Century Business Media IPO

Listed on the exchange

Century Business Media priced its issue at ₹74.00 and began trading on 21 September 2026.

The dates that matter

An Indian IPO runs on a fixed calendar. Bidding stays open for three working days, the allotment is finalised the next working day, and the shares begin trading the day after that.

Issue dates

1. Anchor investor biddingCompleted

   10 September 2026

   One day before the public window, for institutional anchors.

2. Bidding opensCompleted

   11 September 2026

3. Bidding closesCompleted

   16 September 2026

4. Basis of allotmentCompleted

   17 September 2026

5. Refunds initiatedCompleted

   18 September 2026

6. Shares credited to DematCompleted

   18 September 2026

7. Listing on the exchangeCompleted

   21 September 2026

Grey market premium

No premium was quoted for this issue on any of the 12 days we hold a record for. A blank record is not a premium of zero, and it says nothing about demand either way.

About Century Business Media

Century Business Media Ltd. sells outdoor advertising space. The company incorporated in 1999 and entered media advertising in 2011. It operates airport, railway, metro and city formats. It holds exclusive advertising rights at Patna, Ranchi, Deoghar, Darbhanga and Jorhat airports. It also holds non-exclusive rights at Dimapur and Itanagar airports, plus marketing rights at Gaya, Agartala and Silchar airports. In railways, it holds exclusive rights outside station campuses under the East Central Railway zone, covering 714 stations across Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur and Sonepur divisions. It holds Platform Screen Door advertising rights at Howrah and Esplanade metro stations. The company operates in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and the North Eastern states. It serves corporate, government, PSU and agency clients across banking, insurance, education, healthcare, FMCG, jewellery, oil and gas, power, steel, mining and infrastructure. As of July 31, 2026, it employed 58 people. It runs a store-cum-workshop at Sinha Library Road, Patna.

Promoters

• Shashi Kumar Chaudhary
• Seema Chaudhary
• Sangita Dokania
• Shreya Chaudhary

Financial highlights

The last three fiscal years as the offer document states them. Reading across a row shows whether the figure has grown, which is why the years run left to right.

Figures are in ₹ crore and reproduced from the offer document, covering Mar 2024 to Mar 2026. A dash means the document does not state that figure for that period. A fiscal year ending March is labelled by its closing month, and where the document states a figure on a different basis the label here follows the document rather than normalising it.

Key ratios

Valuation and return ratios calculated from the issuer's financials. These are the figures the issue price is usually judged against, and the offer document carries the working behind each one.

Ratios are stated as published. A ratio that is absent here was not stated in the document, and is not the same as a ratio of zero.

What the money is for

Every issue states its objects in the offer document. These are reproduced from it, largest first, so you can see where most of the raise is going.

• Funding Capital Expenditure towards Purchase of Media Assets

  ₹4.21 Cr

• Payment of Security Deposit for advertising rights at Patna Airpor

  ₹3.77 Cr

• To meet Working Capital requirements

  ₹3.25 Cr

• General Corporate Purpose

  ₹2.56 Cr

• Issue Expenses

  ₹1.87 Cr

• Repayment of certain borrowing availed by the Company

  ₹1.45 Cr

Peer comparison

The offer document compares the issuer against listed companies in the same business, on earnings, book value and return on net worth. Century Business Media is the first row.

Reproduced from the peer comparison in the offer document. A dash means the document does not state that figure for that company. It is absent, not zero. Ratios are reported on the basis named in the document, which is not always the same period for every company.

Who gets what share

SEBI fixes how much of a book-built issue each investor category can be allotted. This is the split for this issue as stated in the offer document.

Percentages are reproduced as text from the offer document. A dash means the document does not state an amount for that category. Categories are labelled using the document's own terms, which differ slightly between issues.

Questions people ask

Sources

• National Stock Exchange of India. "Upcoming and current public issues, with live bid quantities." The exchange publishes the bidding figures this page is built from, and is the authority on them. Accessed 15 September 2026.
• BSE. "Public issues — current and forthcoming." The second exchange carrying this issue, and the second source for its bidding data. Accessed 15 September 2026.
• Securities and Exchange Board of India. "Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018." The regulation that sets the issue process, the categories and the allotment rules. Accessed 15 September 2026.
• Century Business Media issue particulars are compiled and published by Ankit Kumar, Founder of DematOpen, refreshed every 30 minutes, and reviewed against the offer document. The record was last updated 4 October 2026. The offer document and the registrar above are the primary sources for anything you intend to act on.