Question: Does travel retail need to become more eco-friendly? Answer: In an age where oil is tipping the US$100 a barrel mark, where rates of fuel burn are a major issue, and where more and more travellers are becoming aware of the impact on their activities on the planet, the answer has to be a
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A Regal journey
This Moodie BLOG comes to you from the lounge at Frankfurt Airport, 7 hours into a unique travel retail journey from New York JFK Airport to Singapore Changi. I’m travelling with the Pernod Ricard Asia travel retail team, Managing Director Alexandre Ricard and two of his senior team, Patrick Castanier and Gloria Song. And one
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Kiwis reach for the wrong sort of Summit
It’s the unspoken fear that every Kiwi holds deep within. Like the mystery room at the top of the stairway that you must not enter or the guilty family secret that has been unspoken about for years. Yes I’m talking about being usurped by Australia, which delights in bumping aside what it perceives to be its country
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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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Free of duty to report accurately?
If the politicians can’t get it right and the journalists can’t get it right… well you know you’re in the UK. Since the 10 August terror alert we reckon the overwhelming majority of articles in the UK consumer media on what can be carried through airport security and onboard an aircraft have been inaccurate. That is a damning
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Have WIT will travel
Do women in travel retail get the recognition they deserve? In industry generally the answer is no – certainly in terms of equality of salaries, career progression and representation levels within top management. Travel retail is, we hope, a little ahead of the curve but The Moodie Blog can think of more than a few