Now this is what you call competition… Thanks to the highly illuminated global insight and immense wisdom of the New Zealand Commerce Commission, Auckland Airport now has two retailers – DFS and JR Duty Free – competing directly just feet away from one another in both Arrivals and Departures. [DFS – refinement] [JR Duty free – local
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Airports
Entering the land of the long white cloud
The Moodie Report’s Antipodean adventure continues as I arrive in New Zealand – or in Maori, Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Fresh from my visit to Sydney Airport’s breathtakingly revamped International Terminal, I’ve just arrived in Auckland to view the new departures stores for both DFS and JR Duty Free. I met
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Derek’s dream comes true
Rip up your travel agenda. Change your plans. Wherever you were intending to go, buy a ticket to Sydney instead. I’ve spent the past two days rigorously examining the retail and food & beverage offer at Sydney Airport’s new-look international terminal and I can tell you that it’s very special indeed. Sydney Airport Corporation Limited has
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Inner (and outer) Beauty, Calvin Klein-style
It’s peak launch time for the beauty business, and The Moodie Report is fortunate enough to have been invited to several high-profile events in May and June. Last week we were in New York with Coty Prestige for the worldwide reveal of the new flagship feminine fragrance from the house of Calvin Klein, called Calvin
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Airports
Coming home to the Antipodes
This Blog is being written at 30,000 feet as I fly on a Qantas A380 over the vast interior of Australia. As I write, the flight map says we’re passing a town called Milparinka (population 55 according to the 2006 census), meaning that we’ve just entered New South Wales airspace and we’re around 90 minutes
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Travel retail stands Hand in Hand for Haiti
Thank you to Jean-Marc Caubet and Michael Barrett at TFWA for allowing the Hand in Hand for Haiti project to host a special display outside Monday’s Gate One2One conference. Hand in Hand for Haiti is a travel retail industry response to the catastrophic earthquake of 12 January. Registered as a 501 (c) (3) Foundation, it
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Events
Sandro steps in as Lars is remembered
For many years at the Singapore show, a unique lunch would take place at the Conrad Hotel’s Golden Peony restaurant. The lunch would celebrate not only business between partners but also the spirit that underpinned it. The host extraordinaire was Lars Johansson, the founder of Imagination Unlimited International, and a man synonymous with the extraordinary
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‘Shop-Dine-Unwind’ is born
“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