Naidu Hall Naihaa on expansion spree, to set up 75 stores

Chennai, Sep 14 (UNI) 'Naidu Hall Naihaa,' a city-based multi-brand garment retailer, is on agressive expansion with plans to set up 75 stores by 2010.

Talking to newspersons here today, Naihaa Managing Director R Aravind said it was planning as many as eight big format (12,000 sq ft) and four small format (5,000 sq ft) stores in Andhra Pradesh.

Naihaa will have presence in Visakhapatnam, Vijaywada,Rajahmundry, Kakinada, and Hyderabad with the first store in Andhra Pradesh coming up in Visakhapatnam in April 2008.

It would also foray into Karnataka by opening ten stores in Bangalore, Mangalore and other parts of the state while keeping its options open on Kerala.

Naihaa, which already had eight outlets in Tamil Nadu, would open three more in Chennai and one in Trichirapalli by the end of March 2008 ''We are planning to have about 15 to 20 outlets at the end of 2008-09 fiscal,'' he added.

Mr Aravind said Naihaa would also open new shops like 'Naihaa Lotz' for factory outlet sales and 'Bloopink' which was a new retail brand for just borns.

''We are planning to have 15 to 20 'Bloopink ' shops by the end of March 2009,'' he added.

He also said they planned to open an exclusive showroom for pet food and accessories.

UNI