TRI-POD Series 2: Why Barry Geoghegan will never walk alone

TRI-POD, The Moodie Davitt Report’s travel retail-themed podcast series in collaboration with The SEVA Group, returns today featuring Barry Geoghegan, Founder and Commercial Director of Irish duty free and drinks specialist company Duty Free Global.

Barry Geoghegan: “Walks, talks and probably sleeps duty free”

It’s a fascinating, warm and deeply human conversation with the irrepressible Irishman who, as co-host Martin Moodie notes, “walks, talks and probably sleeps duty free.”

Welcoming the return of the popular video podcast programme, fellow host Roger Jackson, Managing Director of The Seva Group’s Middle East operations, Organico Solutions and Organic Travel Retail, said: “We are delighted to announce our continued sponsorship for Season 2 of the travel retail industry’s No 1 podcast, TRI-POD.

“The SEVA Group was built on a spirit of trust, innovation and partnership. With each episode we hope to bring this to life with unique interviews and perspectives from the opinion makers and senior leaders within this fantastic sector.”

The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie said: “Season 1 of TRI-POD was a big success and I am thrilled to be back for the follow-up series and to be working with Roger and The SEVA Group once more. We have an outstanding and eclectic guest line-up over coming weeks, each of them revealing the humanity and diversity that makes travel retail such a wonderful and inclusive global community.”

Would you like to appear with Roger and Martin on TRI-POD?

Drop Martin Moodie a line at Martin@MoodieDavittReport.com and we will be in touch.

Barry Geoghegan has a strong bloodline in the duty free industry. His father Michael (Mick), now sadly passed, was one of the Aer Rianta delegation that came out to Dubai in 1983 to advise the government on setting up what would become Dubai Duty Free, one of travel retail’s biggest and most enduring success stories. As Barry explains, Michael Geoghegan was actually the first Aer Rianta International employee.

Barry also speaks passionately about his love for the wine industry. “This is a product that is about life, about culture and about local cuisine. It really is a living product and it’s also about nature and agriculture at the end of the day.”

He also reveals his love for Liverpool football club (and his own career as a semi-professional footballer); his key influences and mentors; and references his beloved mother Sheila who passed away in 2020 early in the pandemic and who was the subject of a unique travel retail industry tribute (see video below).

{Click on the YouTube icon to view this poignant travel retail community tribute to Sheila Geoghegan}

As always, we take our guest to our resident desert island (with duty free privileges, of course), where he can choose some creature comforts. Listen to the episode to discover what wine and whiskey Barry would take with him; which music he would play on the island; and who would be his three chosen dinner companions.

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