A great display of Chinese spirit

One of the traditional highlights of the TFWA Asia Pacific show is the annual China Duty Free Group (CDFG) dinner at The China Club. As always this year’s dinner was marked by superb hospitality, including a sumptuous eight-course meal. Marketing Director Antonio Hao (below with me after the event) told guests that CDFG had opened

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Singapore shows kicks off as the Chinese phenomenon grows

The Moodie Report team is in Singapore for the annual TFWA Asia Pacific exhibition and Gate One2One conference. For me it’s step one in a long Asia Pacific sojourn that will also take in the exciting new-look International Terminal at Sydney Airport and the new duty free stores at Auckland Airport from James Richardson and

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Please in a Pod

“Welcome to The Moodie Podcast, this is Martin Moodie and this episode comes to you from….” It’s funny how innovations that seem risky and even peripheral at the time quickly enter the mainstream. When we launched The Moodie Podcast in March 2007, we weren’t certain what the readership reaction would be, nor, to be honest,

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