Chinese Travel Retail’s New Era

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By Lucy Maguire, Features Director

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LVMH’s unwinding of duty-free retailer DFS earlier this year signaled not the decline of travel retail, but its evolution. As China’s travel retail enters its post-duty-free era, here’s how to get it right, writes Yiling Pan.

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