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Editor's letter
Have you got all your ducks in a row? The FIFA World Cup is happening
and the tickets are being sold and your business is set to boom.
If you think it’s up to you to bring it all together, you
are only partly right. A big chunk of your potential profits lie
in the hands of your suppliers. Everyone from the person who fixes
your credit card machines when they are on the blink to your potato
chip supplier and liquor distributors. If even one small part of
your supply chain breaks down, it could hit you hard. A day’s
trade lost is never recoverable and to sit for six hours in the
middle of the World Cup busy season with no credit card facilities,
beer or ice could be disastrous. Check everything now, from your
insurance and public liability cover to your suppliers’ plans
for June and July 2010.
The results of the 12th Deloitte year-end holiday survey are just
in and there is more good news for both our on and off-trade readers.
While 32 per cent of consumers expect to spend the same as they
did last year, an amazing 45 per cent expect to spend MORE than
they did last year – and most of this is to be spent on food
and drink.
On behalf of all of us here at TOT Magazine, we wish you well
over the festive season and may your establishment bring you much
prosperity during 2010.
Enjoy.
Andy Mark and the TOT team |
World cup
A time to keep your friends close and your suppliers even closer...
The fans will be here. They have already booked. At
the time of writing, FIFA’s official travel partners
in the UK were frantically trying to keep up with demand for
travel/ticket/accommodation packages and a complete sellout
was imminent. Over and above the thousands of fans on their
way to our shores is a significant media contingent and support
personnel corps.
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FNB Whisky Live Festival 2009
Over the last seven years, FNB Whisky Live Festival has become
the largest whisky festival in the world. You might think that
the point of Africa couldn’t be further (geographically
and culturally) from the Scottish peat, wild heather and mist,
but this festival draws experts and connoisseurs from all over
the world and is a highlight on the international whisky fraternity’s
calendar.
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IBA world champs in Berlin
In Berlin, a young Usain Bolt lit up the city, and indeed the
world, with a powerful display of athletic talent at the IAAF
world athletics championships. Just days before this, Berlin
also played host to the 58th International Bartenders Association
(IBA) meeting, the World Cocktail Competition and the Flairtending
World Championships. The halls of the Maritim Hotel were flooded
with the most unlikely combination of fraternities, as athletes
and bartenders found themselves sharing the buffet at breakfast
at the wonderful four-star hotel.
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