What’s a girl about town to do ? Especially when she has an acute sense of fashion (and the responsibility of championing one of its great names) and when she’s stuck for a choice of outfit for one of the great social occasions of the year? Followers of rugby – and there are many in
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Miscellaneous
Remembering Anji
Please remember Anji and Dr Reddy and the NIMS team when you’re thinking whether to support the October 5 travel retail charity dinner in Hong Kong – ‘Turning Tears into Smiles’.
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Airports
A six-pack with a difference
Bahrain Duty Free has sold plenty of six-packs in its time. Usually cans of Heineken or Amstel, cartons of Nido milk powder or multi-packs of best-selling confectionery such as Jewels. But the multi-award winning retailer has really outdone itself with its latest mega-promotion – The Magnificent Six x 2. The six is a reference not to
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Airlines
The icing on the cake
The old saying ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’ obviously doesn’t apply to Korean Air. For cake was most definitely on the menu last month when the Seoul-based airline – the world’s most successful inflight retailer – celebrated setting an all-time single flight sales high of US$40,968. The result, achieved on an Incheon
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Events
A smile that lights up Hyderabad
The little boy looks shyly at the ground as his mother is asked to introduce him to me. He is six years old, with beautiful, big brown eyes. His name is Anji and tomorrow he will face a defining moment in his life – he will undergo surgery to repair the cleft lip and palate
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Airports
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 7 – Hitting new heights in Bangalore
Indian aviation is constantly hitting new heights and smashing growth records. A ground-to-air revolution is being played out here and everyone wants a part of the action. The Times of India today described it as ‘zoom power’, and revealed that over 100 new airports are to be built in the country in so-called ‘tier-2’ cities (which
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Miscellaneous
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 6 – “There’s nothing as exciting as this”
Everywhere you go in this pulsating country the growth curves, whether economic indicators or passenger traffic increases, never cease to amaze. Indira Gandhi International Airport, a public private partnership initiative between GMR Group, Airports Authority of India, Fraport, Eraman Malaysia and India Development Fund, is a dramatic case in point. Delhi is already India’s second-busiest airport, handling
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The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 5 – Mall mania
The mall and hypermarket signs are everywhere – MGF Mega City, Spencer’s, Grand Mall, The Metropolitan, City Centre. Within a few minutes walk of my hotel in Gurgaon just outside Delhi, there’s a frenzy of retail activity.‘Mall mania’ has hit India and wherever you look there are huge advertising signs promoting the latest opening or
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The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 4 – Smoke rings over Delhi
The taste of Indian consumers is moving inexorably upmarket, almost by the day. As noted in an earlier BLOG, Alpha Future says high-end malt whiskies and Montblanc writing instruments are selling out as fast as they can be stocked at Delhi International Airport. The same phenomenon can be seen in the shopping malls and upmarket bars
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People
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 3 – Mr Dryburgh I presume?
Delhi is a big place. I mean really big. Conservative estimates put the population at well over 13 million, a figure that is soaring each year. So the chances of a visitor to the city bumping into anyone they knew is distant – about one in, say, 13 million… But that’s exactly what happened during The Moodie
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People
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 2 – Vasco da Gama reborn
Cows, sacred creatures in India, stroll in and out of the teeming traffic, relying perhaps on more than a little divine intervention to spare them from some of the world’s most hair-rasing driving.
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Airports
The Moodie BLOG in India: Part 1 – Delhi
The Moodie Report – and The Moodie BLOG – have arrived in India. Over the next few days we’re making a whistlestop tour of some of this big, vibrant country’s most exciting airport developments. We’ll be taking in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad in our research for the forthcoming BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) issue
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People
Style icon unmasked…
Thanks to everyone who entered our ‘Best foot forward’ competition, inspired by the trend-setting footwear borne by one of travel retail’s true style icons. No, it wasn’t (as some of you guessed) Randy Emch, nor was it Blog sponsor Stuart Bull, although we think both qualify as industry icons of fashion in their own right.