Pantaloon Group
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Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, is India’s leading retail company with presence across food, fashion, home solutions and consumer electronics, books and music, health, wellness and beauty, general merchandise, communication products, E-tailing and leisure and entertainment.
Headquartered in Mumbai (Bombay), has over 100 stores across 30 cities in India and employs over 14,000 people. The company owns and manages multiple retail formats catering to a wide cross-section of the Indian society and its width and depth of merchandise helps it capture almost the entire consumption basket of the Indian consumer.
Founded in 1987, as a garment manufacturing company, Pantaloon Retail forayed into modern retail in 1997 with the opening up of a chain of department stores, Pantaloons. In 2001, it launched Big Bazaar, a hypermarket chain, followed by Food Bazaar, a supermarket chain. It went on to launch Central, a first of its kind, seamless mall located in the heart of major Indian cities. Some of it’s other formats include, Collection I (home improvement products), E-Zone (consumer electronics), Depot (books, music, gifts and stationaries), aLL (fashion apparel for plus-size individuals), Shoe Factory (footwear) and Blue Sky (fashion accessories). It has recently launched its etailing venture, futurebazaar.com.
Some of the group’s subsidiaries include Home Solutions Retail India Ltd, Future Bazaar India Ltd and ConvergeM Retail India Ltd, which leads the group’s foray into home improvement, etailing and communication products, respectively. Other group companies include Pantaloon Industries Ltd, Galaxy Entertainment and Indus League Clothing. It has also entered joint venture agreements with a number of companies including ETAM group, Gini & Jony, Liberty Shoes and Planet Sports, a company that owns the franchisee of international brands like Marks & Spencer, Debenhams and Guess in India.
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[edit] Future Group
Pantaloon Retail is the flagship enterprise of the Future Group, which is positioned to cater to the entire Indian consumption space. The Future Group operates through six verticals: Future Retail (encompassing all retail businesses), Future Capital (financial products and services), Future Brands (management of all brands owned or managed by group companies), Future Space (management of retail real estate), Future Logistics (management of supply chain and distribution) and Future Media (development and management of retail media spaces). The company operates their chain of super markets under the brand names of
- Big Bazaar – Discount stores
- E-ZONE – Consumer Durables
- Food Bazaar – Exclusive food market
- Central - Hypermarket
- Pantaloons – Fashion apparels
[edit] Statistics
- Listed on: Bombay Stock Exchange
- Stock Code: BOM:523574
- Fiscal Year Ending: June
- Major Industry: Retailing and Dept. Store Chains
- Employees :3,500 (Sept, 2006)
- Market Capitalization: INR 39,609,150,020 (Sept, 2006)
- Total Shares Outstanding: 22,405,900 (Sept, 2006)
- Closely Held Shares: 11,365,943
- Sales (2005): INR 10,512,963,000
[edit] Management
- Kishore Biyani Managing Director
- Ved Prakash Arya Director- Operations & Chief Operating Officer
- Gopikishan Biyani Executive Director
- Rakesh Biyani Executive Director
- Shiraj Dej Company Secretary, Chief- Corporate Finance
