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TFWA Asia Pacific is upon us and The Moodie BLOG is ready to swing into action as the travel retail industry descends on the great destination of Singapore.  Things kicked off in style last night at Chez Miller, home of Revlon travel retail boss Art Miller and his beautiful wife Nancy. For once industry executives were

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She’s one of the most humane, warm people in the travel retail industry. She’s also married to one of its best. Step forward Beverly Walker-Johansson, co-owner with husband Lars of Imagination Unlimited International, the US duty free agency that has driven the astonishing rise and rise of Inniskillin IceWine in recent years – in our

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Is Kiwi possum fur the next great emerging fashion category? No less an authority than Sydney Airport General Manager Retail & Commercial Development Bob McFadyen thinks so. So great is demand that his airport retail tenants are struggling to keep their shelves filled with garments and hats made from the signature grey-brown possum fur. “It’s

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Word reaches The Moodie BLOG that Paul Hogan, owner of PPS Publications which produces the Cannes, Singapore and (now) Fort Lauderdale show dailies, completed the recent London marathon in a fantastic fund-raising effort for charity. Paul raised US$35,000 for Children with Leukaemia, motivated by the experience of his eight-year-old daughter Bronte who was struck down

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There can have been few more spectacular cocktail party settings during the history of the Duty Free Show of the Americas than the Duty Free Americas’ Cocktail Party at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa last night. Spectacular silver staging and stunning brand backdrops from the likes of licensed brand Perry Ellis provided a

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Fire extinguishers were on standby last night as one of the industry’s most popular figures prepared to blow out the candles on his birthday cake in Fort Lauderdale. Jonathan Holland, head of Singapore-based agency and distribution company Jonathan Holland & Associates celebrated his 50th birthday in style at the Capital Grill during the IAADFS-run Duty

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In such a young industry as duty free, the picture above is surely unique. The three men in it, all figures of immense stature and influence within the trade, represent a collective experience of more than 120 years in the business. And an impact that almost defies description. On the left is Joseph (Joe) Lyons,

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The Moodie Report, though created by a proud Kiwi, has long enjoyed a special affinity with Sri Lanka. Two of our key present and past team members – web programming guru Dilantha Fernando (above left) and long-time ace reporter Soharni Tennekoon (right) – hail from the ‘pearl of the Indian Ocean’. Well-known industry executive and APTRA

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Next time you’re bemoaning your lot as you load your lap-top, shoes and belt through the security screening machine, spare a thought for the staff on duty. These are the people given the thankless job of trying to keep our airports and aircraft safe, the ones charged with enforcement of often ludicrous government policies that

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When it comes to concise, colourful and descriptive use of the English language, no-one can live with the Aussies. Not only did they come up with the decade’s great acronym to save us all from having to keep writing out ‘liquids, aerosols and gels’ – now known as LAGs for short (and probably forever) – but 

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What do your shoes say about you? Quite a lot, we reckon. Take the example above. The wearer is quite clearly a champion of style, yet a man of substance; cerebral yet all-action; and definitely a risk-taker. How else would we describe him? He’s a champion of owned retail over the concessionaire model; an outspoken

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The Moodie Report celebrated the launch of ‘The World Rovers’ – our tale of the phenomenal Irish influence over the duty free industry’s first 60 years -with a particularly tricky competition. Readers were asked to identify the people and locations in three photographs – one was the original Aer Rianta ‘Trinity’ in Dubai (a Kevin

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