Business is not just about money, products or services. it’s all about people.

 Chairman & Managing Director of LuLu Group ranks today among the top business personalities. The Group has diversified into many significant areas under his dynamic stewardship, retail being the most prominent of them.

His astute business vision and strategic mind have evolved ambitious growth plans for the Group and ensured their materialization through a team of people who share his drive and dynamism. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of United Arab Emirates, the Group is best known in the Gulf through a chain of popular Shopping Malls and Hypermarkets which serve the widest segments of multi-ethnic residents in the region.

LuLu Group, with its 60,000 plus strong workforce from 42 different nations and operational bases extending over the U.A.E., Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, China, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Turkey, Spain, Italy, UK, USA and India is one of the most successful corporates of the times with a steadily ascending growth curve over the years. The Group has an annual turnover of US$ 8 billion globally.

Apart from his busy business involvement, Yusuff Ali is equally active on the social front and is associated with various organizations.

The crowning glory in his career came when he was overwhelmingly elected by the U.A.E. business community as the Director Board member of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI). This was the first time that elections were held for the ADCCI and expatriate was elected to the Director Board of one of the world’s most prosperous and wealthy business regulatory authorities. In addition to this, he was also unanimously elected by the Board members as the Vice-chairman of the prestigious Trade Committee of the ADCCI. After four years, in the year 2009, the U.A.E business community re-elected him to the Director Board of ADCCI with a thumping majority.

In the year 2021, he was appointed as Second Vice Chairman of ADCCI by H.H. the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces making him the only Non-Arab to be in the Director Board of ADCCI for a record four times in a row.