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ASUTIL report: Ten years on board the rollercoasterASUTIL report: Ten years on board the rollercoaster
1-Sep-2005
There are times when trading in Latin America is not for the faint-hearted. Yet the region's travel-retail association ASUTIL has proved its staying power, and this year celebrates 10 years representing South American operators. DFNI talks to the association's president and co-founder Samuel Kauffmann about the association's past, present and future
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Many members of the travel-retail industry would be delighted to travel back in time to 1994 or 1995. The word "abolition" was yet to enter common parlance in Europe, the
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