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.
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
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
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.
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.
The Growth of Travel Retail – Business Review Europe Article
This is a link to a recent feature on Travel Retail at William Grant & Sons.