UAE. Jan Baljet, Dufry’s popular and respected Eurasia & Asia Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Asia, Middle East), is set to take up his new challenge in the domestic retail sector with powerful Dubai-based luxury retailer Paris Gallery.
As reported, the Dutchman has been appointed General Manager GCC for Paris Gallery, effective January. Paris Gallery is among the Middle East’s most respected and fastest-growing domestic market luxury retailers.
Baljet said today that after 11 years with Dufry he had decided to take his career in a different direction. He recalls that he started his role with Dufry (then Weitnauer) by setting up the retailer’s store in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s Food Village.
Two years later he was asked to go to Sharjah in the UAE as General Manager of the Swiss retailer’s successful Sharjah operation. Over the past three years he has also been responsible for Dufry’s operations in Singapore and Cambodia .
“Now it is time to go one step forward,” he said, “and I will be joining the leading luxury retailer in Dubai. It was really a pleasure to be a part of a very professional organization as Dufry is.”
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