Hopes for the new luxury precinct at Sydney Airport rest pretty heavily on the shoulders of Chinese … [+] travelers. Sydney Airport Sydney Airport’s ambitious gallery of luxury boutiques is almo...
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New Leadership Team At Dufry Will Shape $6.7 Billion Merged Entity With Autogrill
Dufry has a new global executive committee. Dufry Dufry, the world’s biggest airport retailer, has shaken up its global executive committee (GEC), as the company prepares its growth strategy for the m...
Finnair Launches 40% Discount Before Ending Duty-Free Sales
Finnair customers have until the end of the month to bag 40% off on all its duty-free and travel … [+] retail stock. getty Finnish airline Finnair will drop both in-flight and pre-order retail s...
Beijing Department Store Wangfujing Opens In Hainan In Time To Cash In On Chinese New Year
Wangfujing’s first duty-free store has opened in Wannning City, Hainan, China. Wangfujing Group Department store retailer Wangfujing has opened its first store in Hainan, the duty-free shopping ...
Dubai Duty Free’s 2022 Sales Topped $1.7 Billion But Still Lag Pre-Pandemic 2019
Dubai Duty Free’s shopping complex in Concourse C at Dubai International Airport. Dubai Duty Free The Middle East’s biggest travel retailer, Dubai Duty Free racked up $1.74 billion sales in 2022...
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 ...
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...
Lotte Duty Free Uses Japan’s Visa-Free Reopening To Tourists To Pump Up Korean Sales
A relaxation of travel restrictions to Japan may revive the fortunes of Lotte Duty Free’s store in … [+] Ginza, Tokyo. Lotte Duty Free Lotte Duty Free is stepping up promotional activity i...
A Master Concession In Saudi Arabia Is A Timely Win For French Travel Retailer Lagardere
Medina’s landmark mosque is Islam’s second holiest shrine and a place of pilgrimage. (Photo/ Abid … [+] Katib/Getty Images) Getty Images Lagardère Travel Retail has won a master conc...
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...
Dubai Duty Free On Track For $1.5 Billion Sales, Despite Missing Chinese Shoppers
Dubai Duty Free opened a series of luxury boutiques during the pandemic including this one from … [+] Dior. Dubai Duty Free Dubai Duty Free is forecasting a big hike in sales this year helped in...
Duty-Free Retail Continues To Attract Highly Coveted Scotch Whiskies—And Set Records
The Macallan Six Pillars comes in an exclusive series of limited edition decanters made by French … [+] crystal house Lalique. Le Clos Earlier this month at Dubai International Airport (DXB), a ...
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 ...
Hudson Banks On Loyalty Scheme With Instant 5% Reductions To Bag More Airport Shoppers
The Red by Dufry loyalty scheme is coming to Hudson in North America. Hudson Group Travel retailer Hudson, has launched a new loyalty program across its roughly 1,000 stores in airports, commuter hubs...
London Heathrow Airport Revises 2022 Traffic Upwards By 16% And Extends Dufry’s Retail Contract
Revised traffic numbers give Dufry renewed hope for the summer. (Photo by: Prisma by Dukas/Universal … [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images London Heathrow ...
Lotte Duty Free Revives Global Ambitions With Sydney Opening
The Sydney store is a “stepping stone” to better things says Lotte Duty Free. Lotte Duty Free South Korea’s biggest travel retailer, Lotte Duty Free, is ready to resume its plans for globa...
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...
Coach Owner Tapestry Chooses Hainan As HQ For China Travel Retail
Shoppers wearing surgical masks walk by a Coach store in the Central Business District of Hong Kong. … [+] (Photo by Ben Marans/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket ...
Can Mexico Lead A Revival Of Dufry’s Travel Retail Business?
Sales at Cancun Airport have been very resilient for Dufry during the pandemic. (Photo by: Jeffrey … [+] Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Image...
CEO Of World’s Biggest Airport Retailer To Be Replaced By Former CFO
Julián Díaz was instrumental in turning Dufry into the world’s biggest airport retailer. Dufry Julián Díaz, the CEO of Swiss travel retailer Dufry is leaving his role after leading the global business...