Asia’s leading health and beauty retailer once again successfully organised the largest Zumba gathering with its Watsons Move Your Body Zumba event. This health initiative presented by Watsons Malaysia, in-line with its Watsons #GETACTIVE campaign. A health and wellness campaign aimed to further promote healthy living and positioning Watsons as the ideal health and beauty shopping destination, this Zumba beach event recorded an achievement of 6,823 participants.
This time around, Watsons Move Your Body Zumba brought a new level of fun and exciting experience for Zumba enthusiasts with a beach themed event at the Surf Beach of Sunway Lagoon. This year’s event is the largest Zumba beach party held in Malaysia. Last year, Watsons Move Your Body Zumba was the largest Zumba event in Malaysia with more than 5,360 participating in the glow-in-the-dark theme Zumba. And the year before that, Watsons Move Your Body Zumba created a new record and still is the largest Zumba gathering in Malaysia with more than 7,000 participants held in Penang.
“This annual Zumba event is one of our main drives to support the recently launched Watsons #GETACTIVE campaign, aim to further promote healthy living and positioning Watsons as the ideal health and beauty shopping destination. We want to offer more of a holistic approach to a healthy lifestyle to all Malaysians aside from offering a variety of some of the best health and wellness products in our stores nationwide.” said Caryn Loh, General Manager and Country Head of Watsons Malaysia.
The 2017 edition held at Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach saw the enthusiastic Zumba participants sweating it all out with Zumba routines in collaboration with Zumba Fitness, the governing body for Zumba worldwide with its headquarters in Florida, United States.
“For the fourth year running, Watsons Move Your Body is becoming an iconic event and as such we want to provide our customers the reward of money can’t buy experience with international renowned Zumba instructors and a line-up exciting carnival-like activities to entertain,” added Caryn Loh, General Manager and Country Head of Watsons Malaysia.
The thematic Zumba beach party was hosted by Watsons Celebrity Friend, Dennis Yin, who hyped up the night with stage activities and lucky draws.
The Watsons Move Your Body Zumba session began and was led by three international’s top Zumba Education Specialists – Richard Gormley from Canada, Nana from South Korea and Henry Cendeno from USA, including Zumba jammers Deno Au, Alex Phang and Sunny Cheung from Malaysia.
