ASAPP Media Information Group is a 15-year-old, multinational B2B media group with diverse media properties in print, web and events space. Committed to providing most authentic and timely information on the construction, infrastructure and realty sectors, ASAPP Media supplies regular business to business information in India and the Gulf. The group provides a 360 degree information experience through special interest business publications, conferences, seminars, industry recognition awards, industry portals, directory services, research reports and newsletters. It is based out of Mumbai and has five offices in India and one overseas.

Armed with a database and research base spanning projects across all industries in India, ASAPP Media’s publishing activities span B2B publications in seven countries which have partnered leading Indian and International events. These include BAUMA, CONEXPO, Saudi Build, Big 5, EXCON, bC India, Elecrama, etc.ASAPP Media has also been awarding builders, architects, construction companies as part of its mission in raising benchmarks and honouring excellence. The group also organizes business seminars and conferences on various infrastructure sectors, which have gained repute as the leading forums for exchange of knowledge and business networking.

ASAPP Media also initiated and promotes FIRST – Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training – a not for profit, social trust established in the year 2003. FIRST has undertaken the social objective to impart vocational training to workforce to meet the industrial demands. FIRST, in partnership with the Maharashtra State Government, has adopted an ITI at Belapur, Navi Mumbai and is in the process of establishing an Infrastructure Management Institute. FIRST publishes sectoral research reports and newsletters that provide credible information which is timely and useful for accessing and disseminating business opportunities. The organization is committed to its quality policy of providing timely, researched, intelligent information products and services that enhances opportunities and enriches businesses and professionals. The numerous national and international awards won by ASAPP and above all a huge, coveted customer base evenly spread across industry sectors, geography and decision making levels are testimony to its leadership status across all spheres of operation.

VISION STATEMENT
To provide timely, researched, intelligent information solutions across all media for sectors vital for economic and national development.

• To be the best infrastructure & construction information disseminator.
• To provide world class information products that provide best value to customers.
• To empower our customers with most valuable information which enriches them greatly.
• To create an enabling environment that inspires and empowers our people to deliver exceptional products and services.

CORE VALUES
Commitment to Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Transparency, Customer Focus.

Publications

CONSTRUCTION WORLD is the largest circulated construction business magazine in with two separate editions in India and the Gulf. The 15-year-old monthly magazine has a readership comprising of Engineers, Builders, Architects, Business developers, Contractors, and Manufacturers & Dealers of Building materials and Construction equipment. It provides the most authentic, up-to-date & timely information and presents to readers a comprehensive, in-depth and insightful analysis of the Indian Construction Industry. The magazine reaches out to key decision makers both in India and abroad. It is also circulated in all major trade exhibitions, seminars & conferences in India and abroad.

INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY is the largest read magazine on infrastructure sector in India. It helps partners in the nation’s building process - utility providers, planners, institutions, international investors, contractors, developers, builders, consultants, architects, engineers etc. - or organizations having products or services that cater to infra sectors, to keep pace with the latest happenings in the sector. The 7-year-old magazine updates the reader through a comprehensive coverage on all aspects of nation building: from business environment to transportation to industrial land creation without compromising on objectivity. It is circulated in high-powered seminars and conferences, referred to by business leaders and adorns the coffee table display in many a corporate boardrooms.

CW INTERIORS India and Gulf’s first B2B Interiors Magazine, the focus of the magazine is to generate business leads, ideas and opportunities. The monthly publication presents timely, well packaged and extensive information on interior design and trends. It is an invaluable business tool for its readers which include Architects, Interior Designers, Builders, and Contractor.

EQUIPMENT INDIA is India’s first & only magazine for the infrastructure equipment industry. It successfully addresses the needs of information of the infrastructure equipment industry. It is the most specialized source of information for Contractors, Manufacturers, Dealers, Purchasers and the end users. It equips them with information to make easier and more profitable purchase decisions.

POWER TODAY is an influential, well-read and respected magazine that provides all the news and information from the Indian and global power generation, transmission & distribution sectors. Along with a comprehensive, in-depth and insightful analysis,  Power Today brings to readers interviews with the who’s-who of the industry, policy analyses, project updates, statistics, technologies, features, key commercial developments and lots more.

PROJECTS INFO, a weekly publication, is one of the largest circulated projects-related publications in India. It takes a comprehensive peek into the various projects planned, underway and completed in India. Apart from covering engineering, real estate, construction, energy & transport, it also updates readers on contracts awarded that week, industry events coming up, finance, and more. Each week it carries a special report on an interesting project, interactions with project heads, and a special feature on a pre-selected industry sector. The readership includes project developers & builders, construction companies, contractors, EPC companies, projects managers, project vendors and financiers.

PROJECT REPORTER is a fortnightly project magazine available both in print & electronic format. Project Reporter covers more than 100 projects across 45 diversified sectors from India which are in Conceptual and Implementation Stage along with Project Updates, Commissioned Projects, Contract Awards.

CW Property Today is the most comprehensive magazine for the burgeoning property sector. The content is designed to provide rich and meaningful information to aid the high profile readers in their decision making in the highly volatile property domain presented in lucid and world class editorial standards. The information is dependable on matters pertaining to prices, high end transactions, trends, policies, technologies, legalities, finances, national & international news that can impact. Read extensively by Builders & Developers, Land Owners, Property Consultants, Agents and Dealers, Infrastructure and Construction Companies, Financial Institutions, High Net Worth Investors, Bureaucrats, CW Property Today is a invaluable conduit for advertisers as it provides the most effective reach within the realty sector. The magazine is also circulated in high power seminars and conferences.

Indian Cement Review, the premier magazine catering exclusively to the cement industry, covers the latest updates and happenings of the industry from around the world. The magazine gives wide ranging technical articles, informative views of industry professionals, analysis and on-site case studies. It acts as a useful interface between the producers, manufacturers and the user fraternity of the cement industry, and is a must read magazine for the User industry, Manufacturers & suppliers and Auxiliary services providers.

INFO BANK
Info Bank is a series of print directories by ASAPP Media. These provide list of all major companies across various sectors and contact information of their key executives. They are the most authentic source for contact details of business decision makers in different industry sectors. The first of these is the SCOPE Directory brought out in association with SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises) which has contact information of top executives from more than 250 PSUs across India. The next Info Bank on Power Industry will be brought out shortly.

Industry Awards
ASAPP Media Information Group as a part of its mission to raise benchmarks and honour excellence, organizes award events for the construction and infrastructure industry – these include the CONSTRUCTION WORLD ANNUAL AWARDS where construction companies, contractors, equipment & building material companies in two separate events in India and the Gulf; CW ARCHITECT & BUILDER AWARDS which felicitate the top architects and builders in the country; and KPMG INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY AWARDS, India's first-ever infrastructure awards, which recognize excellence across infrastructure sectors.

ASAPP CONFERENCES is a division of ASAPP Media. It organizes seminars and conferences. These foster the growing network of professionals and business owners interested in infrastructure, construction & realty sector and encourage the exchange of scientific, technical & commercial expertise and knowledge. These provide a platform to all stakeholders within the sector to discuss, deliberate, exchange, share knowledge and experiences and collaborate.
Some of the renowned conferences are

1. India Roads Conference
2. India Coal Conference
3. India Rail Conference
4. Equipment India Conference
5. Power Today Conference
6. India Realty Conference
7. India H2O Conference
8. India Ports Conference
9. India MetroRail Conference
10. Infrastructure Finance Conference
11. Infrastructure Today International Conference

ASAPP Info is the online division of ASAPP Media. It conceptualizes and manages industry portals, newsletters, directory services, etc.

ConstructionUpdate.com
ConstructionUpdate.com is India’s no. 1 construction portal. It is the one stop source for information needs of all kinds for business owners and professionals from the construction, infrastructure and allied industries. It attracts thousands of unique visitors per day. Frequented by the top stratum of the infrastructure fraternity comprising of Corporate CEOs, Directors, Contractors, Builders & Developers, Project Managers, etc., the visitors’ profile is spread across varied sectors and geographies.

AskConstructionUpdate.com
AskConstructionUpdate.com is India’s first and only online listing of companies from the construction, infrastructure and real estate industries across 99 different sectors. It is the quickest and most effective way to get business leads.

FIRST – Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training – is a not for profit, social trust initiated and promoted by ASAPP Media group. Established in the year 2003, FIRST has undertaken the social objective to impart professional skill and education to workforce to meet the mounting demands of the industrial and service sectors in India. It expects to help the personnel in improving their standard of living & performing better to build the nation as a global leader. FIRST, in partnership with the Maharashtra State Government, has adopted an ITI at Belapur, Navi Mumbai in the year 2008, under the Central Government scheme of ‘Public Private Partnership’. It is also in the process of establishing an Infrastructure Management Institute.
FIRST publishes sectoral research reports and newsletters that provide credible information which is timely and useful for accessing and disseminating business opportunities. The institution also engages in researching information and ranking construction and infrastructure companies.

The research reports published by FIRST are on following sectors

• Roads
• Construction and Real Estate
• Public Private Partnership
• Power Equipment
• Civil Aviation
• Ports and Shipping
• Urban Infrastructure
• India’s Social Infrastructure
• India’s Electricity Sector
• India’s Oil and Gas Sector
• Renewable Energy in India

FIRST publishes weekly industry newsletters on –

• Roads and Bridges
• Renewable Energy
• Power and Coal
• Oil and Gas
• Infrastructure Finance
• Urban Infrastructure
• Ports and Shipping
• Civil Aviation
• Construction and Real Estate
• Minerals and Metal

• Winning distinguished awards:
  • Construction World won the first prize in the ‘Multimedia Strategy and Business Model’ category for its best representation across all media in Asia, at Manila, Philippines, amongst 74 entries representing 44 companies from 9 countries.
  • Construction World won the award for ‘Best News Magazine’ at the CIDC Vishwakarma Awards in 2010 and 2011.
  • Equipment India won the CIDC Vishwakarma Award for ‘Best News Magazine’ in 2011
  • The Editor-in-Chief of ASAPP Media, Mr. Pratap Vijay Padode, won the award for ‘Best Journalist’ at the CIDC Vishwakarma Awards in 2010 and 2011.
  • Ms. Falguni Padode, Group Managing Editor of ASAPP Media won the ‘Best Journalist’ CIDC Vishwakarma Award in 2011.
  • Construction World won the awards for ‘Best Single Issue’ and ‘Best Feature Article’ at The Tabbies 2010 Awards, an international B2B publishing award given by TABPI, USA that had more than 500 entries from USA, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, etc.
• Publishing over 160 issues on construction.
• Instituting first ever ranking of construction companies, building material companies and construction equipment companies.
• Annually ranking India's top architects, top builders and India's most admired construction companies.
• Publishing 2 volumes of BIG BOOK for construction industry, the first of which mapped the growth of the industry over the twentieth century and the latter mapped the last decade of construction.
• Participating in the world`s largest construction exhibitions like BAUMA, CONEXPO, World of Concrete, BATIMAT, Saudi Build, Big 5 show and nationally being the official magazine for EXCON, SUMINFRA, Cityscapes, bC India, etc.
• Creating a website which is being accessed globally for updates on India.
• Creating the first and largest online listing of companies from construction, infrastructure allied sectors
• Organizing & conceptualizing the one & only Award for the achievers in the Construction & Allied Industry for last eight years – Construction World Annual Awards - India`s most prestigious award trusted by the construction fraternity at large
• Organizing & conceptualizing India’s first infrastructure awards: KPMG – Infrastructure Today Awards
• Initiating and promoting Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training (FIRST), a non-profit organization for the cause of imparting education, training and conducting research in the field of infrastructure.
• Establishing a full-fledged Events Division which organizes conferences and seminars