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Delhiites these days are headed for Westside, the three storied plaza on Ajmal Khan Road (close to Pusa Road). The retail store offers 7,000 sq. ft. of relaxed shopping space for everything, from apparel and accessories to gifts and household stuff. The prices too range from reasonable to extravagant. Westside is a unit of Trent Ltd. A Tata Company which expects to break even next year with eight stores and 1.2 lakh sq. ft. of retail space. Says Trent’s Simone Tata, the lady who loves to call herself chairman: "Why should you go to Westside when there are retail stores aplenty? Because it’s one –of-a-kind with its own brand of merchandise." Which means what you get in Westside, other than a few odd brands like Lakme (which she sold to HLL before starting Westside), Revlon and Tata-Donnelly books, are all labelled Westside. Plus designer wear like Anita Dongre and Wendell Rodrigues. Also on the cards are the second Delhi store of 20,000 sq. ft. on ring Road, Lajpat Nagar, before Diwali and a food chain early next year. Feeling on top of the world, Mrs. Tata? |
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