For Immediate Release
September 30, 2004

LANSING — Northern Lights and Lifestyles, a specialty retailer in Frankfort, has opened shop in the Mall of Michigan, an Internet retailing and shopping service operated by the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA).

Shoppers can access Northern Lights and Lifestyles online through the Mall of Michigan at www.mallofmichigan.com. The site is listed in the Furniture and the Home & Garden sections.

Northern Lights and Lifestyles offers furniture, home furnishings and accents of exceptional crafstmanship. It features period-style lighting and other home accents and decorative art in the Mission and Arts-and-Crafts styles.

The store’s website offers photographs of store merchandise, information about the store and links to the websites of featured artisans and manufacturers whose work the store carries.

The Mall of Michigan is a collection of unique specialty shops—all of them MRA members—offering distinctive products online. More than 140 Michigan businesses now participate in e-commerce through this website.

The Michigan Retailers Association is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers. MRA's more than 5,500 retail business members operate more than 12,000 stores across the state.