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| Company type | Public Company |
|---|---|
| NYSE: GB | |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Founders | Alf Näslund |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Christian Lucas (Chairman), Jacques Stern (CEO) |
| Products | VAT/GST refunds, dynamic currency conversion, POS and retail technologies, customer intelligence, marketing services and publications, training and education, consultancy |
Number of employees | +2,100 (2023) |
| Website | www |
Global Blue is a tourism shopping tax refund company headquartered in Nyon, Switzerland. The company is best known for tax-free shopping,[1] a VAT/GST refund product and also operates in dynamic currency conversion, marketing services, point-of-sale technology, retail staff education, and customer intelligence. It is the industry leader for providing tax refunds.
As of 2014, some 130 countries levy VAT/GST,[2] about 50 offer to refund VAT/GST to tourists for private exports.
- ^ "Silver Lake in €1bn Global Blue deal". Financial Times. May 24, 2012. Archived from the original on December 16, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- ^ "Tax rates". Archived from the original on August 25, 2013.