DUBAI — The Middle East largest retailer Lulu Hypermarket Group was awarded the “Best Retail CEO of the Year at the prestigious Gulf Business Industry Award 2013 held at the Oberoi Hotel in Dubai recently. Ashraf Ali MA, Executive Director of the Lulu Group, received the award. Other notable awardees were Emirates Airlines for aviation, DEWA for best energy company, FGB for banking sector to name a few. Speaking to media Ali said: “We are very delighted with this honor and I thank each one of our patrons and stakeholders for their continued support and patronage which has led us to achieve greater heights in every market we operate in”. Lulu currently has 106 stores across the region and plans to open another 11 hypermarkets in various countries in the GCC, apart from the ones in Egypt, Libya and the Far East in next 18 months. – SG