How would you compare the Indian lifestyle and apparel market vis-a-vis the global market?
I don’t know if I could compare India with the global markets, but when you walk on the Indian “Our products appeal to our Indian customers as much as they do to our French customers”high streets and shopping centres, the ambience is quite similar to the global cities. Our products appeal to our Indian customers as much as they do to our French customers. Whatever merchandise you see in our stores worldwide, you can see them in India, too. Even the store layouts are similar. What are your plans for the Indian market? We want to make it big here. While we already have made our entire apparel line available here and have recently launched shoes, we also plan to introduce leather accessories, watches and perfumes this year. We have a manufacturing unit in Noida near Delhi for our apparel line. We plan to set up one more unit to cater to apparels. We also plan to set up 13 more stores across the country, which would be a mix of Lacoste boutiques and flagship stores. Do you have any differe
