In Crisis – Travel Retail Voices: Martin Moodie on a heightened sense of civility

Welcome to the third editon of In Crisis – Travel Retail Voices, a new podcast series where we speak to travel retail executives around the world to see how they and their businesses are coping with the COVID-19 crisis.

Today (as it is a Sunday and we want to give our contacts around the world a break) we feature a parochial view, that of The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie, who talks about the personal and professional impact of the crisis but also how he believes it is reaffirming the travel retail sector’s sense of community.

He says: “One of my favourite people in this industry, the dynamic and effervescent Yannick Raynaud, who heads L’Oréal Travel Retail in the Americas, told me that one of the silver linings of this situation is the enormous solidarity and the heightened civism of most, the focus on the essential, on creativity and course all the mêmes and jokes …

“Heightened civism, or civility to others. Along with personal safety and concern for that of others, that is surely a priority in these times. Now is not the moment to outline lessons from crisis. Let’s simply get through that crisis first by hunkering down personally; by showing solidarity with and compassion for others; and doing our professional roles as best we can.”


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