Company and Personal News
Carlsberg to cut 2,000 jobs
Due to the weakening of the Russian market Carlsberg decided to cut operating costs by USD 288 million until 2018. The management will become 15 percent smaller and the brewer...
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Spar success in Africa
Spar Group of South Africa increased sales by 5.6 percent last year, while the company opens more and more stores in Ireland and in the Netherlands. Net sales grew from...
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Two thousand volunteers are taking place in the “Giving is a joy!” Action
The volunteers of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service are collecting donations in 162 stores of the SPAR Group since 16 December. Last year, 262 tons of perishable foods were collected...
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Food safety with a little help from Mars
Mars and FAO have signed a cooperation agreement: the two parties aim at calling attention to the importance of food safety in developing countries. Mars vice president Dave Crean told...
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Major developments by Starbucks
Starbucks’ revenue grew less than expected in the last quarter because the coffee company spent a lot on increasing the level of its services. In September they launched mobile ordering...
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Baby formula boom to occur in China
Danon and Nestlé shares increased their values instantly when the Chinese government announced that families would be allowed to have more than one child. At the moment the Chinese baby...
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Small Auchan stores will open in Russia
Auchan will open small shops in Russia, where they already have four hypermarkets. The small stores will be called Kazhdy Den. Auchan decided to make this move because competitors Da!...
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The Formatex toy dealer expects nearly 10 percent increase in turnover this year
The toy dealer and importer Formatex Kft. this year expects a net sales revenue of 3.837 billion HUF, which is equivalent to almost 10 percent increase over the last year...
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Back to the summer
Another new flavour appears in the XIXO ice tea portfolio in the autumn of 2015. XIXO lychee green tea was one of the successes in the summer. This time the...
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METRO focuses on high quality
The METRO announced at a ceremony that all of the 13 METRO stores managed to acquire the “Excellent Quality Pork” (KMS) certification. The certificate certifies METRO's commitment to quality products,...
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Danone OIKOS Greek Yogurt Cream: New name, same pampering content
From December 2015 the Greek Danone Yogurt pampers the Hungarian consumers with the Danone OIKOS Greek Yogurt Cream’s special cream and the usual high quality. The Görög Krémjoghurt changes its...
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The Heimann family estate received the prestigious award
The professional and media jury of the Prestige Reserve Club awarded the Prestige Award to the most prestigious winery of the year 2015 for the 6th time. In 2015, Heimann...
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Tablet cash register at the exclusive shoe shop
The MUSETTE shoe shop opened its first store in Hungary in the Váci street. The cash register should also be stylish at the elegant fashion store, so a tablet-based cash...
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Coca-Cola’s ecological footprint reduces further
The Coca-Cola HBC group is present in 28 countries. In early November the bottling company announced the cutting of water use by 30 percent and reducing carbon dioxide emission by...
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Hungary was successful at the World Expo
During the World Expo, held between May 1 and October 31 in Milan a total of about 130 kinds of program elements were realized in the Hungarian Pavilion. On 17...
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Alibaba vs. Amazon
The Alibaba group plans to invest more than USD 80 million, mainly in developing their smartphone app for ordering groceries. Groceries ordered via smartphone above the sum of USD 50...
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Auchan: 1-billion-euro development project
Auchan France announced that they intend to invest EUR 1 billion in developing their hypermarkets. A large part of this sum will be spent on refurbishing existing stores. Wi-fi network,...
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Lidl and Aldi expand faster
Aldi plans to open 93 new stores and Lidl intends to build 78 new units in the United Kingdom, twice as many as earlier. At the moment the market share...
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The SPAR modernized its network with a multi-billion HUF investment in 2015
The SPAR Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft. renovated another four of its stores. The number of the company’s modernized stores increased to thirteen this year. The company has spent more than 3...
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METRO has also joined to the good to be good campaign
METRO provided nearly seven million HUF to the International Children's Safety Service within the the good to be good campaign. At the December events of the Foundation METRO provides gift...
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Star Wars fever in the Auchan
The plush toy figurines of the Star Wars film's main actors arrived to the Auchan stores. The representatives of the dark and bright sides can be found on the shelves....
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Exclusively Hungarian honey can be bought in the Lidl
Due to the strategic decision of Lidl Magyarország, since 2009 only Hungarian honeys can be found on the shelves of the chain. In addition to serving key customer needs, the...
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Praktiker: turnover doubled from LED bulbs and lamps
The lighting supply was thoroughly reshuffled with the appearance of affordable energy-saving light bulbs. The demand moved towards LED lights – according to Praktiker. The modern energy awareness, not only...
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Scan&Go: a fast, comfortable, easy-to-track and fun way to shop in Tesco stores!
Tesco’s latest service to make the life customers easier is Scan&Go. There is no more unloading at the checkout and customers can track their spending while shopping. Scan&Go is very...
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Dreher Breweries: top performance in risk avoidance
The Hungarian Credit Management Association awarded the Credit Management Team of the Year prize to the claim and risk management team of Dreher Breweries. In the last 5 years the...
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Coca-Cola Caravan: on the road again
Coca-Cola’s Christmas Caravan hits the road again, travelling across the country with a Coca-Cola Pop-up Store on board. This year the caravan will turn up on the main squares or...
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EuroFamily to become more efficient
Laurel has commenced a big project with the EuroFamily store chain, which consists of 36 retail outlets. Laurel has to harmonise the Laura cash register software with the recently introduced...
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‘How to do what?’ launched
Hungary’s most popular culinary website, NoSalty started its ‘How to do what?’ website. The new page intends to build a community of NoSalty users, who can help each other with...
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