Hellenic Duty Free Shops SA, founded in 1979, is a Greek company in the travel retail industry.
The company was founded in 1979 to provide duty-free goods to travelers leaving through Greek border checkpoints.
The commercial area in the new airport was designed on the basis of the specifications for modern shopping centers, creating new growth prospects.
Hellenic Duty Free Shops is ranked in 7th place among "The World's Top 50 Giant Operators, 2010", based on Generation Research.
[4] Hellenic Duty Free Shops offers brand name perfumes, cosmetics, alcoholic drinks, tobacco products, chocolates, Greek foods, clothing, accessories, glasses, travel goods, souvenirs, games, electronic items, etc.
If a traveller finds the product they purchased at the shops in the International Airport at a cheaper price somewhere else, then the difference is returned to them twice over.
It combines the company's commercial activity, retaining elements of the old logo, such as the word "Hellenic" and the blue colour.
[8] Hellenic Duty Free Shops has policies on social and environmental responsibility aimed at the sustainable development of the company as well as of the local communities in which it is active.
It donated €335,000 toward the support of local communities in the regions of Kastanies, Feres, Anixi, Promachonas, the islands of Karpathos and Symi, as well as the fire-stricken area of Ileia.
It makes donations to the ‘Mitera’ Foundation for Infants, to the Centre for Mental Health and other public welfare institutions.
Since 2005, it has been active in the ship supply sector and is the exclusive distributor in Greece of products from the companies Philip Morris, Papastratos, Pernod Ricard, Hershey's, World Brands Duty Free, William Grants, Ian Macleod, Quality Spirits International, Monus Doo, Nemiroff, Efe Alkollu, Imperial Tobacco and Phoenicia Fereos.