Hudson, one of the largest travel retailers in North America, is a wholly owned subsidiary of international travel retailer Avolta AG, formerly Dufry AG, of Basel, Switzerland. Based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, the company operates more than 970 Hudson, Hudson News, Hudson Booksellers, cafes, specialty retail and duty-free shops in 87 airports and transportation terminals in the United States and Canada.
The company's holdings include Hudson News, the world's largest operator of airport newsstands.[1]
History
In 1918, Isaac Cohen founded Hudson County News in Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1947, under the leadership of Robert B. Cohen, Hudson County News began delivering magazines in Hudson County, New Jersey.
In the 1980s, Cohen took over a bankrupt newsstand operator the company was supplying at Newark Liberty International Airport. In 1987, he set up the first branded Hudson News store in LaGuardia Airport. This led to the acquisition of other stores in airports by the Cohen family. This was a separate subsidiary from Hudson News Distributors also owned by the Cohen family.