I hate this disease. So does everyone who marched today. And yet the overwhelming sentiment on display was not hate but love, the prevailing mood not of despair but of optimism.
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People
A Hong Kong lunch with two legends
“You’ve seen Henry Steiner’s work. It stares at you from billboards, banks and other buildings – it’s even lurking in your pocket.”
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Quirky
Tito’s Year of the Dog gift passes a stringent Lab test
Could this GWP unleash a whole new shopper dynamic? And should the Year of the Dog Tito’s Handmade Vodka be sold in PET?
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Events
Marching for the Marsden
You might say that walking 5k is not very far. But believe me, if I had thought back in those dark days of 2010 that I would be doing it eight years on while in robust health, I would have been euphoric.
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Airports
A promotional disaster, a public relations crisis and a lesson learned
The last thing the international duty free industry can afford is to add further encouragement to Chinese consumers to not shop abroad.
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Quirky
Absolut bare-faced cheek
The vodka with nothing to hide? In fact, there are a lot of hides in the ‘employee induction’ video, naked ones.
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Miscellaneous
How a Franco-Irish combo promises to take the pain away for travel retail buyers
Imagine if a single supplier had access to the entire remaining stock of entire vintages of some of the world’s best wines?
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Airports
For peat’s sake! Local wine proves a hit on Irish turf
“It’s bog standard wine, Dara,” came the inevitable response from one Twitter wag.
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Airports
Homage to Heathrow: Saluting Caleb Femi’s ‘A Tale of Modern Britain’
Come, before you step out into the open air, sit down here, in-between the brief pause of children’s laughter and a tannoy announcement/In the small kingdom of faces…
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Airports
KitKat and Akihabara add flavour to Narita shopping experience
If Baked Potato, Soy Bean, Maccha Milk, French Salt, Pumpkin (!), College Tater, Red Bean Paste, Salt Watermelon, Houiji Tea and Apple Vinegar don’t constitute wacky then I’m Donald Trump.
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Airports
Tales from Tokyo down on the Front Line
Now this young man is clearly well-trained. He knew all about Japanese whiskey (as he should) but his personality was natural, not schooled.
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People
Farewell John Gentzbourger, friend, gentleman, family man, bon vivant
He was so successful with Camus, and so synonymous with it, that it was widely thought he was the owner, hence the sobriquet Jean Gentzbourger Camus, by which he became known all around the world.
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Airports
Scents and sensibility at sea
The innovation I like most is called Scents & Spirits, an ‘experience wall’ designed to fuse the worlds of fragrances and ‘luxury libations’.