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    • Alcohol + sugar + cream = Cream Liqueur
    • Alcohol + Tech
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    • Best Examples of Alcohol Flavoured Foods
    • Craft Watch
    • Disgusting Drinks from Around the World
    • Do you recognise these ‘Fictional’ Drinks brands from Hollywood films and TV?
    • Drinks Industry Books
    • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
    • The Celebrity Liquor Index
    • The Drinks brands in the Dragons’ Den
    • The Drinks Industry Rich List 2023
    • The Most Popular Alcohol Subscription Boxes
  • whisky
    • How to Plan your own Whisky Festival
    • How to Buy a Scotch Whisky Cask…
    • How to start your own Whisky Club…
    • The Auld Art of Coopering
    • Facebook Whisky Groups
    • Independent Bottlers
    • Interesting Facts & Figures about Scotch Whisky
    • Scotch Whisky Videos
    • The Scotch Whisky History Timeline
    • The Top Whisk(e)y Podcasts
    • Whisky Books
    • Whisky Events & Festivals
    • Whisky Maps
    • Whisky Websites
    • Whose own label whisky is it anyway?
  • gin
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    • The New Gin Brand Bingo Game
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Aug 19th

The World’s Top 25 Travel Retailers 2020

Aug 7th

The World’s Top 25 Travel Retailers 2019

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Jul 7th

New Drinks Magazine: Global Drinks Intel.

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January 31st

The Spirits Business Analysis: Spirits in global travel retail

Kevin Rozario has written a feature for The Spirits Business magazine online looking into the performance of each spirits category within the duty free/ global travel retail channel (GTR).

retail,
January 29th

Airport Economics and Tourism 2017 Data

Here is some interesting data available from different sources in aviation and travel retail, such as ACI, UNWTO and ETRC.

retail,
January 15th

Income Support: An Airport Retail Management Model article

Written by Kevin Rozario, this article was recently featured on Passenger Terminal World‘s January 2018 issue.

retail, travel,
November 20th

Digital Transformation Initiative: Aviation, Travel and Tourism Industry

A White Paper by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture on shaping the digital agenda to drive growth in airlines and travel has been released and is available online. Below is some of

drinks, retail,
November 20th

Meet the Brazilian Scotch whisky specialist André de Almeida

I was happy to contribute to the ‘Ten Easy Pieces’ feature on The Moodie Davitt Report. This is  where they get up close and personal with leading travel retail personalities via ten snapshot questions. Here is just

retail,
November 3rd

5 Themes coming out of The Trinity Forum 2017

The question posed by the 2017 Trinity event held in Bangkok in Thailand was ‘How does airport retail remain relevant in a changing world’. This event is the world’s most influential airport commercial revenues conference, established

drinks, retail,
October 12th

Limited edition Glen Scotia Single Cask takes flight with World Duty Free at Edinburgh Airport

Independent Campbeltown distillery Glen Scotia is set to launch a new limited edition Glen Scotia Single Cask release in partnership with World Duty Free and Edinburgh Airport. Just 204 bottles of the 26-year-old Glen Scotia

retail,
October 8th

I survived another year of Cannes…

more specifically the week spent in Cannes due to the annual TFWA World Exhibition & Conference and its early starts, late finishes, long list of meetings and networking opportunities via industry events….

retail,
September 14th

Are we likely to see Black Friday at Airports?

Black Friday was originally an American tradition taking place on the day after Thanksgiving. Retailers usually offer massive discounts and most of us will have first heard of it due to early morning stampedes taking

retail,
September 10th

Bringing the Future to Improve Travel Retail Now… in 5 Steps

The future of travel retail is available now as these 5 steps show ways that already exist and could be incorporated to improve the channel and its commercial output.

retail,
August 30th

Nurturing Talent for Retail and Brand Building – The P&G way

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is known as one of the classic blue chip nurseries for talent and their graduate programme has always been highly sought after across UK university campuses and beyond. Recently, The Times

retail,
April 1st

Ideas to Step Change the Duty Free Show of the Americas

Orlando has always been one of my favourite global travel retail (GTR)/ duty free shows but over recent years the show has seemed quieter, with a decline in numbers confirmed by the organising association for

drinks, retail, travel,
February 26th

What if you could change the Airport Bar Experience?

If you had the power to trial and test a different approach to the food & beverage (F&B) offer at any given airport, in order to increase revenue and improve the satisfaction of travellers, what

drinks, retail, travel,
February 23rd

The Viking Line Whisky Fair Experience

Every year since it was established in 2009, Viking Line runs its now annual Whisky Fair with great success. In 2017, it took place from Stockholm in Sweden over 4 days (16th to 19th February). But

retail,
February 19th

Article Link: Travellers want more ‘affordable luxury’ in Duty Free

In an exclusive study conducted by TRBusiness and Swiss business intelligence and data firm m1nd-set, nearly 60% of international travellers said they would like to see more from affordable luxury brands in duty free and

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Taking our old girl Belle for a walk and a dip in Taking our old girl Belle for a walk and a dip in the water by St Andrews…..
Verallia’s Distillers Forum 2023 in Leeds #veral Verallia’s Distillers Forum 2023 in Leeds #verallia
Some fantastic cocktails last night in Leeds…. Some fantastic cocktails last night in Leeds….
Spotted in Leeds Spotted in Leeds
World of Whiskies store at London Heathrow T5 #dut World of Whiskies store at London Heathrow T5 #dutyfree
Tried to buy a bottle of this Teeling 12yo Irish w Tried to buy a bottle of this Teeling 12yo Irish whiskey finished in Amburana Brazilian casks before I was told it was not possible as I am not flying outside of the UK….darn Brexit!! #dutyfree #teeling #amburanafinish
Lots of activations happening at Heathrow Airport Lots of activations happening at Heathrow Airport T5…. #dutyfree
Always great to be greeted by a familiar face when Always great to be greeted by a familiar face when travelling through Heathrow Airport T5…. #dutyfree
Off to London we go….. Off to London we go…..
Edinburgh Airport Duty Free store with some new ad Edinburgh Airport Duty Free store with some new additions to the range
The Macallan’s new Duty free range at the airpor The Macallan’s new Duty free range at the airport #macallan #dutyfree
Feliz aniversario ao nosso @Gremio pelos 120 anos Feliz aniversario ao nosso @Gremio pelos 120 anos de história, alegrias e muitas emoções! Com o Gremio onde o Gremio estiver…. #gremio #brasil
The Irish whiskey map from Whisky Magazine The Irish whiskey map from Whisky Magazine
From 10 years ago on Spirit magazine (William Gran From 10 years ago on Spirit magazine (William Grants internal staff publication) Autumn 2013
Picture from TEG Times (Edrington internal staff m Picture from TEG Times (Edrington internal staff magazine) in 2010
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I wonder how many people even tried to…… I wonder how many people even tried to……
Really interesting masterclasses at the Scottish R Really interesting masterclasses at the Scottish Rum Festival this afternoon, hosted by Jamie Macdonald #rum #scottishrum
Today was the date for the first live Scottish Rum Today was the date for the first live Scottish Rum Festival in Edinburgh and always great to see so many friends from the industry there #rum #scottishrum
A few more Spirit of Alba Festival pictures…. A few more Spirit of Alba Festival pictures….
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