AUSTRALIA. Bids are due in by 31 August for the duty free concession at Gold Coast Airport on Australia’s east coast. News & books and souvenirs are also each out to tender.
Particularly srong interest is expected in the duty free contract, one of two concessions in the state of Queensland up for grabs. As reported, bidding closed for the Cairns Airport duty free contract on 25 August
The seven-year duty free concession is for Gold Coast Airport’s new international terminal, which is due to open in November 2017. The incumbent is Lagardère Travel Retail, which will trade in the new location until its contract expiry at the end of September 2018. If a new retailer is chosen, the commencement date for the new concession will be 1 October 2018.
Besides the incumbent, likely bidders are JR/Duty Free (operator at another Queensland gateway, Brisbane Airport), Sydney airport duty free retailer Gebr Heinemann (Sydney Airport) and Dufry, which gained the Melbourne Airport when it acquired The Nuance Group. Aer Rianta International, which operates one of the two duty free concessions at Auckland Airport across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand (Lagardère Travel Retail is the other), is another possibility.
Coolangatta (aboriginal for ‘Place of good view’ or ‘splendid view’) airport is Australia’s second fastest-growing airport and ranks as its fifth-busiest international gateway.
According to Gold Coast Airport General Manager Commercial Deborah Price, the airport delivered 6,303,920 passengers in the 2016 financial year, up +7.5% on the prior year. This was the first financial year in which Gold Coast has exceeded 6 million passengers with 1 million being international. The airport now has an average of 400 services per week.
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