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DhanDhanaDhan
Address: DhanDhanaDhan Infotainment Pvt. Ltd. (Forbes Group company)
Postal/Postboks Address: SP Centre, 40/41 Minoo Desai Road, Colaba, Mumbai-400005 (INDIA)
Internet: www.dhandhanadhan.com
E-mail Address: info@DhanDhanaDhan.com
Phone: +91-22-5638 8640
Fax: +91-22-5638 8642
Population: 1.10 Billion
Executive Director: Mr. Paresh Rajde
Year Lottery Founded: 2003
Sales FY 2003: N/A
Number of Employees: 105
On-line Vendor: WinSystems
No. of terminals 70-80
Games Offered: Dhan Three, Tri Dhan, Dhan Keno and Dhan 4.
Beneficiaries: State development
Jurisdiction: Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya

Background Information

Forbes Infotainment Limited (FIL) is a venture of the Forbes Group and the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. It was incorporated in 2003, with the purpose of giving the Infotainment industry an impetus and as a parallel to create a better lifestyle for society.
FIL delivers key business expertise to the retail and corporate sector to leverage performance and meet consumer demands. This spans from human resource, logistics and staff management to more consumer driven needs like online gaming, online retail etc. Being an off-shoot of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and the Forbes Group, FIL incorporates the group values of a committed enterprise. It also enjoys an edge of the group's credibility. FIL encourages lateral thinking in developing software solutions to stay ahead of competition. FIL gives Online Gaming a new impetus Middle Class segment will gain from FIL gaming solutions FIL is venturing into Reality Live Game Show format Innovative products at FIL for the Infotainment Industry Forbes Infotainment Limited is backed by a team of exceptionally proven professionals within management, creative and technical spheres. This helps achieve the purpose of a dynamic and evolving business enterprise.


Lottery News

SPC Plans Rs 85 Crore Adspend For Online Lottery
NEW DELHI, India (June 20, 2003) -- An advertising budget of over Rs 85 crore has been earmarked for ‘Dhandhanadhan,’ the online lottery being launched next month by Shapoorji Pallonji and Co (SPC).
The media plan has been split between vernacular and the English media, depending on the game to be promoted. SPC is the single largest private shareholder in Tata Sons and is launching this business through Dhandhanadhan Infotainment Pvt Ltd (DIPL), a company floated to manage this business. It will be marketing the Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya state lotteries.
Dhandhanadhan’ will be launched simultaneously in all the 14 states where online lottery is permitted. A turnover of Rs 1,000 crore has been targeted during the current financial year itself by the company.

Online game biz turnover may top Rs 5,000 cr
KOLKATA, India
People who have long since tried their luck with paper lotteries are gradually migrating to online gaming.
If the current trends are any indication, almost the entire clientele of the paper lottery business will shift to the online lottery segment within the next four to five years, according to Mr Rajan Kaicker, Chief Executive of DhanDhanaDhan Infotainment Pvt. Ltd, the online gaming initiative from the Forbes Group.
Speaking to newspersons here while on a visit to announce the launch of the company's first online game, Tri Dhan, Mr Kaicker said the online gaming business in India had surpassed Rs 1,000 crore in its very first year of operations. In the current fiscal, this is expected to grow to at least Rs 5,000 crore.
"I expect that in the next four to five years, almost the entire paper lottery business will shift to the online segment," he said, adding that the size of the domestic paper lottery business was Rs 50,000 crore at present.
According to him, the growth of the online business would be facilitated by several factors. First, transparency in online gaming would propel the migration from paper lotteries to online lotteries. Second, the excitement of online gaming would attract new entrants to lotteries.
And, finally, online lotteries would attract people who have always been inclined to participate in paper lotteries but have hesitated to do so because they had reservations on transparency in the operations of paper lotteries.

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