History of bigbazaar

]Big Bazaar’s journey began in October 2001, when the young, first generation
entrepreneur Kishore Biyani opened the country’s first hypermarket retail outlet in Kolkatta
(then Calcutta). In the same month, two more stores were added – one each in Hyderabad
and Mumbai, thus starting on a successful sojourn which began the chapter of organized
retailing in India.

Though, Big Bazaar was started purely as a fashion format including apparel, cosmetics,
accessory and general merchandise, the first Food Bazaar format was added as Shop-In-
Shop within Big Bazaar in the year 2002. Today, Big Bazaar, with its wide range of
products and service offering, reflects the aspirations of millions of Indians.

The journey of Big Bazaar can be divided into two phases – one pre and the other post
January 26th, 2005, when the company rewrote the retail chapter in India, with the
introduction of a never-before sales campaign “Sasbe Sasta Din”. In just one day, almost
the whole of India descended at various Big Bazaar stores in the country to shop at their
favourite shopping destination.

Further, what followed was the time and again rewriting of the Indian Retail experience,
wherein understanding of the Indian consumers reflected in the products and services
offered, creating innovative deals, expanding in the tier II and tier III towns, tying up with
branded merchandise to offer exclusive products and services to its customers.

Big Bazaar is present today in 59 cities and occupying over 5 million sq.ft. retail space and
driving over 110 million footfalls into its stores. The format is expecting the number of
footfall in the stores to increase by over 140 million by this financial year. Over the years,
Mr. Biyani for his vision and leadership, and Big Bazaar for its unique proposition to its
customers’, have received every prestigious consumer awards both nationally and
internationally.

Future Group is confident of the Indian Retail Story. The Group has not slowed down its
expansion plans despite the fiscal woes in the economy present today. Future Group plans
to have 300 stores and is expecting revenues of Rs 13,000 crore by year 2011.

About Big Bazaar Hyper mart

Chain of development store in India
Out let 104 out lets
Located in India
Parent group Future group
Owner Kishore Biyani (CEO)
Founded 2001
Head quarter Jogeswari , Mumbai

History of reliance mart

Reliance retail ltd has launched its much-awaited hypermarket format (which also
happens to be India’s largest hypermarket) called “Reliance Mart” at Iskon Mall, SG
Highway, Ahemdabad on August 15.

Spread across 165,000 square feet of shopping area, Reliance Mart will provide the
shoppers a never-before-experienced shopping delight. The hypermarket will carry a
range of over 95,000 products catering to the entire family.
Commenting on the launch, Shri. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director,
Reliance Industries Ltd, said: “Organised retail has the potential to trigger socio-
economic transformation on an unprecedented scale in our country and will bring
about enormous spin-off benefits to the Indian economy and its various constituents”.

Reliance Mart offers some unique services to the shoppers like tailoring, shoe repair,
watch repair, a photo shop, gift services and laundry services, all within the store. The
store also houses its own fresh bakery, serving “hot, off-the-oven” bread and bread
products throughout the day and local savouries, an ice-cream train for the kids, a
chakki, ready-made batter and loose tea and pickle for the housewives. Reliance
Mart will also sell fine jewellery and fashion jewellery as part of its lifestyle section.

The hypermarket also launched a host of Reliance’s own brands in select categories
with superior quality and affordable prices like “First Class”, “Network, Netplay,
Team Spirit” and Sparsh in Men’s and Women’s Formal / Casual and Ethnic wear,
“DNM- X” in the jeans category for men and women, “Panda” for kids clothing and “
Grip” in the luggage section. The footwear category will carry “Zig” in formal wear.
“Hi Attitude” for semi -formal, “Tosco” for party wear and “Monza” for the sports
enthusiast. There are many products that will be exclusively available in Reliance
Mart stores only.

Reliance Mart, with 61 check-out counters has for the first time in India introduced
the Mobile POS system for faster check outs. This is aimed at reducing customer wait-
time. The store planning, atmospherics and layout has been designed specifically to
provide “a complete solution” to the customer. . The store has over 400 highly skilled
and trained customer sales representatives. Reliance Mart will continue to offer all its
customers RelianceOne, a common membership and loyalty program across all its
formats, which follows the philosophy of ‘Earn Anywhere, Spend Anywhere’.
 Reliance Mart will also provide easy and attractive finance options, including 0%
financing for your purchases on select products. Reliance Retail plans to have a pan-
India presence by opening over 30 Reliance Mart hypermarkets this year and over 500
by the end of 2010.

HISTORY OF SPENCER’S HYPER

• Established in 1996, Spencer's has become a popular destination for shoppers in India with
hypermarkets and convenient stores catering to various shopping needs of its large consumer
base.

Operations
Spencer's has retail footage of approximately 1 million square feet and over 220 Spencer's stores in 35 cities.
The company operates through the following formats:
• The Spencer's Hyper stores are destination stores, of more than 15,000 sq. ft in size. They offer
everything under one roof. The merchandise ranges from fruits & vegetables, processed foods,
groceries, meat, chicken, fish, bakery, chilled and frozen foods, garments and fashion accessories,
consumer electronics & electrical products, home decor and needs, office stationeries, soft toys.
On an average, a Spencer's hyper stocks 70,000 SKUs across 35,000 items.
• The Spencer's stores are neighborhood stores ranging from 1500 less than 15000 sq. ft. These
stores stock the necessary range and assortment in fruit and vegetables, FMCG food and non-
food, staples and frozen foods and cater to the daily and weekly top-up shopping needs of the
consumer.

According to a release by the company, India's first modern format hypermarket was
opened by Spencer's in Hyderabad in January 2001.

Located over an area of 1,20,000 sq ft, the store has a trading area of 36,000 sq ft.
The Spencer's hypermarkets, located across the country, are open throughout the day,
seven days a week, 365 days a year. Spencer's employs over 9000 employees across
60 cities, with roughly a third of the team being women.

Spencer's commenced operations in India in 1863. 145 years later, the Spencer's name
still evokes special memory of authentic quality at affordable prices.

Currently, RPG's Retail activity comprises Spencer's Retail, RPG Cellucom, Books &
Beyond and MusicWorld. Spencer's currently has a national consumer base of over
48 million people, who walk into the store every year.

The Spencer's Hypermarkets are large in size, usually in excess of 25,000 sq ft, in
multiple localities. These are the city destination stores for monthly groceries, weekly
fresh and top ups, fashion accessories, home care, toys, stationery, electricals,
electronics and garments.

Additionally, they also have a bakery, a deli, meat, chicken, fish, a café, liquor
counters, specialty and international foods, a live kitchen, books, music, a pharmacy
and a whole gamut of gastronomic experiences. People come to these stores for great
value, and the fantastic deals they get. These Hypermarkets are comfortable, clean,
bright and functional, and the range one finds here is extremely wide - almost
everything under the sun is available here.
Spencer's hyper are megastores, which combine a supermarket with a department
store. At least 15,000 sq. ft in size, they stock, on average, 70,000 items, giving
shoppers fantastic deals across food, fashion, home and entertainment … all under one
roof.

Spencer’s hyper are destinations for more than just shopping. Country and theme
festivals, the Spencer’s Chef Corner with master chefs showing you how to prepare
exotic dishes, Modern Menu – our in-store food court, wine or cheese tasting sessions
… there’s always something extra happening at a Spencer’s hyper.

some of mile stones of spencers in retail;

in 2009 Launch of Bangalore’s first hyper store on 35000 sq. ft in upmarket Sarjapur
• Launch of a 12000 sq. ft hyper in Andhra Pradesh’s rich town, Warangal
2010 Launch of the Guntur’s first hyper store on 13000 sq. ft
• Spencer’s becomes the first grocery store in India
1920
• Spencer’s becomes the first supermarket chain under Food World in India
1980
• First hypermarket inaugurated in Musheerabad, Hyderabad