What a difference a change of President makes. No, I’m not talking the US where sometime between now and Jo Biden’s inauguration day, Donald Trump will finally be prised like a limpet from a rock out of the White House.
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How ARI’s resident ‘Andy man’ created an international DIY gin distillery
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world he walked into his own. Here’s your chance to win a bottle of gin of your choice while applauding distil-it-yourself in-gin-uity.
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People
Booting out biblical references unfit for a civilised society
Bravo Becky Paskin. I am proud that you are our partner on World of Spirits, an event that will welcome women and men from all over the world but will bar sexism from entering the door.
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People
COVID-struck but Wild Tiger’s Wild Cat will roar again soon
Get well Gautom (and Vinaya), we need you roaring again and your seemingly inexhaustible supply of bad tiger puns flowing again like the Wild Tiger Rum on a good night out.
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People
Saying Si Yu’us Må’åse to Marian Aldan-Pierce after 44 amazing years with DFS
“Marian has been a part of the DFS family ever since 1976 and DFS Saipan would not be what it has grown to be without her” – DFS co-founder Robert (Bob) Miller
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People
Hope it won’t be long till this trouble is gone
In just three months, Pray has been viewed 25,514 times on YouTube, played on 20 radio stations in Canada, and featured on Dubai radio, courtesy of Dubai Duty Free. And, of course, it has been heard many times as the intro to our Podcast series In Crisis: Travel Retail Voices.
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People
In loving memory – A tribute in words and music to Sheila Geoghegan
I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way; And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day: We pay tribute in words & music to Barry Geoghegan’s late mother.
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People
Wild Tiger still roaring… with a temporary purr
You can’t keep a good man down. So there’s no way one of travel retail’s most irrepressible characters, Wild Tiger Rum founder Gautom Menon is going to let a global pandemic stop his non-stop innovation programme.
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People
Gone to spend some time with the Angel from Montgomery
So if you’re walking down the street sometime/And spot some hollow ancient eyes/Please don’t just pass ‘em by and stare/As if you didn’t care, say, “Hello in there, hello”.
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People
Bringing it all back home, again
I’m one of the lucky ones. There are countless dispossessed, poor, war-torn men, women and children who are suffering far greater hardship than the novelty of having to work from home.
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People
Stephenie’s tale: The battle back to health continues
“Steph has done it again! She has come so far. She has kicked herself back into life several times, has grown spiritually and still has a killer vibe!”
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Airports
Back in Basel as the beat goes on for Dufry
It seems just the other day that I wrote a news story headlined ‘Advent names Julián Díaz new Dufry CEO as acquisition is completed’. In fact it was 16 years ago, on my birthday (1 March).
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People
How a tale of unrequited love inspired a business empire
The business empire that he built was worth an estimated US$100 billion. Yet 78 years earlier when he stowed away on a ship to Japan, all the young Shin had to his name was 83 Japanese Yen and a copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther.