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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, with Planet as its closest competitor.
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.