Giant candy retailer to open flagship store in world’s largest mall
A Dubai-based company is opening what it says will be the world’s largest confectionary store in Dubai as it looks to tap demand from the Gulf Arab region’s hunger for candy.
Candylicious, which initially opens in one of the world’s largest shopping centers, The Dubai Mall, is also planning a second store in Singapore early next year, Sunaina Gill, director of Retail Is Detail, a Singaporean family business in Dubai…
“We are planning 10-15 stores in the Gulf Arab region over the next 3-5 years, with additional stores to open in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the next 12 months,” said Gill…
Dubai is an ideal place for the store, said Gill, adding there was a gap and sufficient demand in the market for a confectionary store of this type, especially with 30 million visitors a year expected to visit the Dubai Mall…
In addition to its sweets, the 10,000 square foot store features a huge 10-meter singing chocolate tree decorated with lollipops.
Uh, OK. If we can’t defeat the Oil Patch Boys in Congress, maybe we can get them to do themselves in with sweets?
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Time to open up a dentist office in Dubai.
Jägermeister
September 30, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Sweet!
Mr. Fusion
September 30, 2009 at 8:34 pm
This has got to be another wildly successful venture! The other day on TV I watched an Arab in the middle of the desert make a chocolate sandwich for breakfast.
According to this guy, the secret is to spread thick chocolate on both sides of each of the three pieces of bread, then pile them all up and eat them.
Yum yum…
…other than the sand, of course. He said you get used to the sand.
Cinaedh
October 1, 2009 at 8:29 am
I loved the photo.
hhopper
October 5, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Why? Does he look like Uncle Joe?
Jägermeister
October 5, 2009 at 3:02 pm
He smokes, has hardly any teeth because they adore chocolate, yet he looks so happy. That is because they are not bombarded by everyday busy bodies or experts telling them how to live their lives.
zorki
February 21, 2010 at 6:04 am