Milano, 27 April 2005 - HMSHost Corp., the north-American subsidiary of Autogrill (Milan: AGL IM), is back in business at Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) with five points of sale under new contracts running from between five and ten years. Part of a significant expansion and upgrading of the airport involving investments of some $1.8bn, the operation will generate accumulated sales of over $60m for Autogrill.
BWI Airport is one of the main hubs in North America, serving the USA’s fourth biggest metropolitan area (over seven million inhabitants), one of the world’s most important bio-tech districts and the US capital itself.
The company Autogrill S.p.A. was merged into the company World Duty Free S.r.l. effective as from November 1st, 2023 .
At the same time, the company World Duty Free S.r.l. was transformed into a joint-stock company with the name World Duty Free S.p.A..