Singapore Press Holdings
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Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) (Chinese: 新加坡报业集团) is a media organisation in Singapore with businesses in print, Internet and new media, television and radio, outdoor media, and property.
Publicly-listed on the Singapore Exchange, SPH employs more than 3,500 staff in its operations spanning three locations, its headquarters at News Centre at Toa Payoh North, Media Centre at Genting Lane, and Print Centre at Jurong Port Road.
SPH has a team of 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating in 20 cities around the world. Its stable of broadsheets and tabloids aim to cater the Singapore's multi-ethnic population, while its periodicals appeal to the lifestyle needs of the people in Singapore as well as the region.
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SPH publishes 14 newspapers in four languages, English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil in Singapore and more than 90 magazine titles in Singapore and the region. Every day, 2.7 million people, or 83 percent of people above 15 years old, read one of SPH's news publications. In addition, the company also holds a 40 percent stake in MediaCorp Press Pte Ltd which publishes free newspaper Today.
SPH's presence on the Internet includes the online editions of its key newspapers, which has over 100 million page views with 7 million visitors every month. In addition, SPH's expansion of its online and new media initiatives include a revolutionary mobile advertising and information service, ZapCode; recruitment and job search service, ST701; and STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), a portal that connects, engages and interacts with readers on the Web and via mobile phone messaging.
SPH has a business interest in free-to-air television with a 20 percent shareholding in MediaCorp TV Holdings Pte Ltd which operates channels 5, 8, U and TV Mobile.
Under a 80 percent-owned joint venture company, SPH UnionWorks, SPH operates two entertainment radio stations, Radio 100.3 in Mandarin and Radio 91.3 in English.
SPH has ventured into outdoor advertising through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SPH MediaBoxOffice (SPHMBO), an outdoor motion display advertising network media company with five large LED screens at locations, 400 plasma & LCD screens island wide, and large-format billboards at the heart of the city. In addition, SPH holds a 35 percent stake in TOM Outdoor Media Group, an outdoor advertising company in China.
SPH owns and manages Paragon, the retail and office complex in the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping belt. Paragon houses international brands and luxury-good boutiques, restaurants serving wide-ranging cuisines, and lifestyle facilities such as spas and a fitness club. SPH is also developing Sky@eleven, a 43-storey up-market residential condominium on its former Times Industrial Building site at Thomson Road.
