It’s not just about what Andreas, through Kraft and then Mondelez, has achieved in travel retail. It’s also about the way he has done it.
Airports
How an old-age pensioner showed he was no old LAG
One gets the impression that if he’d brought some cheese, crackers, ham and olives in his hand luggage, he may have taken time to set out a table cloth and dine in style on the security counter.
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People
Bidding a double warm goodbye in Orlando
Torben is not retiring (heck, he’s not even shy) but he is handing over responsibility for the Americas to focus on other markets, notably Asia Pacific.
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Airports
All change at Hong Kong International
These are early days for the new travel retail triumvirate. Watching what they do on this collective grand stage promises to be one of the most interesting travel retail stories of the year.
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Events
Marching in unison against cancer
I hate this disease. So does everyone who marched today. And yet the overwhelming sentiment on display was not hate but love, the prevailing mood not of despair but of optimism.
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People
A Hong Kong lunch with two legends
“You’ve seen Henry Steiner’s work. It stares at you from billboards, banks and other buildings – it’s even lurking in your pocket.”
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Quirky
Tito’s Year of the Dog gift passes a stringent Lab test
Could this GWP unleash a whole new shopper dynamic? And should the Year of the Dog Tito’s Handmade Vodka be sold in PET?
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Events
Marching for the Marsden
You might say that walking 5k is not very far. But believe me, if I had thought back in those dark days of 2010 that I would be doing it eight years on while in robust health, I would have been euphoric.
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Airports
A promotional disaster, a public relations crisis and a lesson learned
The last thing the international duty free industry can afford is to add further encouragement to Chinese consumers to not shop abroad.
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Quirky
Absolut bare-faced cheek
The vodka with nothing to hide? In fact, there are a lot of hides in the ‘employee induction’ video, naked ones.
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Miscellaneous
How a Franco-Irish combo promises to take the pain away for travel retail buyers
Imagine if a single supplier had access to the entire remaining stock of entire vintages of some of the world’s best wines?
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Airports
For peat’s sake! Local wine proves a hit on Irish turf
“It’s bog standard wine, Dara,” came the inevitable response from one Twitter wag.
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Airports
Homage to Heathrow: Saluting Caleb Femi’s ‘A Tale of Modern Britain’
Come, before you step out into the open air, sit down here, in-between the brief pause of children’s laughter and a tannoy announcement/In the small kingdom of faces…