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Promoters of Outlookindia.com: The Outlook Group
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It's an entrepreneurial journey
that has spanned both 'old' and 'new' economies -- building
successful brick-and-mortar businesses to exploring the frontier
world of convergence technologies. About a quarter-century
before the onset of the ICE age, the Rajan Raheja Group made
its beginning in the construction business. After building
a huge presence in the realty market, the Group diversified
laterally into manufacturing, financial services and media
-- each venture initiated, and executed, to fulfil the objective
of assuming leadership in core areas.
The list of the Group's successes
is long and eclectic. Today, H&R Johnson (India) Limited
is the top name in ceramic tiles in India. Exide is the strongest
brand of batteries in the automotive and industrial field.
Supreme Petrochemicals is the largest processor of plastic
materials in India.
The Group also joined hands with
Oberoi Hotels as co-promoters of Trident Hotels and luxury
resort Rajvilas, which Conde Nast Traveller ranked as one
of the 25 best villa hideaways in the world.
Other triumphs include Templeton
Asset Management (India) Ltd, a venture with the Templeton
Group which manages funds worth $220 billion; Prism Cement
Ltd, with a production capacity of 2.1 million tonnes; and
Sonata Software, a leading name in this cutting-edge field.
As owners and operators of a fibre optic cable network in
Kerala through Asianet Satellite Communications, the group
is also a significant stakeholder in the growing convergence
business in India.
Outlook: In October 1995,
group company Hathway Investments Private Limited entered the print
media. Outlook, a weekly newsmagazine headed by Vinod Mehta,
galvanised a sluggish market reeling under the impact of satellite
TV. Outlook quickly carved a significant niche for itself among
discerning readers who value its in-depth, investigative reporting
as well as its stylish visual format. Known to be fiercely independent,
Outlook has shaken the establishment on events ranging from
Kargil to Kashmir to cricket, sensitised the reading public
to important issues like big dams, education and gender, and
provided an unremitting focus on South Asian geopolitics. Today,
Outlook is the preferred magazine of 1.5 million readers in
India, and sells more than 11.2 million copies over the year.
Intelligent Investor:
In July 1998, the Group launched Intelligent Investor, India's
first personal finance magazine, which offers sound strategies
for the lay investor, especially the growing segment of salaried
middle and upper middle-class and self-employed professionals.
Its message is clear and simple: 'Invest well, borrow wisely,
spend smartly'. Evidently, that message has gone down well:
the magazine sold upwards of 1,00,000 copies a fortnight within
a year. One of its distinguishing characteristics is that
about 93 per cent of readers retain all past issues of Intelligent
Investor.
outlookindia.com: In 1998,
Outlook went online as outlookindia.com, drawing into its fold
the vast, nascent readership of expatriate Indians. outlookindia.com
is both Outlook magazine's home on the Internet and an online
publication. Apart from Outlook's print edition in its entirety
- supplemented with links to related articles on its own site
and elsewhere on the Web - outlookindia.com also offers an array
of original Web-only columns and interactive features every
day.
Outlooktraveller.com:
The travel website outlooktraveller.com followed, and is fashioned
to open up new vistas -- web-driven vacations. It offers highly
focussed editorial features on vacation destinations, and
the resources to plan holidays in minute detail, right up
to flight bookings.
iInvestor.com iInvestor.com,
the latest offering from the stable, takes forward the philosophy
and beliefs ushered in by Intelligent Investor in mid-1998.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Vinod Mehta
Managing editor
Sandipan Deb
Deputy Editor
Bishwadeep Moitra
Assistant Editors
Ajith Pillai, Paromita Shastri
Senior Special Correspondents
Ranjit Bhushan (Bureau Chief),
Soutik Biswas (Features Editor),
Bhavdeep Kang, Shantanu Guha Ray, Arindam Mukherjee, Saba Naqvi Bhaumik
News Coordinator: Anshu John
Special Correspondents
Sheela Reddy, Murali Krishnan,
Soma Wadhwa, Gauri Bhatia,
Pramila N. Phatarphekar
Senior Analyst: V. Sudarshan
Operations Editor: Ajaz Ashraf
Correspondents
Rakesh Kalshian, Namrata Joshi,
Priya Sahgal, Dhiraj Singh,
Davinder Kumar, Arijit Barman
Mumbai: Charubala Annuncio,
Manu Joseph, Priyanka Kakodkar
Bangalore: B.R. Srikanth
Calcutta: Ashis K. Biswas
Chennai: S. Anand
Guwahati: Nitin A. Gokhale
Lucknow: Sutapa Mukerjee
Copy Editor: Sunil Menon
Copy Desk: Varkey George Karimpanal, Pothik Ghosh, Manisha Saroop,
Sasi Nair, Bobby John Varkey
Photographers
T. Narayan (Deputy Photo Editor),
Jitender Gupta, Atul Loke, Swapan Nayak, Abhijit Bhatlekar, Tribhuvan Tiwari, Gireesh G.V., S. Satish Kumar
S. Rakshit (Coordinator)
U. Suresh Kumar (Photo-researcher)
Art
Vimal Sarkar, Shilpi Burman, Devi Prasad, Padam Gupta, Radhika Oberoi
Illustrators: Jayachandran,
Saurabh Singh
Library: Alka Gupta
BUSINESS OFFICE
Vice Presidents: R. Rajmohan (Advertising) Sanjiv Beckaya (Circulation)
General Managers: Alok Srivastava (North), Indranil Roy (West), Suresh Selvaraj (South)
Anup Dwivedi (Production & Systems)
Managers: Alex Joseph, Anand Shirali,
Anita Bhattacharjee, B.S. Johar, D.R. Wadhwa, Manuel Fernandes, Taranjeet Singh,
Taroon Kumar, Rakesh Mishra, Yogesh Mohan
Associate Managers: Bhavana Roy, Himanshu Pandey, Moushumi Banerjee Ghosh, Uma Srinivasan
Deputy Managers: Anand Dutt, Arokia Raj, Basab Ghosh, Chetan Budhiraja,
C.R.K. Pillai, Kabir Khattar, P.S. Rawat,
Rachna Sharma, Vidya Menon, Vinod Joshi
Assistant Managers: Anil Bharti,
Anil Kumar, Faisal Khan, J.P. Singh,
Mahendra Dharwatkar, Mukesh Lakhanpal, Pankaj Jayaswal, Puneet Gulati,
Romit Mukerji, Shekhar Suvarna
HEAD OFFICE
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Tel: 6191421; Fax: 6191420
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