Explocity Pvt Ltd is a media and publishing company headquartered in Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

. The company was formed by Ramjee Chandran

Ramjee Chandran

Ramjee Chandran is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Explocity Pvt Ltd. His life in the publishing area began in 1989, with a magazine called Bangalore This Fortnight...

. Prior to the inception of Explocity, Chandran first began a Bangalore based magazine, Bangalore This Fortnight, in 1989. This was followed by the launch of the Bangalore Monthly and the Bangaloremag.com. The internet

Internet

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 had just begun its journey in the late nineties in India, when Chandran created Explocity.com in 1999. Some of the initial funding

Funding

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 was from media

Mass media

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 Mogul, Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

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’s News Corp. Explocity.com has content like events, restaurants, hotel

Hotel

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 listings, shopping, nightlife and sightseeing in cities like New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Dubai

Dubai

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, Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Hyderabad, Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

 and Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

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CityInfo (now known as the Explocity Guide), was the next product from Explocity, which provides information on restaurants, places to visit, shopping, in cities around the world. It then began publishing lifestyle magazines like 080 (Bangalore), 044 (Chennai) and 040 (Hyderabad), followed by 022 (Mumbai) and 011 (Delhi'). A daily newsletter

Newsletter

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, MyTime, was also created. Explocity was one of the first companies in the world to introduce the software called Pagician for their digital magazines. Explocity also launched a city Movies Guide website online called Explocity Movies. Explocity also partners with Kingfisher (beer)

Kingfisher (beer)

Kingfisher beer is an Indian beer brewed by United Breweries Group. The brand was launched in 1978. With a market share of over 36%, it is India's largest selling beer, with 1 out of every 3 bottles of beer sold in India being a Kingfisher brand...

 to bring out the Kingfisher Explocity Great Food and Nightlife Guides. On the eve of its 21st anniversary

Anniversary

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, Explocity also launched an area specific destination guide for the Indiranagar area in Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, followed by the more recent guide to the Mumbai based shopping mall Palladium.

Explocity is the official publisher of the Dubai Shopping Festival

Dubai Shopping Festival

Dubai Shopping Festival started on February 15, 1996 as a retail event intended to revitalise retail trade in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has since been promoted as a tourist attraction...

 2010 and the Dubai Summer Surprises

Dubai Summer Surprises

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 2010.

Explocity organised the Bangalore Restaurant Week which was a week-long event involving reportedly the best restaurants in Bangalore in November 2011. The event started with 7 chefs from reportedly leading hotels in Bangalore, facing off in a cooking competition called King of Chefs.

As on April 2011, Explocity has launched EXEC - reportedly, India's first magazine for business

Business

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 travellers.

Corporate history

CEO Ramjee Chandran

Ramjee Chandran

Ramjee Chandran is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Explocity Pvt Ltd. His life in the publishing area began in 1989, with a magazine called Bangalore This Fortnight...

's experience in the publishing industry began when he launched Bangalore This Fortnight, way back in 1989. Over the next few years, he launched a few more city centric offline and online properties.