Waldemar Behn reports great success with the rollout of its DANZKA Vodka in South America, where the company has been running high-profile promotions with Dufry since the start of the year. “We have achieved excellent results from our exciting and high-profile POS activations with Dufry in Uruguay in January, in Rio de Janeiro and […]
Latin America
Kérastase opens 3rd TR store in São Paulo
Following its highly successful partnership with Dufry, L’Oréal-owned hair care brand Kérastase has opened a third store in Terminal 3 departures at São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. Sales from this 14sqm outlet are already beating expectations, says the company, and the location which is frequented by Brazilian and Argentine travelers, enhances the brand’s status, and reputation, […]
The Design Solution’s Nick Taylor: Colorful Cancun elements create unique sense of place in Dufry’s new T4 retail space
London-based The Design Solution created Dufry Group’s stylish new retail space (2,540sqm) at Cancún International Airport, which features the innovative ‘New Generation’ store concept that projects an extraordinary and colorful sense of location. Nick Taylor, Director, The Design Solution, outlines the design concept for the Cancun stores and the commercial drivers behind it: “The Cancun store designs […]
Dufry opens 7 stores in Cancun Airport’s new T4; unveils first New Generation store in Latin America
Dufry has inaugurated seven new stores in Cancun International Airport’s newly-opened Terminal 4 in Mexico. The stores cover 2,540 sq meters of retail space and include a 1,900-sqm New Generation Store, which Dufry presents for the first time in Latin America. Dufry’s New Generation Store is its retail concept that innovatively features extensive use of […]
ASUR receives first regulatory approval for Colombia airport acquisitions
Airport group ASUR, Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V, announced that it has received regulatory approval to consummate its acquisition of Airplan, S.A. Airplan has concessions to operate the airports in Colombia that include the Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport and José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, the Los Garzones Airport in Montería, the Antonio […]
Dufry and DFASS open ten stores at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota
Dufry and DFASS have opened ten new shops at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport in Colombia, including seven duty free, one duty-paid and two Hudson convenience stores. Altogether the stores cover nearly 3,200 sqm of retail space across the international and domestic terminals. The two duty free companies signed the ten year concession agreement earlier this year. The […]
Luxottica unveils personalized Ray-Ban and Oakley space at Bogota El Dorado Airport
Luxottica Group and Motta Internacional S.A. have unveiled striking new personalized merchandising units for sunglasses brands Ray-Ban and Oakley in the Attenza Duty Free store in the departures area at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport. The personalized merchandising units, which include a Ray-Ban shop-in-shop and Oakley backwall, form part of the newly refurbished 182 sqm […]
Is Latin America’s economic crisis over?
John Gallagher reports from Buenos Aires. As we head into the last quarter of 2017, travel retail suppliers and operators in Latin America are asking if the tentative economic recovery of the first half year is here to stay. Brazil The fall in raw material prices in early 2014 and Brazil’s massive Lavajato corruption scandal brought about […]
London Supply celebrates 75th birthday and looks forward to growth
by John Gallagher Argentina-based independent travel retailer London Supply is celebrating its 75th birthday this year. The company started out as a classical ships supplier working out of Buenos Aires port provisioning foreign vessels with Argentina manufactured products free of taxes and duties. London Supply still offers ship supply today but now services 19 ports […]
Brazil’s airport privatization marches on: Fraport signs concession agreements for Fortaleza and Porto Alegre
Fraport AG has signed the concession agreements with the Brazilian government for managing and developing Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) airports. Following its double airport win at the government’s public auction on March 16, 2017, Fraport AG has been planning and creating the foundation for the new Fraport Brasil airport companies, which are expected to […]
Industry veteran Laurent Lamotte launches new agency for luxury brands in Latam
Well-respected travel retail executive Laurent Lamotte brings together his wide range of experiences to his new position of managing partner for his new company HERA Latam, an agency of luxury brands in Latin America. Lamotte’s former roles, ranging from representing the Longines watch brand from the Swatch Group, over-seeing Latin America retail develop-ment for fashion house […]
Erasmo Orillac: Motta prepared to defend its turf at Panama’s Tocumen Airport “if it makes economic sense”
Following Albert “Pancho” Motta’s tragic death last year, Motta Internacional has now reassigned some roles within the company in some of the businesses outside of Motta Internacional. “We all miss Pancho terribly but we are organized to go forward,” said Motta Internacional CEO Erasmo Orillac. Under the Attenza Duty Free brand, Motta currently operates […]
DFA pushes Brazil expansion with new duty free stores in Salvador airport
DFA’s rapid expansion into Brazil continues with the recent opening of two duty free stores at Deputado Luís Eduardo Magal-hães International Airport in Salvador. The stores cover 7,700 square feet, and occupy prime areas of the terminal. The multi-category store design enhances DFA’s core portfolio of traditional travel retail products, which includes perfumes and cosmetics, wine and […]
Argentina “crosses the red line” with the Polo Red Extreme event in Buenos Aires Ezeiza Airport in May
Polo Red Extreme, the latest fragrance for men from Ralph Lauren, is a powerful, masculine scent that launched in April in Travel Retail Americas. An oriental gourmand fragrance, embodied by the American model Kenneth Guidroz Jr., it is a blend of vibrant blood orange, black coffee essence, and supercharged ebony wood. The company says that it […]
Dufry introduces new retail concept with Dior at GRU Airport
Dufry, in partnership with Dior, has opened the first ever pop up store of the brand, located in the departure area of Terminal 3 São Paulo/Guarulhos Airport (GRU) in Brazil. The Dior Pop Up boutique is situated in a key location of passenger traffic and offers an exciting shopping environment, reflecting the brand’s unique heritage […]
