Main board-listed Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) is the leading media organisation in Singapore, with one of the region's most advanced printing assets. It is licensed to publish 14 newspapers in four languages in Singapore and together, these have a circulation of more than one million copies a day. SPH also publishes and produces more than 100 magazines titles in Singapore and the region. In addition, it owns a 40 percent stake in MediaCorp Press Pte Ltd, which publishes free newspaper Today. Every day, SPH newspapers are read by 2.9 million individuals, or 81 percent of persons above 15 years old.

Apart from its core business as a newspaper and magazine publisher, SPH also provides Internet portal services with online news and e-commerce facilities through its Internet arm, the SPH Internet Business Unit.

SPH operates two radio stations, Radio 100.3 FM in Mandarin and Radio 91.3 FM in English, under a 80 percent-owned joint venture company, SPH UnionWorks Pte Ltd, with NTUC Media. SPH also maintains a business interest in free-to-air television through a 20 percent shareholding in MediaCorp TV Holdings Pte Ltd, which operates channels 5, 8, U and TV Mobile.

On the property front, SPH acquired shopping malls Paragon and Promenade and amalgamated them into a single development, Paragon – a prime retail and office complex in the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping belt. SPH is also developing Sky@eleven, a 43-storey up-market residential condominium on its former Times Industrial Building site at Thomson Road.

SPH has also ventured into outdoor advertising through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SPH MediaBoxOffice Pte Ltd, Singapore’s largest outdoor motion display advertising network media company five large LED screens at strategic locations, 400 plasma & LCD screens island wide, and large-format billboards at the heart of the city. In addition, SPH invested in a strategic 35 percent stake in TOM Outdoor Media Group, a leading outdoor advertising company in China.

Core products -- Newspapers and magazines

With some 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating in 20 cities around the world, SPH is well-equipped with the talent and network to deliver quality news and information 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 numerous periodicals appeal to the lifestyle needs of the people in Singapore as well as the region..

The 14 newspapers published by SPH are:

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

The key magazines, among its stable of more than 90 titles, 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 newspapers and magazines, SPH enjoys continued dominance in the Singapore advertising market, holding about 50 percent share of total advertising expenditure. 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-language daily which has been in publication for more than 160 years, and Lianhe Zaobao, the Chinese-language daily started in 1983 from the merger of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh, which dates back to 1923. Lianhe Zaobao is trusted as the authoritative source of news and information for the Chinese-speaking community. Berita Harian and Tamil Murasu remain the staple for Malay and Indian readers respectively. Over the years, SPH editors and journalists have continued to upgrade and re-design the newspapers to meet the dynamic lifestyle changes of readers and introducing supplements such as Digital Life, Urban and Mind Your Body to complement The Straits Times as well as IN and Little Red Dot to cater to young readers in schools.

A new chapter for SPH started in 2002 when for the first time, the English/Malay and Chinese newspaper units moved in together under one roof at SPH's new headquarters, the News Centre at Toa Payoh North. This unprecedented move drives the integration of content creation and synergises the delivery of SPH's premier news and information across multiple media platforms.

With more than S$500 million in printing assets, SPH prints all its newspapers in-house. Its state-of-the-art printing presses at the SPH Print Centre in Jurong are capable of producing up to 100 percent 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 an industry leader, SPH is an active corporate citizen and supports a wide range of community and charitable causes, ranging from education, arts and culture to wildlife conservation and sports. In 2005, SPH launched the Gift of Music series, an annual series of mostly-free outdoor and heartland concerts designed to bring music to the people of Singapore.

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

SPH contributes to wildlife conservation efforts through the adoption of endangered animals like Inuka, the polar bear, and the sponsorship of the SPH Conservation Centre at the Singapore Zoo, where a family of rare proboscis monkeys is housed and bred.

For its contributions to the community, SPH was named the Top Corporate Giver by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre in 2005 and has been conferred the Distinguished Patron of the Arts award by the National Arts Council every year since 1993.