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Gavin Lipsith
15-Jan-2007
The travel-retail industry has never been good at protecting its own interests. Witness the slow response to the threat of intra-EU duty-free abolition in the 1990s, or the many times that retailers have discovered threats to their duty-free tobacco business through reports in the local media
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Dealing with regulations just seems to be something we’re not very good at. Over the past few years the European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has proved to be one of........
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