Chennai-based Laurus Edutech, one of the premier skills development company, has collaborated with Naturals Salon, India’s fastest growing hair and skin care brand currently with 200+ salons in its chain. The pact is towards training 10,000 youths in beauty care and styling in the next 5 years and to be absorbed as employees with Naturals salon.

“Natural’s is a big brand in the salon industry and the association with Naturals is an opportunity for us to expand our offering of vocational training programs. This foray into the niche segment will add advantage to our consistently increasing array of programs in skills development,” said Srinivas Rao Cheedella, Managing Director at Laurus Edutech.

“Our goal is to skill over 1.1 million students in 10 years by creating over 540 centres pan India. Collaboration with Naturals is a step ahead in fulfilling our dream. In the next phase of our training for Naturals, we will be setting up training academies in the cities of Bangalore, Coimbatore, Siliguri and Hyderabad,” he added.

“We have planned to expand our business pan India, crossing 1000 salons mark in the coming years. Availability of skilled beauticians and hair stylists is very critical to our expansion and Laurus Edutech will be our key partner in ensuring consistent supply of resources for the planned salons across the country,” said Mrs. Veena Kumaravel, Founder of Naturals.