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Living Media is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n media conglomerate
Media conglomerate
A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet...

 based in New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It has interests in magazines, newspapers, books, radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, printing
Printing
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....

 and the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

.

History

LMI was founded in 1975 and its first publication was India Today
India Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

 International which was a fortnightly news magazine. Aroon Purie is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief and Ashish Bagga is the CEO.

Own Brands

  • India Today
    India Today
    India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

  • Business Today
    Business Today (Business Magazine)
    Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992. It had a second quarter 2010 readership of 338,000 per issue, ninth among English language magazines surveyed.-External links:...

  • India Today Travel Plus
  • Money Today
  • Woman
  • Gadgets & Gizmos http://www.gadgetsngizmos.in

Subsidiaries

  • Television Today Network (NSE ticker - TVTODAY.NS) owns

    • Aaj Tak
      Aaj Tak
      Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...

       NEWS Director Mr. Q.W Naqvi
    • Headlines Today
      Headlines Today
      Headlines Today is a popular 24-hour English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India, the channel is sponsored by TV Today Network Ltd. which is a part of the well-known India Today Group...

    • Dilli Aaj tak
    • Tez
    • Meow FM
      Meow FM
      Meow FM is a talk-based FM Radio Channel in India currently broadcasting in major cities Delhi and Mumbai and Kolkata. It is an India Today Group venture. Its broadcast frequency is 104.8 MHz FM...


  • Thomson Press, printing business, which prints magazines for several contemporaries and competition
  • Music Today, Music publishing business
  • BagItToday.com
    BagItToday.com
    Bag It Today is a private shopping/deals website based in India. It was started in 2009 by the India Today Group and its headquarters is in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. In 2010, German media company Axel Springer acquired 19.1% In Bag It Today.-Overview:...

    , Online Shopping Website

Joint ventures / Foreign Brands

LMI, also has several Joint ventures/Licensing agreements with prominent brands for their Indian editions, they are:
  • Cosmopolitan
    Cosmopolitan (magazine)
    Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

  • Good Housekeeping
    Good Housekeeping
    Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the...

  • Golf Digest
    Golf Digest
    Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Condé Nast Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. Condé Nast Publications also publishes the more specialized , and Golf World Business. The...

  • Harper Collins India, a joint venture with Harper Collins
  • Harvard Business Review
    Harvard Business Review
    Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...

  • Mail Today
    Mail Today
    Mail Today is a newspaper established in November 2007 , and published by the India Today Group in a joint venture with British newspaper Daily Mail . Associated Newspapers holds 26% stake which it bought at Rs. 18 Crore Currently there is one edition of the paper published from Delhi which...

    , a joint venture with Daily Mail
    Daily Mail
    The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

  • Men's Health
    Men's Health (magazine)
    Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...

  • Prevention
    Prevention (magazine)
    Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, started in 1950, and published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects includes food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, and cooking. It was founded by J. I. Rodale...

  • Reader's Digest
    Reader's Digest
    Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

  • Scientific American
    Scientific American
    Scientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...


External links

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