BIAL shortlists retail firms for new airport

BIAL shortlists retail firms for new airport
Deccan Herald

Bangalore International Airports Ltd (BIAL) has shortlisted bidders for various retail stores in the new international airport and held its first tender briefing for them on Thursday.


Bangalore International Airports Ltd (BIAL) has shortlisted bidders for various retail stores in the new international airport and held its first tender briefing for them on Thursday.

Five parties have been shortlisted under each of the proposed retail packages and only one of them will be finally selected in the last week of October, to put up their store.

Majority of the shortlisted bidders are foreign companies or proposed joint ventures and have been selected for retail packages under the following categories.


They include Duty Free retail package, Domestic retail package, F&B retail package I, F&B retail package 2, F&B retail package 3. (See Table).

In the Duty Free package, the proposed joint venture between a private Indian company and $900 million Arianta, has been left out.

The government-owned, Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), which is currently contributing $35 million to Airport Authority of India’s total duty free revenue of $56 million, has also been left out of the shortlisted companies.

A source involved in the bid who did not wish to be identified said “Arianta and ITDC could probably have been the most aggressive financial bidders, but were out of the race even before it began at the pre-bid stage. The reasons for the exclusion are inexplicable.”

Shortlisted companies for retail packages

Duty Free Retail Package

* Nuance Group & Shopper's stop

* DFS Group

* Dufry Group

* Alpha Airports Group

* Gebr Heinemann & Oberoi Group

Domestic Retail Package

* Nuance Group & Shopper's Stop

* Dufry Group

* Pantaloons

F&B Retail Package 1:

Arrival and check-in.

*Nuance Group & Shoppers Stop

* HMS host

* SSP International & RKHS

* Global franchise Architects

* Cafe coffee Day

F &B Retail Package 2:

Domestic Departure

* Nuance Group & Shopper's Stop

* HMS Host

* SSP International & RKHS

* Oberoi Group

* Skygourmet

F &B Retail Package 3:

International departures

* Nuance Group & Shopper’s Stop

* HMS Host

* SSP International & RKHS

* Oberoi Group

* Alpha Airports Group