BAA joins the Global Travel Retail Summit line-up

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World Duty Free owner BAA is to co-sponsor the first-ever Global Travel Retail Summit in London on June 21-22 being organised by Raven Fox through its business magazine Travel Retailer International.

The powerful UK-based retailer and airport operator will host the first day lunch which will bring together an unprecedented gathering of the industry's top retailers and suppliers. Over 200 industry executives have already booked to attend the event which is expected to be sold out within the next fortnight. A star-studded line-up of speakers includes BAA group retail director Brian Collie, DFS Group chairman Ed Brennan, Inflight Sales Group president Jean-Marcel Rouff and many others from the international travel-retail community.

The closed-doors Summit is themed "Future Positive", underlining its intention to identify and exploit the enormous retail opportunities offered by the travel growth forecast for the next 20 years.

Brian Collie said: "Future Positive is a unique opportunity to share ideas and approaches with colleagues throughout travel retail. We can only be positive about our future if we have ensured that we have as full an understanding as possible of where we are now and of the plans being made for that future. As such, BAA is delighted to sponsor the event as another welcome opportunity for us all to develop closer links and I look forward to meeting industry colleagues from around the world."