Is your airport future-ready?
With over 30 years' combined experience worldwide, we master airport commercial due diligence and retail concession planning. And we know that the future is more than numbers and spaces. It is technology and passenger experience. Community involvement. Millennial thinking and diverse expectations. Informed decision-making and evolved shopping behaviours. New revenue models.
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Count on us for
Airport Privatisations/ PPPs
Buy-side/ sell-side commercial due diligence & forecasting, benchmarking, bid submission and review, Project Execution Plan - for greenfield & brownfield airports
Concession Planning
End-to-end concession planning from concept, space allocation, to negotiation and implementation - airside & landside (airport city/ commercial area development)
Commercial Business Plan
Commercial due diligence, benchmarking, non-aeronautical revenue analysis and forecasting, business plan review
Retail Vision
Proprietary methodology: combines modeling tools with international and local market insights and the analysis of societal changes impacting Travel Retail
Airport Digitalisation & Trends
Emerging technologies for enhanced commercial performance & passenger experience - applications and recommendations
Worldwide experience
$24bn
46
15
6
of successful airport transactions in 2012 & 2013 alone
airports in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North & South America & Caribbean
airport projects in 2018 & 2019, in South America, Caribbean, Asia-Pacific
Languages spoken
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LATAM & The Caribbean
Asia-Pacific
Sell-side/buy-side commercial due diligence on 21 airports across Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Bermuda
Sell-side/buy-side commercial due diligence on 4 main airports across Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and benchmarking study Singapore Airport
Europe
United States
Sell-side/buy-side commercial due diligence on 18 airports across UK, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Hungary
Commercial space planning and benchmarking on 2 airports in the US
About us
Airport commercial revenue experts who know travel tech, shopping behaviours and seamless passenger journeys.
Damazo Group was founded by industry expert Oana Damian in 2017 as the specialised consulting firm which sits at the intersection of airport infrastructure and travel technology innovations. With commercial revenue expertise developed over three decades, across most international markets, we provide advisory services to airports, government and financial institutions in the areas of commercial due diligence, business planning, airport commercial planning and transactions/PPPs worldwide.
Our proprietary tool Retail Vision represents an innovative approach to concession planning, by capturing the optimum tenant selection, based on a precise matching of passenger profiles and the integration of shopping trends and societal changes.
Alongside our expertise in non-aeronautical revenue, we place significant emphasis on the potential that technology and industry innovations have on improving the passenger experience and increasing commercial revenues.
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Meet our experts
Oana Damian - Director & Founder
Oana Damian founded Damazo Group in January 2017, as the specialist advisory firm which goes beyond the industry-specific commercial due diligence, by considering tech innovations and the ever changing passenger travel trends.
Ms Damian started her career in aviation at LeighFisher, where she was the lead commercial advisor and key member of on-site teams across various high-profile airport transaction projects, having performed commercial revenue due diligence on over US$24bn of successful transactions worldwide between 2012 and 2013 alone. Since starting Damazo Group, Ms Damian provided commercial revenue advisory on over 15 airport projects, in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia Pacific.
Ms Damian speaks six languages and holds an MBA degree obtained in Spain. Ms Damian speaks at various airport industry and tech/travel conferences, and co-authored the TRB publication "Understanding the Value of Social Media at Airports for Customer Engagement".
Muriel Zingraff - Partner
Muriel Zingraff is a Partner at Damazo Group, specialising in airport concession planning, from initial concept development through to tenders, implementation and delivery.
Ms Zingraff is the former London Heathrow Airport Retail Director, where she was responsible for developing Heathrow's retail business in existing and new terminals. Ms Zingraff developed the airport’s retail sales, reaching £1.9bn in 2013 from £1.7bn in 2012 and delivering EBIT growth of 7% in 2012 and 8% in 2013.
The implementation of Retail Vision, a new modelling tool Ms Zingraff developed, was instrumental in delivering these results. Ms Zingraff achieved the successful development of a world-class retail proposition for T2 and the realization of the new luxury offer for T5, which includes iconic brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès, contributing to a 10.6% growth in passenger spend year on year.