Hudson Group and Travel + Leisure Magazine Open First Travel + Leisure Store in Vancouver...

Hudson Group and Travel + Leisure Magazine Open First Travel + Leisure Store
in Vancouver International Airport
American Express Publishing Flagship Title Becomes an Airport Brand

NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Two powerhouse travel brands have combined to
create an exciting new travel-themed retail store in airports. Leading travel
magazine Travel + Leisure, published by American Express Publishing
Corporation, and leading travel retailer Hudson Group, famous for its national
newsstand brand Hudson News, have jointly launched a new travel retail concept
called Travel + Leisure.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060705/NYW034LOGO )

Travel + Leisure stores will sell products aimed at enhancing the travel
experience, such as luggage and travel accessories, along with convenient
printed materials, such as local maps and travel guides, as well as current
editions of Travel + Leisure magazine and its sister publication, Food & Wine.

Luggage brands will vary by location and include a selection of the following:
Tumi, Samsonite, North Face, Burton, Crumpler, Eagle Creek, Jack Georges,
Manhattan Portage, T-Tech, Timbuk2, and more.

The first store opened at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on June 18.
Additional stores are opening soon in Halifax International Airport and JFK
International Airport (Terminal 2). New Hudson retail Galleries in Sanford
Orlando and San Francisco International Airports will feature Travel + Leisure
stores-within-stores.

"The Travel + Leisure concept grew out of Hudson's relationship with the
magazine publishing industry through our newsstand Hudson News, which sells
millions of books and magazines each year," notes Hope Remoundos, EVP of
Marketing for Hudson Group. "Hudson has successfully partnered with TV
networks in the past, in our CNN Newsstand and CMT Loot stores. But this marks
our first partnership with a magazine. We are delighted to take this step with
such a strong market presence as American Express Publishing's Travel +
Leisure brand."

About Hudson Group: Hudson Group is a duty-paid travel retailer, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of international duty-free travel retailer Dufry AG
(DUFN) of Basel, Switzerland. Hudson operates more than 500 newsstands,
bookstores, cafes and premier specialty retail shops in 70 airports and
transportation terminals in the United States and Canada. The combined
Dufry/Hudson entity oversees over 1,000 stores in 41 countries and 137
airports and terminals.

SOURCE Hudson Group

Laura Samuels - VP, Corp. Comm, Hudson Group, +1-201-528-2402,
lsamuels@hudsongroup.com, or Elizabeth Marsh, Travel + Leisure,
+1-212-382-5684, Elizabeth.C.Marsh@aexp.com