Groupe Galeries Lafayette has sealed a tender contract to operate 11 luxury watch stores at Group ADP’s Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports.

Galeries Lafayette will also launch a new brand, Galeries Lafayette-Royal Quartz Paris.

According to the French department store chain, the new fascia “combines the reputation and international influence of the Galeries Lafayette brand […] with the historical expertise of Royal Quartz Paris in watchmaking and travel retail industries”.

A spokesperson from the Galeries Lafayette Group was not immediately available to comment on travel retail plans for the new brand.

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Daphné de Jenlis, Managing Director of Galeries Lafayette-Royal Quartz Paris expressed her pleasure at the new contract and the opportunity to make Paris and France ‘the top destination for travellers worldwide’.

“The pursuit of our collaboration with Paris Aéroport gives Galeries Lafayette-Royal Quartz Paris a new impetus to reinvent our commercial offer, optimise client services and develop a new exclusive store concept around a typical Parisian shopping experience: Window on Paris,” said de Jenlis.

Royal Quartz Paris has been a fixture at Paris’s airports since 1995 and won a previous call for tender in 2011.

Galeries Lafayette-Royal Quartz Paris boasts 17 stores in city centres and travel retail, offering domestic and international customers an eclectic range of luxury watches and jewellery.