Gin brand Malfy, owned by Biggar & Leith, has added Sicilian blood orange expression con Arancia to its offer. Malfy con Arancia is rolling out to duty free markets including Italy, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia over the next few months. It will be priced at €35 for a 1-litre bottle. The gin is […]
Category: Food & Drink
SINGAPORE. Emirates Leisure Retail (ELR) has opened a dining pop-up concept that brings together Hudsons Coffee and The Kitchen by Wolfgang Puck at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3. The pop-up, which runs until 8 April, is the first of its kind for F&B at the airport. The unit features Hudsons Coffee’s signature blends and its […]
USA. Paradies Lagardère has opened its first restaurant, the Limon Rotisserie, at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The Limon Rotisserie introduces tastes of Peru to the Terminal 3 food court. The restaurant chain was founded in 2002 by the Castillo brothers Antonio, Eduardo and Martin. It has two locations in San Francisco and outlets in […]
AUSTRALIA. Brisbane Airport last week hosted a special ‘Paddock to Gate’ dinner to champion the many local brands in its food & beverage offer. A VIP dinner in the International Terminal’s Village Green area brought together 40 guests for a four-course menu supplied by the restaurants in the terminal, each with a ‘hero’ item of […]
Indian rum brand Wild Tiger will showcase its new rum box at next week’s Summit of the Americas. The brand will be present on the stand of its US travel retail distributor, Haleybrooke International (207/208). The rum box is an advent-style calendar consisting of 20 miniature rums from 20 rum-producing countries. According to Wild Tiger, […]
UK. Scottish craft brewing company BrewDog is preparing to open its first airport location at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland this summer. With Scotland’s busiest airport expanding into a new extension, BrewDog has committed to one of the retail and F&B units positioned there. “For too long, airport bars have just been places to get the […]
To celebrate International Women’s Day (9 March) Zacapa rum has partnered with acclaimed lifestyle photographer and Instagrammer Nicolee Drake to capture the stories of the women behind Zacapa 23. Drake travelled to Guatemala to photograph the community of 700 women who create the hand-crafted ‘petate’ (woven palm leaves) bands which decorate Zacapa 23 rum. The […]
Diageo’s Johnnie Walker whisky brand has created a special Johnnie Walker Black Label The Jane Walker Edition to celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March) and Women’s History Month. The Jane Walker Edition features the first female iteration of the brand’s iconic Striding Man logo. The 750ml bottle is being sold throughout March in the USA […]
SPAIN. Airport company AENA has named Areas, EatOut Group, SSP and Autogrill as the big winners of its food & beverage tenders at Barcelona El Prat Airport terminals 1 and 2. Around 50 new or upgraded restaurants will open across 15,000sq m of space. The new contracts begin this year and run to 2026 and […]
Brown-Forman is hoping to capitalise on the increasing popularity of Jack Daniel’s with the introduction of several new whisk(e)y expressions to travel retail. According to Brown-Forman Global Travel Retail Marketing Director Eric Helms, Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 and Tennessee Honey are growing rapidly, while Gentleman Jack and Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel have both recorded […]
Diageo Global Travel has opened a luxury spirits boutique at the new TRG Duty Free store at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Terminal D. The 400sq ft space was opened in partnership with DFASS Group, CBI Retail Ventures, MDT Strategic Ventures and Charles Bush Consulting. The store was designed, produced and implemented by design agency Bloommiami. […]
USA. Travel restaurateur HMSHost and joint venture partner Heigh Connects LLC have been awarded a ten-year contract to run two new Urban Markets and two new Starbucks units at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The airport has revealed a new dining and retail line-up as part of a much-changed concession programme. The outlets are located in Concourse […]
Grey Goose vodka’s Winter Wonderland take-over at Toronto Pearson Airport Terminal 3 resulted in a double-digit year-on-year sales uplift for the Grey Goose range. The promotion, the first of its kind at an airport, took place in December and the new year. It invited travellers to step inside a giant snow-globe for a selfie opportunity […]
Tito’s Handmade Vodka’s Chinese New Year gift bags are now on shelf in duty free stores worldwide, including Lagardère, DFS, International Shoppes, DFASS and Dufry, as well as the US military in AAFES Class Six stores. Chinese Year of the Dog has a particular resonance for Tito’s, which has become known as Vodka for Dog […]
SWITZERLAND/AUSTRALIA: Virgin Australia Airlines and Gate Gourmet have finalised a new inflight dining partnership. Through the six-year contract, Gate Gourmet – the airline catering brand of gategroup – will become the sole service provider for the Australian airline’s flights across Asia, Australia and North America. Virgin Australia operates around 400 domestic and approximately 50 international […]
USA. Live cooking demonstrations, samplings and discounts are on the menu at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International airports as part of the annual ‘Airport Restaurant Week’ event. The Chicago Department of Aviation’s initiative runs from 26 January to 8 February and coincides with the citywide Chicago Restaurant Week. Passengers flying through O’Hare and Midway can […]
Walsh Whiskey Distillery in Royal Oak, Ireland, has distilled the world’s first organic single pot still Irish whiskey. Following certification by The Organic Trust in the first week of January, Walsh Whiskey Distillery commenced the distillation process based on a mash of malted and unmalted barley. The new make spirit was triple distilled in the distillery’s three […]
A recent Diwali-themed activation held by Edrington Europe, Middle East & Africa Travel Retail in partnership with Dubai Duty Free has resulted in a +107% sales uplift in store for The Macallan. The activation is the first phase of Edrington’s strategy to drive single-malt recruitment and premiumisation among Indian travellers – traditionally known as blended whisky […]
Royal Dragon Vodka is set to reveal what it claims is the world’s most expensive vodka, valued at a staggering US$5.5 million. The vodka, called The Eye of the Dragon, took over eight months to develop in partnership with Scarselli Diamonds New York. The 6 litre hand-blown bottle is filled with ultra-premium Royal Dragon Imperial […]
LVMH-owned Glenmorangie has unveiled the latest release in its travel shopping exclusive Legends Collection. Glenmorangie Cadboll, the collection’s third permanent release, is priced at £75 (US$102). The whisky pays homage to a 16th century silver wine cup heirloom owned by the MacLeods of Cadboll, who have deep connections with Glenmorangie’s homeland. In 1699 they created Glenmorangie’s […]
Diageo Global Travel’s latest Chinese New Year design for Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky is a collaboration with multi-award winning Taiwanese artist Page Tsou. The Year of the Dog limited edition, the fifth in the series, is inspired by the bond between man and dog. It is priced at £175/US$234 for a one-litre bottle. In 2018, […]
GREECE. Leading travel restaurateur SSP has opened the first Starbucks at Athens International Airport and the first to be run by SSP in Greece. The unit opened landside on 19 December and offers “stunning views across the runway”, according to SSP. This is Starbucks’ 29th store in the country, since the coffee chain opened there […]
Bacardi Global Travel Retail has developed a Grey Goose seasonal campaign that is running at Toronto Pearson International Airport Terminal 3 from 1 December to 6 January. The super-premium vodka brand offers shoppers the opportunity to step into a giant snow globe in a zone designed with a French Alpine theme. The area is furnished […]
The Highland Park Single Cask series has made its debut in Middle East travel retail with the launch of two exclusive bottlings for luxury spirits retailer Le Clos. The special editions, both 15yo, are drawn from casks #2911 and #3445, with only 162 and 306 bottles available respectively. The launch is supported by a high-profile […]
INDIA. Travel Food Services (TFS) has introduced a World Street Food Festival at Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Domestic Terminal 1. The initiative, located in the food court area, is running from 15 December to 6 January and is open 24 hours a day. The festival offers American, Mexican, Chinese and other Asian cuisines. […]