Asian Business Awards

The Asian Business Awards are proudly hosted by Asian Media Group. As a prominent ethnic media house, we also curate the prestigious Asian Rich List, the definitive guide to the most successful high net worth individuals in the Asian community.

The Asian Business Awards, which celebrated its 25^th anniversary in 2024, have become the biggest celebration of Asian enterprise in Britain, highlighting the talent, drive and passion synonymous with the community. It’s the business event of the year, where we recognise the very best businesses in a variety of sectors.

The Awards also reveal the Asian Rich List, profiling the wealthiest 101 Asians in the UK. The List remains a window to the substantial economic achievements of south Asian businesses.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the success of Asian businesses and entrepreneurs in the UK at the next Asian Business Awards event.

Our History

Our beginnings may have been humble, but the ambitions of our founder, Mr Ramniklal Solanki CBE, were both noble and audacious.

The audacity of Mr Solanki was to start a Gujarati newspaper with no start up capital, at a time when there were few Indians in the UK and when the technology to produce such a paper did not exist in the country.

His ambition was to publish a Gujarati newspaper to unite and integrate the community and to keep India’s rich cultural heritage and the Gujarati language alive for future generations. Undeterred by the extraordinary challenges he faced, Mr Solanki and his wife Parvatiben launched Garavi Gujarat on 1st April 1968 as a hand written, cyclo-styled newssheet from a terraced house in Wembley, North West London.

Mr Solanki had collected some advance subscriptions to fund his new journalistic enterprise. From those difficult early beginnings when the paper was produced on a Gujarati typewriter, he travelled across Britain, going from town to towny, knocking on doors and selling subscriptions for the paper.

A journalist to the core, his tenacity and thought-provoking columns won him and the paper many plaudits. The paper rapidly gained a loyal following, forging a reputation for fearless, campaigning journalism that was to become its hallmark in later years.

What to some was an April fool’s joke was to become the biggest-selling Gujarati publication outside India and the foundation for Asian Media Group to build a stable of market-leading publications serving the Asian community across the globe.

The rest as they say is history.

Our Brands

At Asian Media Group, we take great pride in our diverse portfolio of magazines, comprising seven unique and captivating brands. Each brand has its own distinct identity and caters to a specific audience, offering a wealth of information, entertainment, and inspiration. Allow us to introduce you to our remarkable range of publications: