International News

(2-Nov-2005) Joe Porcelli, Lancaster Group Worldwide vice-president travel-retail and export, is to lead the group's travel-retail division and the integration of the Unilever Cosmetics International (UCI) portfolio, which it acquired in May this year for $800m

(2-Nov-2005) Industry-supported fund swells to $370,000

(1-Nov-2005) It's been a busy year of concession changes in the duty-free industry, with some tender outcomes carrying significance beyond their immediate locations. DFNI assesses some of the most intriguing results of the year so far

(1-Nov-2005) INTERNATIONAL. Announcing its nine-month results, LMVH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton said DFS Group had continued to make "good progress" thanks to a recovery in tourism in key markets and a strong management strategy

(1-Nov-2005) For those of us who thought that the threat to duty-free tobacco sales started and ended with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), 2005 has been an education

(1-Nov-2005) Microdermabrasion brand DermaNew will make its duty-free debut in North America later this year through travel-retail consultancy Beauty2market,which was appointed to develop the brand's worldwide travel-retail strategy in September

(1-Nov-2005) Merchandising by category rather than by brand owner is the most effective way to increase confectionery sales

(1-Nov-2005) Multi Duty Free Dept (MDFD), which was established a year ago by former Dufre partner Paolo Berentzen and his wife Dagmar following the liquidation of the agency (DFNI Nov 15 2004), will celebrate its first anniversary with its own stand in Cannes (Blue Village, stand C3)

(1-Nov-2005) Kraft Foods World Travel Retail, one of the first companies to recognise duty-free confectionery as a specialised discipline, is restructuring its approach in recognition of important changes in the marketplace

(1-Nov-2005) This month the new head of Maxxium Global Travel Retail, Erik Juul-Mortensen, begins his bid to consolidate the company's position as one of the industry's most influential liquor suppliers. He talks John Rimmer through the company's new global structure and its ambitious targets for growth