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UK. Cruise retail and spa concessionaire Harding Bros is to begin operating on board 11 new vessels next year. The plans will extend the retailer's relationship with single price retail [...]

Philip Morris International has defended its pricing policy, arguing that regional price differences are beyond its control. In his first interview in the role, worldwide duty-free managing director George Farah [...]

Travel-retail lobbyists have warned that a proposal to ban duty-free tobacco sales in the country could be 'very serious'. The health ministry proposal, reported in The Malaysia Star earlier this [...]

CANADA. Vancouver International airport has reported strong gains in transborder sales to passengers flying to the US. The improvement has been triggered by retail expansion in the airport's transborder lounge [...]

US. Seattle-Tacoma International airport (Sea-Tac) has overhauled its concession programme, ending HMS Host's 40-year reign as the airport's exclusive retail and food and beverage tenant. Sea-Tac general manager business development [...]

BARBADOS. Duty Free Caribbean (DFC) plans to bolster the presence of its Colombian Emeralds franchise in Barbados with two new stores. The company is to open a 1,000sq ft (93sq [...]

US. Leading travel retailers from around the world met on October 13 to discuss the future of duty-free retail at Miami International airport (MIA). The Miami-Dade Aviation Department has released [...]

SWITZERLAND. Zurich airport authority Unique and retailers at the new Airside Center, including duty-free concessionaire The Nuance Group, have launched a marketing campaign for the facility following its inauguration last [...]

Members of Latin American trade association ASUTIL have pledged to take a proactive approach to gathering intelligence on potential tobacco threats in the region. Leading operators will seek to establish [...]

NETHERLANDS. Eindhoven airport has invited selected retailers to submit proposals for retail space at its redeveloped terminal, due for completion by next May. The Schiphol Group-owned airport is offering about [...]

CANADA. Blue Water Bridge Duty Free is aiming to offset reduced US traffic at the Sarnia crossing into the US by placing more emphasis on attracting Canadian travellers. In previous [...]

MALAYSIA. Duty-free retailers at Kuala Lumpur International airport have indicated that airport authority Malaysia Airports could adopt a radical retail formula when it unveils its forthcoming tenders. Retail contracts expire [...]

For the busy travel retail executive, keeping abreast of the latest industry developments has become an essential part of the working day. In line with its continuing attempts to provide [...]

Zurich airport's new Airside Center opened to much fanfare on September 15, and airport authority Unique has every reason to be happy with its new commercial facility. Despite an inauspicious [...]

SWITZERLAND. Close cooperation with concessionaires at Zurich airport's new Airside Center has been critical in ensuring a strong retail offer at the commercial centre, airport authority Unique has told DFNI. [...]

Hong Kong International airport liquor and tobacco concessionaire Sky Connection has reported a strong increase in sales of premium Cuban cigars. The growth follows an improvement in supply, new pack [...]

Taiwanese retailer EverRich Duty Free Shop Corp is hoping to expand its cigar business at Taipei Chiang Kai-Shek airport when it moves into a new general merchandise outlet at the [...]

JAMAICA. Operators are calling on the government to withdraw a proposal to raise import duties payable on goods in travel-retail outlets to 10%. The move follows two increases last year [...]

The Nuance Group's decision to concentrate on its core airport business appears to have paid early dividends with news of 11% revenue growth to SFr825m ($660m) in the first half [...]

After an absence of two years Aer Rianta International (ARI) is hoping to return to Greek Cyprus as part of a consortium to run Larnaca and Paphos airports. The operator--part [...]

From the British-dominated bars of Ayia Napa to the German hiking tours criss-crossing its greener parts, Cyprus has always been a favourite destination of northern European holidaymakers. Nevertheless it has [...]

ISRAEL. Duty-free operators have reacted with alarm to a bill tabled earlier this month advocating a ban on duty-tree tobacco sales. The bill proposes redrafting the country's laws governing restrictions [...]

Within living memory, the word 'wireless' was synonymous with crackling broadcasts on bakelite radios. To say that things have moved on would be rather an understatement, as information and communications [...]

Belgian cigar maker Vandermarliere has introduced a new range of flavoured filter products to its Neos brand. The Feelings line is available in three variants--Vanilla, Mango and Fresh (menthol)--and will [...]

BELGIUM. Retailer and wholesaler Chacalli-De Decker and leading national airport retailer Belgian Sky Shops (BSS) are set to battle it out for the right to operate a 200sq m (2,160sq [...]

Belgian retailer and wholesaler Chacalli-De Decker has voiced concerns that distributors competing to offer customer value may be damaging brand positioning as well as their own margins. Speaking exclusively to [...]

Scandinavian Tobacco subsidiary House of Prince has expressed confidence in customised concepts following the opening of dedicated space onboard Tallink's newest vessel Victoria I (DFNI Mar 15). The company, which [...]

INTERNATIONAL. A recovery in passenger numbers in the first quarter of 2004 has boosted results at three of Europe's biggest travel-retail operators. World Duty Free parent company BAA, Aldeasa and [...]

One of the world's longest airport/retailer partnerships came to an end last month when SAS Trading's Scandinavian duty-free business disappeared into the Norwegian mist. In the region's most anticipated tender [...]

Those who believe the duty-free industry is incapable of defending its interests should look to South Africa and the recent threat to duty-free tobacco sales. Always one of the most [...]

Recovery in Asian travel markets has inspired Nat Sherman to launch three products in the region's travel retail at TFWA Asia Pacific this month. Vice president Bill Sherman told DFNI [...]

INDIA. Airports Authority of India's latest tenders for duty-free space at Mumbai, Delhi, Trichy and Kolkata airports have received a mixed reception from retailers. No eligible bids were submitted for [...]

It has been a turbulent year since the last round of negotiations on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Although the industry succeeded in removing any language demanding a ban [...]

US. Miami International airport's duty-free tender will not be published until June, the airport authority has revealed. The invitation for bidders was due to be published at the beginning of [...]

EUROPE. Insufficient guidance from Custom authorities is hampering the preparations of operators in some of the 10 states joining the EU this month. Some retailers told DFNI that sales revenues [...]

The Canadian duty free industry has expressed relief that this year's federal budget makes no mention of further increases in the export tax on Canadian tobacco products. While the Frontier [...]

ISRAEL. Sakal Brothers will aim to build on its current business at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion airport after winning the concession to operate watch and gifts outlets at the new [...]

Airports Authority of India's (AAI) refusal to acknowledge retailers' concerns could prevent investors from unlocking the local travel-retail market's true potential. Despite retailers citing prohibitive rents and limited space as [...]

In the darkest days of the Asian travel crisis, many suggested that DFS Group would be wise to reappraise its dependence on the region's travellers. The company's strategy of following [...]

US. Arrivals shopping in the US and hand luggage restructions for items bought in duty-free could be considered in a substantial overhaul of US Customs procedures due to be implemented [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has scaled up its threat to duty-free tobacco sales in a move that has sent shockwaves through the global industry. Taking a more aggressive stance [...]

Tax exemption labels on tobacco products destined for the military market are denting margins for both retailers and suppliers, the Navy, Army and Air Forces Institutes (NAAFI) has revealed. The [...]

INDIA. Airports Authority of India (AAI) is to increase the retail space on offer at Mumbai and Delhi airports when it releases renewed tender documents for new duty-free areas this [...]

NORTH AMERICA. The Nuance Group has outlined ambitious plans for its north American business in 2004, and has confirmed it is interested in tenders for duty-free space at Chicago O'Hare [...]

Duty-free retail is one of the cartoon villains in the World Health Organizations (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)--an imaginary antithesis to its socially-responsible, clean-living hero. Like all stock [...]

Delays in airport development are hardly unheard of in this age of economic and political instability, and nowhere have the past few years been more unstable than in Israel. The [...]

DFNI Exclusive Canadian fragrance house Michel Germain Parfums is considering its first steps beyond the Americas after almost 10 years in the busihess. The company's first fragrance Sexual has become [...]

As delegates left their offices to attend October's TFWA World Exhibition, the South African government's proposal to ban duty free tobacco sales could not have come at a worse time. [...]

The cunning, patience and foresight epitomised by chess grandmasters Kasparov and Karpov are essential as retailers in Russia, with one eye on the authorities and another on their partners, build [...]

UK. Members of the UK duty-free trade have reacted furiously to a Customs & Excise proposal that could jeopardise duty-free liquor sales in the country and onboard UK registered mobile [...]