Beam Suntory Travel Retail has a clear vision for its business strategy: the company wants to be the preeminent spirits supplier in global travel retail, John Rosair, Beam Suntory Managing Director – APAC & GTR tells TMI. Rosair and Ed Stening, Global Marketing Director – Travel Retail, Beam Suntory, sat down with TMI at the […]
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Tito’s, now #1 spirit in the U.S., restructures to leverage domestic popularity overseas
Tito’s Handmade Vodka is surging in popularity around the world, John McDonnell, Tito’s Managing Director, International, tells TMI. In the U.S. Tito’s sales volume increased by more than 20% in 2019 (IWSR) as Smirnoff vodka dropped down as the top-selling distilled spirit in America for the first time in more than a decade. Tito’s reorganization […]
WEBB Banks, on track for record year, plans to resume growth after crisis
WEBB Banks was on its way to delivering its best year ever in 2020 when the COVID-19 hit the region. Now the Americas spirits and wine distribution company is setting itself up for life after the Coronavirus, Andy Consuegra, Managing Director, WEBB Banks, tells TMI. “We grew nicely in 2019, not as fast paced as […]
Impressive growth of UK’s Whitley Neil gins spurs development in Americas travel retail
As the craft gin boom takes the spirits world by storm, Whitley Neil gin’s success in its home UK market has quickly spread to the global travel retail market. “We are the fastest growing premium gin on the planet,” Simon Roffe, Managing Director Global Travel Retail, Halewood Wines & Spirits, tells TMI. “We have secured, […]
Innovation spurs strategic growth of InnoTRI’s boutique distribution
Miami-based specialist distribution company InnoTRI credits innovation and uniqueness – along with flexibility– for the strategic growth the company has enjoyed in the past three years. “The name itself stands for Innovation Travel Retail International,” Christoph Henkel, InnoTRI co-founder and manager tells TMI. “We consider ourselves a boutique distribution company fully dedicated to all our […]
MSC Cruises focuses growth on the U.S. market
Adrian Pittaway, Head of Retail at MSC Cruises, hosted a retail open day in February onboard the Swiss-based company’s newest ship in Miami, the MSC Meraviglia. Some 40 local suppliers and partners such as Heinemann attended, to see the company’s newest ship in which MSC had invested one billion euros, and hear about MSC’s ambitious […]
SeaWalk debuts in the Americas at Jamaica’s new Port Royal
SeaWalk, the Norwegian break-through floating cruise pier, celebrated its first use in the Americas in January during the inaugural ship call at the newly built Port Royal Cruise Port in Jamaica, near Kingston. On January 20, Marella Cruise Line’s Discovery 2 arrived and disembarked passengers at the historic port, using SeaWalk, a floating articulated bridge […]
Global cannabis company based in Colombia launches CBD skincare line targeting TR
The beauty industry’s obsession with CBD isn’t slowing down and Khiron, a Colombian company whose well-being unit has produced the first branded CBD skincare line in Latin America, Kuida, is targeting travel retail as a key channel for international distribution. Incorporated as a public company in Canada, Khiron is based in Colombia with manufacturing in […]
Mondelēz International takes action to support and protect communities during COVID-19 crisis with $15 million in donations around the world
Demonstrating its huge generosity, Mondelez International, Inc. announced it will donate $15 million in financial and in-kind support to community partners advancing critical food stability and emergency relief efforts across the world in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. “Managing through and recovering from this global crisis will take everyone’s support and I am pleased […]
Nestlé to partner with Red Cross as part of humanitarian efforts during COVID-19 crisis
Nestlé has announced it is partnering with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Cross Societies (IFRC) as part of its global response to the COVID-19 crisis. Initially, Nestle and IFRC will work together in four ways to provide urgent help for emergency services and caregivers and strengthen healthcare systems. 1. They will […]
IWSR: U.S. consumers purchasing alcohol at higher rates to drink at home
Despite recent government directives to stay-at-home, U.S. beverage alcohol sales are buoyant as a result of shifts to retail, which includes e-commerce delivery and click-and-pick options, reports IWSR. The recent growth rate in alcohol purchases has been increasing at a much higher pace than overall 2019 growth, which underscores the scale of the current consumer […]
Regency Group opens new Colon 2000 cruise port stores
The Colon 2000 cruise port in Panama now has a new duty free operation in effect. Regency Group, a privately owned multinational company with headquarters in Panama, which won the concession to develop some 4,500 square meters of premium travel retail space within the terminal in 2018, held a soft opening of its new Colon […]
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Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 12
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. First, we sincerely hope that this issue of Travel Markets Insider finds you and your family well, wherever you are in the world. The world continues to struggle with the worst crisis in living memory […]
Status of Canadian border stores after closing of border with U.S.
The U.S. and Canadian governments agreed to close their shared border to non-essential traffic on Wednesday, March 18. While some stores that serve commercial trucks carrying essential goods have remained open, most others have closed. Barbara Barrett, Executive Director of Canada’s Frontier Duty Free Association confirmed to TMI that CBSA (the Canada Border Services Agency) […]
