chennai it is the most unlikely business marriage between technology and beauty cadd centre which runs a large network of training centres to train people on cad design has taken a strategic control over the operations of naturals said to be indias largest beauty wellness chain owned by groom india salon spathe daytoday operations of around 270 naturals outlets in tamil nadu and kerala have come under the control of cadd centre from sunday october 1 soon such outlets in rest of south india too will come under cadd control even as the management of groom india focuses on expanding its footprint to other states in its quest to become a panindia beauty chainwith 600 naturals outlets groom india today owns the countrys largest beauty and wellness chain but it is still southcentric with meagre presence up north to overcome this and have a panindian presence the company has set a target to have 3000 outlets by 2020until a certain number of outlets we were comfortable doing everything on our own but when we are targeting a fivefold increase in outlets in less than three years we felt the need to outsource the daytoday operations to a strategic partner while we focus on areas of expansion and new service offerings besides style rd c k kumaravel md cofounder groom india salon spa pvt ltd told toi while we were looking for partners for quite sometime we have finally identified one who understands the indian turf its a big leap for us he added founded in 1987 cadd centre at present operates 730 training centres for cad computer aided design cae computer aided engineering and cam computer aided manufacturing in about 24 countries while about 700 of them are in india the company ushered in the franchisee option for its partners way back in 1995 groom india has established its 600outlet strong chain in about 15 yearsnaturals so far used technology to run business but not technology to drive business in the case of ola and uber taxi is incidental and technology is the prime move this strategic tieup between us and naturals is something like uberising the salon and wellness business we will develop different software applications and crm tools to drive business to naturals outlets across regions says s karaiadiselvan md cadd centre training centres private ltd the move offers a winwin scenario for both the groom india and cadd centre teams while the former can focus on expansion and new business offerings besides branding the latter can drive volume into these salons for naturals to achieve their target number of outlets by 2020 it needs external thrust and support based on trust to move into the next orbit given our success in running a chain of over 700 franchiseeowned training centres for close to three decades we feel well placed to offer that he said