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Thursday 1 5 May 2025 8 T F W A D A I L Y Expansion and exclusivity G old Bar Whiskey is showing how personalisation and showmanship is the name of the game in travel retail. Highlighting how the brand has gone from strength-to-strength, Gold Bar Whiskey Director Ellen Torvi explained: “We’ve just launched in Sri Lankan airports and Indian airports within the past year, so we’ve added a whole footprint of South Asia.” Alluding to the expansion, she also revealed: “We’ve just moved into a new distillery space in San Francisco, so we’re expanding our capacity.” Torvi demonstrated how exclusivity and personalisation trends were certainly the ones the business backed and added: “We’re doing personalised bottles that are laser-etched and we do this activation in airports and in retail.” She assured: “These make a beautiful gift.” Basement 2 / 2-E9 E nglish Tea Shop has to be one of the most popular stop-bys for the 7,000 delegates attending this TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference – perhaps for an organic super berry cold brew (the “ultimate thirst quencher”) or a gin botanical, or maybe a rooibos, cocoa and vanilla… the selection is indeed dazzling and exhaustive and, furthermore, “customisable for your market”. If you want “to say something with tea” English Tea Shop has got a solution. The “heartfelt commitment to sustainability” is also official – having just been recognised with “The Kings Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development.” A Sri Lankan tea story with British traditions, English Tea Shop is “an empowering tea revolution in organic farming and employee ownership.” Get some; it’s the most popular drink in the world after all. Basement 2 / 2-J23 English Tea Shop: sustainable, ethical, award-winning Deep-tech skincare T he next revolution in skincare has arrived in travel retail and it’s fast moving and tailoring learnings from scientists. “We are a new brand at the show, so for us it was our brand reveal to the world,” said Tina Priscilla Tam, Global Travel Retail & Asia Sales Director, Noble Panacea. “Noble Panacea is a brand rooted in technology. Our founder has a Nobel Prize in chemistry and there is technology and science behind his research into molecular machines.” Tam added: “Our encapsulation technology allows us to program our skincare based on customers. Our hero product, which is the overnight mask, covers three routines. We call it ‘deep tech’ and really it is the next evolution of skincare.” Level 1 / 1-N15