List of duty-free shops
This is a list of duty-free shops. A
duties
, on the requirement that the goods sold will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country. Which products can be sold duty-free vary by jurisdiction, as well as how they can be sold, and the process of calculating the duty or refunding the duty component.
Duty-free shops
- 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]
- 1989 Romanian revolution, these stores became obsolete and were sold off in 1991 to private business owners; as a result of this sale by auction, the Comturist name is still in existence today as a chain of duty-free shops.
- DFS Group – a Hong Kong-based travel retailer of luxury products established in 1960. Its network consists of duty-free stores located in 17 major airports and 18 downtown Galleria stores,[5][6] as well as resort locations worldwide. It is privately held and majority owned by the luxury conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), alongside DFS co-founder and shareholder Robert Miller. As of January 11, 1997, DFS Group operates as a subsidiary of LVMH.[7]
- Dubai Duty Free – the company responsible for the duty-free operations at Dubai International Airport. DDF became the largest airport retailer in the world in terms of sales in 2012.[8] DDF represents over 5% of global duty-free sales,[9] generating 2014 revenues of $1.91 billion[10] and 2016 revenues of $1.85 billion.[11] It began operations at Dubai International Airport in December 1983.[12]
- Dufry– a Swiss-based travel retailer operating around 2,200 duty-free and duty-paid shops in airports, cruise lines, seaports, railway stations and central tourist areas. Dufry employs almost 29,000 people. The company, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, operates in over 68 countries worldwide.
- World Duty Free – the holding company of World Duty Free Group, is an Italy-based multinational travel retailer that employs almost 8,500 people.[13] Since 1 October 2013, the company is a constituent of the FTSE MIB index with the ticker symbol WDF:IM.
- Hellenic Duty Free Shops – founded in 1979, it is a company in the travel retail industry that sells taxed and duty-free goods from brand name products to travelers passing through Greece's exit points. The company holds the exclusive right to the retail sale of duty-free goods in Greece.
- Duty Free Philippines – founded in 1987, it is a government-owned company that sells taxed and duty-free goods. They operate several shops in the Philippines' major airports, and have a dedicated shopping mall located nearby the country's main airport in Manila, called Duty Free Fiesta Mall.[14]
- King Power – the largest duty-free retailer in Thailand, its duty-free shopping mall in Bangkok's central business district covers over 12,000 m2,[15] and it has branches at Suvarnabhumi Airport and Thailand's other major airports. In 2015, King Power launched an online site selling duty-free and duty-paid items.[16]
See also
References
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- ^ http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/29/WS635c6403a310fd2b29e7f2f9.html
- ^ "A global leader in Duty Free & Fashion". Lagardère Travel Retail. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
- ^ Eastern Europe - Economic Affairs - 1984 U.S. military report
- ^ "DFS Group launches "T Galleria", its new store concept for international travellers". 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ^ "Shop DFS - Premium Tax Free". Retrieved 2016-09-28.
- ^ "History of DFS Group Ltd. – FundingUniverse". www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ISBN 978-1-118-17176-9.
- ^ Sophia, Mary (16 October 2014). "Dubai Duty Free Named World's Largest Airport Retailer". Gulf Business. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
- ^ Algethami, Sarah (4 January 2015). "Dubai Duty Free sales reach Dh6.99bn in 2014". Gulf News. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ Reporter, Cleofe Maceda, Senior Web (2017-01-05). "Dubai Duty Free sales drop on currency fluctuations". GulfNews. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
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- ^ "Business Channels". World Duty Free Group. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ https://dutyfree.gov.ph/
- ^ "King Power Downtown Complex". King Power. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-04.
- ^ "Duty Free Online Shopping". King Power. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
External links
- Media related to Duty-free shops at Wikimedia Commons