{"id":206949,"date":"2019-01-02T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=206949"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:38:56","slug":"dubai-duty-free-sold-more-than-us-2-bi-in-products-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dubai-duty-free-sold-more-than-us-2-bi-in-products-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free sold more than US$ 2 bn in products in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Dubai Duty Free shops registered sales of USD 2.015 billion in 2018, 4.31% more than the total in 2017, according to information released this Wednesday (2) by the company. The duty-free stores of the Dubai International Airport and the Al Maktoum International Airport, also in Dubai, surpassed the USD 2 billion mark in sales in December 29.<\/p>\n<p>December 20, which marked the 35<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the free-shop in UAE, offered a 25% discount in selected products, resulting in more than 100 thousand transactions and almost USD 30 million sold in just 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The top five categories in year sales were alcoholic beverages, perfumes, cigarettes, cosmetics and electronic devices. The perfume sales reached USD 301.6 million, representing 14.97% of the total sold. The cosmetics amounted to USD 208.88 million, and the electronic devices reached USD 163.1 million, showing 21.77% and 8.82% rises over 2017 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The clock sales grew 2.66%, reaching USD 145.63 million, or 7.23% of the annual sales. The gold amounted to USD 134.21 million, with 6.66% of the total sales, while candies registered sales of USD 130.37 million and 6.47% of the total sales.<\/p>\n<p>The sales in the boarding area grew 6.12% in comparison with the last year, totalizing 1.78 billion; they represented 88.35% of the total sales in 2018. The operation registered more than 25.5 million transactions this year, having sold almost 69 million products.<\/p>\n<p>For 2019, Dubai Duty Free keeps its events calendar, including the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship from February 17 to March 2, at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-206943\">Ye hongtao\/Imaginechina\/AFP <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of the duty-free shops in the Emirates airports grew 4.3% over last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":206943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[26555,139,6720,6718,6719],"class_list":{"0":"post-206949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-dubai-en-2","9":"tag-dubai","10":"tag-dubai-airport","11":"tag-dubai-duty-free","12":"tag-free-shop"},"wps_subtitle":"Sales of the duty-free shops in the Emirates airports grew 4.3% over last year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}