The Lourdes giveth, the lord taketh away… The following story (offered verbatim in case you don’t believe us) comes to The Moodie BLOG courtesy of Hume Brophy partner John Hume, a tireless worker on behalf of the duty free industry in recent months in trying to solve the aviation security crisis. “Hold the front page” says
Events
Who will be the BOSS at this year’s Rugby World Cup?
What’s a girl about town to do ? Especially when she has an acute sense of fashion (and the responsibility of championing one of its great names) and when she’s stuck for a choice of outfit for one of the great social occasions of the year? Followers of rugby – and there are many in
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Airlines
Kiwis reach for the wrong sort of Summit
It’s the unspoken fear that every Kiwi holds deep within. Like the mystery room at the top of the stairway that you must not enter or the guilty family secret that has been unspoken about for years. Yes I’m talking about being usurped by Australia, which delights in bumping aside what it perceives to be its country
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People
The gentle edge of a Thorne
Meet Grahame Thorne (top left). He’s one of New Zealand’s most famous rugby players, a star centre for the legendary All Blacks from 1967 to 1970, playing ten test matches and ranking as the most dazzling runner of his generation. He would have played many more games for his country but for his decision to
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Miscellaneous
Home cinema – at the airport
How often so you see something truly innovative in the commercial offer at an airport, something that adds value to the business, entertains passengers and encourages spend? Not often enough, we think, but Moscow Domodedovo’s DVD Cinema Bar concept is one such idea – we haven’t seen anything quite like it at any other airport. The idea
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Airports
All Black in the investment community?
Kia Ora. The Maori greeting beckons arriving passengers into Auckland International Airport – ‘where New Zealand touches the world’. World Cup Rugby fever has struck here. As one alights off the plane at Auckland Airport the Air New Zealand walkway features giant-sized photographs of members of the country’s famous, iconic rugby team, the All Blacks
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Events
Who will be the Boss at Rugby’s World Cup?
What’s a girl about town to do ? Especially when she has an acute sense of fashion (and the responsibility of championing one of its great names) and when she’s stuck for a choice of outfit for one of the great social occasions of the year? Followers of rugby – and there are many in
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Miscellaneous
Remembering Anji
Remember little Anji? The delightful little six-year old boy whom we met in The Smile Train-funded ward at Hyderabad’s Nizim’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) – and whose face lit up an earlier edition of The Moodie BLOG? For our part we cannot forget him. And as we bade our farewells in Hyderabad last month
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Airports
A six-pack with a difference
Bahrain Duty Free has sold plenty of six-packs in its time. Usually cans of Heineken or Amstel, cartons of Nido milk powder or multi-packs of best-selling confectionery such as Jewels. But the multi-award winning retailer has really outdone itself with its latest mega-promotion – The Magnificent Six x 2. The six is a reference not to
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Airlines
The icing on the cake
The old saying ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’ obviously doesn’t apply to Korean Air. For cake was most definitely on the menu last month when the Seoul-based airline – the world’s most successful inflight retailer – celebrated setting an all-time single flight sales high of US$40,968. The result, achieved on an Incheon