Trbusiness. The travel retail Trbusiness. The magazine for global retail and duty free professionals.TRC welcomes Harrogate Water, Rotary Watches, Transformulas as members
By Luke Barras-hill |
Three new companies have become members of UK-based Travel Retail Consortium (TRC), bringing the number of category specialists in the organisation to 19.
Harrogate Water (F&B), Rotary Watches (watches) and Transformulas (skincare) have all joined in recent months.
Sharon Edwards-Smith, Chair, TRC said: “We are delighted to have welcomed three new members to the TRC community. With their combined expertise across key categories, these brands are sure to add much value and insight to our TRC discussions.
“We look forward to hearing from these brands’ representatives over the course of our in-person and online events programme for 2025.”
Sharon Edwards-Smith, Chair, TRC: “With their combined expertise across key categories, these brands are sure to add much value and insight to our TRC discussions.”
Sam Haley, Export and Travel Retail Manager, Harrogate Water said: “We have joined the TRC to focus on growing our duty free and travel retail partners this year. Our ambition is to continue to lead within the out of home category and expand our travel retail portfolio across all channels to be the number one water in the sky and on the sea.”
Peter Ashfield, Sales Director – Licensed Division at Peers Hardy Group said: “We are delighted to join the TRC as its watch partner with our newly acquired Rotary brand.
“With 130 years of watch making history, we look forward to sharing the brand with a global audience and see travel retail as a key pillar to the brand’s success internationally.
“Whilst Peers Hardy has sold into the travel industry for over 15 years we still have lots of opportunities to explore both in the UK and overseas and are looking forward to networking with TRC members to learn from their experiences, share information and hopefully build new long term business partnerships.”
Janice Smith, Sales and Marketing Director for YV Global, which represents the Transformulas brand in travel retail, added: “At YV Global, we have long admired the TRC community. Now we are seeing Transformulas growing fast in travel retail, the time was right to join TRC’s industry network.”
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