Two years after announcing its plan to establish biscuits as a sub-category in travel retail, Mondelez World Travel Retail (WTR) is launching new products and packaging from Oreo, Milka and Cadbury at the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes. Mondelez reports a double-digit net revenue increase in biscuits and more than double the net revenue increase […]
Mars Wrigley ITR revamps Minis based on consumer research
Mars Wrigley International Travel Retail (MITR) is revamping Mars, Twix, Milky Way, Bounty and Snickers brands mini bars for the travel retail channel based on category insights and consumer research. The company says the new Minis portfolio has been produced in response to Mars Wrigley’s understanding of traveler needs – specifically, meeting traveling consumers with […]
Strong & Free thrives in duty free
Canadian streetwear brand Strong & Free Emblem is ready to take its three word affirmation from Saint John, New Brunswick all around the world. Now available in fifteen duty free locations across Canada, the brand began with no lofty expectations in 2006. It started with a woman pulling maple leaves off a tree and tracing […]
Bvlgari rejuvenates its image with new luxury thrust
When Jean-Christophe Babin was named CEO of Bvlgari in 2013, he had a clear mandate to enhance the reputation of the iconic Italian luxury brand as a leader in jewelry, watches, and accessories. He brought with him 13 years of experience at the head of LVMH’s hugely successful TAG Heuer watches and a desire to […]
Premier Portfolio targets Americas with high-selling licensed and exclusive products
UK-based Premier Portfolio International Ltd. – the number one supplier of airline logoed products in travel retail – will be presenting a range of new licensed and third-party brands to the trade in Cannes this year, as the company strives to expand its presence in the Americas. Garry Maxwell, Premier Portfolio Sales & Purchasing Director, […]
Mars Wrigley ITR to introduce M&M’s Block in Cannes
Mars Wrigley International Travel Retail (MITR) is introducing M&M’s Block to the global travel retail trade in Cannes. The 165g M&M’s Block chocolate tablets come in five different flavors: Peanut, Crispy, Chocolate, Hazelnut and Almond. They feature a packaging design exclusively designed for travel retail (with the exception of the USA, which will use the established […]
Furla unveils new logo, Spring Summer 2020 collection
Italian accessories brand Furla unveiled its new Spring Summer 2020 Collection on Sept. 18 at Palazzo Isimbardi, one of Milan’s historical palaces. The company also unveiled a new logo, inspired by the architecture of the archway, which it says is reminiscent of Bologna’s world-famous Portici and the archway of Fondazione Furla. Furla says that the […]
Rituals to unveil latest innovations and new travel retail furniture in Cannes
Rituals is returning to TFWA World Exhibition with a brand-new booth (Riviera Village, RC4), where it will present its latest innovations and new travel retail furniture. Specially created for travel retail, the furniture includes a new gondola, gifting fixture and Chinese cabinets. This new furniture will allow the brand to present an extended product assortment, […]
Duty Free Dynamics expands portfolio with addition of more non-traditional lifestyle brands
Panama-based Duty Free Dynamics, which has positioned itself as a Master Franchiser of premier lifestyle brands for the Travel Retail Channel of the Americas, continues to grow by focusing on expanding its non-traditional product categories. The company, which will exhibiting in Cannes for the first time, announces several new additions to its portfolio in the […]
Go Travel celebrates “exponential” growth in the Americas as it sets up first U.S.-based production
Travel accessories company Go Travel posted impressive double-digit increases in the Americas this past year. The UK-based company, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019, has made incredible progress in the Americas market, where it has only been present for the past eight years. In a major step, the company has now set up […]
Travel accessory expert Go Travel commences U.S. production of its pillow lines
Following an unprecedented rise in travel pillow sales, accessories expert, Go Travel has undertaken pillow manufacture in the USA. The move, which saw first production roll off the lines in Spring 2019, is primarily aimed at maintaining the accessory leader’s high production standards while helping to satiate rapidly-increasing demand. Initially, US production will focus on […]
Electronics duty free specialist LAS Worldwide diversifies portfolio with unique high-end specialty spirits
LAS Worldwide, LLC, the two-year-old full service duty free and travel retail distribution company formed by Juan Carlos Alexander, Esq., his brother Andrew Alexander and Victor Garcia in 2017, has now expanded from its initial core electronics products to add liquor to its portfolio. Juan Carlos Alexander says that LAS has added several tequila brands […]
Chopard embarks on a Journey to Sustainable Luxury Perfumery
Chopard’s Haute Parfumerie Collection first unveiled in Cannes in 2017 is now rolling out in select travel retail markets in the Americas. The celebrated Swiss jewelry brand established its own fragrance house after more than two decades of partnership with Coty, guided by the philosophy that places ethics and sustainability at the heart of its […]
Enhancing the sparkle in Swarovski’s travel retail business
Austrian crystal house Swarovski has reconfirmed that travel retail is a strategic priority for the company and has spent the last year reorganizing and strengthening its TR team across the globe, reports Claudia Heskier Schioenning, VP Travel Retail & Global Accounts, who assumed full operative and executive responsibility for the travel retail channel in June […]
Little Switzerland expands with new Breitling, TAG Heuer and Patek Philippe openings as islands recover from hurricanes
Little Switzerland, one of the most important luxury retailers in the Caribbean, is expanding its footprint in the region with several new branded boutiques for Breitling and TAG Heuer, as well as a Patek Philippe Showroom in St. Thomas. As the largest authorized retailer of luxury timepieces in the Caribbean, the company recently opened […]
