DFS Group CEO Philippe Schaus has made a strong argument for change to the Global Travel Retail (GTR) traditional airport concession model.
Terminal Turbulence (in Travel Retail)?
The latest issue of The Spirits Business magazine, reviews the recent up-and-down journey in the travel retail world this past year, whilst also revealing some sunny patches among the clouds, by Kristiane Sherry.
What can Travel Retailers learn from Discounters?
Discounters, especially hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, have a very different business model to retailers in the Global Travel Retail (GTR) channel. However what can travel retailers learn from Discounters? This was one
Article Link: Going Grey
Travel Markets Insider magazine has written an excellent article on the topic of the impact of the parallel (grey) market in the duty free spirits channel.
Is Travel Retail delivering value?
This week’s IWSR magazine is raising the question on whether travel retail is providing value to suppliers and what the future might hold.
Influencing the Shopper Inside Edinburgh Airport
Back in 2013, I had the idea to trial influencing the shopper via a PoP Up store at Edinburgh Airport and by sheer coincidence, there was a BBC documentary being filmed at the same time called
Article Link: Behaviour Design and Science of Persuasion
If interested in understanding human behaviour and how to influence it for retail for example, then suggest reading this article from The Economist’s 1843 magazine entitled The Scientists who make apps addictive.
Amazon Restaurants service arrives in the UK
I have a keen interest on all topics relating to the online retailer Amazon and the post from Alvaro Morilla at Kantar Retail caught my eye recently. It reports on their new service for restaurant
Monocle Highlights Oct 2016
The latest issue of Monocle magazine is now out and I have included here some of the highlights from the October 2016 issue, which include the Retail Survey Top 20.
A Frontier view of Duty Free in the 80’s
Ahead of yet another week spent in Cannes, as part of the annual TFWA World Exhibition & Conference duty free show, I have decided to look back on some material available about the industry.
An Inside the Cask chat with…the TFWA President
Just ahead of the annual TFWA World Exhibition & Conference for the Global Travel Retail (GTR)/ Duty Free channel taking place in Cannes in October this year, we have managed to grab some time from the TFWA President himself,
Shopper behaviour and the value of Exclusivity
The Trinity Forum, the world’s leading airport commercial revenues conference, is coming up soon in India from 12th to 14th September. I have read this weekend an article within the MoodieDavitt Report linked to this event
The Whisky Lady blog on travel retail
I recently contributed to a blog by The Whisky Lady on “How is whisky doing as a Travel Retail libation?”. Here is the link for the full whisky blog which also feature Joe Bates from
An Inside the Cask chat with…airport planning expert Gordon Hamilton
We recently had the opportunity to have a brief chat with Gordon Hamilton, Senior Vice President of Business Operations at Aviation Strategies International about Airports, planning and travel retail.
