Comment by editor-in-chief Dermot Davitt

(28-Sep-2002) - DFNI editor-in-chief Dermot Davitt gave the audience a brief synopsis of the state of play with regard to the World Health Organization?s proposed ban on duty-free tobacco.

(4-Feb-2003) -

(16-Jan-2003) - Let?s welcome the announcement of a new World Council that draws together the trade?s associations, even if it is nearly four years too late to save intra-EU duty-free. And even if it arrives just as the battle to save duty-free tobacco goes down to the wire, probably making it too late to make a difference.

(1-Feb-2003) - By Dermot DavittUS. From 2005 the Duty Free Show of the Americas will adopt a more unified format with exhibitors in a single area, in contrast to the current arrangement of separate trade floor and suites in Orlando.

(3-Dec-2002) - By Dermot Davitt  Editor In Chief