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Dufry has announced George Koutsolioutsos has resigned from the company’s Board of Directors with immediate effect. Koutsolioutsos, who also serves as Managing Director of Folli Follie Group, has resigned in order to focus on his other activities. He has been a Director ...

Mike Barnes has joined Paradies Lagardère as Regional Vice President for the North American travel retail giant. Reporting to Senior Vice President of Operations and Loss Prevention Jeff Flowers, Barnes’ new role will see him identifying and facilitating initiatives to ...

Travel retail industry veteran Kevin Baker has announced he is leaving his post as Global Travel Retail Director of Marie Brizard Wines & Spirits (MBWS) on 29 June to pursue personal interests. Baker told DFNI Stanislas (Stan) de Parcevaux, Group Chief Marketing ...

Gebr Heinemann has announced Markus Ettlin has stepped down from his position as Marketing Director, a position he held for the past 18 years. His departure was mutually planned, with gratitude being expressed by both Ettlin and the Heinemann board. A ...

Francois Bourienne, Chief Commercial Officer for AGS Airports, has been elected as the new Chair of the UK Travel Retail Forum (UKTRF). He replaces outgoing Chair Sarah Branquinho, the External Affairs Director at travel retail giant Dufry who had served ...

DFNI has dropped anchor in Rome for its Cruise & Ferry Retail Conference, On the Crest of a Wave. See below for live updates from Digital & Asia Editor Liam Coleman as a stellar line-up of industry experts from the maritime ...

Imperial Brands, the British multinational tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, has announced the departure of its Head of Corporate Affairs and Compliance, Dr Jennifer Cords. She has left to pursue other interests, leaving a senior role in which she looked ...

London-headquartered Portland Design, which has worked with some of the biggest names in travel retail, has promoted two of its senior designers, Neil Isles and Graham Needham, to Associate level. Isles has been with the company since 2012 and has ...

Soulcial Trust, a Siem Reap-based NGO focusing on social and environmental issues, has received renewed and new generous donations from the corporate social responsibility programmes of several travel retail companies. India’s Bommidala Group and Swiss research agency m1nd-set, have both ...

Swiss beautytronics company Lifetrons has confirmed the appointment of Alynn Lutz as Managing Director and President of the Board for the company’s Swiss headquarters. Lutz joined Lifetrons in 2011 and was most recently deputy to the company’s CEO and Creative ...

DFASS Group, the Miami-headquartered airport, inflight and border store and retailing giant, has made a key new appointment, after securing the services of Mike Osorio as President Organisational Change & Effectiveness. This is a newly-created strategic role at DFASS, which ...

It is with deep sadness that DFNIonline reports Samuel Kauffmann, one of the founding members of South American duty free association ASUTIL, passed away on 18 May 2018. ASUTIL was inaugurated in 1995 by a group of South American duty ...

ARI Chief Executive Jack MacGowan is to step down from his position at the end of the month to pursue a new opportunity. Until a new Chief Executive is appointed, ARI’s Chief Financial Officer Anthony Kenny will be Acting CEO ...

Arnold André, the cigar and pipe tobacco specialist which is prominent in travel retail, is appointing two new managing directors. Mathias Döring will take primary responsibility for the Finances and Administration, Human Resources and Procurement divisions and Thomas Strickrock will ...

Dufry, the Swiss travel-retail giant, held its Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) this week where it re-elected members of its board of directors. The Board of Directors’ proposals to re-elect Juan Carlos Torres Carretero as member and Chairman of the Board of ...