ISRAEL. Israel Airports Authority (IAA) has extended the bid deadline in its tender for core category retail at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport Terminal 3.
The new deadline for bids for the liquor, tobacco, perfumes, cosmetics, confectionery and drugstore business at T3 is 25 July. The extension (the third granted so far) is in response to participants’ requests, according to IAA.
Meanwhile, in a recent tender clarification the authority noted sales under incumbent operator JR/Duty Free reached US$164.62 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to US$156.94 million in the previous corresponding period.
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James Richardson’s Tel Aviv Ben Gurion T3 store |
Total arriving and departing traffic at the airport reached 5.76 million, up by +5.58% on the same period last year.
Among the biggest selling categories, imported alcohol and tobacco sales increased by +4.27% to US$65.56 million, and imported cosmetics grew by +6.07% to US$61.82 million.
Confectionery at Departures outlets performed strongly, with sales growing by +10.06% to US$16.55 million, while domestic alcohol, tobacco and cosmetics was the only group to register a decrease in sales, down -4.68% to US$13.31 million.
Landside sales performed strongly, growing +6.36% to US$940,007 (excluding prescription medicine), while pharmacy goods in Departures stores (again excluding prescribed medicines) grew by +7.46% to US$5.74 million.
Prescription medication, the smallest category, grew fastest, up by +19.27% to US$663,469.
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