Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited is India's leading retailer that operates multiple retail formats in both the value

and
lifestyle segment. Pantaloon has ushered a retail revolution in India and its founder Kishore Biyani is known as India's
"King of Retail". Pantaloon's headquarter is in Mumbai. The company currently operates over 5 million square feet of
retail space and has plans to increase it to 30 million sq. ft by 2011. Pantaloon has plans to open over 3000 new
stores by 2010.

Pantaloon's origin can be traced to 1987 when the company was incorporated as Manz Wear Private Limited. The
company launched Pantaloons trouser, India's first formal trouser brand. In 1992, Pantaloon launched its IPO. In
1994, The Pantaloon Shoppe - exclusive menswear store in franchisee format was launched across the country.
Pantaloon started distribution of distribution of branded garments through multi-brand retail outlets across the nation.
In 2001, Big Bazaar, India's first hypermarket chain was launched. In 2002, Food Bazaar, the supermarket chain was
launched. In 2006, Future Capital Holdings, the company's financial arm launched real estate funds, "Kshitij" and
"Horizon" and private equity fund "Indivision". The company is also planning forays into insurance and consumer
credit.

Pantaloon Retail is the flagship company of Future Group. The lines of business of Future Group are:

E-commerce: Pantaloon's website Futurebazaar.com has revolutionized the e-commerce business in India. It offers
a wide range of products at affordable prices. It has been named as Best Indian Website 2007 in the Shopping
category by PC World.

Food: In food business, the group offers a host of options. Food Bazaar - a chain of large supermarkets; Brew Bar - a
beer bar; café Bollywood - a national chain of eateries; Chamosa - a pan-Indian chain of snack counters, and Sports
Bar - a bistro focused on the world of sports.

Fashion: The group offers a variety of options in fashion. Its brands include aLL, Blue Sky, Central, Etam, Fashion
Station, Gini & Jony, Navaras, Pantaloons, and Top 10.

Home & Electronics: Options include: Collection i - a lifestyle furniture store; Electronics Bazaar - offers branded
electronic goods and appliances; e-zone - trendiest electronics items; Furniture Bazaar - entire range of Home
Furniture; Home Town - one stop destination for all the home needs.

Leisure & Entertainment: Options are: Bowling Co. - state-of-the-art premium family entertainment centre, offering
multiple, novel and unique leisure and entertainment options; F 123 - offers a wide range of gaming options ranging
from bowling and pool to redemption and interactive video games to bumper cars.

Wellness & Beauty: Options are: Health Village - a state-of-the art spa and yoga centre; Star & Sitara: Beauty salon
for men and women; Tulsi - provides access to the best allopathic, ayurvedic and homeopathic medicinal products;
Turmeric - offers beauty products like colour cosmetics, fragrances, herbal and specialty skin items, hair products and
bath accessories.

Books & Music: Future Group's brand - "Depot" offers Books, CDs, and stationery items.

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.
Note: The above information was last updated on 21-07-2007

Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, is a large Indian retailer, which is part of the Future Group,
and operates multiple retail formats in both the value and lifestyle segment of the Indian
consumer market. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has over 1,000 stores across 71 cities
in India and employs over 30,000 people [1], and as of 2010, it was the country's largest listed
retailer by market capitalization and revenue [2].

With effect from 1 January 2010 the company separated its discount store business, which
includes the Big Bazaar hypermarket and the Food Bazaar supermarket businesses, into Future
Value Retail Ltd., its wholly-owned subsidiary, so that the company may be listed independently
[2][3]
.

The company’s brands include Pantaloons, a chain of fashion outlets, Big Bazaar, a hypermarket
chain and Food Bazaar, a supermarket chain. Some of the company's other regional brands
include, Depot, Shoe Factory, Brand Factory, Blue Sky, aLL, Top 10 and Star and Sitara.

A subsidiary company, Home Solutions Retail (India) Limited, operates Home Town, a large-
format home solutions store, Collection i, selling home furniture products and E-Zone focussed
on catering to the consumer electronics segment.

India : Pantaloon Retail goes for major organizational reshuffle

March 14, 2007

Pantaloon Retail has made major changes in its organisational structure, by creating
five verticals — retail, incubation and innovation, products, JV and partnerships and
zonal strategy.

Pantaloon Retail Director Rakesh Biyani will be retail CEO. Under this vertical, its
hypermarket chain Big Bazaar, mall business Central, food retail Food Bazaar and Pantaloon chain will
operate.

Rajan Malhotra, category head, Big Bazaar, will take over as CEO. South zone head Vishnu Prasad will be
CEO of Central. Sadashiv Nayak, head, western zone, will be CEO of Food Bazaar. Sanjeev Aggarwal,
President, Marketing of Pantaloon Retail will be CEO of Pantaloon chain.

Second vertical of incubations and innovation will have Damodar Mall as CEO. Different business lines
including fashion, food, general merchandise and home will operate, under third vertical.

Kailash Bhatia will now head fashion business of Pantaloon. Arvind Chaudhary will be CEO of Foods
business.
General merchandise CEO will be appointed by the company once home business becomes a mature
business, Pantaloon Retail head Sanjay Jog informed.

"We have businesses which are both matured and in incubation stages. Now we have reached a stage
where we can leverage on products and businesses within the group. These factors necessitated change
in the organisation," Jog said.

Zonal structures have also undergone major changes. All zones will be vertically aligned to vertical heads.

"A zonal head will be responsible for our entire operations including projects, properties, supply chain,
HR, IT and others in the zone," Jog said.

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