Dubai: Festival Plaza, Al-Futtaim’s latest lifestyle shopping destination in Jebel Ali and the Dubai South community, has confirmed Marks & Spencer as its clothing anchor store, complementing an extensive and growing range of retailers set to open their doors at the end of the year. Marks & Spencer, the leading multinational retailer, will bring its full offering of womenswear, menswear and kidswear to the new store, in addition to its popular Foodhall and M&S Café.

Timothy Earnest, Group Director, Retail Malls, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate, commented: “We are delighted to be welcoming Marks & Spencer to our newest community mall at Festival Plaza. The well-known British brand will be joining a list of prominent brands, including IKEA and ACE. With its winning combination of must-have clothing pieces, quality food items and exceptional customer service, Marks & Spencer will bring a unique retail and dining experience to the Dubai South community.”

Stephen Rayfield, Vice President, Marks & Spencer Middle East & Asia, added: “Customers are at the heart of everything we do at Marks & Spencer and we are very excited to welcome them to our new store at the eagerly awaited Festival Plaza. This opening marks our ongoing expansion in the region, adding to our existing 16 stores in the UAE, and 32 across the Gulf. We look forward to bringing the very best of Marks & Spencer’s must-have clothing and high-quality food to more customers in the UAE and offering a truly fantastic shopping experience.”

Festival Plaza is committed to bringing a convenient and welcoming lifestyle destination to the Dubai South community, in addition to the established residential areas of Jebel Ali, Al Furjan, Dubai Marina and commuters travelling through the E11 and Abu Dhabi interchange. Following its ground-breaking in March 2017, construction on Festival Plaza is on track and planned to open in Q4 2019.

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About Festival Plaza
Festival Plaza is Al-Futtaim’s newest community shopping mall development, set to open in December 2019 at the Wasl Gate community in Dubai South. The project, covering 64,800 square meters, has been designed to serve as a convenient family lifestyle mall for some of the most established residential communities in Dubai, including those in Jebel Ali, Al Furjan, Dubai Marina and commuters travelling from neighbouring Abu Dhabi.

Defining a new retail vision with a magnetic mix of food and fashion, Festival Plaza will be home to much-loved brands such as IKEA, ACE, Marks & Spencer and Lulu Hypermarket, with a multitude of planned retail, dining and entertainment options available. The development will be host to 2,310 parking spaces, 120 stores, 40 cafes and restaurants and a 500-seat food court.

Festival Plaza is part of the Middle East’s most popular ‘Festival’ Mall brand by Al-Futtaim. Al-Futtaim Malls are known for their focus on delivering exceptional experiences and delivering some of the most powerful brands in the Middle East. Festival Plaza will join existing mall success stories, including Dubai Festival City Mall, Al-Futtaim’s super regional flagship mall in Dubai, UAE, Doha Festival City, Qatar’s largest retail destination and Cairo Festival City Mall, the best performing mall in Cairo, Egypt.

For more information on the Festival Plaza development, please visit: http://www.dubaifestivalplaza.com/ 

About Al-Futtaim
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim today, is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Structured into four operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate and retail; employing more than 42,000 employees across 25 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, we partner with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands.

Al-Futtaim’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration, integrity; Al-Futtaim continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

For more information visit: www.alfuttaim.com  

About Marks & Spencer and Al-Futtaim

  • A member of the Al-Futtaim Group of companies since 1997, the Marks & Spencer Al-Futtaim franchise partnership boasts 92 stores located across MENA, KSA and Asia.
  • The stores offer an extensive range of stylish, high quality clothing products for the whole family, across each category – Womenswear, Lingerie, Menswear and Kidswear. M&S also offers Beauty and Home products, as well as outstanding quality food.

For more information, please visit: www.marksandspencerme.com

For further inquiries, please contact:
Sara El Niel
T 9714 3304030 E 435
Email: s.elniel@ipn.ae  

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