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News ArchivesDecember 2003/January 2004
The great airport adventure
Facing a year of stagnation, Abu Dhabi Duty Free found a way to turn what could have been a disaster into a template for future success. John Rimmer talks to managing director Mohamed Mounib
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Weitnauer/Dufry: rebirth of a duty-free legend
This year could mark the rebirth of Weitnauer as a genuine global player in travel-retail. No longer dependent on its duty-free distribution business, the company is determined to focus on retail, and retail alone. In an exclusive interview, ceo Frédéric Gauchet tells John Rimmer about the operator?s plan to return to its pioneering origins.
View Full Contents >>August/September 2003
The tender trap: balancing risk and reward
In our last issue BAA group retail director Brian Collie argued for a new way of thinking about relationships between landlords, retailers and suppliers. In June the industry gathered in London for the Trinity Forum to discuss precisely such a change. Gavin Lipsith examines what is at stake, and asks whether the event succeeded where others have failed.
View Full Contents >>June/July 2003
Leading landlords
With a wealth of airport retail performance indicators now available, isn?t it time to measure perhaps the most important factor of all?what the passengers make of it? The Global Airport Monitor does just that. Joe Bates analyses the top airports in each of the four size categories to find out what makes them so good.
View Full Contents >>April/May 2003
Struggling to cope with SARS
The pulsing heart of Asia?s travel-retail business is slowing to a dull beat, clogged by the effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As both business and leisure travellers heed the World Health Organization (WHO) warnings to avoid mainland China and Hong Kong, the travel and tourism industry across the whole of Asia is feeling the strain. TRI?s Asia correspondent Anna Fenton reports from Hong Kong on the spiralling effects on travel-retail.
View Full Contents >>February/March 2003
Straight talker
The Nuance Group ceo North America Roger Dunbar is not afraid to challenge the archaic legacy of old-style duty-free retailing. Nor does he pull his punches on suppliers, suggesting that the retail aspect of the business should be left to the experts. In TRI?s exclusive interview, he talks candidly to Adele Wolstenhulme.
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