Company and Personal News
The German sugar cartel can affect the Hungarian market as well
Date: 2013-05-17 11:08:04
The Germans probably paid too much for the sweetness for a number of years. The European Commission suspects that the Nordzucker and Südzucker German sugar companies agreed in the prices...
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Magazin: Pharmacies using retail strategies
Date: 2013-05-16 11:29:44
Pharmaceutical retail is an exciting market in Hungary: about 2,350 pharmacies realise a HUF 580 billion annual turnover. Pharmanova Zrt. operates the market leading BENU Pharmacies and we asked chairman...
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Kappa suitcases and bags in the latest loyalty action of SPAR
Date: 2013-05-16 11:26:50
The SPAR Magyarország Kft. in its latest point collecting action – beginning on May 16 2013 – offers the high quality and exclusively designed suitcases and bags of a premium...
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A wafer plant is established in Rétság with an investment of two billion HUF
Date: 2013-05-16 11:25:54
The Dunakeszi-based Urbán és Urbán Kft. establishes a wafer plant with an investment of two billion HUF. The company plans to open the plant in six months, where fifty or...
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The Good Milk prize winning game for Yogurt lovers has started
Date: 2013-05-16 11:10:54
The Mona Hungary Kft., which is the distributor of the Good Milk yogurt product family has launched a nationwide prize winning game with educational engagement. In the game lasts between...
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The Manta Swim is willing to conquer the pool and beach apparel market
Date: 2013-05-16 10:59:42
The Manta Swim Kft. that prepares a market conquest at the Hungarian pool and beach apparel market closed a successfully year in 2012. The 100% Hungarian-owned start-up company was founded...
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Mondelez Europe: 4.5 billion HUF worth food industrial investment in Székesfehérvár
Date: 2013-05-15 12:15:20
The world's largest manufacturing company of snack products, the Mondelez International will invest nineteen million dollars, almost four and a half billion forints to the company’s European regional headquarters, that...
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The Biopont Kft. opened a new plant in Dunaújváros – Pálhalma
Date: 2013-05-15 11:16:26
After about six months of preparatory work the Biopont Kft. carried out a new plant investment in Dunaújváros – Pálhalma. The engine behind the idea of creating the plant is...
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Can we buy the secret Coca-Cola recipe for fifteen million USD on eBay?
Date: 2013-05-15 11:00:10
A Georgia man claims he has found an original top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old box of papers he purchased from an estate. Now, Cliff Kluge trying to sell...
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The Zalai Poultry Processing Ltd. will be liquidated
Date: 2013-05-14 12:10:46
The liquidator of the Zalai Baromfifeldolgozó Kft. (Zalai Poultry Processing Ltd.) submitted a liquidation application. The close to 100 workers of the company operated for less than a year were...
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Package starts a new life as an artistic decoration
Date: 2013-05-13 11:12:06
Who wants to win the latest application of HEINEKEN and the Design Terminál should plan an artistic decoration created from from bottle crates, bottles or cans. The competition aims to...
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Sales reps: in-house or as outsourced staff
Date: 2013-05-13 02:42:00
Demand for outsourced sales representatives keeps growing because many firms have been forced to lay off staff due to the difficult economic situation – says Ágnes Csiby, client service director...
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Every little helps!
Date: 2013-05-13 02:25:55
Tesco Hungary CEO Nigel Jones told our magazine that their turnover was HUF 709 billion in the 2012-2013 business year. Last year the company’s focus was more on innovation than...
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SPAR is on a growth track
Date: 2013-05-13 02:22:28
In 2012 SPAR Hungary realised a HUF 421.5-billion turnover, performing 8 percent better than in 2011. Last year the company continued to develop and refurbish its network of stores, and...
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Reál took a big step forward with its own warehouses
Date: 2013-05-13 02:19:25
Tibor Kujbus, managing director of Reál Hungária told us that 2012 was a busy year for the company. On 14 January the headquarters moved to a new office, located in...
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The Rossmann Baby Programme soon became popular
Date: 2013-05-13 02:16:28
Rossmann entered the Hungarian market in 1993. Today the drugstore chain consists of 181 units and employs 1,112 people in Hungary. The company’s turnover was HUF 43.6 billion in 2012,...
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Penny Market is soon to open its 200th store
Date: 2013-05-13 02:13:31
Penny Market’s first store in Hungary opened on 6 June 1996 and it currently operates 191 units. Penny Market has 60 popular private label products. According to market researchers, the...
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More Hungarian products in Lidl discount stores
Date: 2013-05-13 02:06:48
Lidl entered the Hungarian market in 2004 with 18 stores and in the last few years the company’s turnover has been growing by two-digit numbers. At the moment they operate...
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Products under the magnifying glass in dm stores
Date: 2013-05-13 02:03:43
Hungary’s first dm store opened on 8 July 1993 and today there are more than 260 units all over the country. In the last business year 7 new units opened...
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COOP’s market position strengthened
Date: 2013-05-13 01:59:47
Last year the COOP retail chain preserved its competitiveness and strengthened its market position by integrating almost 200 stores. CO-OP Hungary Zrt. CEO László Murányi told about 2012 that company...
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CBA and Cent stores performed well
Date: 2013-05-13 01:55:50
The CBA retail chain’s turnover was HUF 578.5 billion in 2012, surpassing the level of 2011 by 2.4 percent. Volume sales of CBA Príma and CBA Cent stores increased. Altogether...
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9030.png Last year was about expansion, this year Auchan will focus on consolidation
Date: 2013-05-13 01:51:45
Thanks to the acquisition of the seven Cora stores, Auchan’s turnover augmented by nearly 10 percent in 2012: the retail chain’s sales amounted to a gross HUF 299.5 billion. After...
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ALDI Housewives are popular – more successful campaigns from ALDI
Date: 2013-05-13 01:48:36
In 2012 ALDI Hungary decided that instead of famous people it would communicate about ALDI products via ordinary housewives: they selected a busy, a modern and a traditional one from...
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Diaper factory to be built in Gyöngyös
Date: 2013-05-12 02:55:04
András Dancsó, the director of the new Pampers production plant to be built in Gyöngyös told our magazine that in the 2011-2012 business year Procter&Gamble’s worldwide turnover was USD 83.7...
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(HU) A 40 éves Márka üdítőital rangos elismerése
Date: 2013-05-12 02:45:45
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MagyarBrands award for the most successful Hungarian brands
Date: 2013-05-12 02:39:55
At the gala ceremony those brands received their MagyarBrands award which the council of experts ranked in the MagyarBrands Top 200 consumer brands list and in the MagyarBrands Top 100...
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COOP wins MagyarBrands award in two categories
Date: 2013-05-12 02:37:24
The COOP retail chain won an award in both the consumer brands and in the business category at the MagyarBrands award ceremony, held on 17 April in the Budapest Operetta...
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Dr János Serényi was elected president of MagyarBrands
Date: 2013-05-12 02:35:10
Mr Serényi is an economist-engineer, economic journalist, international economic specialist and he has earned a doctorate degree in economy. He has been working in the Hungarian Superbrands programme as president...
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The whole country can profit from the success of MagyarBrands
Date: 2013-05-12 02:31:03
On 17 April the most successful Hungarian brands received their MagyarBrands award in the Budapest Operetta Theatre. At the cocktail party after the award ceremony our magazine interviewed Dr János...
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Never mind the ice or the snow – GKI is 20 years old!
Date: 2013-05-12 02:27:43
On 26 March GKI Economic Research Zrt. celebrated its 20th birthday by organising a superb conference on macroeconomic issues. The first speaker was GKI president Dr András Vértes, who looked...
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