Every business needs an alternative investment strategy and The Moodie Report’s is paying off nicely. Looking around for another global sector such as travel retail, full of risk, reward and uncertainty, we found one… horse racing. Over recent months we have conducted a number of online readers’ competitions involving Dubai Duty Free-sponsored horse races, at Newbury
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Dub(lin)ai Duty Free comes to Ireland
Dublin Airport has been turned into an enclave of Dubai in anticipation of Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby. When The Moodie Report arrived in Dublin on Friday, we, like all passengers, were met by a sea of red. Dubai Duty Free signs were all around the arrivals hall, from the baggage area to the
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More miles, more smiles and a Mission Impossible
And so we’re off again… Following the fantastic success of the first travel retail industry ‘Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising run in Dubai late last year, the event will be repeated on 21 November at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. For the uninitated, Miles for Smiles is divided into two events, 10k and 5k, allowing participants to run
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The right Mann for the job
Warning. Do not approach this woman. She is armed and dangerous. Yes, it is none other than The Moodie Report Associate Editor Rebecca Mann, a woman renowned for calling a spade a spade or in this case a coas a coas. For the uninitiated a coas is the lethally sharp instrument used to harvest the agave
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The right combination of local and international flavours
The Moodie Report is in Mumbai, the city newly synonymous with Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire but one of the world’s great cities long before the blockbuster novel and film were ever conceived. We’re here to report on the launch of a major new foray into the food & beverage scene by a company called Travel
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TFWA Asia Pacific gets off to a stylish and upbeat start
It’s industry showtime again in Singapore as the annual TFWA Asia Pacific exhibition and related Gate One2One conference get under way. Singapore is arguably the perfect venue for a big show such as this. Its efficiency is both legendary and justified; the standards and value of service are superb; and the city goes out of
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Keep walking – Black Label continues to stride out in style
Recognise this chap? No, not the fading, aging antipodean on the left but the sprightly looking dandy on the right. That’s right, it’s Johnnie Walker’s famous ‘striding man’ and The Moodie Blog is delighted to report that even at the ripe old age of 101, he’s in better shape than ever. So much so that
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Another plague on travel retail’s house
Right now I can’t read too good Don’t send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row – Bob Dylan, Desolation Row It’s not quite the ‘Seven Plagues’ of the Book of Revelation but it does seem as if there is some greater force conspiring against the well-being of the
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Mighty Munster give voice to Stuart Mangan appeal
The fundraising efforts for Stuart Mangan, the young Irish rugby player paralysed from the neck down during a game on 5 April 2008, are reaching amazing heights – mirroring the immense courage and determination of an extraordinary man (see www.StuartMangan.org for full details). Stuart’s brother John is L’Oréal UK Luxury Fragrance Division Deputy General Manager – and
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Karl’s (World) cup runneth over
There are many rugby followers in the travel retail community, some of whom plan to descend on New Zealand in 2011 to support their respective countries in the Rugby World Cup. Now, dramatic news reaches The Moodie Blog that the industry may even have a player participating in the event. All around the world qualifying
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Farewell to Fort Lauderdale
The Moodie Blog is in Fort Lauderdale for the annual Duty Free Show of the Americas – the last one, as it transpires, to be held here. Next year the show returns to its long-time home, Orlando – a wholly pragmatic move by organisers, the International Association of Airport Duty Free Stores (IAADFS). One of
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All smiles in County New York
If there’s one place to be other than Ireland on St Patrick’s Day it has to be New York. This city celebrates its Irish roots like no other. The whole place is a swathe of green and a giant party that began early this morning is set to continue into the wee small hours of tomorrow.
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CTC-ARI Airports continues to amaze the consumer
Plenty of travel retailers talk the talk about ‘Trinity’ principles – i.e. greater co-operation between industry stakeholders to the benefit of the travelling consumer. But few truly walk the walk like CTC-ARI Airports, the joint venture between CTC (Cyprus Trading Company) and Aer Rianta International–Middle East (ARI-ME), which manages the commercial operations at Larnaca and