Flemingo Duty Free Shops has reportedly won the concession to build duty-free shops at Pune international airport that is currently being upgraded by Airports Authority of India. No spokesperson at Flemingo's Indian office at Navi Mumbai could be reached for comment. At Pune airport, Flemingo will be given 60 m2 of retail space together in the arrivals and departure areas, under concession for a three-year period. The contract could be shorter if AAI decides to privatize the operations of the airport under the PPP model. Meanwhile, Flemingo, it is learnt, is also contesting the existing concession awarded for the duty-free shopping zone at the new Bangalore International Airport.
Flemingo was the sole bidder for the Pune airport concession. In an independent development, Flemingo lost out on the race for the Coimbatore airport duty-free concession to state-run ITDC Ltd.
In India, Flemingo operates airport duty free shops at Amritsar, Jaipur, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Goa, Mangalore, Calicut, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai and Kolkata, according to information available with Projectmonitor.