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The new 265sq m duty free store run by Canariensis at La Palma features a a full range of product categories |
SPAIN. Wednesday saw the official opening of the new terminal at La Palma Airport in the Canary Islands, with a series of new retail and food & beverage outlets unveiled to the travelling public.
The new terminal allows the airport to more than double its capacity, to 3 million passengers annually.
Ãreas, the Spanish food & beverage (F&B) and specialist retail operator, has opened four catering outlets in the new terminal. It is the sole F&B provider at La Palma following its victory in an open tender concluded at the end of 2010.
Canariensis, a joint venture between local company Canresa and Aldeasa-WDF, has opened a new 265sq m duty free store at the location. The outlet offers a full range of duty free goods plus a themed area, Thinking Canarias, offering local products such as rum, wines, liqueurs and confectionery.
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Typical Canarian products, including liquor, wines and sweets, form a vital part of the offer at La Palma |
Canariensis General Manager Angeles Montesdeoca said: “By opening this new shop, Canariensis reinforces its promotion of the Canary Islands and its commercial development at the Canarian airports, consolidating [its position] as the duty free specialist of the airports of the Canary Islands.”
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The new Canariensis store began trading in time for the peak holiday season in the Canary Islands |
Ãreas’s new outlets at La Palma, meanwhile, cover almost 2,000sq m within the facility, and the operator said it expects the concession to generate €16 million in revenue over the eight-year duration of the contract.
The operator’s largest new outlet is La Pausa, a grill and brasserie concept present in several other Spanish airports. This space also contains a Henry J Beans “˜grab and go’ corner.
The boarding area at La Palma also now features the Ãreas café concepts Meal O’Clock, Ars and Caffriccio, said to offer “both quick consumption as well as a coffee and a pastry or sandwich in a relaxed atmosphere”.
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Caffriccio is one of three café concepts operated by Ãreas in La Palma’s new terminal |
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Caffriccio offers “both quick consumption as well as a coffee and a pastry or sandwich in a relaxed atmosphere” |
Ãreas said the development at La Palma “reflected the company’s “˜tailor-made’ philosophy”, through which it had studied the requirements of La Palma’s key travelling nationalities: “primarily Spaniards, but with an increasing number of German, Dutch, and Belgian passengers”.
“Being the sole food services operator in La Palma Airport’s new terminal is another major success for the company,” said Ãreas President Pedro Fontana. “This new opening in the Canary Islands, where Ãreas already had a presence in Lanzarote Airport, encourages us to continue growing and strengthening our presence in the Canaries, which is for us a very attractive location with indisputable potential.”
Elsewhere in the Canaries, Ãreas runs ten F&B and specialist retail outlets at Lanzarote Airport, in addition to downtown news and books shops in Las Palmas, Fuerteventura and Tenerife.
ABOUT ÃREAS
Founded in 1968 as a specialist provider of services to travellers, Ãreas now manages 1,260 restaurants, cafés, shops, hotels and petrol stations in Spain, Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Morocco, Portugal, Chile, the Dominican Republic and St. Martin.
The company employs about 12,000 people in stores located in a variety of locations: airports, freeways, highways, railway stations, shopping malls, exhibition centres and downtown. The company’s retail brands include Ars, Medas, La Pausa, Café Café, Natural Break, Divers, Caffriccio, Vinea, As Hotel, News & Books, Minimarket, Sibarium, Subway, Il Caffè di Roma, Starbucks, Burger King, Cañas y Tapas among others.
ABOUT CANARIENSIS
Canariensis is an airport retail operator in the Canary Islands and operates 22 shops at the airports of Gran Canaria, Tenerife Norte, Tenerife Sur, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma.
The company is controlled by Aldeasa-WDF (60%) and local Canarian company Canresa, or Canarias de Retailing Aeroportuario SA (40%).
Aldeasa-WDF is one of the world’s leading airport retailers, operating 313 shops at 113 airports in 19 countries in total, including the UK, Spain, Jordan, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, USA, Canada, Mexico and Chile.
NOTE (1): The Moodie Report has announced announced the imminent launch of The Foodie Report, a new e-Zine dedicated to all travel-related, revenue-generating food & beverage activities. It will launch in coming weeks, with all coverage archived on a dedicated “˜Foodie’ section of The Moodie Report.com. Please send news and images of food & beverage developments to Martin@TheMoodieReport.com or Genevieve.Knevitt@TheMoodieReport.com
NOTE (2): The second Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Conference & Awards, organised by The Moodie Report, will be held in Amsterdam in June 2012. It will be hosted by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Click here for details.
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