Deccan Chronicle

A brief introduction to Deccan Chronicle Holding Limited.

 Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited
• Indian Fortune 500 company
• Core business of Print media
• Deccan Chronicle
• Financial Chronicle
• The Asian Age
• Andhra Bhoomi
• Websites
• www.deccanchronicle.com
• www.papyrusclubs.com
• www.andhrabhoomi.com
• www.asianage.com
• Sharp growth in new-business revenues
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7. The New Indian Express
8. The Tribune
9. Deccan Herald
10.The Statesman
DC : Clear No. # 1 in South India

Deccan The Hindu The Times

Chronicle Of India
No. # 1 No # 2 No. # 3
AP 7, 93, 296 2, 97, 093 2, 21, 839

TN 2, 96, 717 6, 56, 193 0

(TOI Chn: Not Filed)

Kar 2, 50, 812 91, 229 4, 81, 338

Kerala 2 1, 64, 404 449

Pondicherry 5, 807 15, 237 0

South India 13, 46, 634 12, 24, 156 7, 03, 626

Audit Bureau Of Circulations, Audit Period: Jan-June 2009,

Average Qualifying Sales
 Deccan Chronicle Circulation (Audit Bureau of Circulation figs)

1400000

1200000

1000000

800000
Series1

600000

400000

200000

• Fastest Growing English Daily Newspaper in India

• Fastest Growing Newspaper, across all languages,
among newspaper of over 10L circulation
A Healthy Number 2 in Chennai
• Deccan Chronicle : For Young Minds
– Established 70 years ago during the freedom struggle for Indian
Independence, initially with one edition in Hyderabad
– Total One Million Three Hundered and Seventy nine thousand and
ninety One copies per day sale, as per Audit Bureau of Circulation
report for July December 2009
– No.# 1 of South India, Fastest Growing English Daily Newspaper for last
4 years
• Deccan Chronicle : For Young Minds
– 9 editions : Hyderabad (5,71,879 copies per day), Chennai (3,11,055
copies per day), Bangalore(2,45,182 copies per day), Karimnagar
(60,638 copies per day), Vijaywada(53,934 copies per day),
Rajamundhry (35,213 copies per day), Nellore (26,204 copies per day),
Ananthapur (27,197 copies per day), Vishakhapatnam (47,789 copies
per day)
– 3rd largest English Daily Newspaper in India
– Largest proportion of youth readers (age below 30) of all english daily
newspapers in India.
Other publications from Deccan
Chronicle Holdings Limited
Vernacular Daily published from above 7 editions
 Edition Wise Circulation Figures

Andhra Bhoomi Daily Edition Circulation

%
growth/de
Editions State ABC Jul-Dec 06 ABC Jan-Jun 07 cline

Hyderabad AP 23,840 24,774 4%

Vijayawada AP 17,171 18,262 6%

Visakhapatna
m AP 12,639 13,238 5%

Karimnagar AP 11,869 11,719 -1%

Nellore AP 9,358 9,811 5%

Rajahmundry AP 12,018 12,210 2%

Anantapur AP 20,876 21,252 2%

Total AP   107,771 111,266 3%

Drives a total readership of 5,45,000

Reaches out to the most premium readers of the above towns
• The Asian Age
– Sophisticated, upmarket newspaper
– 2.97 lakh copies
– Presence in leading metros, and London edition doing well
 Circulation Figures of The Asian Age

Editions State CA Certified

Delhi Delhi 50,171

Mumbai Maharastra 97,637

Kolkata West Bengal 81,469

Bangalore Karnataka 45,572

London   22,922

Total   297,771
 Financial Chronicle
• Published from Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore

• International Herald Tribune association : 4 pages of IHT select

articles carried everyday in FC

• Crisp, reader friendly content

• Young and fast growing member of the Deccan Chronicle family,

launched in 2008
Some other subsidiary companies of
Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited
• Deccan Chargers IPL Team,
Hyderabad
– IPL 2009 Champions

• Odyssey Bookstores
 Summary

1. Healthy Industry , Rapidly Growing Company

2. Good and stable people, fast growth platform for high performers

3. Fast Growing Company : No. # 1 in revenue growth in the industry

4. Strong fundamentals : Circulation and Footprint growing

5. Fast movement in internet and new-business , growing to volumes

Thank You