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DFNI is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Asia Pacific Awards for Travel Retail Excellence. Finalists from travel retail companies leading in their fields across Asia Pacific gathered for a cocktail event yesterday evening during the TFWA Asia Pacific ...

Tax Free World Association (TFWA) President Erik Juul-Mortensen has revealed the much-anticipated figures from Generation Research, which show the duty-free industry’s performance in 2017. Revealing the preliminary findings at the TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference in Singapore, Juul-Mortensen said ...

Rituals has expanded its travel retail presence in the Middle East and entered the Asian market for the first time. The brand has opened a shop-in-shop at the DFS store in Abu Dhabi International Airport and commenced trading from a pop-up ...

The DFNI team was on the ground bringing you all the goings on from the annual TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore. Here are the latest updates from DFNI ...

Shiseido Travel Retail has opened a new travel retail counter for its IPSA skincare range at King Power International Group’s Rangnam Complex in downtown Bangkok. This is Shiseido’s first such installation for IPSA outside of Japan, and comes just four ...

The luxury travel retailer DFS Group has teamed up with Swiss brand Bally to release a new pair of sneakers as a travel-retail exclusive. A replica of one of Bally’s most “iconic” products, the DFS x Bally Galaxy sneaker for ...

Duty Free International (DFI), Malaysia’s largest duty-free retailing group, has reported a sharp fall in profits in its 2018 full year results (the 12 months to the end of February 2018) against a backdrop of net foreign exchange losses. Total ...

The best of the Asia/Pacific duty-free industry will soon become clear, as the finalists have been revealed for this year’s DFNI Asia Awards. Broken up into 13 categories, the shortlist sees companies from across the region and all channels of ...

Luxury duty-free retailer DFS Group has partnered with watchmaker Cartier to jointly host an exhibition showcasing the new range of Santos de Cartier timepieces. Running until the end of May at T Galleria by DFS, Macau, Shoppes At Four Seasons, the digital exhibition “harnesses ...

Watch highlights of the DFNI Charity Ball. The event at London’s Royal Lancaster, which included the DFNI Global Awards, saw the leading figures of the travel-retail industry gather to raise more than £24,000 for the Akanksha Foundation. The full list ...

The luxury travel retailer DFS Group has held a gala celebration to officially open its newly-renovated T Galleria by DFS in downtown Sydney. The revamped store, which stretches over 6,500sqm, is located on George Street in the popular Sydney precinct, The Rocks, just a short ...

Premier Tax Free, the Ireland-headquartered specialist in multi-currency payment processing and the management of tax-free shopping for international tourists, has broken into the Russian market for the first time. The company has just issued, on 11 April, its first Electronic Tax ...

DFS Group has once again been named as Travel Retailer of the Year at the DFNI Global Awards for travel-retail excellence, retaining the title it won in 2017. The retailer was announced at the winner at the 14th annual ceremony, ...

Lotte Duty Free is staging a series of events to mark its 50th anniversary for the Golden Holiday, which runs May 13-31. The South Korean travel retailer will host 50 “tournaments” for domestic tourists with prizes such as prepaid cards ...

The French multi-national luxury products group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton recorded revenue of €10.85bn ($13.37bn) in the first quarter of 2018, a reported increase of 10%. Organic growth was 13% compared to the same period in 2017 and it was ...