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Rituals continuing airport retail expansion

In 2016, Rituals enjoyed considerable shop presence growth with new outlets at airports including Edinburgh, London Gatwick, and Manchester.

Enhancing customer experience to increase revenue

The Second Working Session in this year’s ACI EUROPE Airport Commercial & Retail Conference was entitled ‘Less is more: Are some key profit centres, under-appreciated and worryingly over-exploited by over-ambitious concession targets?’ James Ware, General Manager/Vice President, France, Enterprise Holdings, participated in the session.

Airmagine: Shifting perceptions of digital advertising

In 2015, Airmagine, a leader in intelligent digital airport advertising, created the world’s first fully digitalised airport advertisement platform at Copenhagen Airport. “Copenhagen was the first airport to go fully digital,” explains Asger Flygare Bech-Thomsen, Chairman, Airmagine. “So in that sense it was a bold and successful experiment.”

Airport parking ‘able to deliver a step-change in revenue’

IDeaS exhibited at this year’s ACI EUROPE Airport Commercial & Retail Conference & Exhibition in Nice, where it was looking forward to sharing with delegates how the car parking business can contribute to the successful growth of European airport commercial revenue.

Coindrum partners with Lagardère in Venice

Launched in 2014, Coindrum’s innovative solution is now gaining increasing visibility in airports around the world. The Dublin-based company, which turns departing passengers’ leftover coins into higher value travel retail vouchers, achieved unprecedented growth in 2016, adding six new airports to its footprint, including Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Faro, and Venice. “We are doubling our staff numbers to meet demand and are financially backed by the founders of Ryanair, Hostelworld and CarTrawler, as well as the Irish Government,” comments Lukas Decker, CEO Coindrum.