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Alpha opens café in Bucharest airportAlpha opens café in Bucharest airport
12-Jul-2006
The UK retailer opened a World News Café at Bucharest Henri Coanda—formerly Otopeni—airport yesterday (July 11)
In a bid to build its presence in Eastern Europe, Alpha Airports Group has opened a World News Café at Bucharest Henri Coanda—formerly Otopeni—airport. The €5m ($6.3m) project was unveiled by CEO Peter Williams yesterday (July 11) before an audience of dignitaries and invited guests.Williams said: "We are keen to strategically position Alpha at the heart of this growing region, as it evolves through EU expansion and integration. As a leader in providing retailing and catering expertise to airports and airlines, Alpha has the ideal portfolio to participate in forthcoming projects such as the retail opportunities following expansion here and the airport catering opportunities at Baneasa airport."
A recent decision by the Romanian government to bring forward the closure of the country's border duty-free stores coincided with the announcement that it was considering reinstating airport duty-free, which was banned in September 2002. A tender for the business at Henri Coanda airport could follow later this year.
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(15-Jul-2006) - What bureaucrats give with one hand, they take away with the other. So it will doubtless prove in Romania, where the authorities' decision to close all duty-free border shops within less than three months is likely to coincide with a move to restore airport duty-free in the country, almost four years after it was banned in controversial circumstances (DFNI September 15 2002)
(19-Feb-2007) - Alpha Retail has unveiled its eighth World News Café, at Edinburgh airport’s new £19m ($37.4m) terminal extension
(16-Apr-2002) - ROMANIA. As the dispute between the Romanian government and Bucharest Otopeni airport operator EDF Asro escalates, the retailer?s stores at Otopeni have been closed and its office electricity supply and telephone lines disconnected.
(31-Mar-2005) - The retailer will open a World News Café at the UK airport later this spring
(9-Apr-2002) -