Interest builds in Trinity 2013; LS travel retail named as Gold Sponsor

INTERNATIONAL. LS travel retail, one of the world’s leading airport retailers, has announced its support for The Trinity Forum 2013 by becoming a Gold Sponsor of the event. Trinity 2013 will be held at the Yas Viceroy and Yas Marina Formula One Circuit International Media Centre on 29-31 January. It is hosted by Abu Dhabi Airports Company and co-organised by The Moodie Report and Airports Council International (ACI).

Trinity 2013: A stellar line-up

The Lagardère Services-owned division is the latest big name to weigh in behind the world’s leading airport commercial revenues conference. In recent days, Diageo was named as a Platinum Sponsor, joining Kraft Foods World Travel Retail. Other sponsors include King Power International Group (Thailand), one of Asia’s leading travel retailers, which is a Silver Sponsor, joining OTG Management, L’Oréal Luxe – Travel Retail Worldwide and Dubai Duty Free.

DFS Group has also added its support by sponsoring the Opening Cocktail.

American Express Foreign Exchange Services is sponsoring Day 1 lunch. The first coffee break is being sponsored by Nestlé International Travel Retail while Qatar Duty Free is sponsoring the lanyards. Dubai-based premium chocolate company Al Nassma is a product sponsor of the Forum.

For sponsorship enquries please contact Helen.Pawson@TheMoodieReport.com

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PROGRAMME

JANUARY 29

15.00 Registration Opens
19.00 Welcome Reception

JANUARY 30

08.30 Welcome
Dermot Davitt, Vice Chairman, The Moodie Report

08.35 Welcome
Angela Gittens, Director General, Airports Council International

08.45 Host’s Opening Remarks:
Mohammed Al Bulooki, Chief Commercial Officer, Abu Dhabi Airports Company

09.05 Ten Years of Trinity (including a special announcement)
Martin Moodie, Founder & Chairman, The Moodie Report

09.35 Keynote Address
Philippe Schaus, Chairman & CEO, DFS Group

10.20 Coffee Break sponsored by Nestlé International Travel Retail

10.50 Film – Innovation in Travel Retail (1)
Marshall Arts International

11.00 Ten Years On, is the Trinity Concept Valid?
With guest Chairman (to be named) followed by Q&A with a special “˜Trinity’ panel, including Muriel Zingraff-Shariff, Retail Concessions Director, London Heathrow Airport; Andrea Belardini, CEO Europe, The Nuance Group Europe; and Dan Cappell, Senior Vice President Commercial, Abu Dhabi Airports Company.

11.50 Taking Travel Retail to a New Level
Roland Abella, Managing Director, Diageo Global Travel & Middle East

12.30 Understanding the Luxury Chinese Traveller
Dr. Zhou Ting, Associate Professor of Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics & Dean of Fortune Character Institute

13.00 Lunch: Sponsored by American Express Foreign Exchange Services

14.30 Destination Unknown
Are airports and their partners really delivering a Sense of Place?
René Baumann, Vice President – Commercial, Bangalore International Airport
Eric De Jager, CEO Travel Retail, Tourvest

15.15 Trinity Panel Discussion (1)
How can the Trinity raise its collective game to grow the pie for all? What more can each Trinity stakeholder do?
Susan Whelan, Senior Executive Vice President, King Power International Group (Thailand)
Gilly Gray, General Manager Retail and Car Parks, Melbourne Airport
Barbara Lavernos, Managing Director, L’Oréal Luxe – Travel Retail Worldwide

16.15 Coffee Break

16.45 How Trinity Really Can Work – a Case Study
Peter-Jan Rozenberg, Retail Director, Schiphol Airport
Alan Brennan, Customer Marketing Manager; Nestlé International Travel Retail

17.30 Conference closes

19.15 Pre-Gala Cocktails

20.15 Gala Dinner
Hosted by Abu Dhabi Airports Company

JANUARY 31

08.45 Film – Innovation in Travel Retail (2)
Marshall Arts International

08.55 Getting serious about innovation
Rick Blatstein, CEO, OTG Management

09.25 Keynote Address
Dag Rasmussen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lagardère Services

10.00 Benchmarking Airport Commercial Revenues and Airport Commercial Quality
Bill Matz, President, The S-A-P Group
Dr. Rafael Echevarne, Director of Economics, ACI

10.45 Coffee Break

11.10 `The Travel Retail Republic’
A unique perspective on our industry
Jim Perry, Vice President and Managing Director, Global Travel Retail, Brown-Forman

11.40 Best practice in a virtual world
Shashank Nigam, CEO, SimpliFlying
Including best of the best case studies from “˜The Moodies’ Digital and Social Media awards 2012

12.30 A Trinity panel discussion (2)
How do we drive growth in the next decade?
Garry Stock, Chairman, James Richardson Duty Free
Andreas Fehr, Managing Director, Kraft Foods World Travel Retail
Carsten Nørland, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Copenhagen Airports

13.30 Conference Closing remarks

13:40 Farewell Lunch

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