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2018

  • Future Lifestyle Fashions Limited acquired 29.9% stake in UK based Koovs
  • Future Consumer Limited entered into a joint venture with Fonterra to produce a range of consumer and foodservice dairy products that will help meet the growing demand for high-quality dairy nutrition in India.
  • Future Group acquires Foodworld Business of FSPL, a supermarket chain with presence in Bangalore and Hyderabad
  • Future Retail Ltd. acquired Travel News Services India which holds the license of global retail brand "WH Smith" in India
  • Future Supply Chain Solutions entered into an agreement with Jasper Infotech, which also owns Snapdeal, to buy 100% stake in Vulcan Express Private Limited
  • Big Bazaar organised one of the world's first 24hrs of Facebook Live Shopping Carnival to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Sabse Sasta Din
  • Big Bazaar for the first time ever created a mobile game 'Deal Skyfall – Sabse Saste 5 Din' that has transformed the shopping experience in India
  • Future Consumer Ltd. launches 'Prim', a smart home care brand
  • fbb launched ' Watch Now Buy Now', India's first ever LIVE online fashion event
  • Big Bazaar dropped prices of 1,500 Everyday Items with the 'Har Din Lowest Price' Promise
  • Future Style Labs launched Ancestry, its first contemporary Indian lifestyle brand

2017

  • Future Consumer Limited partnered with the Hain Celestial Group Inc. to bring Better-For-You organic and natural products to the Indian market
  • Central and SBI Card launched a unique co-branded credit card designed for the aspirational urban shopper
  • Future Supply Chain Solutions Limited inaugurated its state-of-the-art Integrated Apparels/General Merchandise Distribution Centre at Burdwan District, West Bengal.
  • Future Supply Chain Solutions Limited comes up with its Initial Public Offering
  • Future Group launched New Retail 3.0, a digital strategy aimed at making the group Asia's largest leading integrated consumer company with a trillion dollars in revenue by 2047

2016

  • Future Consumer Enterprise Limited (FCEL) partnered with Star Bazaar
  • Future Group acquired its first e-commerce home furnishing store Fab Furnish
  • Big Bazaar Direct tied-up with Oxigen Services to sell the wide assortment of the franchisees.
  • Little Foodhall launched in Gurgaon
  • Future Lifestyle Fashions, launched Cover Story, a fast fashion brand led by Future Design Lab
  • Central @ Residency Road, Bangalore was re-designed and launched in High Definition to provide hassle free shopping for the customers
  • Future Group associated with Bajaj Finserv to launch India's first retail EMI card
  • fbb created Guinness World record for the world's largest photobook of 18 feet height and 27 feet width
  • Future Retail Limited approved a proposed consolidation of the retail and allied businesses of Heritage Foods Limited. The retail business of Heritage Foods includes the popular Heritage store chain of 124 stores in the three key southern cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.

2015

  • fbb became style partner of Asia's largest music festival, Sunburn
  • Big Bazaar & Ezone made to the Brand Equity's Top Retailer's List
  • Tasty Treat, Future Group's Food & FMCG brand launched its first mass media campaign with a new tagline 'Yeh Phislee Neeyat'
  • Future Consumer Enterprise Limited (FCEL), signed an equal joint venture deal with the Mibelle Group, Europe's third largest FMCG brand company.
  • Future Group partnered with India's fastest growing ayurvedic company, Patanjali Ayurved.
  • Future Consumer Enterprise Limited joined hands with Govt of Rajasthan to operate their public distribution stores Annapurna Bhandar.
  • The Miss Universe from Columbia, Paulina Vega launched Jealous 21's limited edition Miss Universe Collection at Taj Land's End in Mumbai
  • First Big Bazaar GEN NXT store designed for smart and easy shopping experience opened in Infinity Mall, Malad, Mumbai
  • Big Bazaar announced an exclusive tie-up with a leading mobile wallet company, MobiKwik
  • The UK based Plymouth City College awarded Future Sharp with a title of 'The Best International Business Partner'
  • Giovani, Indus League's suits & jackets brand signs Fawad Khan as it's brand ambassador
  • T24, Future Group's unique telecom service and loyalty program and of India's first unpaid GSM mobile service completed 5 eventful years
  • Future Group's niche plus-size clothing brand, aLL celebrated 10 years journey of serving customers
  • The most affordable fashion destination, fbb signed youth style icons Katrina Kaif and Varun Dhawan as its brand ambassadors
  • Bharti Retail joins hands with Future Retail
  • Future Supply Chains Solutions Ltd launched its cold storage warehouse facility at Mehsana, Gujarat
  • Future Group forays into M-Commerce with the T24 Mobile App
  • Big Bazaar redefines weekends with the launch of a never-seen-before campaign, 'Crazy Weekend'.
  • Future Group launched the new age convenience store format, KB's Conveniently Yours.

2014

  • Future Group partnered with the Fortune 500 company and one of the largest online shopping destination, Amazon
  • Future Consumer Enterprises Limited acquired one of the India's oldest supermarket chains in India with origins dating back to 1905 ,Nilgiris.
  • Future Supply Chain acquired New Delhi based processed-foods supply chain company, Brattle Foods
  • Future Group partnered with world's leading customer science company, dunnhumby for data analytics services
  • Future Group announced its strategic tie-up with SAP company hybris, that delivers OmniCommerce™: state-of-the-art master data management for commerce and unified commerce processes to its clients.
  • India's First Mega Food Park was inaugurated by India's Honourable PM Shri Narendra Modi at Tumkur Karnataka
  • Central completed its 10 glorious years of serving customers
  • HomeTown underwent a complete makeover with a new tagline, 'The Art of Better Living', logo and in-store branding.
  • Future Group's premium food destination Foodhall launched in Saket, New Delhi.
  • Big Bazaar and Ezone were voted as one of the Top 50 Most Trusted Brands in the country in the Brand Equity Survey 2013 conducted by Nielson. The survey also revealed that Big Bazaar is the 4th Most Trusted Service Brand of the country
  • fbb ties up with India's largest Beauty Pageant Femina Miss India 2014
  • A New Generation Big Bazaar, Big Bazaar Family Centre was launched at Alcove in Kolkata on January 6, 2014

2013

  • Foodhall, the premium lifestyle food destination launched in Pune.
  • Our fashion brand Central opens its new store in Center Square Mall, Kochi.
  • First batch of Future India Fellowship program started with 5 selected fellows across the country. The fellowship aims to create thought leaders of tomorrow.
  • Future Group successfully introduced 'Big Bazaar Direct' an assisted shopping concept where franchises will sell Big Bazaar products through a catalogue on a 'tablet'.
  • Future Group introduced brand new fashion format 'I am In' for trendy youth of the country.
  • Big Bazaar introduced an exciting occasion for shopping 'April Utsav'.
  • Future Group officially launched India's largest State of the Art Logistical Distribution Hub at Nagpur.
  • Big Bazaar introduced a unique customer membership program 'Big Bazaar Profit Club.'
  • Foodhall, the premium lifestyle food destination launched in New Delhi.
  • Future Sharp, the Future Group arm that trains and develops the skills of youth opened its new skill centre in Nashik.

2012

  • On 1st May 2012, the company introduced a new retail initiative – Public Holiday Sale
  • Foodhall the premium lifestyle food destination launched its second store in Bengaluru on 4th May 2012
  • Big Bazaar redefined the concept of customer service with the launch of the Rajajinagar Family Centre in Bengaluru with its unique Seva initiative on 24th February 2012
  • Future Sharp Skills Ltd. launched its first skill centre in Kolkata with a vision to train and provide sustainable livelihood to five lakh youth of West Bengal by 2022
  • Pantaloons became the first retailer to introduce a reality hunt as it set out on a countrywide search for their next Fresh Face
  • Pantaloons launched its first store in Ludhiana, Visakhapatnam, Bilaspur
  • Future Group started Aadhaar Franchise
  • Future Supply Chains Express Logistics business became the fastest profitable Express Business in India
  • Keeping pace with the ongoing trends Fashion@ Big Bazaar decided to reposition itself as fbb
  • Pantaloons joined hands with PAYBACK . Being India's largest and one of the strongest loyalty programs in Europe, PAYBACK offers were made available to all Pantaloons customers
  • Big Bazaar launched its home delivery services in Mumbai

2011

  • April 2011 – KB's Fairprice celebrates opening its 200 stores in India
  • May 2011 – Future Supply Chains becomes ISO certified

2010

  • Future Group launches its telecom brand T24 in partnership with Tata Teleservices to provide additional loyalty benefits to its customers.
  • Future Group launches products in key FMCG categories through Sach, a brand co-created with Sachin Tendulkar.
  • Future Group connects over 4000 small and medium Indian manufacturers and entrepreneurs with consumers.

2009

  • Future Group celebrates its first Shopping Festival across all retail formats in key Indian cities.
  • Future Innoversity starts its campuses in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Kolkata to offer degree programs through a tie-up with IGNOU.
  • Future Group partners with Hong Kong-based Li & Fung Group to strengthen its supply chain and logistics network across the country.

2008

  • Future Capital Holdings becomes the second group company to make a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the Indian capital market.
  • Total operational retail space crosses the 10 million square feet mark.
  • Future Group acquires rural retail chain Aadhar from the Godrej Group, which has a presence in 65 rural locations.
  • 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.
  • Future Group crosses the $1 billion turnover mark.
  • Specialized companies in retail media, logistics, IPR and brand development and retail-led technology services become operational.
  • Online portal Futurebazaar.com becomes India's most popular shopping portal.

2006

  • Future Capital Holdings, the group's financial arm, is formed to manage over $1.5 billion in real estate, private equity and retail infrastructure funds.
  • Future Group enters into joint venture agreements to launch insurance products with Italian insurance major Generali.
  • Future Group forms joint ventures with US office stationery retailer Staples.
  • Home Town, the home building and improvement products retail chain, is launched along with consumer durables format Ezone and furniture chain Furniture Bazaar.

2005

  • Future Group moves beyond retail and acquires a stake in Galaxy Entertainment, Indus League Clothing and Planet Retail.
  • Future Group sets up Kshitij, India's first real estate investment fund, to build a chain of shopping malls.

2004

  • Future Group launches India's first seamless mall, Central, in Bangalore.

2002

  • Food Bazaar, the supermarket chain is launched.

2001

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

1997

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

1995

  • Future Group launches John Miller, a brand for Formal shirts.

1994

  • The Pantaloon Shoppe, Future Group's 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

  • Initial Public Offer (IPO) of shares by the Company

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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