Organization:

In 1922, Anandabazar Patrika first came out as a four-page evening daily that sold at two paise
and had a circulation of about 1,000 copies a day. Eighty-five years later, Anandabazar Patrika
reaches out to over seven million readers, every day!

Today, the ABP Group has evolved into a media conglomerate that has eleven premier
publications, three 24-hour national TV news channels, two leading book publishing businesses
as well as mobile and internet properties. Touching the lives of millions of readers and viewers,
daily.

Awards:

The Telegraph won the coveted SNAP certificate in 2003 for printing excellence. Soon after,
both The Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika won the SNAP certificate in the year 2005. The
mission of the Specifications for Newsprint Advertising Production (SNAP) committee is to
develop and communicate specifications to improve coldset reproduction quality. These
specifications are for advertisers, agencies and publishers, customers as well as for prepress,
materials, newspapers and printers to help make the coldset industry competitive in world
markets.

ABP became the first non-US company to win two top awards, SNAP and IFRA, for printing
excellence.

The Telegraph in Schools was awarded the prestigious World Young Reader Prize by the World
Association of Newspapers (WAN) in 2004.

WAN awards the World Young Reader Prize annually to any newspaper or newspapers that
devise the most innovative educational projects or activity that helps develop young readership.

The Telegraph was the first Indian newspaper to be awarded membership to the prestigious
IFRA - International Newspaper Colour Quality Club (INCQC) for excellence in colour printing
for the year 2004-2006. ABP achieved the feat again by being awarded membership for 2006-
2008 for both Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph.

Board of Directors:
 Dr Ashok S Ganguly
Chairman
Aveek Sarkar
Director
Dipankar Das Purkayastha
MD & CEO
Dr Bimal Jalan
Director
R Gopalakrishnan
Director
Ranjit Pandit
Director
Shobha Subrahmanyan
Director
Arup Kumar Sarkar
Director

Responsibilities:

• Defining and understanding the market categories and segments

• Meeting revenue targets for space selling/advertisement selling
• Developing customer-centric product promotions
• Implementing sales strategy in the respective markets

Telegraph history:

The Telegraph was born on July 7, 1982. Edwin Taylor, design director of Sunday
Times, London designed the newspaper, setting fresh standards in design and
editing that acquired many admirers and later, followers.

It is today, eastern India's largest circulated and read English newspaper. The
Telegraph's readership in Calcutta itself is greater than that of all its competitors
combined.

With an editorial policy that supports, among others, secularism and a free state,
The Telegraph today is widely regarded as an emblem of everything a modern
newspaper should be. Coupled with a long tradition of talented journalists, The
Telegraph has always been in the thick of things — be it breaking news, unearthing
scoops or investigating news. It takes up issues, makes the reader think and puts
them in touch with the best of minds.

The Telegraph, apart from being a thought leader is also an innovator. The
Telegraph was the first to put sports news on the front page. It was the first
newspaper in free India to dethrone the existing market leader — a feat that was
accomplished within a mere 10 years.

It was the first sectionalised newspaper, the first modular designed daily, the first to
have pull-outs every day (Metro, Careergraph and other sub brands), the first
general interest daily with separate sections on sports and business, the first with a
separate leisure section, with crosswords and comics, the first with a 32-page colour
magazine on Sundays (much earlier than leading national English dailies), the first
to use run-of-press colour and the first in India to win prestigious global print awards
like the SNAP and IFRA.

The Telegraph is the first Indian newspaper to be available on WAP- enabled phones
worldwide. The Telegraph is also available as an e-paper at
http://epaper.telegraphindia.com.

There's always something for everyone with The Telegraph supplements — city
news in TT Metro on all days, career opportunities in Jobs on Tuesdays, children's
entertainment in Telekids on Wednesdays, education and career guidance in
Careergraph on Thursdays, lifestyle, travel and general interest features on
weekends with Personal TT on Saturdays, Graphiti, the colour magazine on
Sundays. Moreover, the technology and knowledge section, Knowhow, now comes
with the main paper.

The Telegraph has five editions: • Calcutta edition • South Bengal edition • North
Bengal edition • Northeast edition (Guwahati split) • Jharkhand edition (Jamshedpur,
Jharkhand and Ranchi splits)

In addition to this, there are two weekly tabloids for Calcutta's neighbouring areas –
Salt Lake and Howrah. The Telegraph has recently launched a school edition – a
sixteen-pager with a special section, Teen TT, to connect with young minds.

T2 is the latest addition to The Telegraph stable. A snazzy, 16-page all colour
tabloid which talks about fashion, food, films, television, arts, culture and everything
young. This is available with The Telegraph every weekday in Calcutta.

Total readership: 14,08,000 (National Readership Survey 2006)

Readership in Calcutta: 7,46,000 (National Readership Survey 2006)
Total circulation: 4,84,971 (Audit Bureau of Circulations July — December '08)
Business world:

Businessworld is the largest selling Indian business magazine, and the only business
weekly in the country.

Over a period of two decades, Businessworld has established itself as a magazine

that offers incisive and high-quality reportage on economic and business affairs. In
the past few years, it has focused strongly on understanding the meaning of Global
India — its emerging sectors, emerging leaders and emerging concerns. Its team of
journalists and domain experts cover extensively trends and movements in markets
such as telecom, IT, biotech, media and pharmacy and provide exclusive analysis
on infrastructure, economy and the stock markets.

Leveraging on its brand leadership, Businessworld has now moved into other media
platforms like publishing and events. Its recent publications include Doing Business
in Asia, The Marketing Whitebook, Understanding Behaviour, and Businessworld
Mega B-School Guide Indian and International, Decide to lead, Managing Reality ,
Selected Case Studies. Doing Business in Asia continues to receive an enthusiastic
response from senior executives in leading corporations; a recent addition being the
India Biotechnology Report — a pioneering report on India’s sunrise sector.

Portfolio:

Dailies: Anandabazar Patrika, The Telegraph

Periodicals: Businessworld, Desh, Sananda, Anandmela, Anandlok, Unish Kuri,

Career, TTIS

Television: Star News, Star Ananda, Star Majha

WIKI

The Telegraph is an English-language broadsheet daily newspaper in India founded in 1982 and
published by the ABP Limited (an enterprise of Ananda Publishers). In 2008, with a circulation
of 484,971 it was certified by Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) to be the fastest growing daily
in eastern India.[2] According to Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 the Telegraph is the fourth
most-widely read English newspaper in India (after Times of India, Hindustan Times and The
Hindu) with a readership of 12.04 lakhs.[3]
The Telegraph mainly published from eastern India is noted for its extensive coverage of Indian
foreign policy and its focused reporting on India's troubled North-East. The Telegraph is also
published from Guwahati (to cater to the entire northeast), Siliguri (for North Bengal and
Sikkim), Jamshedpur, and Ranchi (for Jharkhand).[4] The Telegraph comes with five editions
Calcutta edition, South Bengal edition, North Bengal edition, Northeast edition (Guwahati split),
Jharkhand edition (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and Ranchi splits)

History

The Telegraph was founded on July 7, 1982. The designer director of Sunday Times,
London Edwin Taylor designed the newspaper provided a standard in design and
editing. In 26 years, it has become the largest circulated English daily in the eastern
region published from Calcutta. In 1982, M J Akbar the current editorial Director of
India Today used to edit and designed the daily newspaper thus it had a major
impact on newspaper journalism in India.

The Telegraph is published by media group Ananda Publishers closely associated

with ABP Pvt. Ltd, the group also published Anandabazar Patrika (a Bengali
language newspaper) since 13 March 1922. Apart from newspapers the group even
published Bengali and English periodicals like Anandamela, Unish-Kuri, Sananda,
Anandalok, Desh magazine, Businessworld, The Telegraph in Schools and Career.

[edit] Supplements

The Telegraph today offers, in addition to its extensive national, international, and
business news a wide variety of reading material on special interests. In weekdays
the Kolkata edition of the newspaper comes with 35 to 45 pages including all
supplements and on weekend it comes with 60 pages.

The Kolkata edition of the newspaper has a daily 16 pages color supplement (in
tabloid format) called T2. Every day of the week except Sunday, the T2 mainly talks
about fashion, food, films, television, arts, culture etc.

The Telegraph has introduced 8 pages color section called Metro devoted solely to
Calcutta and its people. This appears from Monday to Sunday. Apart from local
news the Metro also reports on the social and cultural events in the city. On every
Sunday Telegraph includes a matrimonial section.

Regular supplements of Telegraph Kolkata edition include:

• Knowhow (Monday) - a two-page section on science, computers and health.

• Jobs (Tuesday) - a tabloid on jobs available, on how to approach interviews

with interviews on those succeeded and those who take interviews.
 • Telekids (Wednesday) - an exciting eight-page color tabloid for children.

• CareerGraph (Thursday) - a special four-page color guide for students and

graduates on the lookout for jobs and career opportunities.

• Proper TT (Friday) - a one-page section with information related to property

and real estate.

• Personal TT (Saturday) - four pages of entertaining weekend reading in color.

• Graphiti (Sunday) - a thirty-two page color magazine. In addition there is a

seven-page section called 7days and four pages of The Telegraph Classifieds
in color.

Tabloids:

• TeenTT - sixteen page school edition for school children

[edit] Subscription policy and pricing

The ABP group started offering Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika in a joint
subscription for half-yearly or yearly payment at a cheaper price.[6] Also the group
provides some exciting prizes for customers who wants subscription of their popular
periodicals or newspapers in half-yearly or yearly payment.

Price of The Telegraph from Monday to Saturday is Rs 2.50 and on Sundays the
price is Rs 5.00.