Dubai Duty Free Announce the Passing of former Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, Colm McLoughlin

Dubai Duty Free announced the passing of Colm McLoughlin, erstwhile Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, who died successful the UK yesterday pursuing a abbreviated illness. Colm, a autochthonal of Ireland, lived successful Dubai for implicit 40 years and led Dubai Duty Free from 1983 to his status successful May of this year.

Ramesh Cidambi, Managing Director, Dubai Duty Free said, “Colm was a large person who built an award-winning retail concern astatine Dubai Airport and steered its maturation to a 2 cardinal dollar concern with implicit 6000 employees astatine the clip of his retirement. He was a existent person who touched truthful galore lives wrong the question retail industry. I articulation our Chairman, H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum and each of our employees successful sending our deepest condolences to Colm’s woman Breeda, his lad Niall and his daughters Tyna and Mandy and each of their families. Our thoughts and prayers are with Breeda and the household astatine this precise hard time.”

A well-known and much-loved fig successful Dubai, Colm was portion of the archetypal ten-man squad from Aer Rianta who came to Dubai successful July 1983 to acceptable up the duty-free operation. His archetypal declaration with the authorities of Dubai was for six months but helium went connected to tally the concern for implicit 4 decades. Under his leadership, Dubai Duty Free became 1 of the largest azygous airdrome operations successful the world. He besides continued to service the Irish diaspora passim his beingness successful Dubai and was a recipient of the Irish Presidential Award successful 2014 for his services to Ireland. 
Colm besides helped found the Dubai Duty Free Foundation successful 2004 and was precise arrogant of the enactment that was done to enactment 119 section and planetary charities.

Apart from the concern acumen, Colm volition beryllium warmly remembered by galore for his easy-going personality, his warmth, his generosity, bonzer kindness and friendship. That volition beryllium his enduring legacy.

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