The truth is that no-one knows what lies around the corner with this situation. It is a time to concentrate on the basics and no-one does that better than Dubai Duty Free.
Food
Wine encounters (2): A heavyweight encounter in Israel
All David would have needed to do to emerge triumphant would have been to ask Goliath to down a glass or two of Virtous and he would have fallen over unprompted.
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People
Stephenie’s tale: The battle back to health continues
“Steph has done it again! She has come so far. She has kicked herself back into life several times, has grown spiritually and still has a killer vibe!”
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Events
Because Only a Yes to Sex is a Yes
“The startling reality is that every 73 seconds an American is sexually assaulted – frequently involving the perpetrator’s misuse of alcohol,” says Pernod Ricard North America Chairman and CEO Ann Mukherjee.
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Miscellaneous
As I Walked Out One Midwinter Morning
The daffodil, not the Black Swan, should now become our metaphor.
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Events
Tales of class, from Dan Carter to Christian Courtin-Clarins
I realised that in Clarins you have a group that can foot it with and sometimes excel the biggest (and boy are they big) and best beauty houses in terms of R&D, product creation, packaging, marketing, merchandising and CSR.
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Events
February 2, 2020 – a palindrome to remember, a day to forget
It’s sad and grim on every level. A time to buckle down as businesses, stay safe as individuals. It’s important to keep noting that the travel retail sector historically recovers quickly from crisis. It will again this time.
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Events
Counting the most important cost of a health crisis
There are rocky weeks and perhaps months ahead for our industry but ultimately they pale in comparison to the human cost of such a crisis.
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Airports
Back in Basel as the beat goes on for Dufry
It seems just the other day that I wrote a news story headlined ‘Advent names Julián Díaz new Dufry CEO as acquisition is completed’. In fact it was 16 years ago, on my birthday (1 March).
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Airports
Doing the right thing in Switzerland
I’m confused. Do I turn left (France) or right (Switzerland)? Well, as I always like to do the right thing, I’ll enter Switzerland.
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People
How a tale of unrequited love inspired a business empire
The business empire that he built was worth an estimated US$100 billion. Yet 78 years earlier when he stowed away on a ship to Japan, all the young Shin had to his name was 83 Japanese Yen and a copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther.
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Food
‘Indian food made unforgettable’
It’ s a winning formula based on doing the simple – and not so simple – things well.
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Airports
Anything to declare?
The volumes involved were well in excess of any allowance other than that perhaps of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport arrivals duty free.