International News

(15-Nov-2006) In light of the situation at airports across the world since the foiled terrorist plot of August 10, this year’s opening conference was always going to be a serious affair, and the speaker line-up of French minister for foreign trade Christine Lagarde and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder promised to offer a stimulating insight into the high-level decisions that are likely to determine the new framework in which the airport duty-free industry will operate

(9-Nov-2006) The retailer is to wind down its partnership with Crossbar Associates while leaving the way open for possible future cooperation

(9-Nov-2006) The airports group announces the appointment of Martin Flower as chairman

(9-Nov-2006)

(9-Nov-2006) Confectionery's growing status as a core product category has been one of travel-retail's most remarkable stories in recent years. Michael Eaton assesses the reasons for the sector's success and talks to some of the people responsible

(7-Nov-2006) The inability for transfer passengers flying into Europe to take liquid duty-free items purchased outside the EU has prompted a call for a global security standard from ACI Europe

(6-Nov-2006) Airport operator TAV plans to launch an IPO in 2007 to fund its international growth

(30-Oct-2006) Coty Prestige travel-retail marketing manager Markus Stauss has been promoted to sales director travel-retail North America with immediate effect

(17-Oct-2006) Longchamp has been receiving a lot of attention this year. Some daring moves are now paying off for the leathergoods house, and travel-retail is set to benefit. Kevin Rozario talks to managing director Jean Cassegrain about a busy year

(17-Oct-2006) Americans are the second-highest spenders when travelling abroad, behind the Germans, and are a key revenue earner for Canadian, Latin American, European, Caribbean and Asian travel retailers. But fortunes in these markets are mixed, writes Sandra Newman