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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 3:01 pm
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Originally Posted by slawecki
i recall a few years ago, someone bought all or most of the "duty free" stores from one individual.
Ah... far from the truth. DFS is a small fraction of duty free operators; their global industry trade group has about 450 members:

http://www.iaadfs.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

http://www.bestandmost.com/?sel=aboutTR
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