Kansas City’s New Airport Terminal Has Retail And Food That’s Now 80% Local

Locally sourced products and brands take a retail lead. Marshall Retail Group Kansas City’s enormous replacement air terminal is totally new, but somehow also familiar. Because, while the opening has ...

Modifications Ensure Spain’s Colossal $19 Billion Duty-Free Retail Tender Attracts Wide Range Of Bidders

Madrid-Barajas International Airport is the jewel in Aena’s crown. getty Spanish airport operator Aena has revealed some tantalizing details of a giant retail tender—split into tranches—that is ...

Dubai Duty Free Achieves $10 Million A Day During Annual 25% Price-off

Anniversary event sales easily beat last year’s promotion, but lag behind 2019. Dubai Duty Free Shoppers at Dubai International Airport took advantage of a three-day discount event of 25% off a ...

First-Ever Department Stores At Sydney Airport Open The Door To Domestic Retail Market

An artist’s impression of Heinemann’s fashion area in Sydney Airport’s terminal three. Sydney Airport/Heinemann Sydney Airport plans to open Australia’s first department-store style retail outle...

A First In Asia For Royally-Endorsed Fortnum & Mason, One Of Britain’s Finest Food Emporiums

Fortnum & Mason: by royal appointment. Lagardère Travel Retail Britain’s Fortnum & Mason, the go-to choice for hampers, tea, and high-quality gourmet food, has debuted its first store in the A...

Qatar’s Hamad Airport Unveils Extravagant Luxury Showcase Just Days Before FIFA World Cup

Tropical gardens meet luxury shops at Hamad Airport. State of Qatar Comms Grand garden designs are all the rage in airports at the moment. Regular travelers may be familiar with Singapore Changi Airpo...

London Heathrow Pilots New Online-Only Retail Model With Aspinal Of London, Calvin Klein And Tommy Hilfiger

Heathrow Airport hoped to increase the numbers of web purchases as it introduced more online-only … [+] brands. getty London Heathrow is testing out the idea of introducing prestige and mid-mark...

Travel Retail Firmly Back In The Driving Seat At French Media Group Lagardere As Sales Top €5 Billion

The travel retail division of the French media company is delivering the goods again. (Photo … [+] Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket...

Airports In Paris Promise ‘Extraordinary Shopping’ Through New Hospitality Concept And Joint Venture

The Extime brand from Groupe ADP and Lagardere Travel Retail will be coming soon to Paris Charles de … [+] Gaulle Airport. Groupe ADP As post-pandemic air travel volumes return, retail at the tw...

Dufry Loses Retail Toehold In Germany As Heinemann Returns To Country’s Fourth Busiest Airport

An impression of how Heinemann’s new storefront’s will look. Gebr. Heinemann Hamburg-based travel retailer Gebr. Heinemann was rejoicing this week as it ousted Dufry by winning the tender ...

Heinemann Takes A Bow As The Only European Travel Retailer To Be Back In Profit

Heinemann arrivals duty-free store at Oslo Gardermoen Airport. Gebr. Heinemann One of the world’s biggest travel retailers, Gebr. Heinemann, has gone where none of its European competitors have in 202...

Airport Retailer Dufry’s Sales Rise By Over 50% In 2021, But Asia Contracts Sharply

Dufry’s World Duty Free store at London Heathrow terminal three. Dufry/World Duty Free Hemispheres clashed last year for the world’s biggest airport retailer, Dufry. Strong rebounds in the Ameri...

Ireland’s Aer Rianta Opens Up Portuguese Airport Retail Sector With New Contract

New store formats to invigorate airport shopping in Portugal are on their way. ARI Irish international travel retailer, Aer Rianta International (ARI), has won a seven-year contract to run the retail ...

Smart Carts That Take You To The Best Deals At The Airport

Can anyone resist a free cart at the airport? IntelligentTrackSystems Carts could hold the key to lifting retail sales at financially hard-pressed airports around the country. A trial at San Diego Int...