Flight 001 opens in Bangkok

American specialty retailer of travel products, Flight 001, has opened its first store in Thailand.

Cashing in on the country’s booming travel industry, Flight 001 has partnered with Retail One Co to open a store at Siam Discovery shopping mall in Bangkok.

The Siam Discovery store spans 80 sqm, offers more than 1000 products and is targeting sales of 15 million baht ($466 000) in the first year.

The retailer says it is also looking to expand into Myanmar, Vietnam, China and Japan, where it will open its first store next month.

“We are shifting our focus to Asia because of the continuous increase of travellers across the region,” said Flight 001 co-founder Brad John.

He said the company expects sales in Asia to account for around 50 per cent of its global sales by 2015 from 25 per cent currently.

The retailer is also seeking opportunities to expand to markets including Britain, France, Germany and Brazil.

Flight 001 is a travel store streamlined as travel itself conceived in 1998 aboard Air France flight 023, somewhere between New York and Paris.

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