Travel retail’s ultimate marathon man, Dubai Duty Free’s newly promoted Vice President of Operations Sean Staunton, has completed one of the industry’s truly great feats in the cause of corporate social responsibility. As revealed in an earlier Blog, Sean set out to run four marathons across four continents in four months. That’s a total of 168km,
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Getting the royal (duty free) treatment
Now this just could start a trend… The Daily Mail Online reported this week that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were given £200 in duty free vouchers by British Airways as compensation after their inflight entertainment system failed en route back from the US. The recently wed royal pairing
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No midlife crisis for Enchong
Enchong Formoso rocks! You read it here first. The Moodie Report knows so because we heard the Duty Free Philippines boss’s band, Midlife Crisis, play in downtown Manila last night. Enchong (pictured left below) plays rhythm guitar and both back-up and lead vocals in the band, drawn from a bunch of professional executives, celebrities
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Sean’s epic journey continues
Travel retail’s ultimate Marathon Man, Sean Staunton, is continuing an epic endurance feat around the world. As revealed in an earlier Blog, the Dubai Duty Free Manager – Operations is running four marathons across four continents in four months. That’s a total of 168km, all for a mighty cause – to raise funds for travel
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A toast to ASUTIL
Last September, just after the ASUTIL conference in Puerto Rico, the Latin American duty free association’s President Paco Heredia stopped off in London to participate in the Frontier Awards judging. While he was there he left me an envelope to collect from a local hotel. At the time I had just been through a few
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Running for Japan
About a year after returning to my English homeland, I can reflect more calmly on the mental trauma wreaked by four years of life in Paris, writes John Rimmer. The City of Lights can be a dark place for an Englishman, or “un Anglo-Saxon” to employ the phrase the locals commonly use. Withering put-downs about
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Fraser Dunlop: A survivor’s tale
What would you do if you were told at the age of 38 that you had just a few months to live? What would you do if the doctor sitting opposite you used words such as “incurable” and “inoperable” to describe your medical condition? What would you think in such circumstances if you had a
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Singapore swings and slings on the Tulis’ simulated fairways
[Sunil Tuli, Susan Whelan of King Power (Thailand) and Martin Moodie] Some of the travel retail industry’s more talented and eccentric golf swings were on display in Singapore last week and The Moodie Report was on hand with a fast shutter speed camera to capture the action. The occasion was an informal introduction to the Greens
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When Martin met Martyn
Ok, he doesn’t know how to spell his first name properly, but otherwise you have to say that Mars International Travel Retail Manager UK and Ireland Martyn Westbury is a guy that gets just about everything right in this business. Not only is he one of the most respected brand executives in the UK/Ireland market
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If the (All Blacks) cap fits, wear it
With his trip to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup just five months away, I’m pleased to report that Dubai Duty Free Managing Director Colm McLoughlin will be suitably kitted out for the occasion. As reported in a recent Blog, the Irishman is partial to quality headwear (see pictures below), and what could be
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Sean Staunton – Dubai Duty Free’s Marathon man
News reaches The Moodie Blog of an epic endurance feat in progress by Dubai Duty Free Manager – Operations Sean Staunton. Within a period of four months the popular Irishman is running four marathons across four continents. That’s a total of 168km and it’s all in a good cause – to raise funds for travel
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Lunch with a legend at Langan’s
Today I had the immense pleasure of lunching with one of our industry’s great figures – Cecil Macdonald & Co President John Sankey. For more than half a century John has shaped and driven the magnificent success story of one of travel retail’s best independent companies. He not only forged a superb distribution and agency business
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A moment of release
“There’s no disease in your body as far as we can tell.” The date was April 1. But this was no April fool’s message. The caller was my oncologist’s perennially sympathetic assistant Toni. Both her tone and message were full of conviction – and good news. She was calling just two days after the first