Central & Eastern European Travel Retail Association (CEETRA) meets at TFWA World Exhibition & Conference

Members of the Central & Eastern European Travel Retail Association (CEETRA), the regional industry association representing companies in the travel retail industry in the CEE region, met at the Majestic on Tuesday morning, led by its Chair, Dr Patrick Bohl Head of Retail and Property Management at Budapest Airport.

CEETRA currently represents airports, retailers, brands and other travel retail associated enterprises drawn from Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The association’s aim is to protect, promote, and facilitate the Region’s travel retail channel by providing the means to obtain the most favourable trading environment for travel related commerce.

“We’ve also had new interest in membership from other Hungarian brands and from Belarus,” Bohl told the meeting.

Those attending yesterday morning’s CEETRA meeting included:

• Nina Semprecht, Head of Corporate Communications, Heinemann
• Tobias Baude, Head of Corporate & Legal Affairs – Global Duty Free & Export, Imperial Brands
• Antonio Vencesla, WWDF Corporate Affairs & Communication Director, JT International
• Julie Lassaigne, Secretary General, ETRC
• Patrick Bohl, Chair of CEETRA and Head of Retail and Property Management, Budapest Airport
• Alan Bork, Owner, Airport Retail Consulting
• Sylvie Ngoma, Regional Manager Central Europe, Pernod Ricard Travel Retail
• Jennifer Cords, Director Corporate Affairs, Business Compliance & Corporate Responsibility, Gebr. Heinemann
• Nebojsa Cirjakovic, External Affairs Manager Global Travel Retail, British American Tobacco
• Christoph Stump, Director Retail Operations, Gebr. Heinemann

In an upswing in CEETRA activities, a recent all-member survey presented an optimistic, collective message on emerging from the Pandemic.

Meanwhile in the CEETRA Forum on 7 October 2021, the group reported “clear findings central to its mission to Protect, Promote and Facilitate the Region’s duty-free and travel retail channel.”

The next meeting of the CEETRA members will be at Budapest Airport’s SkyCourt Conference Centre on 17 November and will crucially include a special hosting the ETRC Supervisory Board.