INTERNATIONAL. Welcome to The Moodie Davitt Report Online Magazine for October 2019. This edition – the Print Magazine is also available in hard copy at this week’s TFWA World Exhibition – gives you instant access to video and audio content within many of our stories and crucially, allows our brand partners to leverage the power and potential of the digital platform.
As our cover story shows, we reflect on how the sustainable, the experiential and the personal will be among the major influences on travel retail’s direction into the next decade. These themes run like narrative threads through many of our stories.
From Istanbul Airport, we assess the progress to date of one of the world’s most spectacular new travel retail arenas, through the eyes of Unifree Duty Free.
We also bring you early images (and a stunning Louis Vuitton video) from Beijing Daxing International, inaugurated just days ago, which is set to become one of the great aviation hubs.
In a story with potential global repercussions, we bring you comment and analysis after DFS’s shock decision not to contest the liquor & tobacco bid at Singapore Changi Airport.
Elsewhere, among our major interviews, Lagardère Travel Retail Chairman & CEO Dag Rasmussen talks acquisitions, concession gains, store investment and sustainability; while Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman & CEO Colm McLoughlin assesses how the world’s leading travel retailer at a single location is investing to overcome a difficult early part of the year.
We bring you several important and heavyweight beauty brand interviews too. The Estée Lauder Companies Executive Chairman William P Lauder talks about the journey to defeat breast cancer, as The Moodie Davitt Report launches the first of two campaigns to support Breast Cancer Awareness.
And L’Oréal Group Managing Director for Travel Retail Worldwide Vincent Boinay underscores the vital role – and responsibilities – of the travel retail channel as he outlines the company’s vision for the beauty business.
There are many more great stories, ranging from Martin Moodie’s visit to Auckland for the launch of natural skincare brand Snowberry by P&G Global Skin Care, to a lovely tribute to Gebr Heinemann Chief Commercial Officer Kay Spanger as he marks 40 years of industry service, and much more besides.
You will also find our special Category Insight supplement with this edition, this time dedicated to the world of luxury goods in travel retail. That features stories of airports and retailers that are championing the role of fashion & accessories, along with the vital voice of the brand owners.
Please enjoy this edition with our compliments.
