Superstar Jennifer Lopez at Doha Festival City.
DOHA: Doha Festival City, Doha’s preferred Mall and the region’s largest entertainment, leisure, retail and fashion destination, celebrated its grand opening with a one-of-a-kind appearance with global superstar Jennifer Lopez on Thursday, November 8 with a VIP Gala dinner at Mondrian Doha for the region’s first Retailer Excellence Awards and on Friday with a special live Q+A hosted by Khalifa Haroon and special meet & greet for fans.
In her first ever appearance in Qatar, Jennifer Lopez performed hits including songs Jenny from the Block, Let’s Get Loud, On the Floor, and Waiting for Tonight and wowed 650 VIP guests at the Retailer Excellence Awards’ Gala Dinner held in the Moonstone Ballroom of Mondrian Doha on Thursday 8 November.
Winners from the Retailer Excellence Awards included Ted Baker for Best store concept, the best consumer service initiative award went to Monoprix, while the award for best in store visual merchandising went to GAP.
Harvey Nichols also took home top honours for the best window display while Aldo took the best marketing campaign. The best F&B concept went to Jaimie’s Italian and the coveted Retailer of the year Award was won by Monoprix.
International media and VIP guests were also treated to performances with a special show by renowned violinist, Jihad Akl, performances by Kuwaiti mega-star Essa Al Marzouq and for the first time on stage Qatari singer Aisha Alziani.
On Friday (November 9), hundreds gathered after participating in the Spend and Redeem activation where shoppers had to spend QR500 at Doha Festival City in order to attend a live Q+A session hosted in the Luxury Court at Doha Festival City by Khalifa Haroon where JLO answered questions for fans and did a special meet & greet.
Part of Doha Festival City’s Grand Opening celebrations included the Super Sale period offering up to 50% discounts across all food, fashion and entertainment retailers.
“It was an honour to have Jennifer Lopez as part our Grand Opening Celebrations which is part of our commitment to our community to bring unique experiences to our customers. We look forward to creating more exclusive experiences for our customers to a continued success for Doha Festival City in the future,” Said May Marzooq, Senior Marketing Manager of Doha Festival City.
Doha Festival City’s grand opening celebrations are in partnership with key sponsors, including Qatar Airways, Mondrian Doha Hotel, Vodafone and Bentley Qatar.
