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Author Archives: Martin Moodie
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Reaching out to 210 million consumers: Lotte Duty Free completes marathon Chinese influencer live broadcast
One store. 20 hours. 100 Chinese influencers. 210 million potential viewers. Read on for details of a Lotte Duty Free social media initiative that generated extraordinary reach. Read More
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CDFG-led Sunrise Duty Free opens Shanghai Hongqiao Airport arrivals store
The good news just keeps on coming for China’s travel retail powerhouse China Duty Free Group, as its subsidiary Sunrise Duty Free opens an elegant new arrivals store at Shanghai’s second international gateway. Read More
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Image of the day: Nous, the first real airport concept store?
“This will be the first real concept store in travel retail ever.” Read on for details of a concept store with a difference opening at Geneva Airport today. Read More
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Interview: Kai Schmidhuber on why travel retail must avoid the digitisation “money-destruction machine”
The race to digitisation in airport commerce and travel retail has become a potential investment black hole, argues one of the sector’s leading voices. Read More
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DFA opens 10,000sq m Panda Free Shop on Uruguay-Brazil border, the retailer’s biggest-ever store
The store, which opened on 27 November, forms part of the extensive Rio Branco Shopping zone. Read More
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‘A quadruple win’: Changi Airport extends key DFS duty free liquor & tobacco and Shilla beauty concessions
Big boosts for DFS and Shilla as they gain two-year extensions after their six-year concessions expire in 2020. Changi Airport Group's decision is a win for airport, retailers, brands and consumers alike, says The Moodie Davitt Report. UPDATED with Shilla Read More
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China Duty Free Group makes retail debut onboard Costa Atlantica
This is just the beginning. That's the message from China's travel retail powerhouse as it embarks figuratively and literally on the first stage of an ambitious journey with cruiseline giant Carnival Corporation. Read More
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Signed, sealed, delivered: Singapore Airlines, 3Sixty and SATS finalise travel retail JV
Get ready for a new name in the travel retail sector as KrisShop Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Singapore Airlines, 3Sixty (formerly DFASS Group) and SATS, prepares for take-off in more ways than one. Read More
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AWPL unveils bespoke news & travel essentials concept at Brisbane Airport
The stores are the first of ten planned by the specialist retailer at the Queensland gateway’s amid an ambitious A$40 million (US$29 million) revamping of the domestic terminal. Read More
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Image of the day: Super-sized Chanel makes a big statement at Incheon Airport
There are few brand houses in travel retail that communicate more effectively and more consistently than Chanel. Read More
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Sunday Times journalist Oliver Thring joins The Moodie Davitt Report as Business Editor
The Moodie Davitt Report's newest senior recruit has spent five years with The Sunday Times, Britain's biggest-selling quality newspaper, conducting high-profile interviews and writing features, food and travel articles and book reviews. Read More
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‘Seismic changes’: Boost to offshore duty free allowance marks dramatic stepping up of efforts to maximise Chinese domestic consumption
The Chinese government's determination to maximise domestic consumption is being played out in a series of inter-related initiatives to support the country’s travel retail industry. These are game-changing times for the global travel retail sector – and China is setting Read More
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International Airports Day concept takes flight
The Moodie Davitt Report, in association with Dubai Airports, plans a unique celebration of airports, those great crossroads of humanity that also serve as ampitheatres of commerce and culture. Read More
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Aelia Duty Free begins operations at Christchurch Airport
The Lagardère Travel Retail-owned company takes up residency at the gateway to New Zealand’s beautiful South Island (and hometown to a certain travel retail publisher). Read More
