FRANCE. Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman & CEO Colm McLoughlin is celebrating his Frontier Pioneer Award, an honour presented to him at the Frontier Awards held on 4 October in Cannes.
Hosted by DFNI-Frontier, the Frontier Awards recognises companies and individuals for fostering innovation, creativity and excellence within the travel retail industry.
The Frontier Pioneer Award acknowledged McLoughlin’s pioneering leadership of Dubai Duty Free for the past 40 years.
McLoughlin said: “We are delighted to receive these Frontier awards, both of which are new, and are a testament to the entire team’s hard work to ensure we run a successful retail operation which is focused on our employees and our customers.
“I was thrilled to receive the inaugural Frontier Pioneer Award marking 40 years of my time at Dubai Duty Free and I want to thank the organisers and judges for their consideration. Winning at the Frontier awards is a great way to kick-start our 40th anniversary celebrations and I join our Chairman, H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and our entire team in marking this milestone year.”
The travel retailer also received the People & Planet: Diversity & Inclusion Champion award. It was honoured for its “commitment and conscious efforts in championing diversity and inclusivity, offering equal opportunities while investing in the overall wellbeing and development of its people”.
The judging panel was composed of seven industry leaders from across travel retail.
Dubai Duty Free has won a total of 21 Frontier Awards since 1985, including ten Airport Retailer of the Year Awards, four Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards, and seven special category awards including three personal awards to Colm McLoughlin. ✈
