Zee Learn Ltd - Stock Valuation and Financial Performance

Zee Learn is one of the leading companies in Education in India with the fastest growing chain of K-12 schools and India’s No 1 chain of pre-schools in its portfolio.

Zee Learn acts as a consultant to local entrepreneurs who wish to setup K-12 schools, under its brand name Mount Litera Zee Schools and provides end to end Education management and Advisory services.  Mount Litera Zee Schools is now the second largest chain of schools in the private-unaided category with 65 schools in 48 cities. Launched in December 2008, 50 schools signed up in one year make Mount Litera Zee School the fastest growing school chain in India.

Zee Learn also runs India's No. 1 chain of pre-schools, Kidzee with more than 700 pre-schools in more than 300 cities. Kidzee is a pioneer in organized and standardized pre-schooling in the country. Kidzee has touched the lives of more than 150,000 children since its inception in 2003. During the current FY 2010-11 Kidzee has seen enrolment of more than 36,000 students.

Enabled by its extensive experience in understanding of education and learning, Zee Learn is extending its services to other schools. Zee Learn School Innovations works with existing schools to improve their student outcomes and efficiency through a School Audit that identifies improvement areas.

Zee Learn has also tied up with Gakken Education Co. with an aim to bring the best of Japanese education in the field of science to schools in India. The Zee Learn Gakken Science Academy intends to improve conceptual understanding and develop scientific temper amongst students by providing hands on experiment tools.

In the wake of the recent increase in disposable incomes in the country and rising awareness of global standards of education amongst parents, there is a demand for international standard pre-schools. To meet this requirement, Zee Learn plans to launch a chain of Premium preschools called Mount Litera World Preschools. These pre-schools would be company owned or joint ventures with progressive individuals or entities.  

In Oct 2012 Zee Learn launched ZeeQ the First Edutainment Channel of India, which caters to the needs of children in India.

Business activity

Zee Learn has been involved in offering its educational services right from toddlers to teens to youth for more than a decade. The product and services of Zee Learn may be grouped in three categories:

School Network- Range of K-12 schools and Pre-schools with Indian and international curricula

• Mount Litera Zee Schools
• Kidzee Preschools
• Mount Litera World School
• Mount Litera World Preschool

School Innovations- Solutions for other existing schools

• Zee Learn Gakken Science Academy
• School Management Services

Youth Vocational Education- Institutes to provide vocational education to Youth (10+2 onwards)

• Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA)
• Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA)

Awards and achievements

• BrainCafe Budding Scientist Contest 2012’Winners
• Zee Learn Wins INDIA's Best Companies to Work for 2012 Award
  
• Zee Learn Wins Bloomberg UTV’s prestigious CXO Award 2011

• Winner of Franchise Plus “Franchisor of the Year” award in 2010
• Winner of Franchising World “Best Franchisor in Education” award in 2009
• Winner of Franchising World “Best Franchisor in Pre-school education” award in 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004  

Zee Learn was honoured by being chosen as the sole India Representative at OMEP World Congress in August 2010. Zee Learn was chosen for its education philosophy and for having the widest footprint in the country. Its academic head - Mrs Nitya Ramaswami, presented a paper and poster on “Universalisation of quality pre-school education” at 2010 august assembly.