Now this is what I call a promotional campaign with taste. And it’s exactly, exactly, the sort of thing that airports should be doing to promote their country’s culture, crafts or traditions. Passengers flying through Heathrow Airport are to be treated to what we are promised will be the ‘best bites of Britain’, to mark
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Jack Daniel’s and DFS lend a hand to the children of Haiti
This has to rank as one of the best collaborative initiatives between a brand and a travel retailer in years. Brown-Forman Duty Free/Travel Retail has chosen an uniquely artistic way to mark the 50th anniversary of its long-time close partner DFS. The Brown-Forman team asked artists from around the world to turn barrels in which
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Hooray for Andrew Harrison
It is great to see Andrew Harrison being promoted to Managing Director of Manchester Airport from his current role as Commercial Director. Not only is it justified and rich reward for the excellent developments that Harrison has driven across a wide range of sectors (including duty free, consumer services and food & beverage) in recent
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Delta and OTG add flavour to the LaGuardia story
Sometimes a press release comes along that grips our attention in that it conveys the heart and soul of an initiative, as opposed to so much corporate-speak. That was the case with an announcement from Delta Air Lines, which yesterday revealed the eclectic, exciting food & beverage line-up for its New York LaGuardia Airport terminal
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Good taste in every sense
One of my favourite stories of 2010 to date is Airport Authority Hong Kong’s superb ‘Tasting Hong Kong’ community art campaign at Hong Kong International Airport – in my view a classic example of how airports can (and should) contribute to their local communities and cultures. Tasting Hong Kong showcases visual artworks from ten local
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Dubai Duty Free – Number one in so many ways
Dubai Duty Free has won so many awards and other accolades down the years that it’s perhaps easy to gloss over them. But that would be a mistake. For underneath the sales achievements and the often brilliant marketing and consumer campaigns, lies a tale of extraordinary brand development and a retailer that stands for much
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Travel retail gets a kick out of football’s World Cup
Since the departure of the brave All Whites from New Zealand (my apologies to all Italian readers for our role in the demise of the Azzurri), my allegiances have switched constantly in this most compelling of Football World Cups. The event, so wonderfully organised by South Africa, has gripped the attention of millions worldwide, and
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Kypriaka breathes life back into Lefkara lace
Come with me on a journey, high into the hills above Larnaka in Cyprus. I’ll tell you a story of an age-old craft that is, against all the odds, winning its battle to survive in the modern world. I’ll show you a group of women, one as old as 82, who weave sublime magic with
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Developing a taste for Cyprus
The Moodie Report is on the move again – this time we’re back in Cyprus to view progress at the new Larnaka International Airport, opened last November. First it was an early morning flit through London Heathrow Airport Terminal 1, which BAA now has operating a whole lot more slickly than in the past. I
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Learning lessons from Antipodean airports
And so I say goodbye to my home country of New Zealand and begin the long journey back to London. I’m travelling out of Auckland Airport via Sydney – another chance to view the outstanding new commercial offer in the International Terminal – and Bangkok (90 minutes in transit) before the final, long leg into London.
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Competition heats up down under
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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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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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