Deira City Centre is a large shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 in Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

. Located in the community of Deira

Deira, Dubai

Deira is an area in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates bordered by the Persian Gulf, Sharjah and Dubai Creek. Historically, it has been the center of Dubai, but has been losing its importance during the past few decades due to recent development along E 11 road and areas further down the...

, Deira City Centre was the largest mall in Dubai prior to the establishment of Ibn Battuta Mall

Ibn Battuta Mall

The Ibn Battuta Mall is a large shopping mall on the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai close to Interchange 6 for Jebel Ali Village. It is named after Berber Moroccan famous traveller and explorer Ibn Battuta. This project was completed by the Nakheel Properties group in early 2005...

, Mall of the Emirates

Mall of the Emirates

The Mall of the Emirates is a shopping mall in the Al Barsha district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was developed by Majid Al Futtaim Properties under the leadership of its CEO, Peter Walichnowski, who was also the developer of "Bluewater" near London, Europe's most successful shopping mall....

 and The Dubai Mall. Deira City Centre was established in 1996, is spread across 1300000 square feet (120,774 m²) and includes a Carrefour

Carrefour

Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

 superstore and it used to have an Ikea

IKEA

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 outlet before it moved to a bigger premises at the Festival Waterfront Centre. Deira City Centre has over 340 stores, including a multiplex

Multiplex (movie theater)

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, food court

Food court

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 and a hotel, and attracts over 20 million visitors a year.

Stores include:

• Adidas
  Adidas
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• Al Futtaim Motors
• Axiom Telecom
  Axiom Telecom
  Axiom Telecom was founded by an Emarati entrepreneur, Faisal Al Bannai, with four employees at the start of its operations in 1996. Axiom became the official distributors for many mobile consumer brands in the UAE, including Nokia and Sony Ericsson, and had already sold the largest number of Nokia...
  
  
• Aldo
  Aldo Groupe
  The ALDO Group is a Canadian corporation that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessory stores. The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972 where its corporate headquarters remain today...
  
  
• Armani Exchange
• Babyshop
• Banana Republic
• Baskin Robbins
• Bossini
  Bossini
  Bossini International Holdings Limited , or Bossini , is a worldwide garment distributor and retailer headquartered in Hong Kong. It offers a range of casual wear apparel products, including ladies', men's, and kids' wear under its Bossini brand name...
  
  
• Carrefour
  Carrefour
  Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...
  
  
• Centrepoint
• Cellucom
• Damas Jewellery
• Dior
  Dior
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• GAP
  Gap (clothing retailer)
  The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...
  
  
• H & M
• Hang Ten
  Hang Ten (brand)
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• Jumbo Electronics
• La Senza
  La Senza
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• Magrudy's
• Mont Blanc
• Raymond Weil
  Raymond Weil
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• TGI Friday's
• The Body Shop
  The Body Shop
  The Body Shop International plc, known as The Body Shop, has 2,400 stores in 61 countries, and is the second largest cosmetic franchise in the world, following O Boticario, a Brazilian company...
  
  
• Virgin Megastores
• Woolworths
  Woolworths (South Africa)
  Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African chain of retail stores and one of the largest in the country, modeled on Marks & Spencer of the United Kingdom . This relationship with Britain's Marks and Spencer was formed after the Second World War, which led to the retailer buying all of the...
  
  
• Zara

Deira City Centre is owned by the Majid Al Futtaim group, and is one of six City Centre malls — the others are located in Ajman

Ajman

Ajman , also spelt Ujman, is one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates . With an area of just 260 square kilometres , Ajman is the smallest emirate by area...

, Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...

, Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, Muscat

Muscat, Oman

Muscat is the capital of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Governorate of Muscat. As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797. The metropolitan area spans approximately and includes six provinces called wilayats...

 and Sharjah

Sharjah (city)

Sharjah is the third largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates. It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula.Sharjah is the seat of government of the emirate of Sharjah...

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External links

• official site
• Majid Al Futtaim MAF Holding website