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Are we fighting the wrong battle?Are we fighting the wrong battle?
Dermot Davitt
1-Feb-2006
If the industry spent a little more time targeting the consumer rather than each other, the benefits would be great. And with growing competition from other sales channels, travel-retail needs to act now
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There's a precarious balance between the consumer brands that populate the world's duty-free stores and the retail brands that house them. The retailer-supplier struggle for space and margin is constant,
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