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Malaysia Airports is expected to tender duty-free retail contracts at Kuala Lumpur International airport (KLIA) at the end of the month, and retailers current and prospective will be eagerly awaiting [...]

RUSSIA. Russian retailer RegStaer is to open its first store at Moscow Vnukovo International airport in August. The company, which runs two stores at Sheremetyevo airport, plans to include a [...]

RUSSIA. The first duty-free store at Ufa International airport in the southern Urals opened earlier this week, marking a new phase in the airport's development plans. The store, supplied exclusively [...]

AUSTRALIA. Duty Free Stores New Zealand has been awarded its second Australian duty-free contract, at Adelaide International airport. Adelaide Airport retail manager Philippa Crawford confirmed the appointment of the company's [...]

IRAQ. Iraq Duty Free is to more than double its departures retail area at Baghdad International airport and has formed a purchasing department to attract a full range of luxury [...]

JAMAICA. Sangster International airport has selected the retailers to take space in the first phase of its commercial expansion. The airport has awarded the fragrances and cosmetics concession to Motta [...]

MALAYSIA. The long-awaited duty-free tender at Kuala Lumpur International airport (KLIA) is to be issued at the end of the month, DFNI understands. Although they have not yet received confirmation [...]

The newly-formed Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA) has acknowledged that a crucial item on its agenda is to defend the region's duty-free tobacco sales. The association is to support [...]

Cuban cigar supplier Habanos could be one of the parties to benefit from Aldeasa's change of ownership if the travel retailer's shareholders accept Italian catering group Autogrill's bid for the [...]

Retailers have often criticised the lack of attention US airports pay to commercial operations. At last, however, there are signs that airport managers across the country are beginning to understand [...]

ITALY. Branded boutiques from local luxury goods companies are driving commercial growth at Bologna airport. The airport has reported an increase in spend of 40% since it implemented the branded [...]

US. Las Vegas McCarran airport and incumbent duty-free and speciality retailer The Nuance Group have reached an agreement to renovate retail areas at the airport's existing terminal this year. Nuance [...]

US. Radisson Seven Seas Cruises has told DFNI that it has enjoyed an improvement in retail performance since switching its onboard retail contract from Starboard Cruise Services to Evoke International [...]

US. San Francisco Oakland airport is to drop its traditional 'highest bid wins' approach to concessions to adopt a more concept-driven model, the airport has told DFNI. The move is [...]

Alpha Airports Group's recent gains at Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield airport may not be the biggest story in travel-retail right now, but they reflect a new trend in the market. [...]

INTERNATIONAL. Dufry Group CEO Julian Diaz has voiced his company's disappointment over losing the bidding race for Spanish rival Aldeasa, but has vowed to seize future opportunities in the Spanish [...]

A strong performance by premium Chinese cigarette brand Chunghwa has helped Dubai Duty Free (DDF) to post solid growth in tobacco sales in 2004. The brand, which retails at Dubai [...]

Ukraine airport retailer Kievrianta, trading as Kyiv Duty Free, has revealed plans to seek new local suppliers for its electronics products. Retail operations manager Domnick O'Reilly told DFNI: 'We're reviewing [...]

The Nuance Group's decision to withdraw from its loss-making speciality and fashion retail contract at Rome Fiumicino airport is the first indicator that the retailer is prepared to take drastic [...]

CHINA. The developer of a new factory outlet centre in Shanghai is seeking a travel retailer to operate a fragrances, cosmetics, watches and fashion accessories concession. The 40,000sq m (430,550sq [...]

US. With bids for the duty-free tender at Miami International airport due on March 18, interested parties have told DFNI that they are likely to participate despite the challenges they [...]

Although it is almost 15 years since Ukraine emerged as an independent state, the country's eagerly anticipated economic reform only began in earnest five years ago. And real political reform [...]

KLM Tax Free Services has been granted an improved location for its planned cigar and whisky outlet in Amsterdam Schiphol airport's renovated Schengen lounge. The store, which was originally due [...]

Despite the hype surrounding the budget travel boom in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the shopping behaviour of low-cost travellers. Elsewhere in this issue, for example, Vienna Airport [...]

PORTUGAL. Travel retailer Lojas Francas de Portugal (LFP), a joint venture between The Nuance Group and Portuguese flag carrier TAP Air Portugal subsidiary TAPGER, is exploring the possibility of opening [...]

US. The Nuance Group North America is to focus on expanding its US business this year. The company--which recently secured its third US airport retail contract, at George Bush Intercontinental [...]

UK airport retailer World Duty Free (WDF) has introduced a higher certificate in cigar retailing for its staff. The company launched the programme to reward staff's dedication to the cigar [...]

In this issue's diplomatic market report, Diplomatic Supply Germany's managing director Dieter Leers raises the issue of tobacco price-cutting. Since the abolition of intra-EU duty-free, the market has become increasingly [...]

INTERNATIONAL. The industry took a critical and constructive look at itself earlier this month when many of travel-retail's biggest companies gathered in London for the Global Travel Retail Summit 2005. [...]

Greek travel retailer Hellenic Duty Free Shops has confirmed that it is in talks with Philip Morris, the world's biggest non-Chinese tobacco supplier, with a view to acquiring the Marlboro [...]

CANADA. Vancouver International Airport Authority is drawing up its duty-free tender after gaining approval for plans to upgrade its international terminal by 2007. Vancouver manager retail sales and service programs [...]

A joint presentation to the EU Excise Committee by the European Community Ship-owners Association (ECSA) and the European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) last month marked an encouraging development for the [...]

Spanish retailer Aldeasa could lose almost one-third of its sales within Spain if legislation being considered by the country's government is put into effect. Among the measures proposed in the [...]

The Philippines' recently-passed sin tax' bill, which imposes excise duties on liquor and tobacco sold in duty-free stores, was accepted as the result of a dubious definition of duty-free presented [...]

In the wake of the Indian Ocean earthquake disaster, it is all too easy to adopt an apocalyptic view of the future. And while the tragedy and the suffering of [...]

UKRAINE. End-of-year results from Aer Rianta International subsidiary Kievrianta have confirmed a record year for the operator in 2004. Sales at the company's Kiev Boryspil airport departures store, which trades [...]

MyTravel Airways Northern Europe's recent changes to its inflight retail prices will have caused concern at The Nuance Group, anchor retailer at Copenhagen Kastrup airport. The carrier has consistently recorded [...]

An agreement reached between Douglas Crossing Duty Free president Michael Beler and Peace Arch Duty Free president Peter Raju last month may herald an end to a yearlong dispute over [...]

BELGIUM. Brussels International Airport Co (BIAC) has revealed plans to completely renovate the non Schengen commercial area at Brussels Zaventem airport by April next year. The changes will include the [...]

US. UK-based cruise concession aire Harding Brothers has strengthened its position in the US premium cruise market, winning a three-year retail contract on board the luxury Silverseas Cruises feet. Harding [...]

If the industry grows in line with World Tourism Organization forecasts for international travel over the next 20 years, annual travel-retail sales could reach $50bn by 2024. As all travel-related [...]

Macquarie Airports' recent purchase of a controlling stake in Brussels International Airport Co (BIAC) is a well-considered move on the part of the Australian airports group. While Brussels Zaventem airport [...]

The register of retailers attending Miami International airport's pre-tender meeting in October suggests that whatever troubles the airport's duty-free operations have encountered over the past few years, the location is [...]

The UK government's white paper outlining its public health targets for the next five years has once more cast the spotlight on tobacco. The move to ban smoking in most [...]

Last year the Association Francaise du Commerce du Voyageur (AFCOV) published the first AFCOV Index, a quarterly compilation of sales data from the biggest travel-retail operators in France, including airports, [...]

UK. The Office of Fair Trading, a government regulatory body, has rejected appeals from Mastercard to reverse its decision that the credit card company's interbank fees violate UK competition laws, [...]

Israel Airports Authority (IAA) has big expectations of its new international terminal at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion airport. The facility which opened on November 2, was built with the aim [...]

US. Miami International airport's forthcoming duty-free tender has drawn interest from some of the world's biggest retailers, DFNI has learned. Representatives from DFS Group, Aer Rianta International, Brasif, SMT Puerto [...]

Kuala Lumpur International airport (KLIA) retailer Dimensi Eksklusif is keen to allocate extra space to the cigar category when the airport's duty-free contracts are tendered in the next few months. [...]

BELGIUM. Belgian retailer and wholesaler Chacalli-De Decker is close to signing a contract to operate duty-free and duty-paid retail at Liege airport when the new terminal opens in February 2005. [...]