Company and Personal News
Corrugated products will see a major price-increase
Date: 2010-12-15 11:15:55
Due to the higher costs of basic materials, it is likely that the prices of corrugated pruducts will see a major increase in the near future. According to the Association...
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Tesco collects PET bottles
Date: 2010-12-15 10:27:40
Tesco encourages its customers to collect the PET bottles and aluminum cans-back, between the 24th of September 2010 and the 11th of February 2011 in more than 110 hypermarkets across...
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Declining turnover, but positive results for Pick Szeged
Date: 2010-12-14 15:21:51
After last year's 64 billion HUF, PICK Szeged Ltd. expects a 58 billion HUF turnover – László Kovács, CEO of PICK Szeged Ltd. pointed out within the compass of a...
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Unilever: award for sustainable attitude
Date: 2010-12-14 14:46:05
The Ethics in Business Award is an annual prize conferred by the World Forum for Ethics in Business to honor individuals and companies that have demonstrated the importance of human...
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Tetra Pak helps the large families
Date: 2010-12-14 12:19:19
The Tetra Pak Hungária gave 12 thousand liters of milk as gift for Christmas to the National Association of Large Families (NOE), giving a support for a total of one...
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Tesco would buy the Romanian Real-shops
Date: 2010-12-14 12:15:40
According to the informations of Ziarul Financiar; Tesco would acquire the Real food stores in Romania. With the acquisition Tesco as a new entrant would be the third largest players...
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Tetra Pak is helping those in need with milk
Date: 2010-12-14 10:41:31
Tetra Pak Hungária Ltd. has decided to offer a rather significant amount of milk, 12 thousand litres to the Foundation of Big Families. This way, the company can support 1000...
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Strock Hungária launches a high cocoa-content dark chocolate for the holidays
Date: 2010-12-14 05:11:40
For the first time, Merci appears on the market with a dark chocolate collection with extra high cocoa content. In the Extra Dark selection we even find dark chocolate with...
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Tobacco company rare settlement over chewing tobacco
Date: 2010-12-13 12:52:06
Tbacco producer Altria Group agreed to pay $5 million in a rare settlement over the death of a chewing tobacco customer. The case was brought by the family of Bobby...
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Béres Foundation's 100 million HUF charity for those in need
Date: 2010-12-13 10:32:53
Béres Foundation, this year again, offers a charity of 100 thousands bottles of Béres Csepp for those in need. President Klára Béres listed the ten charity organizations the company will...
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Amazon websites outage was not due to WikiLeaks
Date: 2010-12-13 10:08:59
Amazon.com's websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center...
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IKEA opens new stores in Serbia, also considering expansion in Hungary
Date: 2010-12-11 12:19:44
The Swedish IKEA chain plans to open four shopping centers in Serbia – announced Dimitrije Ivanoviæ leader of the commercial division of the Swedish Embassy in Serbia. According to magyarszo.com;...
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Match pays half-million compensation to the blind man
Date: 2010-12-11 11:20:55
The blind man, who tried to enter into one of the store of the Csemege-Match Zrt. with his guide dog in October 2009 finally won a lawsuit against the company....
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Scandal! Founder of global food company sentenced to 18 years in jail
Date: 2010-12-11 10:50:03
Calisto Tanzi, founder of the Parmalat global food conglomerate has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in a €14bn collapse that was dubbed “Europe's Enron”. Calisto...
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Pedigree Adoption Program proved to be successful in 2010, too
Date: 2010-12-11 08:03:50
In less than two years, more than 4000 homeless dogs have managed to find a new home, thanks to Pedigree's Pet Adoption Program. The basis of the foundation was the...
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The Royal Tokaji wine in the top 100 again
Date: 2010-12-10 12:42:13
The determinative wine magazine of the United States, the Wine Spectator has published its top 100 list of the best wines of 2010. The Royal Tokaji wine of Mád ended...
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The loyalty program reveals our customer habits
Date: 2010-12-10 12:32:16
The club card loyalty program is already operating for 15 years in Western Europe. It was introduced to Hungary in August this year. After a few months, several hundred thousand...
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New Jar on the shelves
Date: 2010-12-10 10:54:24
A new sweet pomegranate and blood orange scented detergent Jar has arrived to the shelves of Hungarian stores. The new Jar is denser than before, so it can remove difer...
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Pepsi used the recipes of its Chinese partner illegally
Date: 2010-12-09 12:40:55
According to the he Chinese state media; PepsiCo. China Investment Co. illegally used the recipes of the Tianfu Cola. In other words, this time a Chinese company proved that a...
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The supplier of Mogyi develops from hundreds of millions
Date: 2010-12-09 11:38:44
The Medgyesegyháza based Medgyes Kft. has been made a 221 million HUF development. The sixteen-year old company built new warehouses, and the roads of the site was given a new...
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New leading members in Hungarian Marketing Association
Date: 2010-12-09 10:43:06
Hungarian Marketing Association (MMSZ) has chosen three new members for the presidency of the organization. According to votes by the general meeting, Marianne Langsteiner, Ágnes Sütő and Nóra Termes got...
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Another cheese-cabin has opened its gates
Date: 2010-12-09 09:35:54
Another Cheese-cabin has opened its gates within the compass of ERU Hungária's Cheese-manufacturer's new project. The cabin is located at Kolosy tér, with more than 200 quality cheeses and cheese...
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Henkel and Spar collected money for seriously ill children
Date: 2010-12-08 13:46:31
Customers who have purchased a Persil or Silan product in the stores of Spar have donated 3 million HUF to Red Nose Clowndoctors Foundation. Henkel and Spar handed over the...
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Twining teahouses – a success with celebs
Date: 2010-12-08 13:43:52
The mobile teahouses of Twinings offered the chance to enjoy a special cup of tea at three locations. The focus of the event was to let people in Budapest experience...
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METRO Fine Food prize game: the winner is from Makó
Date: 2010-12-08 05:13:02
Within the compass of METRO Commercial Ltd.'s first car prize game, Csaba Forgách IT contractor has won a Peugout Tepee car. The lucky winner lives in Makó with his family...
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Depo.hu's Christmas statistics: a smaller but more mobile Christmas is coming
Date: 2010-12-08 04:51:20
While last year's hit product was LCD televisions for Christmas, now portable devices like digital cameras, netbooks, mobile phones, GPSs are the most popular items customers plan to put under...
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BNI members closed the year with more than a 1.1 billion HUF revenue
Date: 2010-12-07 15:19:01
The 300 members of BNI Hungary and guests closed the year with a special business conference spiced up with a number of interesting presentations and discussions. The members had a...
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Asia increased Tesco’s revenues
Date: 2010-12-07 13:20:32
In the third quarter, the British supermarket chain increased its sales thanks to its quality products. Terry Leahy CEO is pleased with the dynamism of the company's sales and market...
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20 tonnes of flour to be destroyed
Date: 2010-12-07 12:25:38
The Gyermely Élelmiszeripari Zrt. withdraws about 20 tons of flour from the commercial market and will destroy it. The Agricultural Office, found deoxynivalenol (DON-toxin) in the product. Don-toxins can be...
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New world brand in the Arena Plaza
Date: 2010-12-07 11:12:13
Arena Plaza’s offer expanded with a new fashion brand: The Claire's jewelry and fashion brand opened its first Hungarian store on the 3rd of December. The store is also the...
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