Education
Samir Jain was educated at Saint Stephen"s College earning a degree in Bachelor of Arts Programme.
Samir Jain was educated at Saint Stephen"s College earning a degree in Bachelor of Arts Programme.
In 1975 Samir joined the family owned Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited. as a junior executive. By 1982 Samir was vice-chairman and running the entire company as his father pursued by charges of fraud and suffering from a weak heart departed to seek medical treatment in the United States.
Samir spent the 1980s remaking Bennett, Coleman & Company
Limited. (BCCL) into an innovative marketing company. He sensed the zeitgeist and was poised when the liberalisation reform in 1991 allowed a new Indian with money to spend and immediate desires to gratify.
His business proposition was simple: he would connect sellers of goods to this vast market of consumers. He was the first in media industry to dispense with the post of an Editor.
During Samir"s time, Times of India has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.