Profile of Pantaloon Retail

Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited is India's leading retailer that operates multiple retail
formats in both the value and lifestyle segment. Pantaloon has ushered a retail revolution
in India and its founder Kishore Biyani is known as India's "King of Retail". Pantaloon's
headquarter is in Mumbai. The company currently operates over 5 million square feet of
retail space and has plans to increase it to 30 million sq. ft by 2011.

Pantaloon's origin can be traced to 1987 when the company was incorporated as Manz
Wear Private Limited. The company launched Pantaloons trouser, India's first formal
trouser brand. In 1992, Pantaloon launched its IPO. In 1994, The Pantaloon Shoppe -
exclusive menswear store in franchisee format was launched across the country.
Pantaloon started distribution of distribution of branded garments through multi-brand
retail outlets across the nation. In 2001, Big Bazaar, India's first hypermarket chain was
launched. In 2002, Food Bazaar, the supermarket chain was launched. In 2006, Future
Capital Holdings, the company's financial arm launched real estate funds, "Kshitij" and
"Horizon" and private equity fund "In division". The company is also planning forays
into insurance and consumer credit.

Pantaloon Retail is the flagship company of Future Group. The lines of business of
Future Group are:

E-commerce: Pantaloon's website Futurebazaar.com has revolutionized the e-commerce

business in India. It offers a wide range of products at affordable prices. It has been
named as Best Indian Website 2007 in the Shopping category by PC World.

Food: In food business, the group offers a host of options. Food Bazaar - a chain of large
supermarkets; Brew Bar - a beer bar; café Bollywood - a national chain of eateries;
Chamosa - a pan-Indian chain of snack counters, and Sports Bar - a bistro focused on the
world of sports.

Fashion: The group offers a variety of options in fashion. Its brands include aLL, Blue
Sky, Central, Etam, Fashion @ BB, Gini & Jony, Navaras, Pantaloons, and Top 10.

Home & Electronics: Options include: Collection i - a lifestyle furniture store;

Electronics Bazaar - offers branded electronic goods and appliances; e-zone - trendiest
electronics items; Furniture Bazaar - entire range of Home Furniture; Home Town - one
stop destination for all the home needs.

Leisure & Entertainment: Options are: Bowling Co. - state-of-the-art premium family
entertainment centre, offering multiple, novel and unique leisure and entertainment
options; F 123 - offers a wide range of gaming options ranging from bowling and pool to
redemption and interactive video games to bumper cars.

Wellness & Beauty: Options are: Health Village - a state-of-the art spa and yoga centre;
Star & Sitara: Beauty salon for men and women; Tulsi - provides access to the best
allopathic, ayurvedic and homeopathic medicinal products; Turmeric - offers beauty
products like colors cosmetics, fragrances, herbal and specialty skin items, hair products
and bath accessories.

Books & Music: Future Group's brand - "Depot" offers Books, CDs, and stationery
items.

Major Achievements of Pantaloon Retail

• Chosen as International Retailer for the Year 2007

• Chosen as Emerging Market Retailer of the Year 2007
• Best Employers in India (Rank 14th) in the Hewitt Best Employers 2007 survey.
• Best Managed Company in India (Mid-cap) for the year 2006.
• Won Images Retail Awards 2006 for Best Value Retail Store, Best Retail
Destination, and Best Food & Grocery Store

Project held at Retail out let Fashion @ Big Bazaar (A future Group Venture)

Topic: Profit & Loss Statement for the financial year 2009-10

Objective: To analyse the overall business CAPEX (capital expenses) & the ROI
(return on investment)

The Financial year of the organization has been structure from July 1st to June
30th of every year. The store sales plan is targeted as per the Annual business plan which
is split into 52 weeks in year. The company’s has only one profit centre that is store but
has various expense centers for example, the store team , zonal team, Head office team
(Which consists of strategic team, Procurement team etc).

We will be going through out the annual P&L Statement of the retail out
for the financial year 2009-10, which contains different heads i.e. Annual sales, net profit,
staff cost, consumption cost, miscellaneous expenses etc.