Pantaloon
Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, is India’s leading retailer that operates multiple retail
formats in both the value and lifestyle segment of the Indian consumer
market. Headquartered in Mumbai (Bombay), the company operates over 16 million square
feet of retail space, has over 1000 stores across 73 cities in India and employs over 30,000
people.
The company’s leading formats include Pantaloons, a chain of fashion outlets, Big Bazaar, a
uniquely Indian hypermarket chain, Food Bazaar, a supermarket chain, blends the look, touch
and feel of Indian bazaars with aspects of modern retail like choice, convenience and quality
and Central, a chain of seamless destination malls. Some of its other formats include Brand
Factory, Blue Sky, aLL, Top 10 and Star and Sitara.
Future Value Retail Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail (India)
Limited. This entity has been created keeping in mind the growth and the current size of the
company’s value retail business, led by its format divisions, Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar.
The company operates 120 Big Bazaar stores, 170 Food Bazaar stores, among other
formats, in over 70 cities across the country, covering an operational retail space of over 6
million square feet. As a focussed entity driving the growth of the group's value retail
business, Future Value Retail Limited will continue to deliver more value to its customers,
supply partners, stakeholders and communities across the country and shape the growth of
modern retail in India.
A subsidiary company, Home Solutions Retail (India) Limited, operates Home Town, a
large-format home solutions store, Collection i, selling home furniture products and eZone
focussed on catering to the consumer electronics segment.
Pantaloon Retail is the flagship company of Future Group, a business group catering to the
entire Indian consumption space.
Future Group
Future Group, led by its founder and Group CEO, Mr. Kishore Biyani, is one of India’s
leading business houses with multiple businesses spanning across the consumption space.
While retail forms the core business activity of Future Group, group subsidiaries are present
in consumer finance, capital, insurance, leisure and entertainment, brand development, retail
real estate development, retail media and logistics.
Led by its flagship enterprise, Pantaloon Retail, the group operates over 16 million square
feet of retail space in 73 cities and towns and 65 rural locations across India. Headquartered
in Mumbai (Bombay), Pantaloon Retail employs around 30,000 people and is listed on the
Indian stock exchanges. The company follows a multi-format retail strategy that captures
almost the entire consumption basket of Indian customers. In the lifestyle segment, the group
operates Pantaloons, a fashion retail chain and Central, a chain of seamless malls. In the value
segment, its marquee brand, Big Bazaar is a hypermarket format that combines the look,
touch and feel of Indian bazaars with the choice and convenience of modern retail.
The group’s speciality retail formats include supermarket chain - Food Bazaar, sportswear
retailer - Planet Sports, electronics retailer - eZone, home improvement chain -Home Town
and rural retail chain - Aadhaar, among others.
Future Group believes in developing strong insights on Indian consumers and building
businesses based on Indian ideas, as espoused in the group’s core value of ‘Indianness.’ The
group’s corporate credo is, ‘Rewrite rules, Retain values.’
Major Achievements of Pantaloon Retail
Chosen as International Retailer for the Year 2007
Chosen as Emerging Market Retailer of the Year 2007
Best Employers in India (Rank 14th) in the Hewitt Best Employers 2007 survey.
Best Managed Company in India (Mid-cap) for the year 2006.
Won Images Retail Awards 2006 for Best Value Retail Store, Best Retail Destination,
and Best Food & Grocery Store