The foundation of Sandhya Prakash Group was laid in 1971 when Visionary leader (Late) Shri Surendra Patel started a Evening Newspaper “Dainik Sandhya Prakash” from Bhopal along with commercial printing press . This company is now diversified in a conglomerate of companies involved in Printing, Publishing, Packaging, Real Estate & Infrastructure Development, with strong Business ethics, Reliability and transparent Business Operations. SPL’s mission is to develop, produce and market value-added products and services within printing, packaging and publishing sectors. SPL’s products enrich the knowledge of hundred of millions of people in India. They also generate strong cash flows that enable good dividend growth and raise the value of SPL shares. Growth in businesses In the past 2 years, the Group has gradually shifted the balance toward its Retail and Infrastructure Sectors . This reallocation was conducted to capitalize on the massive requirement of Infrastructure in India . Demand for Organized Retail is stable in industrial countries and is rising in emerging markets like India in pace with the increase of disposable income and use of the lifestyle products. Since 2008, SPL conducts business in two blocks: paper and Paperboard products on the one hand and Retail and Infrastructure on the other.