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Travel retail reaps the rewards of the colour-obsessed selfie generation

Published: 12-Oct-2017

This year's Tax Free World Association (TFWA) event was a celebration of the cosmetics and fragrance categories, which outperformed all other product groups

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Attendees at the global annual summit for the duty free and travel retail industry left the event in Cannes last week in a good mood – and none more so than the beauty houses that were present.

The optimism is being driven by an upturn in the channel – which suffered a contraction in 2015 – but is now on track for solid growth. Beauty is in the driving seat when it comes to future performance.

On the first day of the event – organised by Tax Free World Association (TFWA) – president, Erik Juul-Mortensen, presented new data from Generation Research which showed a marked revenue improvement.

Following a 2015 decline, last year sales grew by a steady 2.4% to

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