Europe News

(18-Dec-2006) The European Union’s ruling on inbound traveller allowances will allow governments to adopt their own limits on the amount of duty-free tobacco passengers can bring into their countries, industry campaigners have warned

(18-Dec-2006) More tobacco news

(18-Dec-2006) Swiss luxury jewellery and watch supplier Chopard has received proposals from 13 retailers and airport authorities to open new boutiques in travel-retail

(18-Dec-2006) Monaco-based pearl jewellery supplier Misaki has opened new store displays in seven locations in recent months

(18-Dec-2006) Fine jewellery sales at cruiseship operator Carnival Corp have shown higher increases than in any other category in the past two to five years, DFNI understands

(18-Dec-2006) Well-being concept Rejuve has closed its outlet at London Heathrow terminal one eight months after it opened

(18-Dec-2006) Stretch mark-reducing cream turned anti-ageing brand StriVectin is to step up its travel-retail presence and is seeking partners and distributors to back its expansion plans

(18-Dec-2006) UK. The Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) plan to refer BAA to the Competition Commission is a blow for the UK airports group and new owner Grupo Ferrovial, as are the damning results of the OFT’s market study on the UK airports industry

(18-Dec-2006) Caffè Florian, operator of the famous bistro/cafe in Venice’s Piazza San Marco for almost 300 years, has expanded in travel-retail after two years of exhibiting at the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes, and is keen to develop retail partnerships

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