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Emily Pacey
15-Mar-2006
Last year, hurricanes tore through the Gulf of Mexico laying waste to lives, homes and businesses. The travel-retail industry suffered serious losses from which it is only now recovering. Emily Pacey discovers what work remains to be done and finds that the memory of the worst hurricane season on record is still fresh in the minds of travel retailers
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"Personally, I am not ready to sustain another storm like Hurricane Wilma," confesses Nestlé International Travel Retail (NITR) area sales manager for the Americas Jean-Michel Juin. Last year the world
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