ABP Group

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ABP Group
Company type Private
Industry Mass media
Founded13 March 1922;103 years ago (1922-03-13)
FoundersPrafulla Kumar Sarkar
Headquarters
Kolkata, West Bengal
,
India
Key people
Dhruba Mukherjee
(CEO)
Revenue₹500 crore (US$59 million) (2022) [1]
Website www.abp.in OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

ABP Group (Ananda Bazar Patrika) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922.

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History

The company in recent years did mass layoff at various times. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Current assets

Publishing

Ananda Publisher is one of the leading and prominent publisher in bengali language. Since 1957 Ananda Publications is publishing books in Bengali Language with eminent Bengali writers like Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Satyajit Ray Saradindo Bandopadhyay, Samaresh Majumdar and more. [6]

Famous Bengali Series

Byomkesh

Feluda

Kakababu

etc were published by Ananda Publications.

Newspapers

Magazines

TV news channels

ChannelLanguageNotes
ABP News Hindi Formerly Star News
ABP Ananda Bengali Formerly Star Ananda
ABP Majha Marathi Formerly Star Majha
ABP Asmita Gujarati

Digital news channels

ChannelLanguage
ABP Sanjha Punjabi
ABP Ganga Hindi
ABP Bihar Hindi
ABP Live Hindi
ABP Nadu [8] Tamil
ABP Desam [9] Telugu

Defunct entertainment channel

ChannelLanguageLaunchDefunct
Sananda TV Bengali 25 July 20117 November 2012

References

  1. ↑ "ABP PRIVATE LIMITED - Revenue, Net Worth, Profits & More". Archived from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "ABP Group to sack 150 employees in third round of downsizing". Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Kolkata's ABP Group That Runs Telegraph Fires 700, Staff Journalists Call It a Massacre". 2 February 2022. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "HT and ABP layoffs: Cult of profits leading to sackings, not demonetisation as organisations claim". 14 February 2017. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Bengal's Iconic Anandabazar Patrika Group to Sack 40% of its Staff". 9 December 2016. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "Ananda Pun".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012 — Quarter 2" (PDF). HANSA Research. 2012. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "ABP Network Expands Horizon: Launches ABP Nadu For Tamil Users". news.abplive.com. 15 April 2021. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "ABP Network Launches Telugu Digital Platform 'ABP Desam'". news.abplive.com. 30 July 2021. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2021.


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