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ABOUT EFY GROUP
Over the last 42 years, EFY group has become synonymous with cutting edge technology. Today, this renowned media group is spread across 8 locations catering to the intellectual needs of a diverse readership across India and abroad.
Starting with its flagship publication Electronics For You, South Asia's most popular electronics magazine, the group now offers a bouquet of specialized publications to answer the needs of a technology hungry nation. EFY symbolizing the company's vision is the source of enlightenment for an elite electronics fraternity, in India and abroad. Surprisingly, the appeal of the subsequent publications - Linux For You, BenefIT, Facts For You and Electronics Bazaar, spilled much beyond the targeted audience - penetrating non-technical readership with vocabulary and easy-on-the-eye design.
The group also publishes directories and books and is behind several leading technological events. Recently, it also launched web-portals, including electronicsforu.com,efytimes.com,bpotimes.com,linuxforu.com and eleb2b.com, which have become leaders in their respective categories. EFY Awards is a coveted honour, Open Source India Week (LinuxAsia) and Edutech Expo are among the eagerly awaited and annual events organised by the group.
EFY
has offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Gujarat and Mumbai.
Besides, it has representatives in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Pune. It
also has distributors in the South East Asian countries.
EFY
is already a huge success in the entire South East Asian region, and
boasts of being the first Indian technology firm to reach Singapore and
Malaysia.
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| Magazines
EFY Group presently publishes five different magazines for different target groups.
All of these magazines are presented below with their own website addresses:-
Electronics For You
EFY was coined after its first product — Electronics For You magazine, which came
out with its first issue when the Indian electronics industry was at a nascent stage.
Even television manufacture started later. Within a few years the magazine
became very popular as the industry grew. Now, with a readership exceeding
half-a-million readers, EFY is India's largest selling technical magazine.
It also features an optional compact disc loaded with useful software that
many of its readers have loved.
Website: www.electronicsforu.com
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| LINUX For You
LINUX For You is the latest publication from the EFY Group.
With it's first issue in Jan '03, this magazine caters to newbies,
power-users, administrators, developers and those belonging to the
IT industry. It's main goal is to enhance the return on
investment (RoI) for organisations by deploying Linux (
or open-source) solutions. Accompanied by a FREE CD,
which carries source code, white-papers, software tools, Linux distributions,
and even games -- the magazine aims to provide complete solution for deployment of Linux.
Website: www.linuxforu.com
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| BenefIT
The magazine targets small and medium businesses of the Indian
sub-continent (Rs 20 million to Rs 2000 million), Enterprise
(Rs 1000 million plus), SOHO (below Rs 10 million). The editorial
positionings are to enable the readers derive the maximum out
of their existing IT set-ups; To present to the readers how their
business needs can be fulfilled by the current set of IT solutions;
To prepare the decision makers for strategic benefits that future technology will provide.
Website: www.benefitmag.com
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| Facts For You
Only non-technical product from the EFY Group. This magazine
aims to influence decisions on the lines of - Where
should we put our money next? The magazine
updates India's top decision-makers through
its regular assortment of market surveys and other important industrial information.
Website: www.ffymag.com
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| Electronics Bazaar
Launched in February 2007, Electronics Bazaar is India's
first B2B magazine in the electronics space. This monthly
magazine will cater to the sourcing needs of the Indian electronics
industry. It will have information on latest components, products and
machinery, movements within the industry, along with future trends that will help the trade.
Website: www.eb.efyindia.com
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| DIRECTORIES
India's most comprehensive Electronics & Educational Directories from
EFY Group are regarded as one-stop solution for any information based
on industry, products, brands, education and many more.
The same directories are also available in digital formats
on CDs, titled E-Pages and IT-Pages, respectively.
These directories offer a database of 4,500 companies
from the electronics industry and complete educational guide for students and technology aspirants.
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| Books & CDs
EFY Group is increasing its focus in this activity after having over
30 titles already in its name. At least 2 to 3 titles are being launched
every year. Books published on Microprocessors, Batteries and
Amateur Radio, in particular, became very popular and had
to be reprinted again and again. EFY's series of 18 books on
Electronic Projects are also well known. In addition, CDs
providing the digital version (PDF files) of the Electronic
Project series have also been successfully launched in India.
Electronics Projects, Vol. 1 -25:
A compilation of selected construction projects and
circuit ideas published in Electronics For You magazines.
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| Kits 'n' Spares
An associate organisation of the EFY Group, it provides kits
and components, including PCBs and hard-to-find ICs for the
electronic projects and circuit ideas published in Electronics
For You magazine. It has a growing network of dealers all over
the country so that the components and kits can be made available
locally in various towns for the experimenters. Electronic projects
are mandatory in most schools and institutes in India
but the components for them are generally hard to find.
Website: www.kitsnspares.com
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| EFY Techcenter
As you may be aware, there is an urgent need for hands-on training
for electronics engineers in India to make them more suitable for
taking up a technical job. Since EFY has been publishing electronic
circuits and projects in Electronics For You magazine to help its
readers cover this deficiency to some extent, we would now like
to be of further assistance to them by providing practical hands-on training.
This training would be imparted in various ways, such as:
• In-house training at EFY centres at various places in India
• On-site training in institutes and organisations anywhere in India
• Self-learning with kits and step-by-step instructions provided by us
Website: www.efytechcenter.com
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| EVENTS
Electronics For You Expo
A first of its kind event on electronics. A platform where engineers,
innovators, manufacturers and buyers will get together to take
technology to the next level. The first expo will be held
in 2011 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
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| Osiweek
A unique event on Linux and open source. A place where the developers,
the IT implementers and the open source community get together.
Special highlight includes 'The Hub' — a network of 80 to 100 Linux PCs
demonstrating Linux and its different applications; 'The Conference' — targeted
at IT entrepreneurs, CXOs of industry, government, education and
technology-heads; 'The Workshops' — complete hand-holding sessions
where registrants will be trained by experts and 'The Expo' — the
perfect avenue for leading firms to display their products and
solutions via the booths spread across the entire Chennai Trade Center Chennai (India).
Website: www.osidays.com
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| EFY Awards
EFY Readers' Choice Awards or EFY Awards is annually held
to recognize the outstanding achievements of leaders from
the Indian electronics industry. The Awards ceremony,
covers 27 product categories from the core and popular electronics,
and three special category awards. Every year 500 plus top-shots
from the Indian electronics & IT industry, senior members of the
industry body associations, politicians and VIPs attend the Awards nite.
Website: www.efyawards.com
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| EduTech Expo
This is regarded as India's premier technical education fair.
The event is aimed at meeting the challenges in technical &
management education in the country. It is an endeavour to bring
students and academic institutions together in a common platform.
The institutes which participate in the expo include engineering,
management, polytechnics, distance learning, foreign universities
and colleges, counselors of foreign education and even training
institutions offering career enhancement courses. This platform
help students to get a wide range of career oriented programmes on
offer. While for the institutions, its a great business opportunity.
Website:www.efyedu.com
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| Tech@Edu
Tech@Edu offers a unique platform that will bridge the gap
between technology solution providers and education institutions.
Simply put, it's a technology show for the education sector.
It is a combination of conferences, workshops and an expo.
While the attempt is to show-case the entire gamut of tech
solutions available for academia, certain technologies have
been short-listed (listed below) that will be 'highlighted' through the workshops.
Website:www.efyedu.com/techedu
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