“As iconic to travel as coke is to soft drinks.” That’s one of the aspirations that Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) holds for its new ‘Shop-Dine-Unwind’ brand concept, unveiled yesterday at TFWA Asia Pacific in Singapore. The new commercial brand replaces the old ‘Abu Dhabi Duty Free’ tagline and extends it to all airport consumer
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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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Events
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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All for Eve: making a difference with make-up
What do your beauty products say about you? Does your array of potions and lotions signify that you take care of yourself? Why not go one step further: use any of the products from philanthropic new beauty and lifestyle brand All for Eve, and you’ll be taking care of other women too. The brand, developed
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Quirky
Oh really O’Leary?
Of the many jokes we receive during the course of the year, we thought this one was particularly good, especially in the light of the recent airline onboard ‘one-bag’ furore. Michael O’Leary, Chief Executive of Ryanair, arrived at a hotel in Dublin, went up to the bar and asked for a pint of Guinness. The
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The long way home
Among the many impressive industry stories of ingenuity in getting home while stranded during the volcano ash crisis, was there a more impressive one than that of ARI Group Retail Operations Director Nick Forbes? Nick had been in Moscow when Irish and UK airspace was first closed last Thursday. At first things looked bleak, very
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Airlines
Blue skies, nothing but blue skies, do I see…
I was blue, just as blue as I could be Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me Then good luck came a-knocking at my door Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see – Irving Berlin “JFK please!” They were the words
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Escape from New York?
As we stumbled down the stairs to meet the day (as it now was) in the words of the Kristofferson song (Sunday morning coming down), the Candy man among us spotted a bar. Then followed the most terrifying three words in the English language if you’re accompanied by an Irishman. “Fancy a nightcap?”
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Events
‘Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds away’
“Veal meat again…” It sounded like I was about to burst into a Vera Lynn wartime song but I was simply ordering the best chop in New York. The Moodie Report’s Americas bureau has doubled in size with the arrival of Deputy Publisher Dermot Davitt after a 15-hour flight from Hong Kong, step one on
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Ash cloud starts to pall in the big smoke
‘Homeless – please help’ As I lean over to give the poor black woman on Madison Avenue a few Dollars, I can’t stop myself commenting: “So am I…” She smiles at me with a confused expression. Day five of my extended stay in New York and metropolitan fever is starting to set in. While it would be
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Airlines
New York blues
And the papers love to say It’s the meanest town in the USA But I think it’s okay It’s the town I’ve made my home – New York City Blues, Neil Sedaka Things you don’t want to read when you’re stranded abroad (1): “The last recorded eruption of Eyjafjallajokull lasted over a year (1821-1823) but
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You ain’t goin’ nowhere
Clouds so swift Rain won’t lift… You ain’t goin’ nowhere – Bob Dylan “You ain’t going nowhere Honey.” The American Airlines representative at JFK Airport looked at me with an expression that combined sympathy and insistence, shaking her head as she spoke. It was Thursday evening and having spent the afternoon at JFK Terminal 4 reporting
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