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VRL Group (Vijayanand Roadlines Limited) or VRL is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Hubballi, Karnataka, India with operations in around 23 states and 4 union territories in the country. Business operations of VRL Group include road transportation, logistics, publishing etc.

VRL Group is one of the large logistics and transport companies in India (incl.4360 vehicles, comprising 419 tourist buses and 3941 transport goods vehicles). Limca Book of Records, mentioned it as the single largest fleet owner of commercial vehicles in the country's private sector.

VRL's Vijayavani is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in Karnataka.VRL की सर्विसेज सब से घटिया है इंदौर से भोपाल (200 कि. मी) आने में 4 दिन का समय लगता है। जब कि रेगुलर कॉल कर के उन को कहा गया है। जिस का एल आर नंबर है-9002855338 इनके हेड ऑफिस से भी सही सहयोग नही मिलता है। अपने इंडिया लेवल के मैनेजर का कांटेक्ट नंबर भी नही देते लोकल नंबर देंगे और बोलेंगे की इन से बात करो जिनके हाथ मे कुछ नही है।

History

VRL Group was founded by Vijay Sankeshwar in 1976 at Gadag, Karnataka, India. His family had a publication house, which later became a part of VRL Group.

Headquarters and offices

VRL is headquartered in Hubballi, Karnataka and has 931 branches, 40 hubs and transport yards across the country. The headquarters has effluent treatment plant (capacity:175 thousand liters), rainwater harvesting plant, petrol bunk (allotted by Indian Oil Corporation), and a garage service complex, where VRL’s trucks passes through in the fleet, once in every two weeks.

Services

Cargo and Courier

A subsidiary of VRL Group, VRL General Cargo started its business service as transportation between Hubballi and Gadag, and later has spread across Bengaluru and Belagavi. It has extended into courier services and express cargo, which are now operative in 23 states, handling over 216 million cargos/year, being one of the large networks in the country. Its courier services are operative for parcels ranging from small to large size.

Travel

VRL's public tour business is operated by its division Vijayanand Travels. With having more than 80 branches, and operated by 1000+ agents, its the largest in tour business services in Karnataka and Maharashtra. It owns 550 buses (incl. 51 Volvo buses of 9400 XL and 9400PX multi-axle models), covering six states, moving across 350 routes in the country.

Aviation logistics

VRL Logistics Ltd. in 2008, started working in Indian Air Chartering Industry, operating under the Indian Air Operator permit (for passenger charter). In the first phase of its business, it owned a Beechcraft Premier I, an aircraft, manufactured by Hawker Beechcraft Inc, USA, while in 2013 it purchased another. It offers Jet aircraft charters to sectors like corporate, leisure and tourism, special missions, event management, advertisement agencies and for flights (VIP category).

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Media

VRL Group's flagship entity, Vijayavani was started on 01 April 2011, which is now the largest circulated newspaper in Karnataka. VRL Group's subsidiary company VRL Media Ltd., prints Vijayavani and is published in 9 cities of the state. Vijayavani’s lead editor of its editorial division is Hariprakash Konemane. Karnataka’s second largest circulated newspaper Vijaya Karnataka, was started by Vijay Sankeshwar (of VRL Group) in October 2000, and was sold to the Times group on June 16 2006.

In April 2017, VRL Media Ltd. started Digvijaya News 24x7, a Kannada television news channel.

See also

• Vijayavani E-paper
• Vijayavani Advertisting

References

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2. https://www.vrlgroup.in/vrl_group_logistics_travels_history.aspx
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6. https://www.vrlgroup.in/vrl_group_logistics_travels_history.aspx
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18. IANS (15 January 2016). "VRL Logistics buys 51 Volvo buses". Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via Business Standard.
19. exchange4media.com (16 October 2014). "ABC verdict- Vijayavani is the leading Kannada daily". Retrieved 16 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
20. ^ "VRL Media Ltd - Vijayavani Advertisement (ವಿಜಯವಾಣಿ)". www.Vijayavaniadvt.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
21. quora.com (9 May 2017). "What are the best/most popular newspapers and news channels (English/Kannada) in Karnataka and Bangalore?". Retrieved 9 May 2017.
22. business-standard.com (16 June 2006). "Times group buys Vijaya Times, two Kannada dailies". Retrieved 16 June 2006. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
23. exchange4media.com (17 April 2017). "VRL Media launches Kannada news channel, Dighvijay". Retrieved 17 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
24. "Vijayavani ePaper: Kannada Newspaper - Online Kannada ePaper - Daily Newspaper". ePaperVijayavani.in. Retrieved 17 August 2017.

External links

• Official website of VRL Group
• VRL for an IPO

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