Moodie Davitt Travel Retail Euro Competition latest: Skyline Concessions CEO Manuel Soto IV sole leader

Veteran travel retail executive Manuel Soto IV, CEO of Skyline Concessions, leads the way in The Moodie Davitt Report Travel Retail Euro 2024 Tournament Predictor Competition following Monday’s matches, write our football correspondents* Parker Thebus and Paul Damstring in Düsseldorf.

The San Francisco-based executive is one point in front of I Wirantara with Julie Fenwick from Luggage-Point in the UK and George Bliss from Campari Group both a further point back.

Here is our current top-12 ranking. We will bring you a full leaderboard later today, which shows just five points covering the top 27 players.

Don’t forget to get your predictions in for today’s matches below.

The Moodie Davitt Report partners Denizen Destination, Duty Free Global, Go Travel, Haribo, Gebr. Heinemann, Mast-Jägermeister and Qatar Duty Free are generously sponsoring the competition.

The following prize monies will be awarded to the winning entrants’ chosen charities (together with a write-up on each cause):

1st – €1,000
2nd – €500
3rd – €300

Winners will also receive Denizen Destination bracelets of the country of their choice kindly donated by the high-quality brand house.

*The Moodie Davitt Report is the sole travel retail media title reporting on location from Germany. Parker Thebus and Paul Damstring are joined by experienced football correspondents Amos Wynmatch, Hedda Ball, Mark Closely, Mia Stryker, Constant Diver, Claire Fowell and Conor Flagg.

Look out for their match reports over coming weeks.

A wonderfully international leaderboard is taking shape as The Moodie Davitt Report Travel Retail Euro 2024 Tournament Predictor Competition starts to heat up, write our football correspondents* Constant Diver and Claire Fowell in Gelsenkirchen.

Following Sunday’s matches, I Wirantara from Indonesian airport authority Angkasa Pura I and Skyline Concessions CEO Manuel Soto IV are locked in a tie for first place with an impressive 13 points. Even more impressively, both have predicted the correct outcome in all seven matches played to date (and the precise score in three, an impressively above industry average 42.9% penetration rate).

But the big mover over the weekend was Julie Fenwick at Luggage-Point in the UK, who after a slow start swooped up the table with a hat-trick of precise score predictions on the Poland v The Netherlands, Slovenia v Denmark and Serbia v England matches. Julie sits on 12 points, alongside Campari Group Regional Manager GTR EMEA George Bliss, who picked up the maximum three points on the Poland v The Netherlands and Serbia v England matches.

Three more players – Avolta Global Supply Chain Master Data Office Head Dani Petkova; Ricola Vice President Region Middle East & Travel Retail Andreas Reckart; and Marchesi de Frescobaldi Global Travel Retail Director Philippe Jamme– are just one point back on 11 points. In turn they are followed by ARI Global Business Development Manager James McLean and The Moodie Davitt Report Research Director Jess Allerton on 10.

Things can change fast though and with 11 players bunched on 9 points and 33 on 8, expect lots of changes on our leaderboard yet. There are three matches today (17 June) so don’t forget to get your predictions in.

The Moodie Davitt Report partners Denizen Destination, Duty Free Global, Go Travel, Haribo, Gebr. Heinemann, Mast-Jägermeister and Qatar Duty Free are generously sponsoring the competition.

The following prize monies will be awarded to the winning entrants’ chosen charities (together with a write-up on each cause):

• 1^st – €1,000
• 2^nd – €500
• 3^rd – €300

Winners will also receive Denizen Destination bracelets of the country of their choice kindly donated by the high-quality brand house.

*The Moodie Davitt Report is the sole travel retail media title reporting on location from Germany. Constant Diver and Claire Fowell are joined by experienced football correspondents Amos Wynmatch, Hedda Ball, Mark Closely, Parker Thebus, Paul Damstring, Mia Stryker and Conor Flagg.

Look out for their match reports over coming weeks.

There’s a six-way tie at the top of The Moodie Davitt Report Travel Retail Euro 2024 Tournament Predictor Competition leaderboard after the first four games in the UEFA European Football Championship (Euros) with five of the record 203 contestants just one point behind, write our football correspondents* Mark Closely and Mia Stryker in Dortmund.

Our super sextet are: Inside the Cask Founder (and Scotch whisky industry veteran) Andre de Almeida and I Wirantara from Indonesian airport authority Angkasa Pura I, who both predicted the Italy 2 – Albania 1 scoreline correctly; along with Skyline Concessions CEO Manuel Soto IV, Starboard Cruise Services Senior Regional Merchandise Manager – Europe Matteo Assalino, Ontario International Airport (the host of the upcoming FAB Conference & Awards) Chief Revenue Management Officer Elisa Grey, and Campari Group Regional Manager GTR EMEA George Bliss, who all nailed the Spain 3 – Croatia 0 result.

An equally quality quintet follows just one point behind: Avolta Global Supply Chain Master Data Office Head Dani Petkova; Valora Group Controller Katrin Deaney; CAVU Vice President Growth Craig Pring; Revlon/Elizabeth Arden/American Crew Senior Director Travel Retail Frank Andreassen; and Campari Group EMEA Regional Manager – GSTR Giorgio Gabossi.

Underlining how close this contest will be (and the intense industry interest in it), another 62 participants are just one point back. If you haven’t entered there is still time to not only participate but even to win. Click here for the simple entry procedure.

The Moodie Davitt Report partners Denizen Destination, Duty Free Global, Go Travel, Haribo, Gebr. Heinemann, Mast-Jägermeister and Qatar Duty Free are generously sponsoring the competition.

The following prize monies will be awarded to the winning entrants’ chosen charities (together with a write-up on each cause):

• 1^st – €1,000
• 2^nd – €500
• 3^rd – €300

Winners will also receive Denizen Destination bracelets of the country of their choice kindly donated by the high-quality brand house.

*The Moodie Davitt Report is the sole travel retail media title reporting on location from Germany. Mark Closely and Mia Stryker are joined by experienced football correspondents Amos Wynmatch, Hedda Ball, Constant Diver, Parker Thebus, Paul Damstring, Conor Flagg and Claire Fowell.

Look out for their match reports over coming weeks.

The whistle has blown and The Moodie Davitt Report Travel Retail Euro 2024 Tournament Predictor Competition is underway, write our football correspondents* Amos Wynmatch and Hedda Ball in Munich.

If you haven’t entered there is still time to not only participate but even to win, especially as not a single one of the 203 entrants picked the correct score in host Germany’s 5-1 (sledge)hammering of a not so bonny Scotland.

However, 176 of them did predict a German victory and no doubt the 87th minute own goal by Germany’s Antonio Rudiger (about the only way the Scots were going to score) ruined several otherwise perfect predictions.

The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie cracked a bottle of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc today after perusing the early leaderboard (below), only to discover his front-running status was shared with 175 others.

*The Moodie Davitt Report is the sole travel retail media title reporting on location from Germany. Amos Wynmatch and Hedda Ball are joined by experienced football correspondents Constant Diver, Paul Damstring, Conor Flagg, Parker Thebus, Claire Fowell, Mark Closely and Mia Stryker.

Look out for their match reports over coming weeks.

The competition, open to anyone involved in the aviation and travel retail sector (mandatory) and free of charge to enter, is based on match predictions for the 24-team UEFA Euro 2024 competition.

You can still sign up and submit your initial predictions.

Predictions must be entered 15 minutes before kick off for any given match, but they can be changed freely up until that point. T

The Moodie Davitt Report and its partners Denizen Destination, Duty Free Global, Go Travel, Haribo, Gebr. Heinemann, Mast-Jägermeister and Qatar Duty Free are generously sponsoring the competition.

The contest is easy to enter and will see the following prize monies awarded to the winning entrants’ chosen charities (together with a write-up on each cause):

• 1^st – €1,000
• 2^nd – €500
• 3^rd – €300

Winners will also receive Denizen Destination bracelets of the country of their choice kindly donated by the high-quality brand house.

Real names must be used, no pseudonyms please.

RULES

The rules of the contest are simple. Qualified readers just need to register with the site and then provide a score prediction for every match. Reminders to post your score will be issued before each round for those who haven’t done so.

Entrants will receive 3 points for an exact score prediction and 1 point if they predict the result (win or draw) without getting the score correct.

Players with the most points at the end of the competition will take out the prizes.

If two or more players are tied on points, the differentiators will be as per the following:

• Number of Correct Scores
• Number of Correct Results
• Competition Winning Team Prediction

So remember to also select a team you think will be champions at the end of the competition at the outset to ensure the most possible points.

Click this link to enter: https://moodiedavitt.football-predictor.net/en/

Please Note: You will need to register a new account even if you have entered previous predictor competitions. 

A league table will be updated after every round of matches showing latest rankings, while the full table can be accessed at any point on the site.