Yusuff Ali M.A. Indian businessman Yusuff Ali M.A. has firmly established himself in the GCC – last year, he became the first to get the UAE’s ‘gold card’ permanent residency and in March, he was chosen as the first Indian to receive Saudi Arabia’s premium residency. One of the UAE’s richest and prominent businessmen, Yusuff Ali’s LuLu Group is among the largest supermarket chains across the GCC, Egypt, India and the Far East, with over 188 stores worldwide. When he is not leading the business, which makes revenues of over $8.42bn, he is equally active on the social front having been awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2008 for his contribution to business and society. Related Stories Lulu opens new hypermarket in Saudi Arabia’s Saihat Abu Dhabi Sheikh invests $1bn in top grocer LuLu UAE businessman MA Yusuff Ali receives Saudi premium residency Lulu plans new food processing facility in Abu Dhabi Revealed: Influential Indians in the GCC: Rich list UAE extends $100m of aid to flood-hit Kerala You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Adeeb Ahamed Yogesh Mehta Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Joy Alukkas Dr. Zulekha Daud Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia