Airports in Miami and Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles, California have granted some level of financial assistance to their concessionaires, business partners and airlines in response to the unexpected and steep declines in passenger traffic due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Miami In Miami, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved a $64.8 […]
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Simon Roffe departs from Halewood Wines & Spirits
Halewood Wines & Spirits has confirmed a number of changes to its business structure as a result of the “significant financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.” As well as changes throughout its International markets, the company has also confirmed Simon Roffe, Managing Director Global Travel Retail, will leave the business at the end of April. […]
Inaugural Virtual Travel Retail Expo announced by The Moodie Davitt Report
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary solutions and the current pandemic assailing the world is certainly spurring the travel retail channel to search for creative new ways to do business. The Moodie Davitt Report, for one, has announced plans for a Virtual Travel Retail Expo, to be held on September 9-11, and then on into October, […]
ASUTIL preparing for “the day after”
South American Duty Free Association ASUTIL continues to work diligently with its members and other industry partners looking for ways to ease the financial burden on retailers as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that is decimating travel and travel retail. “People are afraid to travel. The world has stopped. The industry has stopped,” said […]
Sunil Tuli elected APTRA President – as Grant Fleming leaves industry
Sunil Tuli has been elected as the new President of APTRA (Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association), a position he previously held for three consecutive terms from 2007 until 2013. Tuli, a founding board member of APTRA, is Group Chief Executive of King Power Group (Hong Kong) and considered one of the most experienced and respected […]
TFWA President Maingreaud: “We would not be fulfilling our mission if we did not make every effort to make Cannes happen.”
TFWA President Alain Maingreaud held a virtual press briefing on Friday afternoon (Paris time) to ad-dress industry questions following the announcement that the 2020 Tax Free World Exhibition would take place on Sept. 28-Oct. 2, as well as reveal more details of the event. Most questions dealt with the precautions that would be taken to […]
TFWA says Cannes will go on – but with changes
The Tax Free World Association has announced that the 2020 TFWA World Exhibition & Conference will take place as scheduled in Cannes on September 28th – October 2, albeit with a number of sweeping changes to the pricing, format and structure of what is normally the main business event of the year on the travel retail […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 13
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. Special Note: In this era of Giving Back, where acts of kindness are more critical than ever, Travel Markets Insider would like to shine a spotlight on our very own Art Director, Chris Hetzer. Although only […]
T Brands ready to bring premium new brands to Caribbean post-virus
Caribbean and Latin American spirits and wine specialist T Brands had been looking forward to introducing some new unique premium spirits brands at the Summit of the Americas, Tom Browne, T Brands owner tells TMI. “We had some great news to bring to the trade that I was really excited about, such as the award-winning […]
Beam Suntory sets lofty goal to be spirits partner of choice in GTR
Beam Suntory Travel Retail has a clear vision for its business strategy: the company wants to be the preeminent spirits supplier in global travel retail, John Rosair, Beam Suntory Managing Director – APAC & GTR tells TMI. Rosair and Ed Stening, Global Marketing Director – Travel Retail, Beam Suntory, sat down with TMI at the […]
Tito’s, now #1 spirit in the U.S., restructures to leverage domestic popularity overseas
Tito’s Handmade Vodka is surging in popularity around the world, John McDonnell, Tito’s Managing Director, International, tells TMI. In the U.S. Tito’s sales volume increased by more than 20% in 2019 (IWSR) as Smirnoff vodka dropped down as the top-selling distilled spirit in America for the first time in more than a decade. Tito’s reorganization […]
WEBB Banks, on track for record year, plans to resume growth after crisis
WEBB Banks was on its way to delivering its best year ever in 2020 when the COVID-19 hit the region. Now the Americas spirits and wine distribution company is setting itself up for life after the Coronavirus, Andy Consuegra, Managing Director, WEBB Banks, tells TMI. “We grew nicely in 2019, not as fast paced as […]
Impressive growth of UK’s Whitley Neil gins spurs development in Americas travel retail
As the craft gin boom takes the spirits world by storm, Whitley Neil gin’s success in its home UK market has quickly spread to the global travel retail market. “We are the fastest growing premium gin on the planet,” Simon Roffe, Managing Director Global Travel Retail, Halewood Wines & Spirits, tells TMI. “We have secured, […]
Innovation spurs strategic growth of InnoTRI’s boutique distribution
Miami-based specialist distribution company InnoTRI credits innovation and uniqueness – along with flexibility– for the strategic growth the company has enjoyed in the past three years. “The name itself stands for Innovation Travel Retail International,” Christoph Henkel, InnoTRI co-founder and manager tells TMI. “We consider ourselves a boutique distribution company fully dedicated to all our […]
MSC Cruises focuses growth on the U.S. market
Adrian Pittaway, Head of Retail at MSC Cruises, hosted a retail open day in February onboard the Swiss-based company’s newest ship in Miami, the MSC Meraviglia. Some 40 local suppliers and partners such as Heinemann attended, to see the company’s newest ship in which MSC had invested one billion euros, and hear about MSC’s ambitious […]
