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Coca-Cola HBC buys Serbian confectionery manufacturer Bambi
Coca-Cola HBC has announced buying Serbian biscuit and confectionery manufacturer Bambi for EUR 260 million from private equity investor Mid Europa Partners. Bambi had revenue of around EUR 80 million...
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Lidl teams up with Supermercato24 in Italy
Italian e-commerce service provider Supermercato24 has announced a partnership with Lidl, which will make it possible for the discounter to offer same-day home delivery of groceries purchased online. Customers can...
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Metro technologies win prize
Metro has won two prizes at the 12th at EHI Retail Institute’s Retail Technology Awards Europe in Düsseldorf in Germany. The Metro Companion app got the ‘best customer experience’ award,...
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Aldi goes carbon neutral in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Aldi UK&Ireland has announced that its 900 stores and 11 distribution centres are now fully carbon neutral. The discount supermarket chain will purchase carbon credits equivalent to 160,000 tons of...
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Two Hungarian SMEs have earned the GREEN BRANDS certification
On 26 February GREEN BRANDS Hungary ceremonially presented the diplomas for using the GREEN BRANDS trademark to the award winners. The winners were: enerBIO and alterra by Rossmann, cleaning supplies brand...
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Mars has appointed a new Central European supply chain leader
Sophie Gaspard joins as the new Central European supply chain leader of Mars to one of the world’s leading food and confectionery companies’ regional leadership team. With her appointment, she...
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China and North America have helped Adidas to record high revenues
Due to the upturn in sales in China and North America, Adidas Sports Equipment achieved record sales last year. According to the company, by excluding the exchange rate fluctuations, the...
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SPAR regards social responsibility important
As a value-creating family business, SPAR Magyarország considers social initiatives important. It is just as important to help those in need as support healthy lifestyle and sports programs. In 2018,...
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Superpower in our hearts
Superpower in our hearts. You can support now children’s foundations as a running hero. Szentkirályi, the official mineral water of the Telekom Vivicittá City Protection Running, this year, is announcing...
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METRO raised its starting salary by nearly twenty percent above the professional minimum wage
At the beginning of 2018, the METRO Nagykereskedelmi Kft. (METRO Wholesale Ltd.) developed and launched its Corporate Wage Development Program, which is based on the principles of transparency, planning and...
Read moreThe Varga Winery won lots of gold medals in the spring
Two out of the six major international wine competitions in the world have already produced results in the past days. In the prestigious Vinales Internationales in Paris and at the...
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Thousands of people swam with Hosszú Katinka on Univer24
In one day, 2500 people swam with one of Hungary’s largest swimming pool sports events, the Univer24. At the start of the swimming marathon held in the Kecskemét Bath, Hosszú...
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(HU) Jó évet zárt az Euronics – Továbbá megtudta, hogy a vásárlók szerint milyen az ideális műszaki áruház
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Read moreThe Tesco Group establishes a new service center in Hungary
A new business and technology service center is set up by Tesco Group in Hungary, creating 800 new jobs – the Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Monday in Budapest....
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SPAR donated 2700 tons of products
The store chain has been providing a unique donation program for animal parks and shelters and wildlife parks in Hungary for eight years – Origo wrote after the communication of...
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Sex and New York star launches her own wine brand
Together with a New Zealand company called Invivo, Sarah Jessica Parker launches her own wine brand – origo wrote after Store Insider. Source: AFP, origo Drinks blended by the actress’s...
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Two Rondo products win international award
Corrugated board manufacturer Rondo Hullánkartongyártó Kft. won with two products at World Packaging Association’s international competition, the 2019 WorldStar Packaging Awards. ‘Dutch flower sending box’ and the twin box made...
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Record sales and production capacity increase at Szentkirályi-Kékkúti
Mineral water company Szentkirályi-Kékkúti Ásványvíz Kft. increased sales by 6 percent in Hungary and in the neighbouring countries last year. Compared with 2017, the company’s sales revenue was up 10...
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L’Oréal is one of the most ethical companies
The Ethisphere Institute has put L’Oréal on the list of the world’s most ethical companies for the 10th time. L’Oréal chairman-CEO Jean-Paul Agon told: since 2000 they have been focusing...
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SPAR: social responsibility is a top priority for us
In 2018 SPAR Magyarország invested HUF 134 million in CSR activities. The main areas where the company helped were: people in neeed and healthy lifestyle. SPAR has been partners with...
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Intrum Justitia names new business development and sales director
As of 18 February Károly Deszpot is the business development and sales director of Intrum Justitia. Between 2004 and 2007 he was managing director of Europapier AG’s Hungarian affiliate. From...
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MARS names new supply chain director for the region
Sophie Gaspard has been named supply chain director of MARS in Central Europe. Ms Gaspard has been with the company for 11 years. Her former position was supply chain excellence...
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Borsodi appoints new senior brand manager
From February György Spiegel is the new senior brand manager of Borsodi. He has more than a decade of experience in the Hungarian and international food industries. He told that...
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SPAR donations for protecting animals in Hungary
Last year SPAR donated 2,725 tons of products to Hungarian animal parks, shelters and zoos. SPAR has been running this programme since 2011, and the retail chain not only donates...
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Auchan honoured
This year Auchan was honoured with the Disabled-friendly Workplace recognition for the fifth time. Auchan can use the title for 2 years. One of the reasons the retailer got the...
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Tesco supports community building programmes
Tesco has organised its ‘You choose, we help programme’ for the fifth time. Once again customers cast their votes on the projects they liked: between 21 January and 17 February...
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Food is saved in a growing number of ALDI stores
ALDI and the Food Bank have been cooperating since 2016. By the end of 2018 75 ALDI stores joined the leftover food saving programme. This year more ALDI stores will...
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Lidl reduces the salt and sugar content of its branded products by twenty percent
As an innovative and responsible company, Lidl Magyarország is committed to help in the healthy nutrition of families in Hungary by targeting a 20 percent reduction in the salt and...
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