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    • Do you recognise these ‘Fictional’ Drinks brands from Hollywood films and TV?
    • Drink Books
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    • The Celebrity Liquor Index
    • The Drinks brands in the Dragon’s Den
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    • How to Buy a Scotch Whisky Cask…
    • How to start your own Whisky Club…
    • The Auld Art of Coopering
    • Facebook Whisky Groups
    • Interesting Facts & Figures about Scotch Whisky
    • Scotch Whisky Videos
    • The Scotch Whisky History Timeline
    • The Top Whisk(e)y Podcasts
    • Whisky Books
    • Whisky Maps
    • Whisky Websites
    • Whose own label whisky is it anyway?
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September 27th

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

drinks, retail,
September 27th

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.

retail,
September 21st

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.

drinks,
September 19th

An Inside the Cask chat with…a Scotch whisky brand start-up

Carin Luna-Ostaseski is the founder and CEO of Scotch whisky brand start-up SIA. I first came across Carin via her video on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. Since then I have followed the progress of her brand

retail,
September 18th

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

retail,
September 16th

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.

retail,
September 16th

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

retail,
August 30th

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,

retail,
August 28th

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

retail,
August 17th

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

retail,
August 14th

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.

drinks, retail,
August 5th

An Inside the Cask chat with….BeerHawk.co.uk

On a new feature for the site, we at Inside the Cask have had the opportunity to talk with Chris France, the Founder and Director of BeerHawk.co.uk about the wonderful world of Beers.

retail, travel,
July 28th

You got yourself a deal!

Bargain hunting and the value perception of Duty Free

retail, travel,
March 30th

The Growth of Travel Retail – Business Review Europe Article

This is a link to  a recent feature on Travel Retail at William Grant & Sons.

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One of the purposes of writing and creating Inside the Cask was to help others to get in or get back into the Drinks Industry and Retail in general. As part of that commitment, every time I come across a job opening advertised in the public domain I will add it to this page.

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