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 71 cities and 65 rural locations across the country. The group currently operates around 1,000 stores spread over 12 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, 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.

The 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.

In 2007, Pantaloon Retail was awarded the International Retailer of the Year by the US-based National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Emerging Market Retailer of the Year at the World Retail Congress held in Barcelona.

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