Company and Personal News
Hungarian customers buy food on impulse
Date: 2011-08-03 13:34:36
Hungarians tend to be different from the European average when it comes to purchasing food. People in Hungary are buying more products on impulse than anywhere else, and only go...
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Metro's operating profit decreased
Date: 2011-08-03 12:20:08
METRO Group's performance was smaller than expected in the second quarter, mainly because of the worsening European consumer sentiment. Revenue rose by 0.2 percent, compared to the previous year to...
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New Starbucks outlet opened in Hungary
Date: 2011-08-03 12:14:29
A brand new Starbucks has opened its gates in Budapest, at Széna tér, Margit körút 91. The new coffeehouse was bulit in artisan style and is waiting for visitors in...
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Sustainability: Nestlé receives top environment award
Date: 2011-08-03 10:16:41
Nestlé was named the winner of the 27th World Environment Center (WEC) Gold Medal award for its commitment to environmental sustainability. The Company was recognized for its achievements in international...
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Rauch Hungária has a new commercial director
Date: 2011-08-02 12:28:06
From 25th July, the new commercial director of Rauch Hungária is Péter Bodnár, who used for work for companies like Pepsi, Mars HUngary and Danone. The 42 year-old expert has...
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McDonald's: a new restaurant opens every day in China
Date: 2011-08-02 12:11:22
It is planned that in a few years, McDonald's opens a new restaurant in China every day. So far, new restaurants were opened on every two days. At first, McDonald's...
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Bomb alarm in Duna Pláza
Date: 2011-08-01 17:18:21
Late in the evening on Monday, a bomb alarm went off at the Budapest-based shopping center Duna Pláza. A man has announced on the phone that he has placed a...
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The smaller Tesco stores also introduce a self-serving cashiers
Date: 2011-08-01 12:15:14
Tesco's self-service cashiers are succesful: it is expected that the smaller stores also introduce this method of payment. In Hungary, the system is operating in several hypermarkets. The Tesco Global...
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Tesco expands its range of diabetic foods
Date: 2011-08-01 12:11:51
Tesco renewed its food supply with the help of the National Association of Hungarian Dieticians. The range of organic, gluten-and lactose-free and diabetic food evxpanded by more than 100 new...
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Adventure Park is under construction on the top of the shopping center
Date: 2011-08-01 12:08:44
An adventure Park will be built to the top of the shopping center at the Kőbánya-Kispest station. The specific tenant of the mall did not leased premises, but the building's...
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Former leader of Győrki Keksz died
Date: 2011-07-29 12:26:57
On 26th July, Mátyás Halbritter, former leader of Győrki Keksz és Ostyagyár, and later Győri Keksz died. He is 67 years old, and used to work fotr the Győr-based biscuit-producing...
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OTP sold its Podravka shares
Date: 2011-07-29 12:00:54
The OTP Bank called the Croatian food company Podravka to pay 11.58 million euros, after having sold its Podravka shares. A total of 576,880 shares were sold last week for...
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Danone's revenue increased
Date: 2011-07-29 12:00:04
The global leader of fresh dairy products, the Paris-based Danone Group's net revenues increased by 16.3 percent to 9.73 billion euros in the first half of this year, surpassing the...
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Delhaize purchased the Serbian Delta Maxi
Date: 2011-07-29 11:58:51
The Belgium-based Delhaize retail group finished the 100 percent acquisition of the Serbian Delta Maxi retail chain. With the 932.5 million euros transaction, Delhaize can further strengthen its position in...
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New leader at Hungarian Beiersdorf
Date: 2011-07-29 11:19:59
Beiersdorf's Hungarian subsidiary has a new CEO from July 2011, instead of Gerard J. Hierath, the new CEO is Thomas Lichblau. Besides, marketing director Ferenc Bartha is the new marketing...
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Tesco requested a rent reduction from the local government
Date: 2011-07-28 12:25:02
Tesco-Global Stores Ltd. requested a rent reduction from the municipality of the 12th district referring to the special tax. According to Tesco's press department it is a usual practice that...
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A Tesco will be created in the place of the largest Domus store?
Date: 2011-07-28 12:10:09
The sell-out is still underway in the Domus store, situates in the Róbert Károly boulevard of Budapest. The largest Domus store will soon to be closed. The central telephone of...
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Instore communication devices by POS Media Hungary in Lidl-stores
Date: 2011-07-28 11:23:30
In spring 2011, André Media Hungary and POS MEDIA Célcsoport Hungary has signed a contract to sell advertisement on shopping-strollers and next-customer-sticks. As a result of this contract, POS Media...
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New CEO at LLP Hungary Microsoft Dynamics
Date: 2011-07-28 07:38:58
Starting from 1st July, András Czermák (36) is the new CEO of LLP Dynamics Hungary. The expert has a 16 years of experience behind him on this particular field, and...
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New leader at Sága Foods
Date: 2011-07-27 12:41:41
From July 2011, the new domestic commercial leader is Ádám Szita. The expert is an economist who finished his studies at the College of Foreign Commerce, and also gained an...
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Another Starbucks café to open on Széna square
Date: 2011-07-27 12:10:30
The fourth Starbucks café in Hungary opens in Buda on the Széna square in early August. The news is interesting, because Starbucks already has a unit there, in the Mammut...
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Metro's household electronics retail is making losses
Date: 2011-07-27 12:00:56
The Duesseldorf-based Metro group's household electronics retail section, the Media-Saturn closed with 44 million euros operating loss in this year's second quarter. The sales of the chain decreased. The company...
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Master Good: The Secret of Success
Date: 2011-07-26 12:40:08
Every day hundreds of thousands chickens are slaughtered in the Kisvárda plant of Master Good which operates an integrated poultry processing company. The company dealing with feed, breeding and processing...
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CBA denies the allegations of the Watermelon Association
Date: 2011-07-26 12:21:28
The CBA Kereskedelmi Kft. rejects that the company distributes melons under the purchase price in its network. The President of the Hungarian Watermelon Association told to MTI on Monday, that...
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Henkel's new products require new packages
Date: 2011-07-26 12:15:18
Henkel announces that it has worked with STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies and advanced chip packaging technology developers, to validate the performance of Henkel’s Ablestik C100 conductive...
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The Bábolna-based IKR Zrt. will be splitted
Date: 2011-07-26 12:10:20
Saved from bankruptcy, but the Bábolna-based IKR Zrt. will be splitted into two parts and became the it splits in two and will belong to a Czech argri company. The...
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Personnel changes at Univer Product Ltd.
Date: 2011-07-26 11:36:29
From 1st August 2011, Lídia Marosfi Györgyné is leaving the sales annd marketing vice-CEO position at Univer, and gives her place to Zita Csanádi, leader of the PRivate Label division....
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ALDI prize show is over now
Date: 2011-07-26 11:19:12
ALDI Hungary has just closed its prize show in which 367 valuable prizes went to the most loyal customers, among them the main prize: an AUDI A3 car. The promotion...
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The melon tasting continues in the Auchan
Date: 2011-07-25 12:50:09
The Auchan awaited its costumers on July 15 to 16 and 23 across the country, in each of its stores with watermelon-tasting. The action contines on 5th of August. “Hungarian...
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Free Mobile Net in four Tesco stores in Britain
Date: 2011-07-25 12:20:43
Tesco provides Free Mobile Net in four Tesco stores in Britain currently. In the future they will extend this service for the full chain. With this extra service the customers...
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