Anyone who’s known former Aer Rianta International-Middle East Managing Director John Sutcliffe for some time will know he is a more than handy singer and musician – so handy in fact that he seriously considered a professional career in the field long before he took up retailing. At the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup party
Events
From tea planter to tee planter as Sunil makes a splash
Pressure can affect even the biggest names in the business. Such alas was the case when The Moodie Report and You Tube caught up with King Power Hong Kong Duty Free & Travel Retail Managing Director Sunil Tuli as he played the par 3 eighth hole on day two of the Dubai Duty Free Golf
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Airports
The persistence of true champions
There can have been few more popular winners of the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup in the 19-year history of the event than this year’s men’s and women’s champions, Francis Clark (above with trophy) and Nadine Heubel (below with trophy). Clark, a Gulf-based Englishman who supplies services to the regional duty free industry, won
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Events
Partying hard with the Irish Village people
And I’ll drink and dance with one hand free Let the world back into me Oh I’ll be a sight to see Back in the high life again The Guinness and wine flowed, the dancing was frenetic, the camaraderie terrific. Dubai Duty Free’s annual party to celebrate its Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup was,
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Miscellaneous
Into the swing at the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup
One of the social highlights of the travel retail calendar began today in Dubai, with the 19th running of the annual Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup. It’s an event that brings the industry together in friendship for two days in Dubai, and whose popularity has grown over the past two decades. This year’s high-class courses are
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People
Vintage Ford unveiled in Dubai
There were toasts aplenty at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Dubai last night as Andrew Ford, DFS’s popular Vice President, Business Development, celebrated 50 years existence on planet earth among industry friends and with his wife Tina Tam. At the behest of Abu Dhabi Airports Company Vice President for Non-Aeronautical Revenues and Business Development Dan
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Miscellaneous
Paying homage to the Urn
This writer has been fortunate enough to visit some wonderful sporting venues, some of them not in West Bromwich. For atmosphere, the old Wembley and Croke Park are hard to beat; for setting, Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval and the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town are both unforgettable locations; and Lisbon’s Stadium of Light, the Stade
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Miscellaneous
Life is for the living
It’s been a long time between visits… This month it was back to my old, familiar haunt, The Royal Marsden Hospital – a place of fear and wonder. Fear because any patient or visitor to this venerable institution is there because they or someone close to them is suffering or has suffered from cancer. Wonder
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Miscellaneous
Abu Dhabi sets the pace
Abu Dhabi played host to an extraordinary day – and an extraordinary night, as the Formula 1 show concluded on Sunday. The Moodie Report was there as a guest of Abu Dhabi Airports Company, and saw Lewis Hamilton of McLaren capture the top prize, after rival Sebastien Vettel of Red Bull spun out of the
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Miscellaneous
Ready to race in Abu Dhabi
The Moodie Report is in Abu Dhabi this weekend for the third Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Grand Prix, at the stunning Yas Marina track. The atmosphere here is terrific, with Formula 1 and the social scene that surrounds it the only game in town from Friday through to Sunday. As soon as you step
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Miscellaneous
A beautiful breakfast with Bobbi
Earlier today, The Estée Lauder Companies helped celebrate Bobbi Brown’s 20th anniversary in the cosmetics industry, with a media breakfast at the Hélène Darroze Restaurant, at the Connaught Hotel. La Brown herself was present at the event, looking far too youthful to be celebrating 20 years of anything. Dressed in jeans, a black sequinned top
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Airports
Travel retail gets set for another Busch fire
‘Busch is back!’ screamed the welcome headline on a press release that tumbled into my in-box on the weekend. The Busch was of the Henrik variety – namely the long-time Copenhagen Airports President Commercial Affairs, who ranks, in my view, as one of the most far-sighted airport retail executives of recent times. Henrik’s departure from
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Airports
Providing the water of life
In a world so often gone wrong, it’s nice to report on something gone right. Very right, in fact, if you’ll excuse my liberties with the English language. This week World Duty Free Group announced it had raised over £1,000,000 (US$1.6 million) for the One Foundation from sales of bottled ‘One Water’ and branded jute