Overview :

Every day, Future Group brings multiple products, opportunities and services to millions of customers in India. Through over 17 million square feet of retail space, we serve customers in 93 cities and 60 rural locations across the country. Most of all, we help India shop, save and realize dreams and aspirations to live a better quality of life every day. Future Group understands the soul of Indian consumers. As one of Indias retail pioneers with multiple retail formats, we connect a diverse and passionate community of Indian buyers, sellers and businesses. The collective impact on business is staggering: Around 300 million customers walk into our stores each year and choose products and services supplied by over 30,000 small, medium and large entrepreneurs and manufacturers from across India. And this number is set to grow. Future Group employs 35,000 people directly from every section of our society. We source our supplies from enterprises across the country, creating fresh employment, impacting livelihoods, empowering local communities and fostering mutual growth. We believe in the Indian dream and have aligned our business practices to our larger objective of being a premier catalyst in Indias consumption-led growth story. Working towards this end, we are ushering positive socio-economic changes in communities to help the Indian dream fly high and the Sone Ki Chidiya soar once again. This approach remains embedded in our ethos even as we rapidly expand our footprints deeper into India.

Businesses :

Key Group Companies : Retail

Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited * Future Value Retail Limited

Finance

Future Generali Life Insurance Company Limited Future Generali (India) Insurance Company Limited Future Capital Holdings Limited * Future Ventures (India) Limited *

Services

Future Supply Chains Limited Future Human Development Limited Future Media (India) Limited Future Corporate Resources Limited At Future Group we are committed to being a catalyst of positive change in the communities, societies and business sectors in which we operate. We envision Indias transformation into the legendary 'Sone Ki Chidiya' (golden bird), taking wings once again to reach greater heights. We take pride in our Indianness. Our belief in inclusiveness for long-term sustainable growth and economic prosperity evokes trust among consumers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders and the community. Mission

We share the vision and belief that our customers and stakeholders shall be served only by creating and executing future scenarios in the consumption space leading to economic development. We will be the trendsetters in evolving delivery formats, creating retail realty, making consumption affordable for all customer segments for classes and for masses. We shall infuse Indian brands with confidence and renewed ambition. We shall be efficient, cost- conscious and committed to quality in whatever we do. We shall ensure that our positive attitude, sincerity, humility and united determination shall be the driving force to make us successful.

Founders
Kishore Biyani Anil Biyani Rakesh Biyani Sunil Biyani Vijay Biyani Group CEO, Future Group Director, Future Group Director, Future Group Director, Future Group Director, Future Group

Retail Business
Future Group makes every effort to delight its customers, tailoring store formats to changing Indian lifestyles and adapting products and services to their desires. We operate some of Indias most popular retail formats. Across value and lifestyle segments, our multi-format retail strategy caters to the complete consumption needs of a wide cross-section of Indian consumers. Connecting the Youth of India As modern retail drives fresh demand and consumption in new categories, our strategy is based on a deep understanding of Indian consumers, the products they want, and making these products available in every city, in every store format. Future Group offers innovative offerings at affordable prices tailored to the needs of every Indian household. Pioneers in the Indias retail space, our formats are household names in more than 93 cities and 60 rural locations across the country Our stores cover around 17 million square feet of retail space and attract around 300 million customers each year Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited focuses on the lifestyle retail segment led by thePantaloons and Central formats Future Value Retail focuses on the value retail segment through the Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar and KBs Fairprice formats

Future Group Advantage

Working with Future Group gives you an opportunity to be part of a family with a unique culture and beliefs. Drawing from the vision of modern Indian retail, we have built a company that our people are proud of and our customers and communities value. The Future group family includes over 35,000 employees from a large cross-section of social and economic strata. We nurture our employees for the long-term, ensuring their passion and commitment leads to outstanding professional growth. Future Group has attained a leadership position in the retail space by promoting an environment of collaboration and meritocracy - an environment that makes challenges enjoyable and rewarding every day. We believe that people give their best when they are satisfied with all aspects of their lives. With an inclusive and richly diverse workforce, we offer a vibrant, energetic and achievement-oriented environment. Our community of the best and brightest professionals works as a collaborative team that is empowered to act in the best interests of customers.

Future Group to buy minority stake in footwear company Tresmode

MUMBAI: The Kishore Biyani-promoted Future Group will increase its presence in the retail business by acquiring a significant minority stake in Mumbai-based footwear retail company Tresmode, soon after exiting its non-core businesses. Future Ventures, the group company which invests in emerging

businesses, is in advanced talks to buy 25% stake in Tresmode, valuing the footwear retailer at 180 crore, said two persons with direct knowledge of the transaction.
19.07.2011

Future Group joins multipartner loyalty program PAYBACK

Largest retail formats will enable consumers to collect PAYBACK points from September 2011 on

The Future Group will introduce PAYBACK as new loyalty program, improving consequently the way millions of Indian customers shop, save and get rewarded. PAYBACK enables consumers to collect points with hundreds of relevant companies offline, online and on the move with just a single card. All Future Group companies are set to join the sophisticated coalition loyalty program. This adds 1,600 new points of sale to the pan-Indian PAYBACK network, doubling its size. "Joining PAYBACK strengthens the key pillars of our businesses: scale, efficiency and customer orientation", says Vibha Rishi, Executive Director Customer Strategy, Future Group. "With PAYBACK, our customers enjoy an even more rewarding shopping experience while we further deepen our understanding of shoppers wishes and buying behavior. Future Group will benefit from PAYBACKs marketing platform with its proven track record in boosting customer loyalty and increasing sales substantially." The largest Future Group retail formats will introduce PAYBACK in September 2011. Launch brands include fashion chain Pantaloon, Big Bazaar hypermarkets, Food Bazaar supermarkets, Central malls, consumer electronics chain eZone and home furnisher Home Town. With the new multi-partner platform, consumers will experience greatly enhanced possibilities to earn points quickly and to convert them into attractive rewards. PAYBACK offers members better deals on their purchases, easy in-store redemption opportunities at all partners and an online shopping platform representing key Indian e-commerce shops. Basic discounts on purchases from Future Group companies earned through PAYBACK range up to 2 percent. Additionally, customers will get a remarkable amount of promotional points and discount coupons. "The Future Groups partnership with PAYBACK underlines the outstanding value our program offers to companies and their customers", says Alexander Rittweger, founder and CEO of the Loyalty Partner Group, PAYBACKs parent. "Adding Indias most popular retail formats vastly increases the relevance of the PAYBACK network to consumers. It also increases PAYBACKs attraction for new partners. We are confident that more category leading companies will join soon." "Our milestone partnership with the Future Group shows the huge potential for multi-partner loyalty programs to act as catalyst for Indias consumer economy", says PAYBACK India CEO Vijay Bobba, "Indias dynamic retail environment creates ideal conditions for PAYBACKs further growth." PAYBACK is the largest multipartner loyalty program in India. The additional Future Group companies will join a

common platform with other pan-Indian category leaders from the banking, retail, travel and online sector such as ICICI Bank, HPCL, Air India, Megamart, Univercell, BookmyShow and MakeMyTrip.