Kishore Biyani:life and works

Presented by group no:

Praful bafna
Hitesh Patel
Rahul s verma
Samiksha harane
Vikash kanodia
Ashutosh pratap singh
Surya
pankaj
“Rewrite the rules but retain
the values”

Chase your Dreams but don’t

Compromise on your Belief System
Kishore biyani is a shy aggrsessor , a
visionary operator and a non-confrontational
warrior.
 Birth and education
 KB was born 9th august 1961he . He was the second son of
shri laxmi narayan biyani and Smt godavari biyani in
Mumbai.
 He grew up with 12 cousins and
siblings and went to manav
mandir high school.
 He did his graduation from HR
college in mumbai
 Childhood and Teenage years

 As a child he was average in studies. He loved

playing cricket and watching movies.
 He was always a rebel in his family questioning
every social and religious norm.
 At college he rarely attended classes.
 He never enjoyed working in his family
business.
 First entrepreneurial venture.

 He organized a  KB started his

successful dandia night
in his locality. This is
were he showed his first
sparkle of
entrepreneurial talent.
entrepreneurial career
by selling stone wash
fabric. He managed to
sell lakhs of worth of
fabric. This is were he
made his first profit.
 Rise of maverick
 He first launched brand of fabric named wbb
(white, blue and brown).The brand enjoyed a
short success.
 He then launched patloon a retail venture
dealing in men’s wear.
 He then eshtablished a small fancy-yarn
plant by the name of dhruv synthetic in
partenership of sushil sain,krishna
jhujunwala each contributing 3 lakhs.
The journey continues

 At the same time took the distributorship of

denims made by arvind mills.
 Menz wears private limited was incorporated in
1987.its name was later changed to pantaloon.
 First franchise of pantaloon opened in goa in
1991 by the name of pantaloon shoppe. At its
height there were 72 franchises across countries.
 Pantaloon went public in 1992 to raise 225 lakhs.
 The new beginning
KB’s foray into retail:
 First pantaloon retail outlet opened in garihat
kolkata in 1997. It stocked apparel for men and
women, stationery ,sports goods, gifts toys and
household items.
 Although kB wasn’t the pioneer in organized
retail but his vision ,creativity and
entrepreneurial talent steered him through his
competitors.
An adventure called big bazaar

 First big bazaar opened in vip road

kolkata .
 Sravanas in chennai was the
inspiration behind big bazaar..
 Why big bazaar are big
 Big bazaars reflect the look and feel of indian
bazaar so that no customer gets intimidated by
the surrounding.
 Big bazaar are consciously designed to look
crowded.
 Each big bazaar is different keeping in mind the
test of indian customers.
 All the future group retail outlets are
mechendise driven rather than being operation
driven.
 Expenditure on advertisement and brand
building.
 FUTURE GROUP BUSINESS
BRANDS KEY FORMAT NO.OF OUTLETS
Big bazaar Hyper market chain 97
Pantaloons Fashion store 45
Food bazaar supermarket 136
Kb’s fair price Food category 102
Future money Consumer finance 150
Electronic bazaar electronics 90
Furniture bazaar furniture 85
Planet sports Sports accesorries 54
depot Books n music 112
Lee cooper Fashion for young 31
Shoe factory footware 17
BOLLYWOODS DREAMS.
Core values of future group
 We like simplicity in our ideas.
 We like to learn while we execute.
 We believe customers are always right.
 We take pride in our value of indianess.
 We build and nurture relationship.
 We believe in ourself.
 We love to rewrite rules ,even as we retain
values.
 k.b’s business funda.
 If you want yourself to be heard you have to
shout.

 Business is simple not a rocket science

 Branding is most important in retail business

 FUNDA CONTINUES….
 A salesman should never look smarter than customer.
 Create lowest price preposition in customers mind.

“CHANNE KE BHAAV KAJU”

“STALL KE BHAAV BALCONY”

 Business should be customer driven against product

driven.
REWARDS AND RECOGNITION
 International retailer of the year
 Coca cola golden spoon awards in 2008
 Ernst and young entrepreneur of the year
 World retail congress awards in year 2007
 Hewitt best employee awards in year 2006
 Cnbc indian business leader awards
 Retail Asia pacific top 500 awards

And list goes on and on and on………..

KISHORE BIYANI’S PHILOSOPHY
ON LEADERSHIP

•Leadership is not about delegation, its

about abdication

• K.B believes in open door policy.

 KISHORE BIYANI’S PHILOSOPHY
ON ORGANISATION

Every organisation Needs a :

Brahma a creator
Vishnu the protector
Shiva the destroyer

•K.B does not fear people making mistakes.He fears

the absence of creative constructive and
entrepreneurial energy in people.
IT HAPPENED IN INDIA.
 Kb’s autobiography
 Story of big bazaar
pantaloons and
great indian
consumer
 One of the best
selling
management book
Happy shopping