Win a fabulous Nestlé food hamper in our festive VERSE 4 competition; Winner 3 revealed

“Peg hummed to herself as she sniffed the concoction; fragrant as muscatel and black as the Earl of Hell’s boots. Nan was well on with the savoury roasts, the brawn and the Yorkshire Christmas Pie. Soon she would have the great turnspits spinning before a roaring fire.”
~ Martine Bailey, A Taste for Nightshade

INTERNATIONAL. Our popular festive season readers’ competition in association with Nestlé reaches its penultimate edition as we offer the fourth of five fabulous food hampers. Today we present readers with another opportunity to win this great Christmas prize and announce the lucky winner of Hamper 3.

Nestlé is again hosting the competition to celebrate its ambitious VERSE plan to make food the number one most-purchased category in travel retail. You must be a member of the travel retail or aviation community to enter (please mention your company name in your email if your email address does not show it).

Last year’s winners will testify to how fantastic the Nestlé food hampers are. Don’t miss out on the chance to win this year.

Why the reference to VERSE? Simple. The brainchild of Nestlé International Travel Retail (NITR) General Manager Stewart Dryburgh, it represents Nestlé’s V.E.R.S.E growth model, an acronym that showcases five pillars: Value, Engagement, Regeneration, Sense of Place and Execution.

Each one has a vital role to play in ensuring that Nestlé’s ‘food in 50% of baskets’ target in travel retail is met by 2030, if not before.

How do you win a fantastic, fabulous, festive Nestlé hamper? Again, simple. Just send your entry using the easy procedure below relating to one letter of the VERSE acronym. Feel free to be as creative as you wish and, of course, to break into verse.

Any answer today starting with S will qualify.

Day 4

  1. Name a duty free product or brand starting with S
  2. Name a food starting with S
  3. Given the focus on Sense of Place, name your favourite destination starting with S
  4. Put those 3 words into a verse or limerick.

Send your entry to Martin@MoodieDavittReport.com headed VERSE 4 Competition by 5pm Hong Kong time 25 December (yes we truly are the website that never sleeps) to enter the draw.

And now, to the winner of Hamper 3. Every entry was correct, of course, as the questions were simple (just like our industry, this competition does not tax), and several candidates came close to claiming our prize.

The questions were:

  1. What R word best sums up the exhiliration of duty free shopping?
  2. Name a food starting with R.
  3. And a drink starting with R.
  4. Put those 3 words into a verse or limerick.

A very close runner-up was Nur Büyükyağcı, Dufry Antalya P&C Category Supervisor, who cleverly linked her verse to our industry.

There was a man who asks for a tax refund
We tell him “no tax here Sir, this is a world beyond”,
He smiles with joy,
Screams “Oh boy!”
Asks crunchy crispy rice chocolates are where to find?
And if you  hand me the raspberry rum youd be so kind…

We also liked this from Dubai Duty Free Assistant Buyer | Purchasing Arjun Vellangat

I hear a dainty rhapsody,
Oh! It is me singing bashfully!
Waiting for me is a hot bowl of Maggi Ramen;
All I can say is Amen!
Shall I pair it with some Riesling Wine?

And from Anna Kristine M. Reyes, Assistant Supervisor  – Operations at Dubai Duty Free, another fine effort

Rousing as it may seem
You can never go wrong
With chilling out in a bar
Nibbling roast beef
And drinking red wine
What a night to unwind!

Dubai Duty Free E-Commerce and Social Media Coordinator Aparna Vinod also came close to winning the prize with this lovely, lyrical, taste-bud tempting effort

I walk home in rapture,
For my heart is about to be captured;
Rosemary Rib-Eye steak,
With a slice of Raspberry cake,
Drinking a Red Rice Ale,
Such an endearing tale!

The Dubai Duty Free team and Dufry Antalya teams clearly house outstanding poetic talents but this time our winner is Johan Schölvinck, Managing Director of Market Square Consult in Haarlem (when he travels internationally that makes him a Haarlem globetrotter) The Netherlands, whose answer was a real Christmas cracker.

  1. What R word best sums up the exhiliration of duty free shopping?

Rock ‘n Roll
Riveting
Roaring

  1. Name a food starting with R.

Rösti
Roast beef
Reindeer
Raclette
Raisins
Raspberry

  1. And a drink starting with R.

Rum
Resource drink
Rosé
Rolling Rock Beer

And his literary contribution? Like a good poet turned chef, things went from bard to verse as Johan combined all those ingredients in a Christmas pudding of a poem…

Once upon a time in the West
When peace was gone in the East
Rockets were rumbling and gas was dear
We still got on a flight to feast
Cause Christmas would heal all wounds
The reindeers pulling Santa in town
Roast beef and rösti in the oven
Or raclette with a rosé to drown
We’d all enter the duty-free store
To ask for resource or rolling rock beer
To buy raisings or raspberry tart
Or a roaring sweater for our dear
The experience was as always riveting
Of course we’d pass by the Nestlé space
To celebrate a rock ‘n roll moment
Cause the Swiss have their VERSE-atile ways
We’d come home to dear ones and friends
Hug them like never before
An unforgettable evening
Behind the warm family door.

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