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Future Group is one of India's leading business groups operating in multiple industries across the consumption space. It operates over 16 million square feet of retail space through various store formats serving customers in 73 cities and towns and 65 rural locations. Led by its founder Kishore Biyani, Future Group's flagship retail arm Pantaloon Retail employs 30,000 people and operates chains like Big Bazaar, Central, and Pantaloons. The group also has businesses in financial services, insurance, leisure, and other sectors.

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Future Group

Future Group is one of India's leading business groups operating in multiple industries across the consumption space. It operates over 16 million square feet of retail space through various store formats serving customers in 73 cities and towns and 65 rural locations. Led by its founder Kishore Biyani, Future Group's flagship retail arm Pantaloon Retail employs 30,000 people and operates chains like Big Bazaar, Central, and Pantaloons. The group also has businesses in financial services, insurance, leisure, and other sectors.

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FUTURE GROUP

UDNA HAI AAJ BHI

About 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.

In 2008, Big Bazaar opened its 100th store, marking the fastest ever organic expansion of a
hypermarket. The first set of Big Bazaar stores opened in 2001 in Kolkata, Hyderabad and
Bangalore.

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. It also operates popular shopping portal –

Future Capital Holdings, the group’s financial arm provides investment advisory to assets worth
over $1 Billion that are being invested in consumer brands and companies, real estate, hotels and
logistics. It also operates a consumer finance arm with branches in 150 locations.

Other group companies include, Future Generali, the group’s insurance venture in partnership
with Italy’s Generali Group, Future Brands, a brand development and IPR company, Future
Logistics, providing logistics and distribution solutions to group companies and business partners
and Future Media, a retail media initiative.

The group’s presence in Leisure & Entertainment segment is led through, Mumbai-based listed
company Galaxy Entertainment Limited. Galaxy leading leisure chains, Sports Bar and Bowling
Co. and family entertainment centres, F123. Through its partner company, Blue Foods the group
operates around 100 restaurants and food courts through brands like Bombay Blues, Spaghetti
Kitchen, Noodle Bar, The Spoon, Copper Chimney and Gelato.
Future Group’s joint venture partners include, US-based stationery products retailer, Staples and
Middle East-based Axiom Communications.

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.

Future Retail

Retail forms the core business activity at Future Group and most of its businesses in the
consumption space are built around retail. Future Group’s retail network touches the lives of
more than 200 million Indians in 73 cities and 65 rural locations across the country. The group
currently operates around 1,000 stores spread over 16 million square feet of retail space.
Present in the value and lifestyle segments, the group’s retail formats cater to almost the entire
consumption expenditure of a wide cross-section of Indian consumers.

Led by Pantaloon Retail, the group’s flagship company, the group manages some of India’s most
popular retail chains like Pantaloons - a chain of fashion destinations, Big Bazaar - a uniquely
Indian hypermarket chain,Food Bazaar - a supermarket chain that 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 Ethnicity - India's first concept store, which recreates the experience of a traditional
ethnic market in a modern retail format, Brand Factory, Planet Sports, aLL, Top 10 and Star
and Sitara. The group also operates India’s most popular online shopping
portal www.futurebazaar.com.

Retailing of products and services related to home building and home improvement is led
through the group’s formats, Home Town, a large-format home solutions store, along with
specialized formats for home furniture and home furnishing through, Collection i and Furniture
Bazaar and consumer electronics through eZone and Electronics Bazaar.
he group also operates India’s leading rural retailing chain, Aadhaar that is present in over 65
locations in rural India. Aadhaar, an agri-service cum rural retail initiative, provides a complete
solution provider for the Indian farmer. 

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