South Korean Hotel Shilla has recruited five social media influencers across Asian countries to hype K-beauty products through Shilla Duty Free stores. The company said that it will work with top influencers from China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand…
Shilla Duty Free opens at Gimpo International Airport’s international terminal on Wednesday. The duty-free store run by Hotel Shilla was approved by the government in June last year in a bid against Lotte Duty Free. The duty-free store is renting the place…
The Shilla Duty Free has appointed a new MD of its Hong Kong operations. Changha Shin takes over the helm of Shilla Travel Retail Hong Kong this week after the surprise departure of Alice Woo. Woo built the business up after becoming its first employee last…
Shilla Duty Free wins the bid against Lotte Duty Free for Gimpo International Airport’s five-year liquor and tobacco concession. Gimpo is South Korea’s third busiest airport and the core duty categories will now be divided between South Korea’s two biggest…
The Shilla Duty Free, one of the world’s leading travel retail companies, has unveiled their new retail stores at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) following a successful six-month soft launch period. The Grand Opening Ceremony featured the unveiling of…
Korean-headquartered travel retailer The Shilla has officially launched its Beauty&You concept stores in Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) after a six-month soft launch. At the launch, Shilla Travel Retail Hong Kong MD Alice Woo said: “We hope to…
Shinsegae Duty Free and The Shilla Duty Free will fight out the contest for two Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 duty free contracts on offer, despite rival Lotte Duty Free tabling the highest bids in each case. The tenders followed incumbent Lotte…
Hotel Shilla’s airport retailer Shilla Duty Free has posted record-high first-quarter sales of KRW1.14 trillion (US$1 billion). Korean-headquartered Shilla Duty Free earned KRW47.6 billion in operating profit in the quarter, mainly because of increased sales…
The Shilla Duty Free’s burgeoning reputation as an Asian travel retail powerhouse in beauty is being underscored at Changi Airport, where the company expects this year to start contributing a percentage of revenues rather than the Minimum Annual Guarantee…
The Shilla Duty Free has pledged “brand new kinds of customer experience that the airport has never seen before” at its new Incheon International Terminal 2 perfumes & cosmetics stores. T2 opened on 18 January. The Shilla Duty Free was awarded the terminal’s…
With its new second store at Incheon International Airport (IIA), Shilla Duty Free says it now has cosmetics and perfume outlets at all passenger terminals in Asia’s three largest airports. The South Korean duty-free retailer says it has shops at all four…
The Shilla Duty Free has opened six new retail outlets at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). The retailer sucellfully bid on the perfume and cosmetics and fashion accessories concessions earlier this year. Shilla says the new license marks it as the…
The Shilla Duty Free has unveiled its 1,375 square meter beauty store in Singapore Changi Airport’s newly-opened Terminal 4. It is the biggest among all the Shilla Central stores at Changi and is part of the airport’s first integrated duty free zone, which…
The Shilla Duty Free and AmorePacific have introduced a pop-up ‘Beauty Truck’ store to promote the Korean skincare house’s MakeOn brand. The pop-up, which launched on 22 June and will stay open till 19 July, is located outside the travel retailer’s flagship…
Following a 30 per cent drop in duty-free sales last month and the virtual closure of more than 100 supermarkets and discount shops in China, the Lotte Group has cancelled its US$4.5 billion IPO. Its woes are fallout from the mainland’s objection to South…
Key Hong Kong airport concessions for cosmetics, fashion accessories and liquor & tobacco have been awarded at Hong Kong International Airport. The Airport Authority of Hong Kong has awarded the liquor & tobacco concession to China Duty Free – Lagardere…