Milestones

2009

  • Pantaloon Retail celebrates its first Shopping Festival across all retail formats in key Indian cities.

2008

  • Big Bazaar crosses the 100-store mark, marking one of the fastest expansions of the hypermarket format anywhere in the world.

2007

  • Pantaloon Retail wins the International Retailer of the Year award at US-based National Retail Federation convention in New York, and Emerging Retailer of the Year award at the World Retail Congress held in Barcelona.

2006

  • Home Town, the home building and improvement products retail chain, is launched along with consumer durables format Ezone and furniture chain Furniture Bazaar.

2004

  • Pantaloon Retail launches India’s first seamless mall, Central, in Bangalore.

2002

  • Food Bazaar, the supermarket chain is launched.

2001

  • Pantaloon Retail launches three Big Bazaar stores within a span of 22 days in Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

1997

  • Pantaloon Retail enters modern retail with the launch of the first 8000-sq. ft. store Pantaloons in Kolkata.

1994

  • The Pantaloon Shoppe, our exclusive menswear store in a franchisee format is launched across the nation. The company starts distribution of branded garments through multi-brand retail outlets across the nation.

1992

  • Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. makes an Initial public offer (IPO).

1991

  • BARE, an Indian denim brand is launched.

1987

  • The company is incorporated under the name of Manz Wear Private Ltd.
  • Pantaloons, one of India’s first formal trouser brands, is launched.