Indian aviation is constantly hitting new heights and smashing growth records. A ground-to-air revolution is being played out here and everyone wants a part of the action. The Times of India today described it as ‘zoom power’, and revealed that over 100 new airports are to be built in the country in so-called ‘tier-2’ cities (which

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Delhi is a big place. I mean really big. Conservative estimates put the population at well over 13 million, a figure that is soaring each year. So the chances of a visitor to the city bumping into anyone they knew is distant – about one in, say, 13 million… But that’s exactly what happened during The Moodie

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Cows, sacred creatures in India, stroll in and out of the teeming traffic, relying perhaps on more than a little divine intervention to spare them from some of the world’s most hair-rasing driving.

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The Moodie Report – and The Moodie BLOG – have arrived in India. Over the next few days we’re making a whistlestop tour of some of this big, vibrant country’s most exciting airport developments. We’ll be taking in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad in our research for the forthcoming BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) issue

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Thanks to everyone who entered our ‘Best foot forward’ competition, inspired by the trend-setting footwear borne by one of travel retail’s true style icons. No, it wasn’t (as some of you guessed) Randy Emch, nor was it Blog sponsor Stuart Bull, although we think both qualify as industry icons of fashion in their own right.

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The warmth of the tributes that have flowed into The Moodie Report office since we announced the forthcoming departure from Abu Dhabi Duty Free – and from the industry – of Mohamed Mounib said it all. Here is a man of stature in every sense. Tall and imposing, the long-time Managing Director of Abu Dhabi

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There’s going to be an extra Buzz in the air at Aer Rianta International-Middle East in the future. That’s because the dynamic regional retailer has just hired Iain Harrison to help run the company’s Eygptian duty free operations. The long-time Nestlé International Travel Retail executive took a break – but not a Kit-Kat – in

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How should one best sample caviar? With onions? Sour cream? Parsley? With vodka? Answer? None of the above, according to Caviar House & Prunier President and CEO Peter Rebeiz who led a masterclass of caviar appreciation during a recent press conference in Paris to celebrate the company’s new travel markets distribution agreement with SSP. “If any

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America has long been the breeding ground for super heroes and it threw up another one during the recent Singapore trade show. Revlon travel retail guru Art Miller (above) was widely praised for his swift action in averting what could have been one of the more bizarre and certainly tragic exits from the industry. The

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Dr Joseph Bussell is one of duty free’s most durable – and endearing – characters. The head of US family drinks firm Saybrex International, ‘Dr Joseph’ can always be seen at the main duty free shows promoting his always innovative and often quirky product range. He’s also one of nature’s gentlemen, someone who has learned much about

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She’s one of the most humane, warm people in the travel retail industry. She’s also married to one of its best. Step forward Beverly Walker-Johansson, co-owner with husband Lars of Imagination Unlimited International, the US duty free agency that has driven the astonishing rise and rise of Inniskillin IceWine in recent years – in our

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Word reaches The Moodie BLOG that Paul Hogan, owner of PPS Publications which produces the Cannes, Singapore and (now) Fort Lauderdale show dailies, completed the recent London marathon in a fantastic fund-raising effort for charity. Paul raised US$35,000 for Children with Leukaemia, motivated by the experience of his eight-year-old daughter Bronte who was struck down

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