Better Savings In A Luxury Shopping Environment

  • About us
  • History
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The First Choice in Travel Retail Worldwide, Just how fashion is forever changing and something new is always coming out, so is Duty Free Holdings LLC. When new brands and trends are available, we are injected with optimism and excitement to share with our customers as we redefine customer experiences. We stand for innovation and understand our customer’s purchasing aspirations as well as their realities. This therefore translates into creating a stimulating store environment and destination that invites and engages our shoppers with premium services and support during each store visit. We provide the destination where customers come to create enhanced shopping experiences with their favorite brands. Giving them the opportunity to escape from their everyday routines and a reliable outsource for retail therapy. A perfect catalyst to their vacation or the cherry on top as it comes to an end. It brings us pleasure to allow our customers to connect with their favorite brands through a luxurious service-focused and interactive shopping experience...

For 30 years, the Duty Free City team was involved in distribution specifically in travel retail all over the world with some major operators like Weinthauner, today DUFRY and airlines like Singapore Airlines and Air France. 

Its founder, Phillipe Dray brought to travel retail the first children's fragrance under Disney license. Duty Free City (DFC), founded in 2012, opened its first flagship store in San Diego. As it grew in Southern California and throughout Texas, its motto is selling to consumers the convenience and accessibility of enjoying their favorite products by bringing known and trending brands to the market at affordable prices.

After the recession of 2008-2009, large infrastructure investments were voted for airport renovation. The transformation signaled tremendous potential to grow our company and create our brand. What we strived to capture is the same experience that one has at a department without overpriced offers common at airports. 

The idea of opening La Boutique stores was born; creating a partnership with DF Express, LLC. When we partnered with DF Express, LLC, we connected with the concept of bringing beauty and trave...

We specialize in operational customer service! We have an executive team devoted to redefining customer experiences by doing their best in spending the efforts firmly focused on the traveler and turning the traveler into our customer. Whether its shopping online or at the airport, collecting pre-packaged goods in route to their destination or as they’re arriving back home. Duty Free Holding truly embraces a dynamic retail environment by continually looking at ways to reinvent itself and inspire customers. Our company’s goal is to create an engine of innovation in the world of travel retail by surprising travelers with its offers and creativity. 

Duty Free Holding intends to be a leader in Channel Distribution - airport shops, in-flight sales, cruise liner outlets and border shops as well as special sales to diplomatic missions, military shops and ship’s chandlers. Thanks to the expertise of these teams, the sales potential of our customers is sure to be exploited in full. 

The value of this expertise to brand-name producers is also evident from the close working relations we maintain with our suppliers. In partnership, we are consistently developing n...