Montreal meeting yields security breakthrough n Formal resolution expected within weeks. Agreement to set benchmark for bilateral discussions across the world.

It’s becoming harder to distinguish between high street and duty-free fashion offers in some locations. But not all retailers are getting it right. Kevin Rozario reports

Few women in fashion are as powerful as Sung-joo Kim. A serial entrepreneur, she has demonstrated her ambition with her latest baby, MCM. She is determined to make the German brand a global success and is using travel-retail to that end. Kevin Rozario finds out what’s behind her drive to succeed

Although recent security issues dominated last month’s ACI Trading conference in Monaco, airports and retailers presented a broadly optimistic view of the industry’s future. DFNI reports

DFS Group once again collected the top prize at the 2007 Raven Fox Global Travel Retail Awards, held on February 16. DFNI presents a full report on this year’s winners