CHINA. SSP has become the latest Platinum Sponsor of The ACI Airport Business & Trinity Forum to be held in Shanghai on 31 March-2 April.
The event, commonly known as The Trinity Forum, is the world’s leading airport commercial revenues conference. It is a joint venture between Airports Council International and The Moodie Report. This year’s event is being hosted by Shanghai Airport Authority.
SSP, the UK-based airport food & beverage specialist, joins P&G Prestige Products and Lagardère Services, the owner of Aelia and HDS, as a Platinum Sponsor.
Other key sponsors include Nuance-Watson (HK), King Power Group (HK), HMSHost, Dubai Duty Free, MCM, Shanghai Tang, The Estée Lauder Companies and Villiger.
SSP, which is also a sponsor of the Airport Service Quality conference that precedes The Trinity Forum in Shanghai, will be showing its new logo (pictured), part of a broader brand communications programme revealed at the ACI Trading Conference in Verona, Italy this week.
China is a key target for the group, which in late November announced it had won a contract to operate ten units at Shanghai Pudong International Airport’s new Terminal 2 which will open in coming weeks. Trinity delegates will be given a guided tour of the terminal after the Forum concludes on 2 April.
SSP’s Pudong contract, which will run for seven years, is valued at CNY1,600 million (US$206 million). The first units will begin trading when the new terminal opens in March. Among the brands that will feature at the facility are Caffè Ritazza, dumpling concept Tian Xia, Burger King and Heineken.
SSP will also offer a number of specially tailored concepts and selected local franchises. These include a Teppanyaki Japanese restaurant, which will serve stir-fries prepared and served from a large table-top grill. In addition a fine dining concept called Peace @ the Bund will recreate the atmosphere of 1930s Shanghai. With its elegant and understated décor the restaurant will serve a range of traditional Chinese dishes with a contemporary twist. Other units include a Chinese tea house, a Chinese restaurant serving Shanghai and Cantonese cuisine, a Korean fast food outlet and an Italian restaurant.
STRONG SPEAKERS’ LINE-UP
The Trinity Forum speakers’ line-up is one of the most diverse and powerful seen at an airport commercial revenues conference.
Confirmed speakers include Shanghai Airport Authority Chairman and President Wu Nianzu, HMSHost CEO Elie Maalouf, Incheon International Airport Corporation President and CEO Jae-Hee Lee, The Nuance Group Executive Vice President Business Development & Strategy Ivo Favotto, Aelia CEO Jean-Baptiste Morin and Auckland International Airport Limited General Manager Retail Nick Forbes.
They will be joined by Airport Economist NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants) and Innova Aviation Johan Schölvinck in a joint presentation with China Airport Construction Group Corporation Chief Architect Guo Yanchi, HDS Retail Asia Pacific CEO Scott Raisin, King Power Managing Director Duty Free and Travel Retail (and APTRA President) Sunil Tuli and Abu Dhabi Duty Free General Manager Dan Cappell.
World Duty Free Managing Director Mark Riches will arrive fresh from the opening of London Heathrow Terminal 5 on 27 March and will be joined by Bacardi Managing Director – Global Travel Retail Maurice Doyle. The Irishman has been a driving force behind the launch of Bombay Sapphire Revelation, the extraordinary US$200,000-a-bottle luxury project that is being launched just four days before the Forum.
The event will feature exclusive film footage of some of the world’s most cutting-edge airport commercial developments, produced by Marshall Arts International. The two-part feature includes Hong Kong International Airport, Vancouver International Airport, ATU (Istanbul, Tbilisi and Batumi), Travel Retail Norway (Oslo), Dufry (Brazil, Mexico and Milan, and including an extensive interview with CEO Julián Diaz), BAA USA (Baltimore), Bangalore International Airport and BAA UK (Heathrow T5). The latter two facilities will both have opened just before the event.
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The Trinity Forum will also feature a unique insight into shopper (and non-shopper) behaviour at a prominent UK airport. French retailer Aelia has agreed to allow in-store filming of its duty free operation at Luton Airport near London. The filming is being conducted by Consumer Watch, a joint venture between The Moodie Report and consumer behaviour specialist Counter Intelligence Retail, whose owner Garry Stasiulevicuis will present and analyse the film.
The presentation will also feature an ‘Eye Watch’ mobile eye-level camera – a unique technology being utilised by Counter Intelligence Retail and The Moodie Report to track the store experience through the eyes of a consumer. It helps identify what shoppers are looking at or not looking at – product, signage, and displays – and observes through their eyes how they look at packaging and products on fixture.
Registrations are now flowing in fast. Companies and organisations set to attend so far include Aelia, Aéroporti de Roma, Aéroports de Montréal, Aéroports de Paris, Aéroport du Quebec, Aéroport International de Genève, Airport Authority Hong Kong, Airports Council International, Airports of Thailand, Aldeasa, Aldeasa Vancouver, Alpha Group, Athens International Airport, Auckland Airport, Australia Pacific Airports Corporation, AWPL Retail Solutions and Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.
Other delegates are attending from BAA, Bacardi, Cairns Port Authority, China Airport Construction Group Corporation, Counter Intelligence Retail, CTC-ARI Airports, Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport Group, The Design Solution, Devanlay Lacoste, DFS Group, DKMA, Domodedovo Airport (Airport Management Company), Dubai Duty Free, Estée Lauder International, Eye Corp, Fraport, Gabico (which is set to start its operations at Beijing Capital Airport soon), Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Halifax International Airport Authority, HDS Retail Asia Pacific, HMSHost, Hugo Boss, Incheon International Airport Corporation and Innova Aviation.
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| Lagardère Services, embracing Aelia and HDS (which in turn runs the acclaimed Relay and Virgin concepts), has signed as a Platinum Sponsor of the Forum | ||
They will be joined by Kraft Foods, Kenya Airport Authority, Malaysia Airports Holdings, Marshall Arts International, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, The Moodie Report, Netherlands Airports Consultants, Nuance-Watson (HK), King Power Group (HK), Maui Jin, MCM, Néstle, The Nuance Group, Samoa Airport Authority, San Francisco Airport Commission, The S-A-P Group, Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, Shanghai Airport Authority, SITA, SSP, Sunrise Duty Free, TFWA, Villiger Sons, Wayne County Airport Authority and World Duty Free.
The full list of Chinese delegates will be advised in coming weeks. Additionally many airport executives are flying in to attend the ACI Airport Service Quality Awards and will also be attending Trinity. For registration, programme and sponsorship details click here.
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