The Ottawa International Airport Authority has named SSP Canada and Paradies Lagardère the Master Concessionaires for food, beverage, and retail. The YOW airport authority said that a key consideration in the decision was that Ottawa-Gatineau is reflected in the terminal offers. SSP Canada will add local Canadian brands Big Rig Brewery, Bridgehead Coffee, La Bottega […]
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Pillitteri Estates Winery, official wine supplier for the Canadian Olympic Committee, releases “Team Canada” Wine
Pillitteri Estates Winery, which entered into a partnership with the Canadian Olympic Team and the Canadian Olympic Committee to produce a special branded Pillitteri wine for Team Canada and the “be Olympic” movement, held a special ceremony last month for the release of the “Team Canada” wine. Pillitteri and the Canadian Olympic Committee worked closely […]
Luxottica and Scuderia Ferrari Watches race into Montreal with Aer Rianta International in cross-category initiative
Luxottica Group and Scuderia Ferrari Watches, designed, manufactured and distributed worldwide by Movado Group, Inc., have partnered with Aer Rianta International to host a traffic-stopping motor sport-themed cross-category promotion at Montréal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Through this collaboration, a first for all three parties, The Loop Duty Free store hosted a retailtainment activation coinciding […]
Canadian duty free sales drop in March
Canadian airport sales were down 10% in March 2019 with land border sales dropping 2.76%, according to the latest statistics provided by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). However, airport sales for the first three months of the year are up 4.39% versus the January-March period in 2018. Land border sales fell 1.14% for the […]
Peace Bridge Duty Free celebrates reopening after major renovation
Peace Bridge Duty Free held the grand re-opening of its newly renovated duty free store on July 10 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration attended by dozens of partners and customers. The updated store, which is nearly 18,000 sqf in size, took nearly a year of construction to complete. By working on one half of […]
Remembering Gisèle Bachand, 1926-2019: The founder and “essence” of Boutique Hors-taxes de Philipsburg passed away in March
As many of our readers may know, Gisèle Bachand, founder of duty free store Boutique Hors-taxes de Philipsburg in Quebec, Canada, passed away on March 7th at the age of 92. The amazing Gisèle opened the Philipsburg duty free store in 1988 at the age of 63–operating as president and buyer for more than 23 years. As […]
Crystal Head brings sense of place to Montreal
Canadian brand Crystal Head Vodka has installed its first permanent personalized wall display at Aer Rianta International North America’s international departures store at Montreal Trudeau International Airport. The custom-built unit was launched in December 2018, says Pauline Bonhomme, Buyer at ARI Montreal Airport. “The objective is to enhance and amplify the brand image, introduce newness […]
GTAA plans major new development at Toronto Pearson with The Design Studio
he Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA) recently appointed London-based The Design Solution to carry out the commercial planning across terminals 1 and 2 as well as the environmental design of the commercial areas of Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The project marks the sixth collaboration between The Design Solution and GTAA, extending back […]
Canada breaks its tourism record for second year in a row
For the second consecutive year, Canada had its best tourism year ever in 2018 with 21.13 million travelers to the country, according to Destination Canada, Canada’s national marketing organization. This is an increase of 1.2% from 2017, which had previously set the record. US visitors (14.44 million, +1.4%) continued to make up the majority of […]
YVR announces revamped Food and Beverage and Retail options
Working with SSP Canada, San Francisco-based boutique airport restaurant operator Tastes on the Fly, and Paradies Lagardère, the new options include many first-time concepts to YVR, and will complement the airport’s existing portfolio of more than 170 shops, services and restaurants located before and after security. “Our vision for YVR’s commercial experience is to remain […]
Canadian airport DF sales up 6% in 2018, land border sales flat
Duty free sales at Canadian airports reached $486.6 million in 2018, up 6.65% versus 2017, reports the Canada Border Services Agency. Perfume, Cosmetics, Skincare, the number one category in Canada’s airports with 37.47% of sales, jumped 11.97% for the year. Number two category Alcohol (20% of sales) rose 3.3% in 2018. Tobacco, with 10% of sales, increased 10.63%. […]
Vancouver International Airport’s traffic soars to new record in 2018
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) had another year of record-breaking growth in 2018, welcoming more than 25.9 million passengers, a 7.3% increase over 2017. YVR reached its 25 million passenger milestone two years ahead of its forecast. More than 12.1 million domestic passengers traveled through the airport in 2018, up 6.1%. Inter-national passengers (including transborder) reached […]
Sault Ste. Marie Duty Free: Fishing for partners in the North
In TMI’s continuing series on the Gold Standard winners of the Frontier Duty Free Association for 2018, Sault Ste. Marie Duty Free Store nabbed the top Marketing award by taking partnership marketing to a new level in order to increase its day to day customer base. Located on the Canadian side of the International Bridge […]
FDFA 2018 General Operators Meeting opening session: FDFA President Abe Taqtaq reviews past year with pride and optimism
FDFA President Abe Taqtaq, of Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Duty Free Shop, opened the 2018 Operator General meeting with a very upbeat welcome. “This year I am more excited and optimistic to open our meeting knowing what is in store for the FDFA future,” he said, discussing the enthusiasm and accomplishments of the current Board of Directors, which was elected two […]
IGL Duty Free wins FDFA’s Best New Idea Award with WeChat/Alipay options
Montreal-based Importations Guay Ltee. (IGL) won the Best New Idea Award at the Frontier Duty Free Association’s Gold Standard Awards at its annual convention in Toronto last week by introducing payment options for its growing base of Chinese customers. IGL, which has seen an influx of Chinese visitors over the past several years with […]
