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.
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