‘Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising run attracts over 50 entrants; already US$25,000 raised for The Smile Train – 28/08/08Source: ©The Moodie ReportBy Martin Moodie
Potential sponsors can contact the participants directly while there are already 13 fundraising pages set up on the www.JustGiving.com site (e.g. www.justgiving.com/rowenaholland or www.justgiving.com/MandyShine) which are linked via the tag: the travel retail smiletrain run. Already those pages have raised over US$25,000 – enough to fund operations on 100 children. There is much more to come. Donors have the choice of sponsoring the event as a whole – or individual participants. The Nuance Group, for example, rightly sceptical about The Moodie Report Publisher’s ability to finish the race, is sponsoring him at £100 per kilometre completed. Miles for Smiles takes place on Saturday 22 November in Dubai commencing at 0800 hrs. The annual Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup Tournament then takes place on 23 and 24 November and the MEDFA conference follows in Abu Dhabi on 25 and 26 November. Here is the field to date: ABU DHABI DUTY FREE: James McLean AER RIANTA INTERNATIONAL-MIDDLE EAST: John Sutcliffe, Michael Murphy, Karl Sutcliffe (Muscat Duty Free) CAT DESIGN: Richard Thorpe DIANA ALBIOL MEDIA RELATIONS: Diana Albiol DUBAI DUTY FREE: Breeda McLoughlin, George Horan, Anne Smith, Sean Staunton, Sinead El Sibai ELEMIS: Isabelle Caprano EMIRATES: John Sime, Katrina Cooper, Helen Roxburgh, Elizabeth Dales, Sharon Thorpe ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS: Rowena Holland ESTÉE LAUDER TRAVEL RETAILING WORLDWIDE: Olivier Bottrie, Jean-Charles Séité FLIGHT CENTRE (The Moodie Report’s travel agent): Phil Burdekin FRENCH & LAWLESS: Claire Iredale FRONTIER: Marek Kolasinski GEBR HEINEMANN: Nadine Heubel GODIVA: Gerry Murray, Ramon Iglesias GULF NEWS/TRAVEL RETAIL MARKETS: Catharine Thomas JACKY’S GULF FZE: Gautam Raghani JAKK: Jilly Brain, Jessica Brain JONATHAN HOLLAND & ASSOCIATES: Jonathan Holland L’ORÉAL TRAVEL RETAIL: Giles Naour, Pascal Blot MARC O’POLO : Toni Hager MAUI JIM: Martine Larroque NÉSTLE ITR: Alan Brennan PATONS: James Kfouri PIONEER INTERNATIONAL: David Bevan PREMIER PORTFOLIO: Garry Maxwell PUMA: Thomas Henningsen SCORPIO: Stuart McGuire, Garry Stoner, Alan Taffy-Edwards THE BRAND DISTILLERY – ULUVKA: Mark Holmes THE MOODIE REPORT Mandy Shine, Martin Moodie TIMEX: Hans Eulenhoefer TRT UK: Christine Martin, Ray Martin ULTRA MARINE: Max Williams, Angie Mullen VALORA: Dan Kongsted, Mona Kongsted VAN MELLE: Patrick Dorais VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS: Carole McManamon ZERO: Geoff Hutley FOR INFORMATION ON MILES FOR SMILES General contacts: Rowena Holland at row@essentialcommunications.org or by telephone: +44 (0) 1883 622748; Mobile: +44 (0) 7710 219784; Mandy Shine at Mandy.Shine@TheMoodieReport.com or by telephone:+ 971 4 394 3293; Mobile: +971 504 585 068; or Nadine Heubel at N_Heubel@gebr-heinemann.de If you would like to register, please email row@essentialcommunications.org If you would like to donate to the event, rather than sponsoring an individual, please go to www.justgiving.com/smiletrainrun For information on sponsorship, raffle prizes, goodie bags etc, contact Mandy Shine: mandy.shine@themoodiereport.com Tel: + 971 4 394 3293 Mob: +971 504 585 068. ABOUT THE SMILE TRAIN New York-based The Smile Train was recently described by the New York Times as one of the best charites "Dollar for deed" in the US. It is dedicated to helping the millions of children in the world with cleft lips and palates by providing free surgery, free training for doctors and research to find a cure. Since 1999, they have provided free cleft surgery for more than 210,000 children who could not afford it and have supported hundreds of cleft treatments, training and research programmes in more than 64 countries. The average cost of surgery provided by The Smile Train is US$250. Visit www.smiletrain.org for more information. Your post will appear – once approved – in The Moodie Forum on our home page MORE STORIES ON MILES FOR SMILES The Moodie Blog: The eyes have it as Miles for Smiles ‘fun run’ turns into a weighting game The Moodie Blog: The Nuance Group supports Publisher’s charity run but hedges bets as achilles heel strikes The Moodie Blog: Running Miles for Smiles… and a pint of milk Running Miles for Smiles: Impetus builds for November's travel retail charity fun run in Dubai – 08/08/08 Running miles for smiles: Travel retail aims to make a difference with November charity run in Dubai – 31/07/08 |
INTERNATIONAL/UAE. An impressive line-up of 56 travel retail industry executives will be participating in the ‘Miles for Smiles’ fun run in Dubai on 22 November to raise funds for cleft charity The Smile Train.
