Company and Personal News
Earth Hour 2010
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
METRO, Unilever and the STI Group all joined WWF’s Earth Hour project and turned the lights off for an hour on 27 March 2010. METRO turned off its column lighting...
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New corporate affairs director at BAT Hungary and Austria
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
As of 16 March 2010, Gergely Mikola replaced Bas Tonnaer in the corporate affairs director’s seat at British American Tobacco Magyarország. In the last 6 years the 33-year old new...
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Gusta Group opened its 9th store, which is equipped with state of the art IT devices
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
On 12 March 2010, Gusta Group opened its 9th food store in downtown Debrecen. The exclusive store is equipped with Szintézis Zrt.’s newest systems, a touchscreen cash register system, a...
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Pöttyös Túró Rudi is Hungary’s strongest brand
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
B&P Braun & Partners Hungary and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute conducted a survey on the strength of brands: Pöttyös Túró Rudi is on top of the list, followed by...
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SPAR modernises its old stores too
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
From 25 March 2010, SPAR’s Sas Street supermarket in Eger, which opened its gates back in 1996, welcomes customers completely refurbished. The 1,375 m² unit is one of the most...
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Housing program from Tesco
Date: 2010-04-27 00:00:45
The Tesco, beside food and other retailing, banking insurance and travel services, would start retail property development with the construction of four estates. Tesco plans to create four estates in...
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Heineken Hungary: fire equipment for Sopron, screening tests for Martfű
Date: 2010-04-26 00:00:40
Heineken Hungary gave fire equipment for the firefighters of Sopron and screening for the dwellers of Martfű from the sources of the „Heineken Hungária Sopronért / Martfűért” charity program. The...
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Forest-Paper Ltd.: Game for the protection of birds
Date: 2010-04-26 00:00:25
The Forest-Paper Ltd. and the Bird Hospital of Hortobágy invite the families for an interesting game. The Forest-Paper Ltd. is committed to sustainable development, in order to protect the next...
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Sustainable web site from Auchan
Date: 2010-04-26 00:00:20
The third web site of the hypermarket chain focuses on sustainable development, with practical advices. Beside the hiperárak.hu and its own corporate web site, Auchan has launched a new site....
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In October, the new gigamall of Pest will be handed over.
Date: 2010-04-23 00:01:20
The construction of the KÖKI TERMINÁL mall is scheduled to proceed. According to the preliminary schedule, the building will be handed over, until October 2010. Currently, nearly 1,000 people working...
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Nestlé's revenue has increased in the first quarter
Date: 2010-04-23 00:01:14
The world's leading food producer, the Swiss-based Nestle, increased its sales by 4.4 percent in this year's first quarter. Its revenues increased to 26.28 billion Swiss francs (18.34 billion euros)...
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Henkel is optimistic
Date: 2010-04-23 00:01:00
On the annual general meeting of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of the Board, confirmed the company's long-term goals and presented the details of the progress, that...
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Poor year start for Heineken
Date: 2010-04-23 00:00:40
The sales of world's leading brewery, the Amsterdam-based Heineken group, decreased by 3.5 percent to 2.94 billion euros in the first quarter of 2010, compared to the same period of...
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The STI Packaging RO Srl officially opened its doors
Date: 2010-04-22 00:00:51
What a fantastic day! dr. Tom Giessler, finance director of STI group began with these words in the 15th of April 2010 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on the opening ceremony of...
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McDonald's over one billion
Date: 2010-04-22 00:00:40
The world's largest fast-food chain surpassed the expectations of the analyst in the first quarter, due to its reasonably priced menus. McDonald's net profit was 1.09 billion USD in the...
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Tesco is planning to open 30 new stores in 2010
Date: 2010-04-21 00:01:08
Despite the challenges, caused by the economic crisis Tesco was managed to retain its market leading position in Hungary over the past year. The company continued to invest throughout the...
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Weaker than expected results at Coca-Cola
Date: 2010-04-21 00:01:00
The world's largest soft drinks manufacturer reported weaker than expected quarterly results, due to the weaker performance of the North American market. The Coca-Cola in the first quarter of 2010...
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Non-alcoholic beer from Gösser
Date: 2010-04-21 00:00:56
Heineken Hungária Zrt. introduces a new product to the Hungarian beer market: Gösser’s new non-alcoholic lager beer is commercially available from April. The Gösser brand, which has great traditions introduces...
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New financial manager at Metro
Date: 2010-04-21 00:00:39
Mándoki Csaba is the new financial manager of METRO Commercial Ltd. since yesterday. He was the controlling head of the central program office of Metro AG Shape 2012 formerly. The...
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Serious fines for Gastroyal
Date: 2010-04-21 00:00:32
According to the Economic Competition Authority (GVH); The Gastroyal Food Catering Ltd. between March and June 2009 made unfair commercial practices with consumers. The company made such statements over their...
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250 jobs are in danger in Győr
Date: 2010-04-21 00:00:20
The work has been suspended in the Pannon Poultry of Győr, because the firm has debts towards the workers. The company's management then decided to stop production for two weeks....
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The Bestillo won at the Pálinka competition of Gyula
Date: 2010-04-20 00:01:50
The Pálinka competition of Gyula has ended. The Raspberry pálinka of the Bestillo Pálinka house became the favourite of the audience. The young couple who founded the Bestillo pálinka mnufacturer,...
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“Net instead of fish” – a new element is added to the Élelmiszerlavina program
Date: 2010-04-20 00:01:35
The Élelmiszerlavina (Food Avalanche) program, the joint initiative of Syngenta and the Hungarian Food Bank Association launched for the third time, this year, which was broadened with a municipal tender...
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Danone's claims were not rejected
Date: 2010-04-20 00:01:24
Danone plans to reinforce that, contrary to some news, the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) has not rejected the health benefits of Danone's Actimel and Activia. According to Danone’s coomunication,...
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While in Hungary bagmilk is becoming less used it is a blockbuster elsewhere
Date: 2010-04-20 00:01:15
While in Hungary bagmilk is getting almost extinct, UK's Sainsbury's supermarket chain introduced bags packaged milk with success, over the expectations. According to Sainsbury's; 75 percent less packaging usage would...
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Fortune: The list of the 500 largest U.S. companies
Date: 2010-04-20 00:00:40
Fortune has published their annual list of the 500 largest U.S. companies. Wal-Mart recovers first place from Exxon Mobil oil company, so Wal-Mart became the largest reatail chain again, after...
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Danone's revenues were grown
Date: 2010-04-19 00:01:42
The world's leading yoghurt manufacturer, the Paris-based Danone Group’s revenues increased by 8.3 percent to 3.98 billion euros in this year's first quarter. The most dominant reason of the increase...
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Demján’s real estate development in Croatia soon to be complete
Date: 2010-04-19 00:01:05
The works are going full steam, at Croatia's largest building site. The “Arena Centar” will be ready in time at Laniste district of Zagreb. "The Arena Centar will open its...
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Own branded products in the focus of METRO
Date: 2010-04-16 00:02:05
METRO’snew, two-week campaign of own branded products starts today. The company offers hundreds of products in the scope of discount offers and presents new own branded products as well. "This...
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Wage increases at Kométa
Date: 2010-04-16 00:01:50
The '99 Kométa Co. was the first among the meat companies, that was negotiating with the trade union and increased the wages of its workers, despite the economic crisis. The...
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