Lifestyle set to join the party

 The six-store chain is aiming to establish fourteen outlets across the country by 2007 and push the turnover from Rs 135 crore to Rs 650 crore in the same period.

 Lifestyle International, the Indian arm of the Dubai-based Landmark group, currently runs stores in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai.

 The group now intends to take their operations to tier B cities such as Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Lucknow.

 Their immediate expansion plans involve another store in Mumbai by October which will be followed by one in Noida and another in west Delhi next year.

 The group which started its operations in Chennai in 1999 with a stand-alone store has adopted the mall model for expansion.