Shannon Airport occupies a special place in the hearts of many travel retail people. The birthplace of duty free in 1947, courtesy of the industry’s founding father Brendan O’Regan, it’s a location that you’ll hear name-checked in every continent where duty free retailers ply their trade. It may be widely celebrated, but in recent years
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Stella delivers a star turn at London L.I.L.Y launch
Over the years this writer has been lucky enough to attend launches in all sorts of exotic locations around the world, but earlier this month L’Oréal came up trumps with a more local venue: Wellington Arch, on Hyde Park Corner. We must have walked past this monument 100 times, and never once realised you could
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Bravo to Bruce McGuire
Ever since I launched The Moodie Report in 2002 I have come to hugely admire the entrepreneurs within this industry, people who have had the vision, the acumen and the sheer guts to launch and grow a business. As anyone who has steered this path will tell you, it ain’t easy. If it was, as
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In the pink in Dubai
Cancer Research UK (www.cancerresearchuk.org) is US$1,000 better off, following the recent Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup and related ‘fringe’ events. At the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup, Abu Dhabi Airport Company’s Dan Cappell and his various playing partners raised nearly AED800 (US$218) from on course ‘fines’, a figure presented to me at the
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Airports
Nuance and Lindt unveil a very tasty treat in Zürich
Buoyed by a desire to bring immediate coverage of airport and store openings around the world, The Moodie Report’s carbon footprint has grown to Yeti-like dimensions over the past decade. Yet in all that time we have only witnessed a handful of airport store concepts which really excite, which truly differentiate, which genuinely capture a
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Origins lights the way with Mega-Bright
We could all do with a little more enlightenment in life, and Origins did its best to oblige last week, at the London launch of its new skin care treatment, Dr Andrew Weil for Origins Mega-Bright Skin Tone Correcting Serum. The event took place at Paramount at Centre Point, an appropriately light and bright location
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John Sutcliffe roves out at The Irish Village
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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