Next Gen Publishing Ltd was incorporated in October 2004 and commenced operations from January 2005 with the promise of offering the finest in the field of publishing. Over time, not only have its  B2C titles, Car India (licensed from Bauer Media), Bike India, Computer Active (licensed from VNU), Smart Photography and Ideal Home & Garden, set trends in their categories, they have also earned considerable critical acclaim. In the last one year it has launched FHM (licensed from Bauer Consumer Media), widely acclaimed as the world's best men's magazine is already setting the stands on fire and more recently Mother & Baby, which is the world's largest selling parenting magazine.

Many of our brands have been successfully leveraged for the NDTV Profit Car India & Bike India Awards and the Uniross Smart Photography Awards shows. Smart Photography and Computer Active also jointly conducted the inaugural Digital Imaging Technology Exposition at Pragati Maidan in January 2007. 

On the B2B front, India's only magazine on commercial vehicle, CV, just celebrated its first birthday at the end of the year when it set the standards for journalism in unchargted terriotry. Commercial Vehicle was conceived leading automotive title servinf India's burgeoning truck and bus industries.

Next Gen's Business Directories SBU publishes the annual Forbes Yellow Pages in an attractive, easy to use, comprehensive and well-produced format business directory of large, medium and small enterprises. The information carried in the print FYP is available in four colour print, SMS Yellow pages using the 56161 gateway, an advanced search based website www.fyp.in, a wap site www.m.fyp.in and searchable CD Rom version. Forbes Yellow Pages is already in the cities of New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai and in time to come we plan to take the brand to more cites as well.

Hello45 a new innovation from the Business information division. Its the easiest way for accessing information about anything in your city. Simply dial 45 four times over and get the info you want. No wading through voluminous directories, no hassles. That apart we used contemporary technology and standards for such a service. The info is updated, real time and available 24/7. It has everything under the sun about your city. Shops, movies, restaurants, hospitals, emergency services...if you cannot get it on Hello45, it does not exist!

Next Gen’s BPO division services a big ticket corporate entity – NG Callcenter for a leading Telecom company of India for voice-based processes for North India.

All this has been achieved in a little over three years. But as can be expected of a company of young men and women, there is an irresistible air of creative restlessness that eddies around our work spaces: “we are young” it says. “Lets move on,” it demands. So, propelled by this tide, if one might say, of youthful exuberance Next Gen has taken a leap into the future, hand-in-hand with Bauer Media plc, one of the world's biggest and most respected media house and two of the most respected business houses namely the Forbes Group and HDFC Ltd. Next Gen reiterates its commitment to bring you the finest in publishing across media platforms, this time with an additional, “in ways that are yet to be invented".

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