Dainik Bhaskar Group
D.B Corporation Limited is a listed company founded in 1958 by Ramesh Chandra Agarwal father of Sudhir, Girish and Pawan Agarwal who currently own the company. The company publishes six daily newspapers which are Dainik Bhaskar (Daily Sun), Divya Bhaskar (Heavenly Sun) Divya Marathi, (Heavenly Marathi) DB Star, DB Post and Saurashtra Samachar (Saurashtra News) as well 10 periodicals: aha! Zindagi, Bal Bhaskar, (Young Sun) Dharmdarshan (Religious Tours), Kalash, Lakshya, Madhurima, Navrang, Rasik, Rasrang and Young Bhaskar.
The company also owns 94.3 MY FM radio network with presence across 7 states and 30 Tier II and Tier III cities of India. The company operates 9 Digital portal and 4 mobile apps as well. D.B Corporation Limited owns educational institutions like Danik Bhaskar School of Media Education, Sanskar Valley school and Abhivyakti Kala Kendra.
The company owns a shopping mall in in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh named DB city Mall. Mr. Sudhir Agarwal, Mr. Girish Agarwal and Mr. Pawan Agarwal are the directors of the company. The Agarwal family holds 69.82% shares of the company the remaining 30.18% share is owned by the public.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Private Limited
Business Sectors
Printing and publishing; Real Estate; Online; Education; Retail
Individual Owner
Public
Shares held by public
Other Print Outlets
Divya Bhaskar (Missing Data)
Divya Marathi (Missing Data)
DB star (Missing Data)
DB Post (Missing Data)
Saurashtra Samachar (Missing data)
Aha! Zindagi (Missing Data)
Bal Bhaskar (Missing Data)
Dharmdarshan (Missing Data)
Kalash (Missing Data)
Lakshya (Missing Data)
Madhurima (Missing Data)
Navrang (Missing Data)
Rasik (Missing Data)
Rasrang (Missing Data)
Young Bhaskar (Missing Data)
Other Radio Outlets
94.3 FM (Missing Data)
Other Online Outlets
www.dainikbhaskar.com
www.divyabhaskar.com
www.divyamarathi.com
www.bollywoodbhaskar.com
www.moneybhaskar.com
www.jeevanmantra.in
www.homeonline.com
www.dbpost.com
www.bhaskareducation.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVZ57OkKPAuRJ_wA_Rt4XFg
https://www.facebook.com/dainikbhaskar/
www.myfmindia.com
Media Business
Print and online
D.B corporation Limited (100%)
Business
Real Estate
D.B corporation Limited www.homeonline.com (100%),
Education
D.B Corporation Limited (100%)
Printing and Publishing
D.B corporation Limited (100%)
General Information
Founding Year
1958
Affiliated Interests Founder
was born on 30 November 1944 in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated from Bhopal University with a Master’s in Political Science. In 1958 he started Dainik Bhaskar. He was the Chairman of DB corp Limited since its inception, which publishes Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi daily newspaper. Ramesh Chandra Agarwal was also the Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry – Madhya Pradesh. He was awarded the Rajeev Gandhi Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism and ranked 95 on the Forbes list of India's Richest in 2012, Ramesh Chandra Agrawal passed away in 2017.
Employees
3000+
Contact
Head office
Dwarka Sadan, 6 Press Complex, M.P. Nagar, Zone-1,
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. 462011
Corporate office
501, 5th floor, Naman Corporate Link, Opp. Dena Bank, C-31,
G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai 400 051
Registered office
Plot no. 280, Sarkhej, Gandhinagar Highway,
Near YMCA Club, Makarba, Ahmedabad - 380 051, Gujarat.
Website: www.bhaskarnet.com
Tax/ ID Number
CIN:L22210GJ1995PLC047208
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
INR. 23.52 Million/ USD 360.68 Million
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
INR. 3.245 Million/ USD 49.755 Million
Advertising (in % of total funding)
INR. 16.42 Million/ USD 251.84 Million / 70%
Management
Executive Board
Managing Director
Deputy Managing Director
Non-Executive Board
Non-executive Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Non-executive Independent Director
Further Information
Meta Data
DB Corporation Limited is a publicly listed company. Most information is easily available in the public domain. The exchange rate for calculating the financials for this company is based on March2018. The MOM team sent an email request to the company seeking all the information on 19 March 2019 and Courier on 22 March 2019. The team has not yet heard back from the company.
