Contents

• Background and Core Business
• Service provided & its key brands
• Information System and Information Technology
• Three things flow in a supply chain
• Critical factors for a large retailer like Big Bazaar
• Analysis and Conclusion
• List of references
• Annexure

Description

Future Group, led by its founder and Group CEO, Mr. Kishore Biyani, is considered one of India’s leading business houses with multiple businesses spanning across the consumer space. Retail forms the core business activity of Future Group. Its flagship brand is Pantaloon Retail. The group operates over 11 million square feet of retail space in over 63 cities and towns and 65 rural locations across India. Future Group follows a multi-format retail strategy that captures almost entire consumption basket of Indian customers. On one hand in the lifystyle segment, the group operates Pantaloons, a fashion retail chain and Central, a chain of seamless malls, whereas on the other hand, in the value segment, it has Big Bazaar which is a hypermarket format that combines the look, touch and feel of Indian bazaars with the choice and convenience of modern retail.
Big Bazaar would have 100 stores PAN India which entail the fastest ever organic expansion of a hypermarket. The first set of Big Bazaar stores opened in 2001 in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore.