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ARINA significantly refurbished its stores at
Edmonton International Airport at the beginning
of 2025, making sure that they have a unique
sense of place.

have been performing well and have been
well received by both our airport partners
and passengers,” says Morgan. “We’re
looking forward to exploring more ways
to grow and enhance our offering with our
airport partners. U.S. routes to/from the
airport have remained resilient and there
is certainly more potential to grow this
market.”
This summer, ARINA unveiled a new
standalone duty-paid Spectrum sunglass
boutique at Québec City Jean Lesage
International Airport (YQB), an important
evolution of its retail offer at the airport,
where ARI began operating Québec Duty
Free in 2017. This is ARINA’s second retail
unit at the airport.
“The decision to open a standalone
boutique really underpins the growing
performance of the category and the
potential to capitalize on strong PAX at the
uncertain tariff threats from the current store design and local product assortment,” airport,” says Morgan. “Performance has
U.S. administration, ARI has taken he says. been good so far, and we expect it to grow
American spirits off the shelves in some “We first began our operations in significantly during the peak ‘winter sun’
locations. Edmonton in January 2024 and at the season of January – March.”
“We work closely with the provincial beginning of this year, we unveiled our In September 2023, Chanel unveiled
government bodies here and we follow newly revamped stores.” a new Travel Retail Fragrance and Beauty
their guidelines. Our liquor is sourced via Two stores, located in YEG’s Boutique at Vancouver International
provincial liquor authorities and we follow Domestic-International Departures Lounge Airport in partnership with ARINA.
their guidelines in terms of the products we and YEG’s U.S. Departures Lounge, “The Chanel store in Vancouver
can display, so as of now, no U.S. spirits underwent significant refurbishments, was our first venture into duty-paid
are available in Quebec,” says Morgan. taking inspiration from local landmarks concessions and we are very happy with
as well as historic and cultural moments the performance to date. In fact, it has
New openings focus on sense of place of significance. Each store has its own underpinned duty paid as an important area
As ARINA opens new stores and unique features, including a bespoke of potential growth for our North American
refurbishes existing ones, it is essential that swing, inspired by Edmonton’s secret River business; it’s about identifying the right
they all have a sense of place, says Morgan. Valley swing, and a replica dinosaur fossil opportunities with our partners,” says
“A key focus has been on developing suspended from the store ceiling, which Morgan.
a unique sense of place across all locations, pays homage to Edmonton’s history of “We’re proud to work with an
and we can see how this has been brought dinosaur discoveries. esteemed partner like Chanel to bring
to life at Edmonton Duty Free through both “I’m happy to say that the stores world-class experiences like this to life

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