{"id":65400,"date":"2025-06-03T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=65400"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:46:43","slug":"dubai-duty-free-records-outstanding-may-sales-of-dhs724-7mln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-duty-free-records-outstanding-may-sales-of-dhs724-7mln\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Records Outstanding May Sales Of Dhs724.7mln"},"content":{"rendered":"

The month of May continued the positive sales momentum for Dubai<\/a> Duty Free as it announced extraordinary sales of Dhs724.7 million (US$198.5 million). This marks a 12.5% increase over May 2024, and the highest monthly sales figure recorded this year.<\/p>\n

Notably, May 2025 is the second-highest sales month ever for a non-December period, trailing only behind November 2024, and ranks ninth among the all-time top 10 sales months when including December figures.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the May figures, Ramesh Cidambi, Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free said, \u201cMay continued the strong growth story of 2025 and I am especially happy that the increase in sales was seen in many of the major categories. As of May 31st, our revenue has exceeded Dhs3.5 billion (US$1 billion), reflecting a year-to-date growth of nearly 6.5%. These positive results are a direct reflection of the commitment and excellence shown by our entire team of staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 12.5% sales growth for May is expected to outpace passenger traffic by 7-8% (based on DDF\u2019s internal estimates and pending DXB figures), which averaged approximately 242,000 passengers per day. Daily sales averaged Dhs23.3 million (US$6.38 million), driven by strong performance metrics: penetration rose to 28% (up from 26.3% in May 2024), and average spend per departing passenger climbed to US$46.7 \u2013 an increase of US$3 year-on-year.<\/p>\n

In May, sales growth was strong across all major product categories with Confectionery up 81% with Dhs73.9 million (US$20.2 million) sales, boosted by the continued success of \u201cDubai chocolate\u201d. Perfume sales reached Dhs132.8 million (US$36.4 million) showing an almost 15% increase over the same month last year. Cosmetics were up 10.8% with Dhs35.2 million (US$9.6 million) sales, Cigarettes and Tobacco climbed 14.4% generating Dhs77.6 million (US$21.3 million) in sales. Gold sales were up 11.65%, reaching Dhs70.7 million (US$19.4 million) and Precious Jewellery saw notable 31.75% increase with sales of Dhs20.2 million (US$5.5 million). Liquor sales rose to nearly 4% to Dhs89.9 million (US$24.6 million) and Electronics recorded a 5.4% increase with Dhs41.7 million (US$11.4 million) sales.<\/p>\n

The Fashion boutiques also performed well, recording a 4.7% increase over May last year with sales of Dhs71.3 million (US$19.5 million).<\/p>\n

In total, these increases contributed to over Dhs80 million (US$22 million) in additional sales compared to May 2024.<\/p>\n

Among the concourses, Concourse B in Terminal 3 led the growth with a 17.5% increase, followed by Concourse D in Terminal 1 at 10.7%, Concourse A rose by 7.8% and Concourse C by just under 1%. Terminal 2 Departures recorded an exceptional 20.8% year-on-year increase, while Arrivals shops across all three Terminals posted a combined growth of 6.25% following the completion of its renovations and refurbishment.<\/p>\n

All key passenger regions showed positive sales with Europe up 25.9%, the Russian region up 14%, the Far East up 5.2%, Middle East up 14% and the Indian-sub continent up 4%, despite recent travel disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The month of May continued the positive sales momentum for Dubai Duty Free as it announced extraordinary sales of Dhs724.7 million (US$198.5 million). This marks a 12.5% increase over May 2024, and the highest monthly sales figure recorded this year. Notably, May 2025 is the second-highest sales month ever for a non-December period, trailing only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65402,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65400\/revisions\/65402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}