Our Correspondent
LuLu Mall, Kerala’s most preferred shopping, food and entertainment destination and one of India’s largest malls, has reopened its doors to welcome customers back to the World of Happiness.
LuLu Hypermarket opened at 9 am on August 9 observing all protocols issued by the Government in the wake of COVID-19. The online version of the hypermarket had been kept open throughout the lockdown period. The LuLu Mall was reopened at 10 am on August 9.
Lulu Mall, a division of the much famed Lulu Group headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is one of the largest as well as the first of its kind in India. The Group with its flagship retail chain of LULU hypermarkets and supermarkets has operations spread over 34 countries. Under the dynamic leadership of Yusuffali M.A, Managing Director, the Group has successfully evolved through the supermarket and hypermarket transition to high profile shopping malls. Lulu Group has been ranked third in the prestigious “Forbes Top 100 companies” making an impact in the Arab world.
Currently, in its seventh year of operations, Lulu Mall is the go-to destination in Kerala. In the past five years, Lulu Mall has been visited by 100 million people and has witnessed the entry of 1.5 million vehicles. Spanning 17 acres with a total retail space of 6.2 lakh square feet, LuLu Mall Kochi has over 225 outlets and has brought over 100 top brands to Kerala for the very first time. The mall has one of the largest hypermarkets in India, a 2,500-seater multi-cuisine food court, 11 fine dining restaurants and six cafes.
The mall features a gold class nine-screen multiplex, and a leisure zone including South India’s largest ice skating rink, a trampoline park, amusement rides, and a 12-lane bowling alley. The parking space of the mall is equipped with state-of-the-art automated parking guidance system and accommodates 3800 vehicles. A direct walkway connects the mall with the Edapally metro station.
Located within the campus is Marriot Hotel, offering a remarkable blend of luxury and convenience to the innumerable international and domestic tourists who visit the mall.
With a strong online presence, a successfully run app-based loyalty programme, a lifestyle magazine – Lulu Happiness; year on year, the mall has been able to provide an improved international shopping and entertainment experience along with an unparalleled service benchmark, winning the brand multiple global and national awards, including a Guinness World Record.
With upcoming projects in Trivandrum, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, to name a few, LuLu Group is racing ahead to be the top player in the Indian shopping mall segment.
