FDFA awards top border and airport players in Canada

By Kevin Rozario |

The 2016 winners.

The 2016 winners.

Canada’s Frontier Duty Free Association has revealed its 2016 Gold Standards winners at its annual convention in Toronto with Abbotsford Duty Free, Importations Guay, and Aer Rianta International taking the top retailer awards.

FDFA Executive Director, Laurie Karson, who led the awards evening presentation at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, said: “The FDFA Gold Standards Winners represent the best of Canadian duty free.”

In total there were 15 awards for duty free and travel retail companies, individual employees, distributors/suppliers and brand owners. For the full list of winners see the table below.

FDFA winners 2016

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