DFS Galleria is a chain of upscale department stores and shopping malls (galleria

Galleria

Galleria , or The Galleria, is a common name for a shopping mall, ultimately deriving from the 19th-century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.- Australia :*Centro Galleria - Morley, Western Australia...

s) comprising high-end boutiques, located primarily within Oceania

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

 and around the Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim

The Pacific Rim refers to places around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The term "Pacific Basin" includes the Pacific Rim and islands in the Pacific Ocean...

. Its website proclaims it to be "the world's leading luxury retailer catering to the travelling public". "DFS" was originally founded as Duty Free Shoppers, referencing the company's origins as an operator of duty-free shop

Duty-free shop

Duty-free shops are retail outlets that are exempt from the payment of certain local or national taxes and duties, on the requirement that the goods sold will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country...

s.

History

According to the company website, "Charles Feeney

Chuck Feeney

Charles F. Feeney , is an Irish American businessman and philanthropist and founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world. He made his fortune as a co-founder with Robert Warren Miller of the Duty Free Shoppers Group...

 and Robert Miller created what is now DFS on November 7, 1960" in Hong Kong. Since 1996, it has been jointly owned by Miller and LVMH

LVMH

LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

.

Oceania

• Guam: Tumon
• Hawaii: Honolulu
• New Zealand: Auckland and Christchurch
• Palau: Koror
• Saipan: Garapan

Airports

DFS also has shops at the following airports:

• Al Ain International Airport, Abu Dhabi
• Auckland Airport
• Bali International Airport
• Changi International Airport, Singapore
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India
• Christchurch International Airport
• Guam International Airport
• Hong Kong International Airport
• Honolulu International Airport
• Jakarta International Airport
• JFK International Airport, New York City
• Kahului International Airport, Maui, Hawaii
• La Tontouta Airport, New Caledonia
• Los Angeles International Airport
• Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Okinawa Naha Airport
• Palau Airport
• Saipan International Airport
• San Francisco International Airport
• Sydney Airport
• Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

External links

• DFS Galleria website

• Category:Companies of Hong Kong
• Category:LVMH brands
• Category:Companies established in 1960
• Category:Clothing retailers
• Category:Luxury department stores of the United States