Land Border Stores

The Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA) has revealed a refreshed format to its convention ahead of the 2018 event. As anticipated (DFNI December 2017), the trade floor has been removed to improve cost and effectiveness of the show, which will ...

House 99, the personal grooming brand created by footballer and celebrity David Beckham, has ramped up its presence in airport travel retail as it targets a ‘new travelling customer’. House 99 aims to demystify men’s grooming needs and encourage self-expression ...

Hendrick’s brand-owner, William Grant & Sons, is inviting travellers to celebrate World Cucumber Day today (14 June) – in partnership with key players in global travel retail including DFS, Dufry, Delhi Duty Free, Harding Retail, Heinemann and Lagardère Travel Retail. The ‘eccentric and ...

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 ...

Duty-free sales in Canada/US border stores and in Canadian airports have seen significant across-the-board growth during March 2018, according to new figures released by the Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA). Overall sales in border shops on the Canadian side of the US-Canada border for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jordanian Duty Free Shops has reported a 21.9% increase in sales for the first quarter of 2018. The operator of 16 land and sea border stores in the kingdom saw total sales of JD26.38m ($37.18m) of sales in January, February ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It is the last chance for stakeholders in the duty-free industry to be recognised as the best of the Asian market, as entry for the DFNI Asia Awards for travel-retail excellence in Asia closes on April 1. The Asia Awards will recognise ...

Dufry says it has taken a milestone step into alternative travel-retail channels after securing the tender to operate duty-free stores at the new railway station set to connect Hong Kong with mainland China. The duty-free retailer has announced it has ...

We are one step closer to discovering the cream of the crop in the world of travel-retail, as the shortlist for this year’s DFNI Global Awards has been revealed. Fresh from winning two awards at this week’s DFNI Americas Awards, ...