The Lithuanian and Baltic leader of clothing retail APRANGA Group will launch 9 stores, covering an area of 5.7 thousand sq. m in the shopping centre Akropolis in Kaunas on April 10. They will include the first s.Oliver store in Lithuania, the first Zara, Bershka, Pull and Bear, Mexx stores in Kaunas. In addition, this shopping centre will have a store for the entire family Apranga, an Aprangos Galerija for young people, a business-segment store City Men&Women and Mango (the latter was moved from Laisvės Ave). “The shopping and entertainment centre Akropolis to be inaugurated in Kaunas has raised the level for all Lithuanian shopping centres rather high in terms of both the choice of location, the interior and the variety and class of brand names that are concentrated there,” says Rimantas Perveneckas, the General Director of APRANGA Group. With the opening of 9 stores in Kaunas, APRANGA Group will expand its chain of stores in Kaunas almost two times - up to 16. The rearrangements of APRANGA Group stores on Laisvės Ave. are also due to the opening of Akropolis. On April 5, the store Mados Linija, which introduced the worldwide famous luxurious brand names like D&G, GF Ferre, Armani Jeans, Just Cavalli, Versace Jeans, 7 for all man kind, Dirk Bikkenbergs, was launched on Laisvės Ave. At the end of April, a new store City Woman will be opened on Laisvės Ave. too. Last autumn, a store for men and women Hugo Boss was launched on Laisvės Ave., which means that after the reconstructions Laisvės Avenue will become an attractive zone of luxury stores. APRANGA Group operates a chain of 75 stores in the Baltic States: 54 in Lithuania, 18 in Latvia, 3 in Estonia. This year APRANGA Group has already launched 14 new stores. In 1Q 2007, APRANGA Group's turnover amounted to LTL 91.8 million (EUR 26.6 million) and was 58.6 % larger as compared to the same period in 2006 (LTL 57.9 million or EUR 16.8 million). The turnover of the APRANGA Group retail chain exceeded the expected volumes by almost as much as LTL 10 million (EUR 2.9 million). The company is owned by the MG Baltic concern.