NPD TRAVEL RETAIL DATA: RETAILERS & AIRPORTS IN AMERICAS
DFA leads growth charge but retailers face mixed fortunes in the Americas
As is customary, TRBusiness presents exclusive data on the top 10 Americas airports and top five duty free operators based on exposure to scheduled departing international passengers (Dec 2017 – Nov 2018) courtesy of NPD Travel Retail (formerly Counter Intelligence Retail).
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our out of the five leading duty free operators banked modest single-digit passenger growth
returns, with data revealing some interesting findings compared to last year. Overall, total international
departures from the Americas grew by 5.7% year-on-year to 245.9m passengers, according to NPD Travel Retail. Despite the precarious situation in Venezuela and uncertainty in stronghold countries Argentina and Brazil, South America displayed the greatest vitality in its international departures growth (+8.1%) with a 14.8% share of total passengers. Central America followed
(+6.6%) with a 14.6% share of pax, while North America took the lion’s share of traffic at 63.4% to sit in
third (+5.7%). Caribbean volumes on the other hand slipped by 0.6% – the only region exhibiting negative growth. Its share of total pax stood at 7.2%. Duty Free Americas (DFA)
ranked strongest on the growth scale (+5.2%) in the case of international departure traffic to its airport locations in the Americas, outpacing Dufry (+3%). DFA’s result is a 4.2 percentage
point improvement on its year- on-year return (+1%), but Dufry’s growth was down by 2.8 percentage points year-on-year (+5.8%). DFS Group posted a flat growth
performance (+0.1%), a dramatic scale down from its market-leading performance the year prior (+7.1%). However, the curve was less kind for 3Sixty (formerly known
DFA store at Salvador International Airport.
as DFASS), with international passenger exposure declining steeply (-9.2%) versus the growth achieved between December 2016 to November 2017 (+3%). Motta Internacional meanwhile
improved its growth showing by 3.1 percentage points year-on-year
Ranking Duty Free Retailers
1 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 2 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10
Dufry USA
Canada Brazil
Mexico
Argentina Chile
Colombia
United Kingdom Peru
France DFA USA
Colombia Canada Brazil
United Kingdom Mexico
Dominican Republic Argentina Germany Spain
MARCH 2019
TOP 5 DUTY FREE RETAILERS OPERATING IN THE AMERICAS (PLUS TOP DEPARTING NATIONALITIES) Ranking
% YOY Growth
3.0% 2.0% 2.5%
11.9% 0.3% -1.3% 8.9% 8.9% 1.3% 7.8% 6.5% 5.2% 4.5% 11.4% 7.0%
12.5% 4.1% 8.7%
15.4% -0.5% -2.2% 11.2%
3 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 4 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 Duty Free Retailers
DFS USA
United Kingdom Canada Japan
Mexico Australia China
South Korea Germany France DFASS USA
Canada
United Kingdom Puerto Rico El Salvador Mexico Brazil
Colombia Jamaica
Dominican Republic
% YOY Growth
0.1% 2.1%
10.2% 2.2%
-29.4% 3.3%
-5.9% 0.9%
-14.8% -4.7% 14.4% -9.2% -11.1% 2.8%
-4.9% 9.0% 2.7%
-44.3% 11.2% 4.0% 5.3%
21.7% TRBUSINESS 47 Ranking
5 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 Duty Free Retailers Motta Panama
Colombia USA
Brazil Mexico
Argentina Ecuador Chile Spain Peru
% YOY Growth
4.7% 7.0% 7.7% 8.1% 4.2% 6.9% 11.5% 4.9% 2.9% 9.6%
-0.5%
NPD Travel Retail data reveals – somewhat remarkably – growth across every single top 10 departure airport location in the Americas.
TRBusiness
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