Company and Personal News
Egervin found a new owner
Date: 2012-05-09 11:55:21
After ten unsuccessful applications the Integrált Borgazdasági Zrt. (former Egervin), the former flagship winery in Eger found a new owner – told the company’s commissioner liquidator Szűcs Zoltán, on Wednesday...
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MasterCard launches an open payment service
Date: 2012-05-09 11:55:14
On Tuesday, Mastercard announced PayPass Wallet Services a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will make it faster and easier for their customers to make purchases in stores...
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Szöllősi Winery’s bottling plant was inaugurated
Date: 2012-05-09 11:23:57
The Szöllősi Winery inaugurated its bottling plant and storage cellar on Wednesday, in Neszmély, Komárom-Esztergom county from 120 million HUF. The New Hungary Rural Development Program gave 51 million HUF...
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Pepsi’s recipe may be disclosed by the inventor’s heirs
Date: 2012-05-09 11:00:12
The heirs of the man who helped develop the formula for Pepsi are suing the soda company over their right to share with the public documents detailing their father’s invention....
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New Research Director at GfK
Date: 2012-05-08 12:09:10
A new research director arrived to GfK in early April. The new leader has a nearly 10 years of practical experience on the field of market research. Rádi Zsuzsanna joined...
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Medve Mesterfogás – A brand new product category from Pannontej
Date: 2012-05-08 12:08:15
Pannontej Zrt. is the popular leading manufacturer of cheese brands such as Medve, Pannónia, Tihany and Karaván cheese. The company's long-term success is the high-quality traditional market leader cheeses and...
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Kraft Food and TerraCycle work together for sustainability
Date: 2012-05-07 12:20:51
Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North America, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging...
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Henkel shows latest innovations at the Drupa 2012 fair
Date: 2012-05-07 11:43:45
Henkel will be showcasing its complete portfolio of products and technologies for the printing and packaging industries at Drupa 2012 from May 3 to 16 in Düsseldorf. The global leader...
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Program begins to collect chocolate packaging materials
Date: 2012-05-07 11:40:21
Kraft Foods Hungária Kft. the distributor of Milka launches a program to collect chocolate packaging materials for the first time in Hungary. In the scope of the action, called the...
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A new era in employment
Date: 2012-05-06 20:09:35
The new Labour Law is to enter into force on 1 July 2012, making significant changes in the relationship between employers and employees. One of the changes is that in...
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Profi: improving the level of retail
Date: 2012-05-06 20:02:06
Profi Magyarország Zrt.’s owner is the Louis Delhaize Group. Profi appeared on the Hungarian market in 1989, establishing a food discount store chain from wholesale warehouses. Some of their units...
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Csemege-Match: quality groceries – comfortably
Date: 2012-05-06 19:59:47
Csemege-Match Kereskedelmi Zrt. is a member of the Louis Delhaize Group. Their Hungarian network consists of 113 stores with a floor space of 300-2,500m² and they have more than 2,000...
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Auchan: Hungarian products is the way to go
Date: 2012-05-06 19:46:58
French retail group Auchan opened its first Hungarian store in 1998 and currently has 12 units and 11 boutique rows, employing 5,600 people. Auchan Hungary’s turnover was HUF 230 billion...
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Lidl: more than 150 stores
Date: 2012-05-06 19:44:41
Lidl operates Europe’s biggest food discount store chain that is present in 27 countries. Lidl entered Hungary in 2004 with 12 stores and a logistics centre. Today they have 152...
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With two new central warehouses Reál plans expansion
Date: 2012-05-06 19:41:31
Reál’s turnover in 2011 was similar to their 2010 performance – the moderate growth was the result of inflation. At the end of the year Reál decided to build two...
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SPAR Hungary celebrated twenty years last year
Date: 2012-05-06 19:38:06
SPAR Hungary expanded further in 2011 and an important element of this expansion was the refurbishment of another 27 former Plus stores. Two new units also opened, one of them...
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CBA: Príma and Cent came to the rescue
Date: 2012-05-06 19:30:50
In 2011 the CBA network’s turnover was HUF 565 billion, surpassing the HUF 555 billion performance of 2010 despite the recession. CBA still has the most units among Hungarian chains,...
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dm-drogerie markt is in top form
Date: 2012-05-06 19:30:29
The first Hungarian dm store opened in Budapest in July 1993. Currently they have 256 units all over Hungary and employ 2,251 people. In the 2010/11 fiscal year dm’s turnover...
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Tesco’s revenue was above 700 billion
Date: 2012-05-06 19:27:10
In the 2011-12 fiscal year Tesco Hungary’s turnover augmented by 6 percent, thanks to innovations and to increasing the number of their services. Tesco Hungary’s gross revenue was HUF 705.2...
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The logistics center of Alföld Pro-Coop was implemented from half-billion HUF
Date: 2012-05-04 13:08:10
The storehouse base of the Alföld Pro-Coop Zrt. is ready with a 462 million HUF investment in Kecskemét. The European Union supported the project with 161.8 million HUF. With the...
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The Gallicoop turkey processor is crisis resistant
Date: 2012-05-04 12:13:29
The determining Hungarian poultry company, the Gallicoop Pulykafeldolgozó Zrt. based in Szarvas closed last year with a 31 billion HUF revenue. That means a 13.6 percent sales increase, compared to...
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Hey-Ho’s manufacturer requests bankruptcy protection
Date: 2012-05-04 12:05:50
The manufacturer of Hey-Ho fruit juice, the First Hungarian Fruit Processing and Fruit Juice Manufacturing Inc. (Elma) asked for bankruptcy protection. The company has been profitable even in 2010,its turnover...
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Pepsi pays tribute to Michael Jackson
Date: 2012-05-04 11:27:53
Soon Pepsi cans will appear on the shelves of the stores with the face of the king of pop. Pepsi pays tribute this way to Michael Jackson celebrating the 25th...
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Tesco has agreed with the trade unions on the wages of cashiers
Date: 2012-05-04 10:40:28
The satisfaction of its employees is important for the supermarket chain, and therefore Tesco will pay the same amount of rate collated with the trade unions. Tesco has agreed with...
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(HU) Hullámok tetején
Date: 2012-05-03 22:29:28
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(HU) Többet kínál a sörnél a METRO
Date: 2012-05-03 22:27:04
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Unbroken success last year
Date: 2012-05-03 20:09:41
Róbert Bárdi, sales director with Dunapack Kft. told our magazine that 2011 was a good year for the stronghold of domestic corrugated cardboard manufacturing: their sales revenue was HUF 31...
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Metro’s revenues increased by seven percent in Eastern Europe
Date: 2012-05-03 12:11:13
In the first quarter of 2012 Metro’s performance was proper to the expectations of the analysts, however in case of operating profit, the company made a loss, that caused a...
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The Czech part of the Schlecker German drugstore chain was purchased
Date: 2012-05-03 12:10:21
The Czech part of the Schlecker German drugstore was purchased by the Czech p.k.Solvent (PKS) company. The TETA, that has 700 stores is now the property of PKS. This is...
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Tesco auctions its used assets
Date: 2012-05-03 12:00:17
Tesco auctions its used assets. The value of the 139 items is about 35 thousand euros on starting price. According to the communication of Intergavel Aukciószervező Kft. the Internet auction...
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