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              Bath & Body Works opens in Iguazu with London Supply


                 London Supply has opened a new
              Bath & Body Works shop-in-shop in its
              flagship store in Puerto Iguazu. Company
              commercial director Maggie Ducos told
              TMI: “We are really pleased to open this
              new section in our biggest store, and we
              are incredibly grateful to Essence Corp. for
              allowing us to highlight the Bath & Body
              Works brands in our Puerto Iguazu store.
              We know that our Brazilian and Argentine
              customers love these brands, and we are
              so pleased to offer them a full range of
              personal care products as well as some
              great fragrances. We are sure the full range
              will be an enormous success.”
                 Ducos mentioned this will not be the
              only change in Puerto Iguazu this year.   London Supply Foundation  used by the Foundation to finance London
              “We are constantly looking at adding to   In early January, the London Supply   Supplies ongoing activities in the Primero
              our range and giving something new to our   Foundation celebrated the 18th edition of   de Mayo district of Puerto Iguazu and other
              shoppers. Very shortly we will be making   their annual charity golf tournament. As in   areas in Argentina and Uruguay where the
              changes to the part of the store where   previous years the tournament was held at   company is involved.
              we sell our extensive range of bags and   Club del Lago Golf de Punta del Este. The   María Taratuty, executive director
              luggage. In addition, we are also planning   tournament had more than 250 participants.  of the Foundation, celebrated the spirit of
              to make significant changes to the area   The foundation raised US$ 667,268   solidarity shown by participants, sponsors
              where we sell domestic appliances. We   for various charities. In accordance with   and all those involved in the organization
              hope to have everything up and running   last year’s donations 10% of the total,   of the event. “This will allow us to start
              before the end of Q1. But we are all sure   almost $67,000, was donated to Uruguayan   2024 to continue the work we have been
              there will be further changes as we go on in   children’s cancer charity the Pérez   carrying out and gives us a great incentive
              the year.”                        Scremini Foundation. The balance will be   to attain all our objectives.”        JG





              New Lima terminal to open in December

                 Airport concession manager Lima   operated by Lagardère.         & Beverage offer available in the new
              Airport Partners has announced that   Lagardère has also played a significant   terminal. The company will directly
              the new passenger terminal at Jorge   role in the development of the Food   manage 11 outlets in a special Food
              Chavez International Airport will open on                           Court featuring internationally renowned
              December 18, 2024. The new terminal will                            Peruvian chefs Mitsuharu Tsumaru and
              allow the airport to grow capacity to just                          Jaime Pesaque.
              under 40 million passengers.                                            In addition, Lagardère will operate a
                 Last year, 21.3 million passengers                               duty-paid store in the domestic departure
              used the airport, an increase of 14.1% on                           area.
              the previous year but still 10.1% below the                             Lagardère commenced operations in
              2019 figures. LAP is forecasting that the                           Lima in January 2023 after winning the
              airport will reach 30 million passengers in                         duty free concession with a unique profit-
              2031.                                                               sharing agreement with LAP.
                 Juan José Salmón, CEO of LAP, said                                   With Peruvian gastronomy at the
              that more than 80% of the 270,000sqm                                heart of the restaurant area, LAP has also
              terminal has been completed and they are                            confirmed that Peruvian products such as
              on schedule to open by mid-December.                                Alpaca and fine silver jewelry will feature
                 The airport commercial team is also                              heavily in the commercial zones.
              putting the final changes to the commercial                             LAP is planning to close the current
              side of the new terminal. Duty free stores,                         terminal on the evening of December 17
              bars, restaurants and VIP lounges will take                         and begin operations in the new terminal
              up 28,000 sqm with the center-piece being                           the following day.
              the 4,000 sqm walk-through duty free store                                                        JG

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