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Zwack Unicum’s profits fell, but it was higher than planned
In the first quarter of 2017-2018, the Zwack Unicum Nyrt. achieved a profit of 422 million forints, which is 20.7 percent lower than the 532 million forints of the previous...
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The world’s retail trade is watching Amazon tremendously
Amazon’s stocks accelerated on the international stock market after the company made it clear that the company steps onto the offline market not only in book trade, but also in...
Read moreIn co-operation with its suppliers, the Tesco supports the Hungarian Food Bank Association with more than 7.7 million HUF
Tesco supports the Hungarian Food Bank Association with over 7,7 million HUF donations. The chain of stores, in cooperation with its suppliers, offered 1% of the revenue from the sales...
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Nestlé helps young people to get a job with dual training
In just two years Nestlé would like to triple the number of young people participating in the company’s training programme. In 4 school years Nestlé wants to involve 44 confectionery...
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New Executive Director at Syngenta
Matthew Pickard is the Managing Director of Syngenta Magyarország from 1 August. Czigány Tibor, the former head of the Hungarian company, continues his career at Syngenta’s Africa Division. Matthew Pickard...
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Changes in Croatia
This year Croatian supermarket chain Konzum will close 80-100 stores. The company’s spokesperson told: every year they close some of the stores that don’t perform well, but this year’s restructuring...
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Social card from Russian retailer X5
Russia’s biggest retail chain, X5 has announced their participation in a state programme, in which people in need can purchase food using social cards. The programme is launched in the...
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The HEINEKEN Hungária has became the producer of the Fradi beer
From now the HEINEKEN Hungária produces the beer of Ferencváros. The bottled Fradi beer will debut at the store shelves with renewed packaging from August. The co-operation between the new...
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Heart-to-heart moments with the new patient monitors
With permanent medical, nursing care and continuous central monitoring, premature babies can be strengthened in a familiar environment in the Premature Baby Mom’s Rooms of the Semmelweis University II. Department...
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GVH: Hungast can gain control over Sodexo
The acquisition of Hungast Holding Zrt. (Hungast) over the Sodexo Magyarország Kft. (Sodexo) does not significantly reduce the competition in the companies’ activity area, so Hungast can gain control over...
Read moreBeer can shaped football benches at the Viktoria Plzen Stadium
New beer can shaped football benches were presented in Pilsen, West Bohemia (Plzen) during the first round of the Czech football championship last weekend. The unique solution of the football...
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The new Mozaik Komlós development from Dreher is available in limited edition
The new Mozaik Komlós expands the range of the Dreher beer specialties: its taste is characteristic and fruity, in which the consumers can discover the citrus, pine, cranberries, blackcurrant and...
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The Pöttyös supports the olympians of the future
Hungary’s first domestically organized Olympic event, the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), has finished. Athletes from 50 countries took part at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr. As in...
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The INTERSPAR in Tatabánya to be renewed
The SPAR Magyarország is modernizing the INTERSPAR store in Tatabánya from more than 2.5 billion forints. The hypermarket, which was opened in 2000 will be closed during the renovation and...
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In Auchan, parents choose quality, kids choose popular products
According to Auchan’s experience, when shopping for school, the family typically comes up with a pre-designed shopping list and when selecting the most important school supplies, parents want to fulfill...
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Coca-Cola’s sales surpassed expectations
Coca-Cola had better data than expected for the second quarter, with revenue rising instead of 9.65 billion to 9.70 billion USD, while earnings per share increased to two cents higher...
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The coolest shoe brand to be purchased
Luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo has been bought by Michael Kors Holdings in a deal which values the firm at 896 million pounds. The British firm, which was put up for...
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Rossmann won the Green Brand Award
The drugstore has achieved enormous success with its Alterra and enerBIO own branded products. Rossmann has won the Green Brand 2017/2018 award in Germany with two own branded product lines....
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New leader at Fornetti Group
Balthas Klein is the new head of the Fornetti Group since June 2017. The expert is working in the management of the company since the change of ownership in 2015...
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MARS named Europe’s best workplace
For the second time in a row Mars was voted the best workplace in Europe, in the category of multinational companies. Mars’ representatives received the award on 8 June in...
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About 1000 students to spend their training time at SPAR
The SPAR has been involved in vocational training for more than 25 years. The company, which employs nearly 14,000 people, continues to expand its professional opportunities from September. “The high-quality...
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Message in the bottle: a brewery for a greener world
The HEINEKEN Hungária Zrt. has recycled 98 percent of the generated waste and 22 percent of its energy consumption is from renewable sources. The HEINEKEN Hungária Zrt. also reduced its...
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Foam or without foam? This is the question!
The Pilsner Urquell thanks to its quality program is training bartenders and caterers around the world to provide the same quality and taste beer as in the Czech Republic. For...
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The Diószegi Bakery and the Hungarian National Trading House concluded an agreement
The Sepsiszentgyörgy-based Diószegi Bakery and the Hungarian National Trading House (MNKH) concluded a strategic cooperation agreement. The strategic cooperation agreement aims to help the delivery of the company’s bakery product...
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The Waberer’s closed the acquisition of the Link Carrier Company
The acquisition of the Link sp. z o.o. (Link) and Link Services sp. z o.o. (Link Services) has been completed. The final and aggregate purchase price of the two companies...
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A chemist may be Jack Daniel’s eighth distillery master
Chris Fletcher has been fond of his chemistry since his childhood, but even in his boldest dreams he would not have thought that this could make him one of the...
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Johnson & Johnson’s management is confident
The Johnson & Johnson health and baby care product operating company reported 18.8 billion USD in revenue in the second quarter, which is 1.9 percent higher than in the same...
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Dreher celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Sziget festival with Sziget Beer
Sziget’s oldest supplier partner is Dreher Breweries, which has been supplying beer for 23 years, ie the most popular alcoholic drink at the festival. Approximately 18 million mugs of beer...
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National gastro record at the traditional event of the metallurgists
Significant participation took place in Dunaújváros for the 40th Vasas and Kohásznap (40th Metallurgist Day). The steel work is not easy, everyone needs relaxation, therefore the Dunaferr employee day was...
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Unilever’s sales grew
In the six months ended at the end of June, the company’s revenue reached 27.33 billion euros revenue, while profit became 3.11 billion euros, which surpassed not only the results...
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