Corporate Profile

Main board listed Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) is the leading newspaper publisher in Singapore, with one of the region's most advanced printing assets. It is licensed to publish 14 newspapers in the four official languages, and over 90 periodicals. Everyday, SPH newspapers reach 2.7 million individuals, or 83 per cent of persons above 15 years old.

In addition to its core business as a newspaper and magazine publisher, SPH provides Internet portal services with online news and e-commerce facilities through its Internet arm, SPH Internet Business. It operates two radio stations, Radio 100.3 FM in Chinese and Radio 91.3 FM in English, under SPH UnionWorks Pte Ltd. Expanding into property investment, SPH acquired Paragon and Promenade and amalgamated them into a single development, Paragon – a prime shopping complex and commercial building in the heart of Orchard Road. SPH is also developing Sky@eleven, a 43-storey upmarket residential condominium on its former Times Industrial Building at Thomson Road. The company also holds stakes in mobile telecommunications service provider, MobileOne (M1).

Core products -- Newspapers and periodicals

With some 1,000 journalists including correspondents in 16 overseas bureaux, SPH is well equipped with the talent and network to deliver quality news and information content that covers both domestic and international markets. Its stable of 14 broadsheets and tabloids caters to the wide-ranging demographics of Singapore's multi-ethnic population, while its periodicals appeal to the lifestyle needs of consumers.

The newspapers published by SPH are:

• The Straits Times/The Sunday Times
• Lianhe Wanbao (Chinese)
• The Business Times
• My Paper (Chinese)
• Shin Min Daily News (Chinese)
• The New Paper/ The New Paper on Sunday
• Friday Weekly (Chinese)
• Thumbs Up (Chinese)
• Lianhe Zaobao (Chinese)
• Berita Harian/Berita Minggu (Malay)
• Tamil Murasu (Tamil)

The key periodicals include:

• Citta Bella (Chinese)
• Female
• Female Brides
• Female Business
• FiRST!
• GameAxis
• Her World
• Her World Brides
• Home and Décor
• HWM
• Icon (Chinese)
• Maxim
• Men's Health
• NuYou
• NuYou Time
• People At The Peak
• PHOTOVIDEOi
• Seventeen
• Shape
• Simply Her
• The Peak
• Torque
• Unwired
• UW (Chinese)
• Young Parents

Through its comprehensive range of core newspaper and periodical products, SPH enjoys continued dominance in the advertising market, holding more than 50 per cent share of the country's total advertising expenditure. Moreover, circulation of SPH newspapers continues to show growth despite the increasing popularity of the Internet.

The success of SPH is built on the strong history of its two flagship newspapers: The Straits Times, the English daily which has been in publication for 160 years, and Lianhe Zaobao, the Chinese daily started in 1983 from the merger of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh, which dates back to 1923. Lianhe Zaobao is the trusted information provider for the Chinese-speaking community.

The other two dailies, Berita Harian and Tamil Murasu, remain the staple for Malay and Indian readers respectively. And in keeping with the times, these newspapers are now available on the Internet. Its online versions are known as The Straits Times Interactive, Zaobao.com, cyBerita and Tamil Murasu Online. Other Internet editions of SPH newspapers are: The Electric New Paper and The Business Times Online Edition.

Over the years, SPH editors and journalists have continued to upgrade and modify the newspapers to meet the dynamic lifestyle changes of readers.

A new chapter in SPH journalism began in 2002 when for the first time, the English and Chinese newsrooms moved in together to operate under one roof at SPH's new headquarters, News Centre at Toa Payoh North. This unprecedented move drives the integration of content creation and delivery for multiple media platforms and promises round-the-clock continuous news delivery across these platforms.

With more than S$500 million in printing assets, SPH prints all its newspapers and its state-of-the-art printing facilities are capable of providing up to 65 per cent colour pages for any newspaper edition. SPH also prints regional editions of international newspapers like Asahi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune

Contributions to the Community
As a good corporate citizen, SPH fulfills its social responsibility by helping to build a better nation through its support for community programmes in the areas of arts and culture, education, sports and charity. For its active role in the arts scene over the years, SPH has been awarded the Distinguished Patron of the Arts every year since 1993.

The NAC-SPH Golden Point Awards, Singapore Writers' Festival, Chinese Cultural Festival, TheatreWorks' Writers' Lab and SPH Schools' Relay Championships are some of the other programmes that SPH actively supports.

SPH supports wildlife conservation efforts through the adoption of endangered animals like Inuka, the polar bear, and the SPH Conservation Centre, where a family of rare proboscis monkeys is housed and bred, at the Singapore Zoo. Other adoptions by SPH include the Caribbean flamingos, and Samson, the golden eagle, at the Jurong BirdPark. SPH also sponsors the All Star BirdShow at the BirdPark. A must-see at the park, the talented birds never fail to entertain visitors with their outstanding performance.