Future Group India

Future Group India was established in 1994 with a vision to provide diverse services in
Indian and Global markets. The business areas of Future Group cover BPO (Business
Process Outsourcing), New Media, Security Management, and Construction. Through
their strategic investment and services, the future of Future Group shows a rising star in
the business sky of India.

Future Group India was established in 1994 with a vision to provide diverse services in
Indian and Global markets. The business areas of Future Group cover BPO (Business
Process Outsourcing), New Media, Security Management, and Construction. Through
their strategic investment and services, the future of Future Group shows a rising star in
the business sky of India.

FUTURE RETAIL:
The retails businesses of Future Group in India are divided into three main categories:
Pantaloon Retail India Limited
The leading retail formats under this include:

• Pantaloons Stores
• Big Bazaar
• Central
• Food Bazaar
• Home Town
• E Zone
• Depot
• Health & Beauty Malls
• Online retail through futurebazaar.com

Joint Ventures with International Brands

• Indus League Clothing that owns leading apparel brands like Indigo Nation,
Scullers and Urban Yoga
• Galaxy Entertainment Limited that operates Bowling Co, Sports Bar, F123 and
Brew Bar
• French retailer ETAM group, US-based stationary products retailer, Staples and
UK-based Lee Cooper.
• Franchisee of international brands like Marks & Spencer, Next, Debenhams and
Guess in India
Indian Joint Venture Partners

• Manipal Healthcare
• Talwalkar's
• Blue Foods
• Liberty Shoes.

FUTURE CAPITAL HOLDINGS

The financial services of Future Group are taken care by Future Capital Holdings. These
include:

• Asset Management and consumer credit are the prime focus financial services.
Around 1 billion USD have been invested in retail real estate and consumer
brands outlets and hotels.
• Future Money - It is a financial supermarket format providing consumer credit
• Joint venture with Italian insurance major Genaral Insurance for providing
general insurance services.
• Venture Capital Funds and Private Equity Funds through kshitijfund.com

BPO (BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING)

Future Group has made major investments in BPO industry as a venture into the
Information Technology Enabled services (ITES) industry. Future Group has subsidiaries
offering IT based solutions. These include:

• Language Services
• Software Development
• Content Engineering

NEW MEDIA

Future Group has invested in digital media and computer technology for creating
innovative and interactive multimedia presentations. These include:

• Multimedia Production
• Broadcasting
• Publishing
• Designing
SECURITY MANAGEMENT

Future Group is considered as a reliable tailor-made business and security services

provider. They develop their own software and machines for security services. These
include:

• Access Control Systems

• Time Attendance Systems
• CCTV
• Alarm Management Systems

CONSTRUCTION

Future Group bring to you're their past experience in quality construction for building and
renovating buildings for leasing to business. Future Group is also involved in the
designing, financing and legal considerations of the project undertaken. The construction
activities of Future Group in India include:

• Leasing
• Landscaping

The latest business activity of Future Group is an investment of Rs. 140 crores in the next
three years in cricket-related marketing. The CEO of Future Group Mr. Kishore Biyani
has planned out association with cricket and to encash the popularity of cricket in India
and globally. Future Group has also organized one-day international cricket series
between India and Australia called "The Future Cup".
 Corporate Profile
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 - www.futurebazaar.com.

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.’
 Leadership
The Future Group employs over 30,000 people and was counted among 15 best
employers in India in a survey conducted by Hewitt Associates in 2007 in association
with The Economic Times.

The Group has developed a strong senior management team with cross-functional
expertise in multiple businesses and is led by its Founder and Group CEO, Kishore
Biyani.

Kishore Biyani founded Pantaloons in 1997, followed by a number of popular retail

formats including Big Bazaar, Central, Food Bazaar, Brand Factory and Home Town,
that now cater to almost the entire consumption basket of a wide cross-section of Indian
consumers.

In the recent years, Kishore Biyani has led the group’s transformation into one of India’s
leading business houses with presence in capital, consumer finance, insurance, brand
development, retail real estate development and logistics.

A staunch believer in the group’s corporate credo, ‘Rewrite Rules, Retain Values,’
Kishore Biyani considers Indianness as the core value driving the group. He was recently
awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 in the Services Sector and the
Lakshmipat Singhania - IIM Lucknow Young Business Leader Award by Prime Minister,
Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2006. He was also awarded the CNBC First Generation
Entrepreneur of the Year 2006.

Kishore Biyani was born in August 1961 and is married to Sangita and they have two
daughters. He recently authored a book, ‘It Happened In India’ that captures his
entrepreneurial journey and the growth of modern retailing in India.