[1][2] It is one of the largest retail chains in Asia and is the biggest in the Middle East with 259 outlets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and elsewhere.

[8][9] 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).

In the late 1990s, the LuLu Center department stores were launched, and the group expanded to other countries in the Middle East.

[13] As of September 2024, there are more than 200 LuLu Hypermarkets in the GCC, 7 in India at Kochi, Bangalore, Lucknow, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Hyderabad and Kozhikode,[14][15] 4 in Malaysia and 4 in Indonesia.

Lulu group is heavily investing in Bengaluru, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram.

[citation needed] In April 2013, LuLu Group launched operations in Birmingham with the inauguration of logistics and packaging facility under the name, Y International.

The facility procures and exports food, non-food, chilled and frozen products of British origin for sale in LuLu Hypermarkets.