What’s a girl about town to do ? Especially when she has an acute sense of fashion (and the responsibility of championing one of its great names) and when she’s stuck for a choice of outfit for one of the great social occasions of the year? Followers of rugby – and there are many in

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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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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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Several readers of The Moodie BLOG have expressed their concerns about the wintry working conditions (pictured left) The Moodie Report Publisher chooses to inflict upon himself down in the company’s original Worldwide Headquarters, mischievously dubbed ‘The Shed’ by Abu Dhabi Duty Free boss Mohamed Mounib. But our latest picture (right) shows why there has been a

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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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Nashville Metropolitan Airport has just been rated ‘7th least miserable airport in the USA’, according to a report in The Tennesean. As accolades go, that probably ranks somewhere alongside the performance of the Irish swimming team one year at the Olympics, summed up by a commentator who reported in his daily summary: “No Irishman drowned in

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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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Is Kiwi possum fur the next great emerging fashion category? No less an authority than Sydney Airport General Manager Retail & Commercial Development Bob McFadyen thinks so. So great is demand that his airport retail tenants are struggling to keep their shelves filled with garments and hats made from the signature grey-brown possum fur. “It’s

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The Moodie Report, though created by a proud Kiwi, has long enjoyed a special affinity with Sri Lanka. Two of our key present and past team members – web programming guru Dilantha Fernando (above left) and long-time ace reporter Soharni Tennekoon (right) – hail from the ‘pearl of the Indian Ocean’. Well-known industry executive and APTRA

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It was that moment that hardened Middle East Gala Dinner attendees fear. The local Belly Dancer is swaying and gyrating as the audience claps in time. She begins to swirl her way into the audience as she looks for a partner to take on stage. Everywhere men’s heads are looking down into their laps, keen

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The relationship between airport authority and concessionaire is one of the most critical, yet often under-rated elements of airport retail success. So chances are that when you find an airport with thriving commercial revenues, the human relationships are in pretty good shape too.  Nowhere is that more the case than at Toronto Pearson International Airport,

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My mother, a proud Irishwoman till the day she died, used to tell me never to forget my roots. While my barber, shaking his head sadly, gave me exactly the contrary advice 30 years later, I have never forgotten those maternal words. So when readers ask where The Moodie Report started I’m always delighted to

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