working even harder towards our mission of being a key partner and enabler of India’s socio-economic transformation.” Added Vinay Maheshwari, SVP-Sales and Market Development & Brand Marketing, Dainik Bhaskar said “This achievement is a resultant of our reader-centric approach which forms the core of our editorial and operational philosophy. We are very excited and understand that as a team we need to bring even more efforts to live up to this acknowledgement. This also speaks of our endeavours to constantly bring the best quality content, create the right kind of product and promotion mix for our associates, all the while ensuring total adherence to stringent quality management systems”.

     

  • He has confirmed his exit to MxMIndia, though has indicated that he will indicate his next assignment in a week

    Pradeep Dwivedi quits Dainik Bhaskar, may join Sakal

    By A Correspondent

     

    It’s been doing the rounds for a few weeks, but now it’s confirmed. Pradeep Dwivedi, Chief Corporate Sales and Marketing Officer of the Dainik Bhaskar group, is moving on. He has confirmed his exit to MxMIndia, though has indicated that he will indicate his next assignment in a week. According to rumours, he is likely to join the Sakal Media Group as Chief Executive Officer.

     

    Dwivedi, an active member of industry associations like Advertising Club and the International Advertising Association (India Chapter), joined Bhaskar a little over four years back from a career outside of the media.  Then, he had had an eight-year run at Tata Teleservices, and left at the position of Regional Chief Operating Officer & SVP- Enterprise Business.  Earlier he has worked with American Express Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, GE Capital and Eicher Motors.

     

    Meanwhile, the Pune-headquartered Sakal group has been without a CEO since a year. Dwivedi is likely to replace the vacancy caused by Jwalant Swaroop’s exit from the top job with effect from November 1, 2015.

     

  • The Golden Award is the first international advertising, multimedia, event and corporate film competition in Europe awarding creative excellence

    Dainik Bhaskar’s ‘Zidd Karo…’ wins Gold at Montreux Swiss Festival

    By A Correspondent

     

    Dainik Bhaskar Group won the Gold Award for ‘Zidd Karo, Duniya Badlo’ on girl child literacy under the category ‘Corporate Film’ at the Golden Award of Montreux, 2016.

     

    The Golden Award is the first international advertising, multimedia, event and corporate film competition in Europe awarding creative excellence.

     

    The jury 2016 consisted of personalities from 19 countries, among them CEOs of advertising agencies, Creative Directors, Global Marketing and Communication Managers of international clients, Media Designers, Professors of Communications & Directors.

     

    The ad campaign had a high decibel launch recently across TV, print, social, digital and outdoor (in unmetro markets). The campaign handle #achchi zidd has been trending on Twitter while the film has registered more than 3 million video views on Facebook in 6 days.

     

    Congratulating the team, Girish Agarwaal, Promoter Director, DB Corp Limited said, “This is a significant acknowledgement for the Group and I congratulate the team, our partners for all their efforts. Zidd or determination is in our DNA, it represents our resilient and determined spirit. The theme also resonates with our own story – Dainik Bhaskar’ was launched in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in 1958. Today, the Group extends over 14 states with 62 editions and reaches 49 per cent of the urban population constituting a little over half the Indian consumer market. From its humble beginnings, Dainik Bhaskar is today also the world’s 4th largest newspaper, the only Indian publication amongst the Top 5 brands in the world and India’s largest circulated newspaper.”

     

    Commenting on the win, Kaacon Sethi, Chief Corporate Marketing Officer, Dainik Bhaskar Group said, “We are delighted with the win. The response to the film has been tremendous being based on girl child literacy. We also congratulate Ogilvy who has been a great creative partner. As India’s largest newspaper Group Dainik Bhaskar has been at the forefront of creating landmark and noteworthy endeavours across all areas of its businesses including generating high impact marketing initiatives. All initiatives undertaken by the Group continue to reflect its commitment to its vision of being ‘The largest media brand enabling socio-economic change’. This has been the core essence captured and conveyed most powerfully through this film that calls every individual to push beyond limitations and boundaries and make a determined move towards transformation – a philosophy and attitude we most require. We live this belief every day that with the power of #achchizidd we can bring about positive change in our life, community, country and world.”

     

  • The Bhagalpur launch was implemented along a similar strategy as that of Patna driven by a well – strategized research and reader-centric survey

    Dainik Bhaskar takes off in Bhagalpur, Bihar

    By A Correspondent

     

    Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar and Divya Marathi announced the launch of Dainik Bhaskar’s new edition from Bhagalpur in Bihar. With this launch, DB Corp Ltd reinforces its presences in Bihar – a region which is of high strategic importance for the company where Dainik Bhaskar has already established a very strong brand equity and a leadership position through the launch of its edition in Patna in January 2014. Dainik Bhaskar now publishes six newspapers with 39 editions in 14 states across India.

     

    Over the next 20 days, Dainik Bhaskar is also set to launch two other main editions from Muzaffarpur and Gaya in August Beginning, with, in between launch of 7 district editions in Hajipur, Purnea, Biharsharif / Nalanda, Arrah, Chhapra, Samastipur and Darbhanga. This will complete Dainik Bhaskar’s full foray in Bihar.

     

    The Bhagalpur launch was implemented along a similar strategy as that of Patna driven by a well – strategized research and reader-centric survey that was also supported by an aggressive marketing and sales campaign which has once again proved its exceptional execution strength. A region with formidable peers, the Bhagalpur launch success was led by Dainik Bhaskar’s most differentiated content quality, its credibility and a highly un-biased approach as India’s leading media conglomerate.

     

    Commenting on the launch, Sudhir Agarwal, Managing Director, DB Corp Limited, “We are very encouraged with the overwhelming response to our launch in Bhagalpur. We have been studying the Bihar market for long and while we sensed and explored high market potential in Patna, we were also excited with the economic potential of Bhagalpur. Over the next few weeks we are set to complete our full roll-out in two other main editions and 7 district editions to accomplish our Bihar foray which will make a strong impact on our ability to provide a much deeper reach to advertisers and readers.”

     

    “Our growth strategy is well aligned to the exciting prospects we find in Bhagalpur where we could establish a leadership position and create a marked impact in terms of readership and circulation. We are very encouraged by the fact that even in a much demanding environment our readers across diverse categories in this region have received the product with great appreciation and confidence. Trust and integrity are uncompromising principles for us and we are fully committed to deliver a superlative product to our readers in Bhagalpur addressing their local news needs as well as emerge as a vehicle of choice for the State’s growth.”