Dufry

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Dufry International is a duty free company that is based in Basel, Switzerland.

1 History
2 Location
3 Brasif
4 External links

[edit] History

This company was owned by Patrick Laurent until March 2004 when it was sold to a joint venture led by Advent Mexico. This Worldwide company owns stores in airports, train stations, ports, airlines and cruise ships.

[edit] Location

Some of the principal locations of the company are: Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico, Malpensa International Airport, Italy, All of Milan's train stations, Italy, Belgrade Airport, Serbia, Sharjah International Airport, United Arab Emirates, Tunis-Carthage International Airport, Tunisia, Mohammed V International Airport, Casablanca, Morocco, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia.

The company is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange (ticker: DUFN).

[edit] Brasif

In February 2006 Dufry bought Brasif, the major duty free company in Brazil for more than 500 millions US Dollars and in December 2006 acquired all the Duty Frees in Puerto Rico for 158 million dolars.