Bloomingdale's Dubai

Bloomingdale's Dubai opened on February 1, 2010, as the first Bloomingdale's location outside the United States, the result of a licensing partnership between Macy's, Inc. and Dubai-based Al Tayer Group. The store is run day-to-day by Al Tayer Insignia, the same Al Tayer division that also holds the UAE license for Harvey Nichols; Al Tayer Insignia later opened a second Bloomingdale's in Kuwait's 360 Mall in 2017. The Dubai location anchors The Dubai Mall with two separate buildings: a three-level apparel and accessories store covering roughly 146,000 square feet, and a one-level, 54,000-square-foot Bloomingdale's Home store. Like its US counterparts, the Dubai store carries designer ready-to-wear, accessories, beauty and home goods from a mix of international luxury and contemporary brands, adapted to the regional market. Because it operates under a franchise/license structure rather than as a directly Macy's-owned unit, product assortment, pricing and operations are set locally by Al Tayer rather than being identical to a US Bloomingdale's. It remains one of the anchor department stores of The Dubai Mall alongside Galeries Lafayette.