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Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters |
Dublin Airport, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland |
Website | http://www.ari.ie |
Aer Rianta International cpt (ARI) is an airport and retail holding and management company, registered in Dublin and with its head office at Dublin Airport. ARI is a subsidiary of Ireland's state-owned DAA.
The company was established in 1988 as part of Aer Rianta (now daa). The airport division holds a 20% stake in Düsseldorf Airport. It also formerly held stakes in Birmingham Airport (sold in September 2007) and Hamburg Airport (sold in 2006). The airport retail division designs, manages and operates duty free and duty paid airport retail outlets in Europe, the Middle East, India, New Zealand and the Americas.
ARI has stores in Barbados, Bahrain, Canada, Cyprus, India, Lebanon New Zealand, and Oman and also operates retail outlets at Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. It has a managed turnover of over $1 billion and employs over 3,000 people worldwide.
In March 2007, Aer Rianta International and Barbados-based Caribbean Airways announced a new joint venture retail business named CaribbeanAri Inc. The venture is to be debuted in Barbados' Grantley Adams International Airport. The business will feature a Runway brand of luggage, cosmetics, clothing, chocolates, liquor and tobacco stores.