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In August 2005, Trent acquired a 76% controlling stake in Landmark, and completed 100% acquisition in April 2008, the year the founder Hemu Ramaiah left the company. After the purchase by Tata, Landmark Bookstores started to lose money. In 2014, it was announced that Tata's Trent subsidiary was
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Landmark bookstores was founded by Hemu Ramaiah. The first location opened in a 4,400 sq ft basement of a building complex and represented a modernization of bookstores in India at the time. In 1996, the bookstore started selling music. Landmark opened a second location in
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division of Landmark through which it sells its retail merchandise online. The website has now been closed.
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in 1999, a third location in Chennai in 2001, and the mega-bookstore in the Forum Mall Bangalore in 2004.
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Landmark has five large format retail stores across major cities in India including
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Landmarkonthenet.com, launched in 2000 and a Chennai-based
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portal owned and operated by Landmark Limited, is an
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