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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.
DFS' first major breakthrough came in the early 1960s, when it secured the exclusive concession for duty-free sales in Hawaii and Hong Kong, allowing it to market its products to Japanese travelers. [3] DFS eventually expanded to off-airport duty-free stores and large downtown Galleria stores, and became the world's largest travel retailer. [4]
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.
Brendan O'Regan established the world's first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947; [6] it remains in operation today. Designed to provide a service for trans-Atlantic airline passengers typically travelling between Europe and North America whose flights stopped for refuelling on outbound and inbound legs of their journeys, it was an immediate success and has been copied worldwide.
Muji store in Hong Kong The Louis Vuitton branch in Hong Kong Nathan Road in Kowloon. Shopping is a popular social activity in Hong Kong, [1] [2] where basic items for sale do not draw any duties, sales taxation, or import taxation. [3] Only specific import goods such as alcohol, tobacco, perfumes, cosmetics, cars and petroleum products have ...
Its Hong Kong–based distribution business, Sims Trading, was sold to CITIC Pacific. In June 2002, the 61-store Woolworths chain in New Zealand acquired in 1990, was sold for US$337 million. In 2004, the Group's Hong Kong ice manufacturing business which began in 1918 was sold for US$107 million.
K11 Art Mall is a seven-storey shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong located in The Masterpiece, developed by New World Development and completed in December 2009. It is near Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui stations.
Former logo in Hong Kong Market Place by Jasons in Telford Plaza, Hong Kong Jasons Market Place in Taipei 101 Mall. Market Place (formerly Market Place by Jasons, Jason's Food & Living, and Jasons ichiba) in Hong Kong, Cold Storage Fresh (formerly Market Place, Jasons, and Jasons Deli) in Singapore and The Marketplace (formerly Market Place by Rustan's) in the Philippines is a high-end ...