Future Group has plans to launch "Big Bazaar Supercentres", which will provide postal services, health and beauty zones and entertainment sections to the existing services.The group would launch 6 such centres in the next 2 months at an investment of Rs 96 crore."We will come up with six Big Bazaar Supercentres by end of May-June. Each Supercentre involves an investment of Rs 15-16 crore," Rajan Malhotra, chief executive officer, Big Bazaar, told PTI. "We will add a lot more categories to the Supercentres like postal services and health and beauty zones," he said.Supercentres would come up in Hyderabad, Baroda, Surat, Nagpur and two in Bangalore. On the Big Bazaar front, the company is targeting to enter the tier-II and tier-III cities in a big way. It plans to take the number of Big Bazaars from the current 50 to 300 by 2010."By 2010, we would open 300 Big Bazaars across the country. We are doing a lot of experimentation and are in talks to add a lot more categories like opticals and food courts to Big Bazaars," he said. The company has already signed 160 properties for Big Bazaars on lease, he said.
