Avolta (formerly Dufry) and private airport operating group Corporación America Airports, have forged a partnership to “revolutionize” travel retail in Uruguay, in a collaborative initiative aimed at elevating the airport retail experience. The partnership is establishing what it calls a “novel business model” by leveraging the combined expertise of duty free retail and airport management as master concessionaire for travel […]
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YSL takes over TR Americas with avant-première of MYSELF
YSL Travel Retail Americas launched MYSLF, the latest masculine fragrance, throughout the region in September, in the brand’s most extensive online and offline takeover to date. The fragrance made its avant-première debut in Latin America, where it is expected to arrive in Local Market only in Q1 2024. YSL Beauty says that it set out […]
Dufry Group to rebrand as Avolta: A unified brand reflecting the Dufry-Autogrill business combination
In one of the biggest news stories of Cannes 2023, Dufry Group announced that it will become Avolta, a new brand identity representing the Dufry and Autogrill combination. Announced on the first Monday night of the TFWA World Exhibition, the company says that the new name unifies the travel […]
Lancôme takes over Americas airports with All-Star campaign for La Vie Est Belle
Lancôme paid tribute to its #1 fragrance, La Vie Est Belle , uniting for the first time its all-women ambassador team in the Americas through premium retail experiences and media takeover, from Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York to Brazil and Argentina under the ALL-STARS campaign. Julia Roberts invites the whole Lancôme community of […]
Hudson wins duty free concession, expands duty-paid operations at Boston Logan Int’l Airport
Dufry, under its Hudson division, has been awarded a 12-year duty free contract at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), as well as a 3-year extension for its duty paid business. Under the new contracts, Hudson will open 16 new stores in Boston by 2024, consisting of eight new duty paid and eight duty free stores. […]
Moët Hennessy Travel Retail opens its first Hennessy Boutique in Jamaica’s Montego Bay Airport
Moët Hennessy Travel Retail has opened the first Hennessy boutique in the Americas travel retail market. The 56-square-meter Hennessy shop-in-shop, situated in the Dufry departure store at Montego Bay Airport in Jamaica, is poised to offer a bespoke experience in the Americas region. The boutique offers travelers a selection of travel retail exclusive cognacs, including […]
Campari Group GTR blends physical and digital at world’s first Appleton Estate boutique in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Campari Group has opened a permanent Appleton Estate Jamaican rum boutique at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The boutique, prominently located near the entrance of the Dufry walk-in store, is Campari’s largest ever investment in global travel retail, and blends physical and digital elements to create an omni-channel experience. A sensorial journey Travel […]
Dufry announces new Global Executive Committee to drive its “Travel Experience Revolution”
Following the closing of the Dufry– Autogrill merger, Dufry announced its new organizational structure as it sets up a joint com-pany with Autogrill to drive its “Travel Experience Revolution.” Dufry announced changes to the Global Executive Committee (GEC) of the combined Group on February 7, 2023. The newly constituted GEC will be instrumental in delivering […]
Dufry reports organic growth of 144.5% in Q1
Dufry’s first quarter 2022 performance showed considerable improvement and was driven by significant progress across EMEA and positive contributions from the Americas, especially the U.S. and Central America & Caribbean Turnover reached CHF 1,118.6 million, an organic growth of 144.5% compared to the previous year. Dufry’s Equity Free Cash Flow (EFCF) performed substantially better versus […]
Hershey World Travel Retail launches high-impact Reese’s campaign with Dufry
Hershey’s World Travel Retail team will celebrate the launch of a new Reese’s brand campaign in duty free stores around the world with Dufry in May. The campaign asks consumers to “Show Us How You Reese’s,” celebrating the many ways to eat Reese’s. Whether one explores it, nibbles it, bites it or devours it, the […]
Dufry extends La Romana duty free concession in the Dominican Republic for 10 years
Global travel retailer Dufry has extended its duty free concession at La Romana Int. Airport & Seaport (AILR & CPLR) in the Dominican Republic for another 10 years. The company has been opera-ting at La Romana for more than 14 years, where the combined airport and seaport location welcomes more than 700,000 passengers a year, […]
Hudson debuts innovative shop-in-shop experience store –Evolve by Hudson
Travel retail leader Hudson continues to up its game in U.S. airports, creating some of the most innovative and experiential stores in the industry. This week, Hudson revealed its latest eye-catching and welcoming new concept, Evolve by Hudson (Evolve), a shop-in-shop store that will blend a specialty brand experience with the accessibility of travel essentials […]
Dufry’s Diaz “positive on the opportunities” ahead, as 1H 2021 shows gradual improvement
With its performance driven by the U.S. and Central America & Caribbean due to successful vaccination campaigns and more flexible travel protocols, travel retail giant Dufry reported gradual improvements for the first half of 2021, as Dufry CEO Julian Diaz reiterated that the company was “positive on the opportunities lying ahead” of it as it […]
Dufry wins new, five-year duty-free contract at Cayenne International Airport in French Guiana
Dufry has won a new, five-year concession contract to operate the duty free shop at Cayenne – Felix Eboué International Airport in French Guiana, the French over-seas department located in the north of South America. Cayenne airport served 550,000 passengers in 2019. This concession win further consolidates Dufry’s footprint in Central and South America, which […]
Hudson leadership changes: Roger Fordyce to step down as CEO to be succeeded by Jordi Martin-Consuegra
Hudson Group has announced that Chief Executive Officer Roger Fordyce will be stepping down as of June 30, 2021, after more than 30 years of distinguished service with the company, the last three as CEO. He will continue to support Hudson in an advisory capacity moving forward. With more than three decades of travel retail […]
