Oslo Airport has awarded contracts to Autogrill to operate 10 retail and food & drinks outlets. It represents Autogrill’s first operation in Norway, while the company currently operates 39 stores at the Scandinavian airports of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm-Skavsta and Stockholm-Arlanda. The agreement enables Autogrill to consolidate its presence in the Northern European airport channel.
Autogrill’s parent company HMSHost International said it expected to generate overall revenues in excess of €270 million over the course of the seven-year contract. “After our success in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, we’re thrilled to be able to start up at Oslo Airport in Norway, the only Scandinavian market where we had no operations so far”, said HMSHost International CEO Walter Seib. “Together with Umoe we have developed 10 high-profile concepts that will help make Oslo an exclusive hub also in terms of its food & beverage offering”.
The 10 sales points, expected to open in 2016 and 2017, will be operated by HMSHost Umoe F&B Company AS, a joint venture incorporated by HMSHost International and Umoe Restaurants Group, the country’s main food & beverage operator. “We are excited about the new partnership with Autogrill, the world’s leading provider of food & beverage for travellers,” said Umoe Restaurants CEO Sverre Helno. “We want to offer passengers transiting through Oslo Airport a new culinary experience. Through this partnership we will strengthen our position in the increasingly competitive and international sector of airport food and beverage”.