Amázzoni, the award-winning premium gin being introduced to travel retail at the Summit of the Americas through Duty Free Global this year, is a 100% Brazilian product from its ingredients to its manufacturing. “Amázzoni, which today is the most widely sold craft gin in Brazil, was the first Brazilian gin,” explains its creator, Arturo Isola. […]
CCR Aeroportos, the company that manages the Foz do Iguaçu International Airport, has signed a partnership with Cellshop Duty Free, the largest land border store in Brazil, for opening a Duty Free Shop at the airport. The store, which will cover nearly 800 square meters of space, will be located in the domestic departure and […]
Miami-based Essence Corp. has taken full advantage of the opening of border stores on the Brazilian side of the border to help bolster its sales of perfumes and cosmetics during the course of the pandemic. Essence Corp. Vice President of Sales Antoine Bona tells TMI that the border openings permitted his distribution company to add […]
Lancôme Travel Retail Americas and Dufry have partnered to open Lancôme’s biggest flagship in South America. The 43sqm store opened at the international departures area of Terminal 3 of São Paulo International Airport (GRU Airport) on January 31, 2021. Lancôme’s new flagship features numerous eye-catching screens and embraces the values of the brand – joy, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Latin America at the end of February this year. Initially, cases were few and far between and the speedy introduction of lockdowns and border closings by most governments helped control the spread of the virus. But in the second quarter of the year Brazil swiftly became one of the worst […]
In spite of closed borders throughout Latin America, several duty free stores are continuing to operate on the Uruguay – Brazil border. The stores on the Uruguayan side of the border are looking after the shopping needs of their Brazilian customers, who reside in neighboring twin towns immediately adjacent to their Uruguayan border. The depressed […]
The first border duty free shop in the Brazilian state of Paraná –under the name of Sky Duty Free– is due to open within a matter of weeks. So far, following the approval of legislation in Brazil permitting duty free stores in 33 cities, the only store openings have been in the state of Rio […]
The Brazilian Ministry of Economy has officially confirmed that the duty free allowance for travelers entering Brazil via a land border will increase from $US300 to $US500 from January 1 2020. Ordinance No 601 confirming the new allowance has already been published in the State Gazette. This measure follows on from a previous announcement on October15, […]
The first Latin American Border conference welcomed 170 registered delegates at the Sheraton Porto Alegre last week, who gathered to discover details of how the new land border duty free stores in Brazil will operate. The conference was jointly organized by South American duty free association ASUTIL and CEFSU, the Chamber of Uruguayan Free Shop […]
SSP Group, in a partnership with Duty Free Americas, has opened its first outlets at Brazil’s two main international airports, Rio de Janeiro Tom Jobim International Airport (RIOgaleão) and São Paulo International Airport (GRU Airport). The new units are the first to open under a joint venture partnership between SSP and DFA, following the win of […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s Twitter announcement that the Brazilian government will confirm new duty free allowances within the next few days came as no surprise to Latin American duty free industry observers. The current allowances have been in place since 1991 and over the last few months there have been several calls to bring them […]
Dufry has signed a new contract to expand its presence at the Florianópolis International Airport, in Brazil, which is managed by Flughafen Zürich AG. The new contract includes two duty free and one duty-paid shop totaling 650 sq meters of additional sales space in the new airport terminal, which will be opened in October 2019. […]
Dufry officially opened its first Brazil duty free border shop on August 22. The store is located in Uruguaiana, one of the most important cities in the South of Brazil, at the border to Argentina. With a retail space of 850 sqm, the shop offers an assortment of prestige international brands similar to those seen […]
An additional two duty free stores have been authorized to open by the Receita Federal, the Brazilian Customs Authorities. Emporio Duty Free, owned by JR Correa & Cia and situated in Barra do Quarai (Sister town of Bella Union in Uruguay) and New York Comercio Importacao-Exportacao located in Uruguaiana are the two new members of […]
The International Monetary Fund cut its outlook for global growth to the lowest rate since the financial crisis in its latest outlook issued in April. The world economy will grow 3.3 % this year, down from the 3.5 % the IMF had forecast for 2019 in January, according to the latest World Economic Outlook. World trade, which had been growing at about 5%, expanded by 3.8% last year and is forecast to rise 3.4% in 2019. Latin America is particularly hard hit, […]
