Critical Success Factors of Pantaloon Retail:

 From external point of view, organized retail sector has been growing at a
high pace which is currently at 3% and would grow up to 20% in next three
years.
 PRIL has diversified business strategy with multiple retail formats catering
to a wide cross-section of the Indian society having great depth and width.
 Had a most expensive spread in terms of presence across the different
formats and/or channels.
 The disposable income of main target customers of PRIL is increasing at a
fast pace.
 Pantaloon operates both in value retailing industry and lifestyle retailing
industry by focusing its resources and energies in expanding its chain of
retail stores.
 It has strengths like strong distribution network, B2B model similar to that
of Wal-Mart’s.
 As Indian customers are price sensitive, PRIN starts providing goods at low
price by reducing their cost in efficient utilization of supply chain
management and reducing number of distributers.
 Pantaloon is integrated backwards in the apparel business, with its group
company, Pantaloon Industries which enables it to have some control over
the cost and quality of its apparel.