Enriching lives and endearing minds has always been our key value proposition towards our viewers, and all our stakeholders. Each day, of this marvelous journey of twenty years, since our inception, has been invested in achieving this proposition and in realising aspirations.

With the completion of this milestone, we stand firm as one of India’s leading M&E companies. Our pioneering steps, taken in this expedition, range from India’s first satellite television channel, first 24 hour news channel, first DTH Platform, to the latest Over The Top Televison Platform.

Being amongst the largest producers and aggregators of Hindi programming in the world, with an extensive library housing over 100,000 hours of television content, we have rights to more than 3,000 movie titles from foremost studios and of iconic film stars, enabling us to proudly own world’s largest Hindi Film Library.

How We Performed

During the year under review, we focused on achieving the three-pronged core strategic approach: creating high-quality family content, making content accessible to various platforms and expanding into international markets.

Be it the completion of 700+ episodes of some of our leading TV Shows, or the rich contribution of our Regional and Sports Channels with optimal and niche content, the successful acquisition of some of the biggest bollywood titles, or the rapid expansion in the international markets, the year has seen it all.

Clocking 15.8 billion through advertisement revenues and 13.2 billion through subscription revenues, the overall financial performance has been stable and steady. With an operating margin of 24%, we have performed remarkably, despite the volatile market conditions. Our consistent focus and single minded effort in offering value to the investors, has enabled us to offer steady returns to our stakeholders. We have consistently maintained a 30% CAGR in shareholder value generation. Even after 5.22% hike in expenses, we have achieved a PAT of 5,891 million. Our Effective Networth witnessed an 10.74% increase. As on March 31, 2012 India’s first listed M&E company enjoys a 123,202 million market capitalisation.

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT 2011-12

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Enhancing our consistent expansion drive in the international markets, backed with a successful performance of Zee Aflam, we are already geared up to launch to yet another international channel. Strengthening our existence in the US markets, we have launched four new channels and has achieved presence on newer platforms like Charter LA and Centurylink, leading to an enhanced reach. With an attempt to take Bollywood across Asia, Zee Cinema International was launched with English subtitles in countries like Indonesia and Hong Kong.

With the procurement of landing rights in China, we will get an access to an entirely new territory with a large population base, possessing discretionary spends. Our Sports business was further strengthened with the launch of dedicated channels in popular sports like football and golf. Ten Golf and Ten HD are the new offerings in the sports bouquet. The introduction of high definition (HD) and niche channels, has helped us to achieve the aim of offering specialised content to premium target segments. From a distribution perspective, our JV – MediaPro, with its positive start, brings in immense contribution to the company’s value chain. Content Distribution on New Media Platforms, was achieved through the launch of India.com and Ditto TV.

Our strong presence in the regional space, was further amplified with the remarkable achievements by our leading channels like Zee Bangla and Zee Telugu, each emerging as a leader in their respective regions.

Our achievements and successful initiatives taken in the last Financial Year, have been recognised and rewarded by key Industry Awards, like the Dun & Bradstreet, PromaxBDA Asia 2011 Awards and many more. ZEE has been ranked as the No. 1 M&E company in the Fortune India 500 list, listed at the crest of M&E companies in the ET 500 list, and awarded as the Best company in M&E Growth category by Businessworld Infocom ICT Awards.

WHAT NEXT

Envisioning ZEE to be a global M&E player, key strategic action points have been chalked out, in order to achieve the set goals. With the onset of digitisation, arrival of 4G and elimination of anomalies, a positive industry growth is in sight, and we would implement, all the planned strategies to capitalise on the opportunities. Backed with cutting edge technology support, we are surely geared up for the digital dawn.