{"id":24342,"date":"2023-10-09T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=24342"},"modified":"2023-10-09T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:50:03","slug":"lulu-group-store-at-dubai-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/10\/09\/lulu-group-store-at-dubai-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulu Group opens its largest in-mall hypermarket in Dubai Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">UAE-based hypermarket operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/10\/04\/lulu-group-international-2\/\">Lulu Group<\/a> has opened a branch at the Dubai Mall, its largest in-mall hypermarket,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The outlet increased the Group\u2019s store count to 24 in Dubai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulugroupinternational.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu<\/a> Group, Yusuff Ali MA, said: \u201cWe are extremely happy and excited to join hands with Emaar to open our newest hypermarket at The Dubai Mall, which is the world\u2019s biggest and most prestigious shopping and leisure destination, welcoming over 100 million visitors every year from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt is our constant endeavour to innovate and offer world-class shopping experience to the large multi-national population residing and visiting Dubai. It will be our continuous commitment to offer high-quality products at the most affordable prices in the market.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The retail giant has been aggressively expanding within the Gulf region, India and other markets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last month, it opened its 10th hypermarket in Bahrain and 15th in Kuwait and announced an expansion in India with an investment of billions of dirhams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Recently, the retail giant expanded its global sourcing operations with hubs in Italy and Poland, focusing on broadening its product range, especially in the healthy and diet category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to a study released by Majid Al Futtaim, there was a notable 13 per cent growth in spending across the retail economy for the full year, including, hypermarkets and supermarkets (11 per cent) and general retail (nine per cent), driven by the rise in international visitors to the UAE, which more than doubled to 14 million in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE retaile rLulu Group has launched its largest in-mall hypermarket, at Dubai Mall, increasing its store count to 24 in Dubai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":20057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[4014,3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342"}],"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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24344,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions\/24344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}