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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.
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.
Robert Warren Miller (born May 23, 1933) is an American-British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion.He is the father of Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg, and Pia Getty, dubbed by tabloids and high society as The Miller Sisters.
Abans PLC also known as Abans Group is a Sri Lankan public limited company and a diversified conglomerate in Sri Lanka engaged in ICT, retail, manufacturing, logistics, commercial real estate and financial services. Abans predominantly functions mainly as a consumer retailer selling various electronic appliances, smart phones, laptops, cooking ...
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.
Aban Pestonjee (Sinhala: අබාන් පෙස්ටොන්ජි) is the chairperson and founder of the Abans group of companies. She is known as one of the first entrepreneurs who initiated in first bringing Korean technology to Sri Lankan consumers.
On 6 June 2013, the Shareholders of Autogrill approved the project of proportional partial demerger whereby Autogrill S.p.A. transferred the Travel Retail and Duty Free business to its wholly owned subsidiary World Duty Free S.p.A. (parent company of World Duty Free Group), the beneficiary, by assigning to the latter the entire shareholding in the Group's Travel Retail and Duty Free business.
Duty-free shopping centers [ edit ] Located within a few miles of Ninoy Aquino International Airport , the Duty Free Philippines FiestaMall and Luxe Duty Free cater to the duty-free shopping needs of international travelers, tourists, and balikbayan people (Filipino nationals who are residents abroad).