LuLu opens new regional HQ in Doha

The new regional headquarters of LuLu Group on the D-Ring Road was inaugurated by Sheikh Hassan bin Khaled al-Thani in the presence of Yusuffali M A, managing director, LuLu Group, yesterday.The event was attended by Mohamed Ahmed Towar al-Kuwari, vice chairman of Qatar Camber and officials from the US Commercial Service.Ambassadors of Australia, Spain, Poland, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, diplomats from several other countries and a number of other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.The state of the art regional headquarters extends over an area of 7,000m² at three levels with another two levels of underground parking facility.Yusuffali said: “We commenced our operations in the year 2000 with the first LuLu Centre, a department store and today there are six outlets in this great country. The 7th one will be opened within the next two months at Al Messila.”Yusuffali praised the leadership of the country in creating a conducive atmosphere for business establishments.“The visionary leadership of the country has provided great encouragement for private business operators and our success from one department store in 2000 to six outlets now is a great testimony for that. This will motivate us to invest more in the country and open more outlets in the near future,” he said.Based in the UAE, the LuLu Group is one the most successful and highly diversified consumer business groups in the Gulf region, having major presence in the fields of supermarkets, department stores and hypermarkets all over the GCC countries.Presently, the group operates 131 shopping malls and hypermarkets. Besides, the group owns export and re-export houses, meat processing plants, garment manufacturing units and IT training institutes among others. The group has a multi-ethnic workforce of 38,400, comprising 37 nationalities. It serves 650,000 shoppers daily in the Gulf region and it has an annual turnover of $6bn globally.