Fact: through my job, I get to go to a lot of parties, writes Rebecca Mann. Also a fact: it’s still work – though I appreciate there are worse ways to earn a living. Sometimes, events clash with personal commitments – over the years I’ve attended press launches on Mothering Sunday, my birthday, my husband’s
Miscellaneous
Feeling Plucky?
January, surely, is the longest month of the year, writes Rebecca Mann. Yes, I know my calendar tells me it has 31 days – exactly the same as March, May, July, August, October and December. But every year, somehow January seems to last as long as all those other months put together. There are several reasons
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Miscellaneous
Tribulations to Triumph: The answers revealed
We had a fantastic reaction to our competition offering two lucky readers a free (and signed) copy of YS Choi’s new book ‘From Tribulations to Triumph’, the former Lotte Duty Free President’s story of the rise and rise of Korean duty free. As I told you on my last Blog, Mr Choi (pictured above left
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Airports
From Tribulations to Triumph through the eyes of YS Choi
With South Korea’s leading travel retailers in the news to an unprecedented degree (The Shilla Duty Free’s triumph in the Changi Perfumes & Cosmetics tender; Lotte Duty Free’s win in Guam; and Incheon International Airport’s record duty free sales in 2013), there’s certain to be widespread interest in a fascinating new book that examines the
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Airports
A day of triumph and loss, delight and despair at Changi
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…” – Rudyard Kipling Well my last Blog wasn’t so far from the mark after all… For, just a few hours later, this time I CAN reveal the results of the Singapore Changi Airport duty free liquor & tobacco and
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Miscellaneous
Looking forward to catching up with some ald akwentans
Shid ald akwentans bee firgot, an nivir brocht ti mynd? Shid ald akwentans bee firgot, an ald lang syn? Fir ald lang syn, ma jo, fir ald lang syn, wil tak a cup o kyndnes yet, fir ald lang syn. No I haven’t been at the Christmas container of Cloudy Bay again. I just thought rather than