Ballantine’s, Camus, Estée Lauder, Bvlgari and Swarovski top Korean Air inflight sales league for April – 06/05/09

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SOUTH KOREA. Some familiar names top Korean Air’s inflight duty free best-selling list for April.

Perennial Korean favourite Ballantine’s led the Scotch whisky rankings, boosted by a major promotion to coincide with the Ballantine’s Golf Championship on the island of Jeju on 23-26 April.

Inniskillin again did well – the only non-spirit brand to appear in the top-selling liquors. And independent Cognac house Camus will be delighted with its top ranking in the non-Scotch category.

Korean Air is the world’s leading inflight retailer, having posted sales of US$183 million in 2008.

Managing Vice President, Hotel & Inflight Sales Business Division Heather Cho provided the following rankings for The Moodie Report.

Blended whiskies (Top 3 out of 5 brands)

1. Ballantine’s
2. Royal Salute
3. Johnnie Walker

Other liquor (Top 5 out of 18 brands)

1. Camus
2. Rémy Martin
3. Inniskillin
4. The Macallan
5. Landy

Cosmetics (Top 5 out of 38 brands)

1. Estée Lauder
2. SK-II
3. Lancôme
4. Christian Dior
5. Biotherm

Fragrances (Top 3 out of 11 brands)

1. Bvlgari
2. Chanel
3. Dior

Confectionery (Top 3 out of 8 brands)

1. Hawaiian Sun
2 Hawaiian Host
3. Godiva

Accessories (Top 5 out of 55 brands)

1. Swarovski
2. Etro
3. Swatch
4. Folli Follie
5. Mikimoto

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