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PÃ¥l Wibe, Managing Director of Travel Retail Norway, speaking at the Nordic Travel Retail Conference in May |
NORWAY. PÃ¥l Wibe, Managing Director of Travel Retail Norway (TRN), left the company on 1 November.
TRN said it was a personal decision on his part to leave. The TRN board will soon appoint a successor, The Moodie Report understands. Florian Seidel has been appointed Acting Managing Director in the interim.
Wibe was a pivotal figure in TRN’s stated ambition to become “the best duty free retailer in Europe”.
He oversaw the doubling of sales from 2004 to 2006. TRN sales are now worth €200 million a year.
Wibe can be contacted at email: pal@nille.no
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