Dainik Jagran signs for 18 NELA
punching
and bending systems
Widely read daily Dainik Jagran
is considerably one of the largestcirculated
Hindi newspapers in India.
The newspaper is now gearing up to boost its
production and output quality by upgrading their
plate production with automation solutions from
NELA. The newspaper has ordered a total of
18 NELA Ecobender V systems, which will
be installed on several print sites throughout
the newspaper printing plants of Jagran Group,
starting in the first quarter of 2016. The new
punch/benders will add to the newspaper’s existing
capacities, which already contain technology
from NELA.
Deal of the 18 NELA punching and bending
systems was struck at the recent World Publishing
Expo 2015 in Hamburg. The fully-automatic
punching and bending system Ecobender V is
especially designed meet the need of modern
printing industry. Video Control Positioning
and intuitive NELA EcoNet software are some
main features of Ecobender V. With a high
speed web offset plate output and precision
plate-positioning, speed and register accuracy
in the systems is always ensured. NELA Group,
comprising Brüder Neumeister, NELA USA Inc
and NELA Asia, forms one of the largest register
and plate automation companies. Dainik Jagran,
a Hindi-language daily newspaper from Jagran
Prakashan, has a daily readership of 68 million
readers, printing 350 editions and 11 titles in five
languages covering 15 states of India.
nnn
NEWSTECH themes its expo stall
‘Made in India…Since 2003’
At the WAN-IFRA Middle East Expo &
Conference 2016 at Dubai, NEWSTECH
participates as a Gold Sponsor, only
company from India among the 12 sponsors of the
event. Themed under ‘Made in India…Since 2003’
what all shown at the company’s stand include
mailroom and ink pumping systems, manufactured
by them in India since 2003. Roy Alex, managing
director, NEWSTECH, mentions that
the newspaper market of Middle
East, especially the mid and low
circulated papers, require automation
in mailroom and ink pumping areas,
as most of them are still in the
manual operation mode. Seconding
it, Sandra Alex, executive director,
NEWSTECH, rightly asserts that
their automation systems provide
good potential to explore the new
market.
nnn
New joint managing directors at ppi Media
Serving for more than
20 years as managing
director of ppi Media,
Norbert Ohl is now to hand
over the responsibility to his
successors Hauke Berndt and
Markus Feldenkirchen, who
will be swearing in on July
1, 2016. Together with Jan
Kasten, the new members of
the management board will
continue to expand into new
business areas and markets.
Norbert Ohl will act as a
consultant to ppi Media for one year after
stepping down. After this reform, ppi Media
will be breaking new ground in terms of both
strategy and personnel. Despite all these changes,
ppi Media’s commitment to quality, reliability
and staff, which are the key to its success,
remain untouched.
Hauke Berndt, besides his wealth of experience
in sales, has introduced many new ideas and
suggestions to ppi Media’s top management
in order to carry on this transformation. Apart
from his new role as managing director at ppi
Media, Hauke will also be responsible for the
company’s sales operations. On other side, Markus
Feldenkirchen will be focusing primarily on
the strategic direction of the company and the
changes this involves. Apart from his new role
as managing director, Markus will continue to
hold the position of CEO of ppi Media.
As a market leader for workflow solutions for the
publishing and printing industry, ppi Media has
accompanied the changes in the media industry
for over 30 years. As a full service provider,
ppi Media offers media-neutral solutions for all
areas of publishing, whether it could be ads,
editorial, digital prepress, planning and output
management, also as a service in the cloud and
with a 24x7 hotline.
nnn
RSCI launches
Indian Readership
Survey 2016
Readership Studies
Council of India
(RSCI), a council
jointly formed by Media
Research Users Council
(MRUC) and Audit
Bureau of Circulations (ABC), announces the
launch of Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2016,
which is considered to be the world’s largest
continuous survey of media usage, product
consumption and ownership. Result/data of
this survey will be released by January 2017,
followed by regular quarterly updates. This year,
the survey has increased its sample size by 40
percent at an ‘All India’ level, targeting a total
of 3.30 lakh respondents, across 91 individual
districts and 101 district clusters.
According to an MRUC source, IRS is one
of the most definitive surveys for print media,
consumer demographic profiling and product
consumption habits, among all anywhere in
the world. Though the story of print media
being declined in the overseas markets, India
is still one of those unique markets where the
physical newspapers are growing consistently,
despite the brink of a digital revolution. After
consultations with all relevant stakeholders
the council has finalised its research design
and begun the field work. In the country,
IRS is the only industry recognised readership
and consumer profiling survey conducted
by a dedicated team ensuring to meet
high standards.
In order to ensure reliability of IRS, the technical
committee has enhanced the process of back-checks
and included a third party auditor for monitoring
the end-to-end process of the survey in terms
of design and quality control. The survey has
also added numerous safety enhancement layers,
powered by technology. Some of these include
a tracker for GPS locations of interviewers,
enhanced audio recording and electronically
addressed forms.
nnn
EidosMedia opens
in China
EidosMedia, globally
renowned provider
of multi-channel
editorial and publishing
platform Méthode, has
announced the opening of
its office and subsidiary in China. The company’s
new office in Shanghai is to serve the existing
and future users of its digital publishing platforms
in China and East Asia. The company in China
will be headed by Vivian Xu, former manager of
joint venture partner Smart Team Global. More
than 70 news media groups, 600 titles, 200
websites all over the world adopt EdiosMedia.
In India, Hindustan Times and Live MINT are
user of this multi-channel media platform.
In the Chinese news media circus, EidosMedia
ropes in some leading customers in the country’s
news media world, such as English-language
newspaper China Daily, where a new convergent
newsroom project is based upon Méthode. It
covers all aspects of its multiple-channel, multiedition
operations. Méthode is also used by
the Chinese government to manage its official
English-language portal english.gov.cn
Finally, the foray of EidosMedia into the Asian
market has required the inclusion of support
for non-Latin alphabets, with traditional and
simplified Chinese characters supported by the
platform at all levels.
nnn
Jagran Group
promotes
Anirban Bagchi as
national sales head
for inext
Jagran Group, publishers
of 11 newspaper titles
including e-paper inext
across 13 states in 5 different
languages, has recently promoted
Anirban Bagchi as national
corporate sales head for inext.
Targeting the young generation,
inext is urban broadsheet
publication available in both
print and e-version, covering national and
international news on education, current affairs,
entertainment, so on. Newly promoted Anirban
sits at the group’s corporate office in New Delhi;
and reports to Alok Sanwal, COO & editor,
inext. Having a sound background of 17 years
experience in media and entertainment industry
across different categories with core expertise
in sales and marketing, Anirban has also been
associated with Mid-Day in the capacity VC-sales
(north & east).
nnn
TNPL reports big
jump in net profits
Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Ltd
(TNPL), one of the leading manufacturers
of newsprints and writing papers, reports
a quantum jump in its
net profits for the third
quarter. According to a
source from the company, the profits come from
the higher use of papers during the third quarter.
The net profit reported during the period was
Rs 46.83 cr on a total income of Rs 481.12 cr
for the quarter ended December 31, 2015. TNPL
is run under the state government and it was
established to produce newsprints and writing
papers using bagasse, sugarcane residue. The
company commenced production in the year 1984.
nnn
Naph Koncept at Uttarbanga Sambad
in
Siliguri to equip with mRC-3D system
The newspaper industry in India is extensively
boosting by discovering the advantage of
equipting measurement and control systems
of Q.I. Press Controls on their web offset
presses and Uttarbanga Sambad in Siliguri is
yet a newspaper that has been placing order for
mRC-3D. It is through Naph Graphics—one of
the leading Indian manufacturers of web offset
presses for newspaper and book printing—that
Uttarbanga Sambad is investing in the mRC-3D
system for colour register control. The regional
daily based in
eastern India
is printed on
two Naph
Koncept
presses with
4 towers
each and two
folders.
The newly
ordered mRC - 3D
systems will be
installed on the Naph
Koncept presses. The
order will involve a
total of eight mRC-
3D cameras and Naph
Graphics is responsible for the overall project
coordination. Shekhar Karande, production
manager, Uttarbanga Sambad, asserts, “Our
aim in the adoption of mRC-3D systems was to
save time in colour registration. We also want
to print more accurately as well as minimise
the amount of waste.” The mRC-3D is a fully
automated colour register system for rotary offset
printing presses.
Q.I. Press Controls set to deliver the eight
digital cameras with built-in microprocessors
that will be responsible for real-time data
processing of measuring data. In India,
the mRC-3D system is available with the
Automatic Ink Mist Shield (AIMS) that
cleans the lenses automatically. Established in
1980, Uttarbanga Sambad is a broadsheet
newspaper; with an 80 percent market share, this
daily is considered to be the largest-circulated
regional newspaper in West Bengal. In addition
to Siliguri, Uttarbanga Sambad has its printing
plants in the towns of Cooch Behar and Malda.
Elated to the company’s investment in mRC-3D
systems from Q.I. Press Controls, Shekhar Karande
says, “As a result of this, we expect to make
considerable savings in terms of time and money,”
adding, “What’s more, we hope to improve the
print quality.” The excellent reputation of Q.I.
Press Controls that enjoys in the print trade has
contributed to these heightened expectations on
the part of Shekhar Karande and Uttarbanga
Sambad with respect to mRC-3D systems.
nnn
Indian edition of
National Geographic Kids magazine
MM Publications,
one of the leading
publishers of English
language teaching materials,
in partnership with National
Geographic India, has launched
the Indian edition of National
Geographic Kids magazine in
India, with debut April 2016
issue. The magazine will be
available monthly on newsstands
or through subscription. Designed
for children of age group 6-12,
National Geographic Kids is
a photo-driven publication that
inspires young adventurers to
explore the world around them. Each month, the
magazine will colourful stories about animals,
people and places, interspersed with fun puzzles,
facts and figures. The magazine also includes
the popular sections: ‘Weird
But True’, ‘Wild Vacation’ and
‘Amazing Animals’.
National Geographic Kids was
first launched in 1975 in the US
as National Geographic World
magazine. The Indian edition
is the 18th overseas edition
of the magazine, preceded by
the Portuguese in December
2015. Other editions are
available in Australia/New
Zealand, Bulgaria, China,
Egypt, Germany, Indonesia,
Israel, Italy, Lithuania, the
Netherlands, Slovenia, South
Africa (Afrikaans and English), Spain, Turkey
and the UK. Collectively the National Geographic
Kids all over the world has a total circulation of
approximately 1.6 million copies every month.
nnn
Ad revenues of Organiser and
Panchjanya
weeklies get growing
Bharat Prakashan, publishers
of Organiser and Panchjanya
weeklies, has reportedly been
gaining new growth in terms of ad
revenues over the last few years.
According to data from the company,
it is said that the publishing house
has announced a sharp increase in ad
revenues for both its magazines in the
period 2014-15. In this, the English edition,
Organiser, witnessed two-fold growth
in the period, while the Hindi edition
(Panchjanya) received 68 percent increase.
In the period 2013-14, ad growth rates of
the two magazines were 78 percent and 30
percent, respectively.
