Essel Group is among India's most prominent business houses with a diverse portfolio of assets in media, packaging, entertainment, technology-enabled services, infrastructure development and education. The Group started business in 1976 with a commodity trading and export firm, Rama Associates Limited, and has since then metamorphosed into a conglomerate that is a symbol of the ingenuity and power of Indian entrepreneurship with worldwide operations and a workforce of nearly 8,000 dedicated employees.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited is one of India's leading television, media and entertainment companies. It is amongst the largest producers and aggregators of Hindi programming in the world, with an extensive library housing over 80,000 hours of television content.
Dish TV, India's pioneer and first Direct to Home (DTH) Entertainment Company, commercially launched in the year 2005, has brought the latest in digital technology in television viewing into the Indian Household.
SITI Cable Network Limited is one of the India's largest Multi System Operators (MSO). With 56 analog and 14 digital head ends, it provides its cable services in 60 cities and the adjoining areas of India reaching out to over 10 million viewers .
Cornershop Animation is a young, dynamic animation studio based in Mumbai and Pune. Its forte is using cutting edge 3D technology coupled wth classic 2D animation artistry to create compelling animations in both short and long formats.
Cyquator Technologies (A division of Pan India Network Infravest Pvt. Ltd.), a part of Rs. 10,000 crore Essel group Enterprise (Zee TV, Essel Propack, Agrani and others) located at Navi Mumbai (Vashi) & Worli, is a total end-to-end IT infrastructure outsourcing company involved in the business of Internet Data Center and high end managed hosting services.
In the year 2006-07, FMPL registered the fastest rate of growth in terms of number of new screens that were made operational. The same zest is still there as the company aims to reach over 1500 screens in more than 250 cities by 2011.
Playwin, India's first and largest online gaming company, is in the business of providing infrastructure, data communication, marketing support and service to facilitate a secure online lottery network.
Pan India Paryatan Limited (PIPL), belonging to the 'Essel' group of companies, owns and operates two amusement parks.
E-City Bioscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd." (ECBEPL) was formed to establish a chain of commercial complexes, housing complexes, construction business, multiplex cinema-cum-family activity centers (FACs) across Non-Metro Towns all over India.
The company was established in April 2004, and is committed to revolutionise the Indian movie business by implementing state-of-the-art digital technology, thereby eliminating print costs, curbing piracy and offering audiences globally benchmarked cinema-viewing with a uniform audio-visual experience.
Essel Propack manufactures plastic tubes, and speciality packaging in its 23 state of the art facilities located across 12 countries. With the effective implementation of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and HMP (Harmonized Manufacturing Policy), Essel Propack attains industry best efficiencies at all its manufacturing units.
EIL is the infrastructure arm and one of the fastest growing companies of the Group with interest in Road Projects of National highways and state Highways, Urban Infrastructure with specific focus on Sports infrastructure, Commercial & Residential Complexes, Power projects In Thermal, Hydel, Solar, Wind, Transmission and distribution Projects, Water management with Specific focus on Desalination, Waste water treatment and Distribution, Solid Waste management and Special Economic Zones.
Zee Learn is one of the leading education companies in the country with the fastest growing chain of K-12 schools and the largest chain of pre-schools in its portfolio.
Kidzee has over 700 pre-schools in more than 300 cities across the country, Kidzee is the largest pre-school chain in Asia.
Mount Litera Zee Schools : Mount Litera Zee Schools is now the second largest chain of schools in the private-unaided category with 65 schools in 48 cities. Mount Litera Zee schools are an endeavour by Zee Learn to bring about a quantum improvement in school education.
Subhash Chandra is the immediate past Chairman of Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of India, a charitable trust that initiates, supports and runs one teacher schools providing support education in 34,343 (as on 1st Sept 2010) villages all over the country.
Global Vipassana Foundation Subhash Chandra is the Senior Trustee of the Global Vipassana Foundation in his capacity as a Vipassana meditator. Having completed the Vipassana course in the 1990s (around 1994), he was impelled to spread the philosophy of mental purification through self-observation.