{"id":67634,"date":"2025-12-10T05:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=67634"},"modified":"2025-12-27T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:22:29","slug":"dubai-duty-free-mark-retail-milestone-crossing-aed-8-billion-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-duty-free-mark-retail-milestone-crossing-aed-8-billion-in-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Mark Retail Milestone -Crossing AED 8 Billion in Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a> Duty Free reached an historic milestone on December 9th when the airport retailer passed AED8 billion in sales for the first time in its 42-year history. The sale of a twin pack of Marlboro Lights purchased for AED371 by an Indian passenger travelling to Delhi was the item that pushed sales over the AED8 billion mark.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement is the continuation of record monthly sales this year, with 9 out of 11 months setting new records, topped by November&#8217;s all time high sales of AED876.56 million (US$240.16 million).<\/p>\n<p>Recognising the historic milestone today in Terminal 3, Ramesh Cidambi, Managing Director, who was accompanied by the management team and staff said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a momentous occasion to cross the AED8 billion mark for the first-time ever in the company&#8217;s history. From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank all of you who are working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year &#8211; on the shopfloor and in the back office &#8211; to make these transactions happen and to drive the business to this level at year end. We are up 17.6% compared to last December for the first nine days. The last few days have been fantastic, and we are up 9.8% for the year, which is AED710 million more than what we achieved last year &#8211; equivalent to one full month of sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Chairman, H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum congratulated each and every member of the Dubai Duty Free team for the outstanding performance in November and looks forward to a strong finish for the year.&#8221; added Cidambi.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the remainder of the year, the retail operation will celebrate its 42nd Anniversary on December 20th and will mark the occasion by offering a 25% discount on a wide range of products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Duty Free reached an historic milestone on December 9th when the airport retailer passed AED8 billion in sales for the first time in its 42-year history. The sale of a twin pack of Marlboro Lights purchased for AED371 by an Indian passenger travelling to Delhi was the item that pushed sales over the AED8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67634","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\/67634","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=67634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67636,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions\/67636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}