About us

We harness our pioneering culture to make travel more enjoyable with bespoke offers and experiences. 

Lagardère Travel Retail aspires to weave moments of enjoyment into every passenger’s journey. We transform mundane waiting times into opportunities for discovery, craft spaces that inspire wonder, and curate experiences that resonate with individual preferences.   

To do so, we invest our world-class global expertise and local knowledge to bring tailor-made offers and experiences to life that benefit landlords and travelers alike. Our unique company culture enables our people to thrive in their work and exceed partners’ and travelers’ needs and expectations. Driven by passion, expertise, and teamwork, people are at the heart of our performance and the key of our success.    

As a French-based, international company inspired by our rich 170-year history, we support mobility in all forms, and today, our business model has become a benchmark in the industry thanks to our forward-thinking Three Business Lines model. Operating over 5,120 stores across Travel Essentials, Duty Free & Fashion and Foodservice in airports, railway stations and other concessions in 42 countries worldwide, we generated €6,6bn sales in 2023.  

In Italy

Lagardère Travel Retail Italy provides a varied assortment of products, operates and guarantees the development of three business lines: Duty Free & Luxury, Foodservice and Travel Essentials.

Duty Free & Luxury: Lagardère is the leader in Italy in the Duty Free sector with the "Aelia Duty Free" brand, as well as one of the main operators of Fine Food and Fashion, with multi-brand stores and single-brand boutiques in Italian airports.

Foodservice: we offer different brands that combine modernity and tradition with a Made in Italy offer, but of international scope, both for the formats under direct management such as Beercode, Decanto, Homeburger, Natoo and Rustichelli & Mangione, and for the franchise companies.

Travel Essentials: our heritage News & Convenience is demonstrated in a unique portfolio of both proprietary or partnership brands, designed to enhance the traveler's experience through products such as gifts, souvenirs and electronics. Starting from RELAY, a brand with proven international reliability.