CDFG has set up nearly 200 retail stores in over 90 cities in 30 provinces, cities, autonomous regions (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) in China. CDFG has established six customs supervision logistics centers, located in Dalian, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hong
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Currently, CDFG is the largest duty-free retailer in China and ranks at the forefront in the global duty free industry. CDFG has been devoted to providing luxurious and comfortable environments, excellent quality and reasonable prices, professional management and excellent tourist experiences. CDFG’s business cover nearly a thousand types of merchandise in over 20 major categories, such as imported tobacco, wine and spirits, perfume and cosmetics, clothing, leather goods, jewelry, watches and Chinese specialty products. With an improved product structure and an offering of complete products, CDFG gives customers a duty free shopping experience at optimal prices.
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In its rapid growth of 30 years, CDFG has established long-term cooperative relationships with more than 300 top luxury brands in the world, and now provides international travelers, sailors, diplomats and offshore travelers in Hainan with nearly a thousand types of commodities in over twenty main categories. With more than 200 duty-free stores of nine types serving airports, airplanes, borders, ferry terminals, railway stations, shipping supplies, diplomats, cruises, and downtown in thirty provinces, cities and autonomous regions (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) all over China, CDFG has become the duty-free operator offering the widest array of duty-free stores and the largest number of retail outlets in a single country. As a leader of the industry, CDFG developed from a distributor of duty free goods to China’s largest operator of luxury goods at present, realizing the tremendous change from being a single distributor to retail operator, from business in traditional duty free field to travel retail.
Kong. These centers cover the whole country, and have adopted advanced control systems to improve efficiency and quality in logistics, realizing faster nationwide delivery of duty free merchandise.
In 2011, the offshore duty free business of CDFG in Hainan was under successful operation, opening a new chapter for China’s duty free industry. The Sanya duty free store is a world-class downtown duty free store, and one of the top duty-free stores in Asia. The CDFG has gone to great effort in its construction. The store covers an overall business area of 10,000 square meters and is now the largest downtown offshore duty-free store in mainland China, providing a complete selection of brands and the most favorable environment. This duty free store mainly offers 13 categories of commodities, including perfume and cosmetics, jewelry, watches, clothing, leather goods, luggage, sun glasses, travel goods, tableware and kitchenware, beauty and health care products, toys, Chinese and Hainan specialty products, etc. as well as thousands of products from nearly one hundred international top grade brands. Through the Sanya Duty Free Store, large numbers of international top grade luxury brands have been able to enter the mainland duty free market in mainland China for the first time, and successively setting up many duty-free boutiques with the most updated images, largest areas and the most complete varieties in China. 29