HUNGARY. Budapest Airport last night hosted its Annual Awards for business partners, extended this year for the first time to retail and food & beverage companies.
The event was held in Terminal 1 Event Center in front of an audience of some 200 guests, including The Moodie Report from the travel retail media, concessionaires, carriers, operations partners and many other agencies and enterprises.
“We are enormously happy with the results of last year and will continue to strive towards an ever improving shopping experience at Budapest Airport,” said Budapest Airport Chief Commercial Officer Kam Jandu. “The inclusion of our commercial associates in this year’s awards ceremony has given us the perfect opportunity to thank our exceptional partners for their hugely important role in giving our travellers choice and value for money.”
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Jost Lammers, CEO of Budapest Airport |
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Kam Jandu, Chief Commercial Officer of Budapest Airport |
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(Left to right): Budapest Airport Chief Commercial Officer Kam Jandu; Duty Free Hungary Managing Director Fritz Janach; Gebr Heinemann Director Retail Christoph Stump and Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers |
The appointment of Patrick Bohl as its new Head of Retail and Advertising last March saw Budapest Airport start 2014 with a redoubled focus to take its commercial and marketing performance forward. That helped drive the airport’s most successful retail year ever.
During 2014 the airport staged more Trinity promotions than ever before, with 15 highly profitable and popular marketing campaigns showcasing international and local Hungarian brands, supported by Heinemann Duty Free. Besides an overall increase in the airport’s retail revenues, the promotions themselves achieved improvements ranging from +150-300% in revenue terms.
The airport company noted: “With a number of important retail contracts approaching maturity, the year ahead will also see the airport take the opportunity to refresh the retail offer available in SkyCourt for which the Commercial Business Unit is considering wide-reaching invitations to tender in April. These and other initiatives which will be supported with plans to run further Trinity promotions throughout 2015.”
Commenting on his company’s success, Heinemann Duty Free Hungary Managing Director Fritz Janach said: “We’re elated. The past year’s record growth at the airport has obviously had a strong retail dividend. We are going all out to build upon that by consolidating our strongest offers, while adapting our concepts within our locations at Budapest, to increase ambience and desirability for our customers.”
Gebr Heinemann Director Retail Christoph Stump said: “Tonight this room is full of the commercial partners who have travelled a long road with Budapest Airport, a journey which has now delivered last year’s stunning results.
“The feeling of togetherness and single-mindedness among all the enterprises is palpable. To do our jobs well was award enough, but this recognition will be a further supreme boost as we again move forward together to tackle new heights in 2015.”
Here are the retail and food & beverage winners plus some images from the evening (we’ll bring you a full report next week).
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Some of the evening’s big winners |
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Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers (right) and Chief Commercial Officer Kam Jandu fronted last night’s awards |
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The power of partnership: All the night’s big winners celebrate the moment on stage |
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Best Lounge Operator 2014 Award (L-R) René Droese Property Director of Budapest Airport, Osman Yilmaz CEO of Celebi Hungary and Austria and Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers. |
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Fastest Growing Retail Store 2014 Award – regular size store (L-R) Budapest Airport CCO Kam Jandu, Balázs Szabó Financial manager of Szinga-Sport Kft. and Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers. |
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Best Developing Retail Store 2014 Award – regular size store (L-R) Budapest Airport CCO Kam Jandu, Beáta Gárdos, Head of Airport Outlets BU of Magyar Lapterjesztő Zrt. and Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers. |
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Retail Service and Sales Award 2014 (L-R) Budapest Airport CCO Kam Jandu, Tiborné Zathosil Shop Assistant of Memories of Hungary, Eszter Hoffmann Shop Assistant of Guess&Calvin Klein Shop, Andrea Stankovics Shop Assistant of Swarovski Boutique and Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers. |
