Shopper's Stop Limited - Securities and Exchange Board of India

SECTION I: RISK FACTORS
CERTAIN CONVENTIONS
In this draft Red Herring Prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to one gender
also refers to another gender and the word "Lakh" or "Lac" means "one hundred thousand" and the word
"million" means "ten lac" and the word "Crore" means "ten million". In this draft Red Herring Prospectus,
any discrepancies in any table between total and the sum of the amounts listed are due to rounding-off.
Throughout this draft Red Herring Prospectus, all figures have been expressed in millions, except in the
sections relating to group companies and subsidiaries of this draft Red Herring Prospectus, where the
same has been expressed in thousands.
All references to “India” contained in this draft Red Herring Prospectus are to the Republic of India, all
references to the “US” or the “U.S.” or the “USA”, or the “United States” are to the United States of
America, ” “ Australia” and “Singapore” and all references to “UK” are to the United Kingdom
For additional definitions and abbreviations used in this draft Red Herring Prospectus, see the section
“Definitions and Abbreviations” on page i of this draft Red Herring Prospectus. In the section entitled
“Main Provisions of Articles of Association of Shopper’s Stop Limited”, capitalised terms/ terms used but
not defined shall have the meaning given to such terms in the Articles of Association of the Company.
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