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| Harding Bros Chairman Barry Gibson: “It’s the absolute “˜crème de la crème” |
USA. In a major gain for the company, Harding Brothers has been awarded the onboard retailing contract for luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises.
Harding Brothers Chairman Barry Gibson* told The Moodie Report this morning: “To have picked up that contract from an in-house operator is absolutely fantastic – it’s the absolute crème de la crème.”
The new contract will begin in November. Crystal Cruises is one of the few US cruise companies to operate its retail in-house but that all changes with the Harding Brothers appointment.
Lois Pasternak’s Travel Markets Insider said the gain was boosted by Harding’s winning of the onboard concession for the Island Star, an 1,875-passenger luxury vessel that is joining the fleet of Island Cruises (a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises) in 2006, sailing in Mediterranean and Brazilian waters.
Harding Brothers now enjoys a powerful onboard retail presence in the luxury cruise sector, including the ultra-luxury Queen Mary 2 as well as the Seabourne and Silver Seas ships.
Companies interested in supplying the new contract should contact Harding US buying representative Clarissa Barth at clarissa.barth@hardingbros.co.uk
*Barry Gibson is speaking at this week’s Trinity Forum in London organised by The Moodie Report and TFWA.
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