Lulu Hypermarket
Official logo of LuLu Hypermarket
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| Industry | Retail |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Number of locations
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131 stores |
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Area served
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Key people
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M. A. Yousuf Ali(Managing Director) |
| Revenue |
 $6.3 billion (2016)
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| Parent | LuLu Group International |
| Website | luluhypermarket |
Lulu Hypermarket (stylized as LuLu Hypermarket) is a hypermarket chain and retail venture started by Lulu Group International in 2000. M. A. Yousuf Ali is the managing director of the group that is based in Abu Dhabi. LuLu has over 35,600 employees of various nationalities.
It is one of the largest retail chains in Asia and is the biggest in Middle East with 128 outlets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. They also have 13 malls all over the GCC and India with a mall planned to come up in Malaysia which after opening willl be the largest mall in Malaysia. Research firm Deloitte, recently placed it amongst the world’s 50 fastest growing retailers.
LuLu Group International opened its first supermarket in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 1995, when the retail business scenario in the region started to change with the entry of Continent (now Carrefour). Later, more LuLu Supermarket stores were opened in different parts of Abu Dhabi There are also several Lulu stores found in the emirate of Dubai. In the late 1990s, the LuLu Center department stores were launched, and the group expanded to other countries in the Middle East.
In 2000, the first Lulu Hypermarket store was opened in Dubai. With this launch, the Group embarked on an aggressive expansion plan. It soon grew into a chain with several outlets across the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Yemen. On March 10, 2013, LuLu Hypermarket was opened in Kochi, India at LuLu Mall. The group has started construction of the Lulu Mall in Thiruvananthapuram, which upon completion will be the largest shopping mall in India and the 5th largest in Asia.
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