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Haikou International Duty-Free City Shopping Complex, is the world's biggest stand-alone duty-free store in terms of physical size. Located in Haikou, Hainan, China, the buildings have a total area of 280,000 square meters. [1] [2] Aelia Duty Free – a brand of Lagardère Travel Retail. [3] Comturist – a chain of duty-free stores.
A duty-free shop or store is a retail outlet whose goods are exempt from the payment of certain local or national taxes and duties, on the requirement that the goods will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country, who will then pay duties and taxes in their destination country (depending on its personal exemption limits and ...
In 1960, American entrepreneurs Charles Feeney [5] and Robert Warren Miller [6] founded Tourists International, which later became Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), in Hong Kong.In 1962, two DFS stores were opened at the international airports in Hong Kong and Honolulu, the first duty-free shop in the United States.
Hudson, one of the largest travel retailers in North America, is a wholly owned subsidiary of international travel retailer Dufry AG of Basel.Based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, the company operates more than 970 Hudson, Hudson News, Hudson Booksellers, cafes, specialty retail and duty-free shops in 87 airports and transportation terminals in the United States and Canada.
Pages in category "Duty-free shops" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
World Duty Free Group operates in more than 550 stores and duty-free shops in 20 countries. [11] It is present with a substantial international presence in the European airport retail heartlands of Spain and United Kingdom and in the Middle East, North America, Latin America. [12]
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Focusing of strategy on travel retail – divestment of wholesale and non-strategic activities as Weitnauer Distribution (February). [11] 2003: Name changes to Dufry. [12] 1952: Start of duty-free retail business – opening of the first duty-free shop in continental Europe in Paris/Le Bourget. 1948: Start of duty-free wholesale business.