Times Publishing Group

Name

Times Publishing Group

Website

https://timesbookstores.com.sg

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Times Publishing Group is a publishing-named entity whose corporate web presence redirects to timesbookstores.com.sg, indicating an association with retail bookstore operations in Singapore; no further operational details are available in the provided sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Book Retail & Publishing

NAICS

Book Retailers and News Dealers (459210), Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Retail-Catalog & Mail-Order Houses (5961), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

General Bookstores (New Books) (CRALAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mass Market & Paperback Publishing (MPAJAAAD)

Keywords

• Book publishing services
• Book retail sales
• Print media publishing
• Bookstore operations
• Printed content distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel

Core offering

Times Publishing Group operates in the publishing and book retail sector, with its website redirecting to timesbookstores.com.sg, indicating that the company's primary consumer-facing channel is the Times Bookstores retail brand selling books and printed content to readers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Times Bookstores

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Page One: Asia-focused bookstore chain with stores in Singapore, Hong Kong, and other regional hubs. Comparable as a multi-format bookstore operator in the same retail category.
• Kinokuniya: Japanese-headquartered bookstore chain with a major Singapore flagship selling English and Asian-language books, magazines, and stationery in physical and online channels. Directly comparable as a multi-format bookstore operator competing for the same Singapore consumer.
• Popular Bookstore: Singapore- and Malaysia-based bookstore and stationery chain with broad physical retail presence. Comparable as a regional bookstore operator in the same geographies with overlapping product categories.
• Marshall Cavendish: Established Singapore-based publisher of educational, trade, and reference books. Comparable as a Singapore-headquartered publisher operating in similar book categories with potential overlap in editorial and distribution scope.
• BooksActually: Independent Singapore bookstore specializing in literature, independent publishing, and curated titles. Comparable as a Singapore-based bookstore competing for similar reader demographics, though at smaller scale.
• MPH Bookstores: Long-standing Singapore bookstore chain offering new books, stationery, and gifts across multiple mall locations plus an online store. Directly comparable as a Singapore bookstore competitor with overlapping customer segments.
• World Scientific Publishing: Singapore-based academic and professional publisher with global distribution. Comparable as a Singapore-headquartered publisher, especially if Times Publishing Group retains meaningful publishing operations alongside its retail channel.

Regional players

• Gramedia: Indonesia's largest bookstore chain with extensive physical retail and online presence. Comparable as a Southeast Asian bookstore operator, though primarily serving the Indonesian market rather than Singapore directly.

Broad incumbents

• Barnes & Noble: Largest US bookstore chain, offering physical retail and online book sales. Comparable as a broad bookstore incumbent, though operating in a much larger and different geography from the Singapore-anchored subject.
• Amazon: Global online retail platform with dominant share in book sales. Comparable as the principal alternative channel for book consumers and the structural force driving the decline of brick-and-mortar bookstore economics.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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