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In the 1960s and 1970s DFS Group significantly expanded their operation in Pacific Islands and North America. DFS capitalized on the rising wave of Asian tourists who began to travel further overseas, opening stores in international airports and later in downtown locations where travelers have their purchases delivered before departure. [8]
Lotte Duty Free (LDF; Korean: 롯데면세점; Hanja: 樂天免稅店; RR: Rotde Myeonsejeom), a duty-free division of Hotel Lotte, is a travel retailer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. LDF is one of the largest travel retailers in the world alongside Dufry and DFS Group .
For many years in the 1980s and 1990s, actor Tom Adams was the face of DFS's television advertisements. [19]In December 2008, one television commercial by DFS was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, following complaints that the company had doctored the footage to inflate the perceived size of their sofas, relative to the actors. [20]
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.
Dairy Farm Singapore acquired Shop N Save in 2003, 35 stores from QAF and Belgian retailer, Delhaize. [19] It was a former discount supermarket chain in Singapore, operating 50 stores located across the island in HDB estates and suburban malls. [20] It sells a range of cheap products and fresh food. In 2013, it was merged with Giant. [21]
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.
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Robinsons Department Stores Online Pte Ltd (formerly known as Robinsons & Co. Pte Ltd) is an online retail company based in Singapore. The company owned Robinsons department stores in Singapore and Malaysia, which closed in 2021. It also operated the largest department store in the Middle East at the Dubai Festival City before its closure in 2021.