The 2023 DFA Charity Golf Tournament, partnering with the Miami dolphins football team, scored a win in the fight against cancer by successfully raising a record $1 million to support leading-edge research and treatments at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. This year the monies raised by the […]
Neither threatening weather, a cold drizzle in Miami or a lingering pandemic could dampen the high spirits that boosted the 2022 DFA Charity Golf Tournament on Feb. 9, which raised a staggering $375,000 for the Mourning Family Foundation (formerly known as Alonzo Mourning Charities), and its Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine initiatives. The Duty Free industry […]
The Macallan Single Malt Scotch Whisky has partnered with Duty Free Americas to unveil The Macallan’s new retail experience at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport Terminal 7 – the first opening of the brand’s global Boutique program in the Americas. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by senior representatives from Edrington Global Travel Retail, […]
Duty Free Americas (DFA) has become the first travel retailer in the world to launch Pat McGrath cosmetics. The official launch was celebrated on June 17th at DFA’s flagship 11,500 square foot store in the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel. One of the most influential and sought-after makeup artists in the world, Pat McGrath has created countless […]
Duty Free Americas (DFA) today announced that it will be the world’s second travel retail company to offer Huda Beauty products. The Huda Beauty corner will be located in DFA’s 11,500 square foot store in the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel and will feature a variety of Huda Beauty’s most popular products. The fast-growing Huda Beauty […]
Duty Free Americas Duty Free Americas has recently opened a few of its stores in Miami International Airport, confirms DFA CEO Jerome Falic. As reported last month, DFA has retained an Aventura-based physician, Dr. Michael Braun, to guide the company as it gets ready to re-open select stores closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We […]
Congratulations to Duty Free Americas and the Falic Family Foundation for raising $350,000 for the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Miami at yesterday’s (Feb. 6) DFA Charity Golf Tournament. The Duty Free industry in the Americas came out in record numbers to support the Foundation and its very worthwhile charity partner this year. Here are […]
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 […]
Miami- and Panama-based travel retailer Duty Free Americas (DFA) is once again expanding its business, entering both a new channel and a new geographic region, commencing next month. DFA and Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) last week announced a strategic collaboration to launch an inflight duty free retail program. This is the travel retailer’s first inflight […]
Duty Free Americas and the Falic Family Foundation raised $325,000 from its 5th annual Charity Golf Tournament held in Miami on Jan. 31. The funds, collected through the Falic family and the travel retail industry, were donated to the Children’s Tumor Foundation, which provides research, expands knowledge, and advances care for NF (all forms of […]
Duty Free Americas is also garnering recognition on the other side of the world from the Uruguay border. DFA was awarded 2018’s Best Store Performance – General Retail Award for its store in Shoppes at Venetian, Macau, China last month. The Sands Retail Awards ceremony is held annually to recognize and reward retailers for their […]
Duty Free Americas last week opened the doors to its major shopping and entertainment complex in the city of Rio Branco in Uruguay. A unique proposal in the region, the free shop is operating under the name Panda Free Shop, as part of the new Rio Branco Shopping. The Shopping center also comprises several commercial […]
Airport food and beverage operator SSP has announced it will be entering the South American travel market for the first time after securing contracts with two of Brazil’s main international airports in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The agreement is a joint venture partnership between SSP and Duty Free Americas (DFA) that is worth […]
Panama’s Tocumen International Airport is going through a major transformation, driven in large part by the new stores recently opened by Duty Free Americas. The makeover is immediately visible as travelers pass through Tocumen’s main security checkpoint in Terminal 1where they are greeted by two brightly lit, welcoming Duty Free Americas stores sporting a […]
Motta Internacional and Duty Free Americas have each won a block in the duty free tender at Tocumen International Airport’s Terminal 2. The 10-year contracts cover the operation of multi-category duty free stores in Tocumen’s new terminal, which is scheduled to open in the first semester of 2019. The new terminal will increase capacity at […]
