“Deffrwch Cymru cysglyd gwlad y gan, Dwfn yw’r gwendid bychan yw y fflam Every day when I wake up I thank the lord I’m Welsh” – International Velvet, Catatonia Regular readers of The Moodie Blog will know that I get about a fair bit, albeit in the line of duty. So far this year I’ve
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A foretaste of Western Australia – on site at Perth’s T2
There’s no substitute for getting on location to understand an airport. At Perth Airport right now that means donning hardhat, safety glasses and steel-capped boots to enter the Terminal 2 construction site. With snappy fluorescent vests over our equally snappy business attire, Perth Airport’s Executive General Manager Commercial Services Scott Norris, General Manager Retail Rebecca
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Why we do like Mundays
Gerry Munday has seen a few Furla Candy bags(above) in her time but the one she came to grips with on Saturday night was surely the icing on the cake. The popular fashion and accessories specialist (and Furla Global Travel Retail Director) was celebrating a birthday of some significance on the night that she arrived in Dubai
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No living without Ewe in Belfast
Word reaches The Moodie Blog that a prolific ‘sheep’ artist has been commissioned to paint quirky artwork at George Best Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland. Ann Gadd (below right), apparently South Africa’s best-selling and most popular female artist, arrived in Belfast this week to produce a series of paintings to add to her ‘Ewe’
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Six of the best as Foxes go hunting for promotion
Now that’s more like it! Last Saturday The Moodie Report’s officially adopted English football team, Leicester City, went on a scoring rampage, hitting six goals past a hapless (and goal-less) Ipswich Town As reported, Leicester City is owned by Asian Football Investments, a Thai consortium led by Vichai Raksriaksorn, Chairman of one of Asia’s leading travel
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Run for Her: A Mann’s Tale
A ballet audition (not mine, obviously) in the morning and a flight to Italy (most definitely mine) in the afternoon meant that I had to delay my participation in this year’s Run for Her, the Annual Los Angeles 5K Run & Friendship Walk, which took place on 11 November. Walking the walk in sunny Essex
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When (duty free) dinosaurs roamed
Words and pictures reach The Moodie Blog from the industry’s first ‘Dinosaur lunch’, held in London recently. As regular readers will know, the event was organised by Anita Rothermel (formerly Duty Free Buyer – Wines, Spirits, Tobacco, Confectionery at Sally Line) together with some close former industry colleagues. All had played an important role in
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Zegna shows off its new man in Milan
This week, for a couple of days, I’ve been The Moodie Report’s Mann in Milan. That moniker is especially suited to the launch in question, Ermenegildo Zegna’s new masculine fragrance Uomo, which in Italian means – you guessed it – Man. The new Zegna Uomo men’s fragrance is unveiled in Milan The scent was created
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Run for Her set to raise over US$1 million
Run for Her, the 8th Annual Los Angeles 5K Run & Friendship Walk on 11 November, sponsored by DFS Group through its ‘Sleepwalkers around the World’ theme, has raised over US$900,000 and is set to break through the million Dollar barrier in coming days. As reported, Run for Her is held each year to raise
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How MM became the monocled mutineer
Conundrum. What do you do when your eyesight is poor and you break your only set of glasses just before you are due to give a major speech? In fact let’s qualify both the breakage and the speech. In my case the right ‘wing’ had fallen off (maybe in solidarity with the US Presidential election
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Florence makes my day at World Duty Free Heathrow
“Is Shanghai your final destination?” The question from Florence (pictured), the woman at the World Duty Free check-out was correct and politely put. I was buying a bottle of £8.49 Flagstone Noon Gun [a modest, quaffing blend of Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier] to have with my room service supper later that night at my temporary Shanghai
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From Siberia to Shanghai
I’m flying over Novosibirsk, about five hours out from my destination, Shanghai, The Moodie Report’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Bureau in full production. Yes, Novosibirsk (Russia’s third-largest city, population1,473,754) – regular readers of this Blog will know that I have an uncanny knack of timing my entries to coincide with flying over the Siberian city. One day, I vow,
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Retail role recognised as Adrian Littlewood steps up in Auckland
How good is it to see Auckland Airport’s General Manager of Retail & Commercial Adrian Littlewood appointed as Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand’s main gateway? Besides being a top fellow, Adrian has driven Auckland’s commercial revenues to new heights and helped enhance the overall consumer offer at what I consider to be one of the world’s