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Amarin Group

Thai company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ20585965
Source-derived summary

Amarin Corporations Public Company Limited, known as Amarin Printing and Publishing until 2023 and branded as Amarin Group, is a Thai media company. It began doing business in 1976 with the Baan Lae Suan home and lifestyle magazine, and grew to become a major publisher of books and glossy magazines, including titles such as Room, Praew, Cheewajit and National Geographic Thailand. It also has operations in book retail through its Naiin bookstore chain, and branched into television with Amarin TV in 2012. The company was listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 1993, but has been experiencing financial difficulties since the 2010s due to the changing media landscape. The Sirivadhanabhakdi family's Vadhanabhakdi Co., Ltd. bought into the company in 2016, and is now the majority shareholder at 60.35%.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Amarin Group” is thai company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Amarin, Group and Thai, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 1976, 2012, 1993—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1976-09-29, 1987—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Amarin, Group and Thai is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “thai company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20585965. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 1976, 2012 and 1993.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Amarin Group”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Amarin Group primary sources, Amarin Group archive and Amarin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Amarin Group”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from Amarin Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.