Group FMG's Indian subsidiary, which employs around 300+staff in its ultra-modern 25,000 sq/ft centre, is the biggest office for the group. The UK office has a staff of 100+; and the US-office is manned with a staff strength of over 70. The group manages overseas account, plus handles production from the office in Chennai, India.

Prakash Gurumoorthy, the managing director of Group FMG in India, said, "Every publisher today is looking to reduce their costs and we aim to provide them with the production efficiencies."

He added, "Group FMG is the ideal partner to help optimise production processes as well as migration to distribute content across digital platforms."

"Our technology assets, India’s centre of excellence and the team we have here mean we can deliver at a pace, reliability and cost few can come close to," Gurumoorthy added.

 

The Chennai operations builds on Group FMG's three decades plus experience. It focuses on creating sophisticated solutions in areas such as e-commerce, rich content production, pre-media, publishing, packaging and POS and channel specific solutions (such as social and mobile apps).

The factfile is impressive. What with 1.1 million images, 10,000 e-books, 528,000 PDFs and as Gurumoorthy pointed out, "0.0003% error rate."

Group FMG appointed Gurumoorthy as the managing director, India in October 2012. In this role, he is, "Responsible for managing Group FMG in India, including all aspects of business development, technology, strategy, operations, and P&L in the region."

In 2011, FMG, known as Fresh Media Group, a London-based media services company started in 1987 was rebranded as Group FMG  after selling a controlling stake in its business to a group of private equity investors led by India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) for $20m. 

The group is also funded by Zodius Advisors, a growth capital and build-out company.