{"id":16860,"date":"2022-03-22T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2022-07-23T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T08:01:49","slug":"lulu-group-opens-hypermarket-in-abu-dhabis-al-shamkha-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/03\/22\/lulu-group-opens-hypermarket-in-abu-dhabis-al-shamkha-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"LuLu Group opens hypermarket in Abu Dhabi\u2019s Al Shamkha Mall\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Retail giant LuLu Group International has opened a hypermarket in Abu Dhabi\u2019s Al Shamkha Mall.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The opening on March 22 comes after introducing branches to Dubai Investment Park and Saudi Arabia\u2019s NEOM Community 1 earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Al Shamkha Mall was inaugurated by Sultan Huwayer, director of municipality properties contracts at the Department of Municipalities and Transport, along with Yusuff Ali MA, chairman and managing director of the LuLu Group.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe are proud to see another great retail addition to our growing circle of iconic stores which is a testimony to the fact that the LuLu Group has continued to expand and invest in the UAE\u2019s future even through the challenging pandemic months,\u201d Mr Ali said.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt has always been our policy to make the LuLu brand easily accessible to shoppers in suburbs and outskirts areas, so they do not need to drive a long distance.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Spanning over 150,000 square feet, the hypermarket is the shopping centre\u2019s anchor tenant.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In keeping with its global expansion plans, the group is exploring the possibility of opening a hypermarket in Israel.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With an annual revenue of $8 billion, the group\u2019s global stores receive one million shoppers and online orders from 1.1 million customers every day, according to Israel newspaper <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Globes<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The group operates 227 stores and 24 malls in 22 countries, including the US, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Shamkha Mall welcomes retail giant hypermarket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":17777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[1506,4015,4014,3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17172,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions\/17172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}