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Zwack profit fell by 19 percent

In the first nine months of the 2009/2010 financial year, the Zwack Unicum Nyrt. had 3.2 billion HUF results beside 20.62 billion revenue. Revenue decreased by 13, profit by 19.1...

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Smile Magic Program: A day in the court of King Matthias

A therapeutic experiential and therapeutic experience playhouse was held yesterday in the scope of Procter & Gamble’s “Grant Holders of the Year 2009” Smile Magic Program, organised by the Smile...

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Sealed Air Cryovac bags to protect the world champion cheese

Packing a 100 kilogram cheese to transport it overseas is not a small challenge. The market leader von Mühlenen AG Swiss cheese manufacturer regularly fulfills this task, with huge success....

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Transylvania will be swallowed by the western supermarket chains

Another department store, the Kaufland arrived to Sepsiszentgyörgy. The German group will build up the city’s newest department store, on 5 thousand square meters. The local government approved the settlement...

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Development instead of bankruptcy

The Pápa Meat Factory will implement a 500 million HUF worth technological development this year – said Politzer József, CEO of Pápa Meat 1913 Ltd. Politzer József, CEO said that...

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The SPAR shopping bags serve charitable purposes

SPAR Hungary Ltd. is in strategic cooperation for many years with the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service. The two organizations are committed to social unity and help the needy effectively with...

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Dove returns to the purity of colors

The Dove was the first, more than 50 years ago, that introduced the pH-neutral soap. In 2010, as the symbol of hydration the brand dresses into white color and launches...

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Vanish’s charity program ended with laundry handover in Veszprém

As the closing of the Spotless Donation Program, the first rural laundry employing homeless people, was handed over on the 27th of January. Reckitt Benckiser supported the handover of the...

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McDonalds: Struggle with the franchise operators

McDonald's Corporation sued against Enrico Sodano, the operator of the German franchise, claiming that Enrico Sodano plans to open a restaurant competing with the hamburger chain. The informations came from...

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Visa is satisfied with its 2009 results

According to the results of Visa Europe; Visa debit cards performed well last year. Total card spending increased by 6.3, while the number of POS transactions increased by 10 percent....

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The “Together for the nurseries” program ended with great success

The Executive Director of Tchibo Budapest Ltd. and Csisztu Zsuzsa, the ambassador of the campaign, handed over the 600 thosand HUF support to the representatives of the six winning nurseries....

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New sales manager at XAPT

Kovács János was appointed as the Hungarian head of sales at XAPT, from the 13th of January. The newly appointed leader will be responsible for the sales operations management and...

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Penny Market: a fine for trappista cheese

The Economic Competition Authority fined Penny Market Ltd. to 33 million HUF, because the company made unfair practices against consumers in connection with its “13 years of action”, took place...

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2010 can be an effective year for the Tóalmás meat plant

The Tóalmás meat plant achieved a significant, approximately 20 percent revenue growth in spite of the crisis. Although they could not enforced increase production costs in their prices last year,...

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Johnson & Johnson's report brought positive surprises

Johnson & Johnson published better than expected results in its fourth quarter report. The company earnings per share was 1.02 USD, by eliminating the effects of the single items, while...

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Univer’s “Kitchen Devils” action was highly successful

The main prize of Univer’s “Kitchen Devils” game campaign was lotteried. The lucky winner won a 1 million HUF value purchase order. During the game, more than 340,000 SMS messages...

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Octavian Dascalescu is the new CEO at BAT Hungary and BAT Austria

A new CEO was appointed as the leader of the British American Tobacco Hungary (BAT). The Romanian-born expert, who can speak Hungarian replaces Emil Moskofiant, who was the CEO for...

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Whiskas.hu became the best site of the year

The Hungarian Whiskas web site became the best site of the year, in the best brand sites category, on the voting of the Internet Marketing Club (member of the Hungarian...

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Tesco joins the movie industry

British Tesco is trying to enter to a new market; this time trying to enter to the movie business. According to the plans, the chain would participate in the filming...

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Buszesz: energy drinks increased the revenue

Despite the recession Buszesz Ltd.’s 2009 turnover is expected to grow, by about 10 percent and may reach 6 billion HUF, compared to the previous year. Although the price of...

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Fornetti is the franchise network of the year

The Hungarian Franchise Association also gave its professional awards this year. Fornetti deserved the ”Franchise network of the year” recognition. The dynamic evolving young franchise network of the Year award...

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Stratos Red Bull: a space mission

Colonel Joseph Kittinger, the legendary figure of Aviation, presents the Red Bull Stratos research program, aimed to collect data in connection with free fall, over the speed of sound. Felix...

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New sales manager at SCA Hygiene Products

From December 2010 Földesi György will be the new sales director at SCA Hygiene Products Ltd. The expert has  nearly 18 years of managing experience at multinational and at domestic...

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Starbucks produced triple profits

The American coffe chain, the Starbucks has successfully passed throught the difficulties, achieving a 241.5 million USD net profit, in the last quarter of the past year. A year earlier,...

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Permission for the Chinese Túró Rudi

The Chinese version of the well-known Túró Rudi will be manufactured soon. The Kiittyy plant of Túró is ready to produce, but only one single license is missing. Last summer,...

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Good Christmas season for eBay

EBay Internet auction and trading house, had a good Christmas season. The succes of the PayPal online payment system and the sale of Skype’s telephone service provider, had a positive...

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SPAR’s Bicske based meat plant produces also to the Czech market

SPAR Hungary Ltd. supplies 15 Czech Interspars from its Bicske based meat plant, since the 15th of January. The last quarter’s transport tests were succesful, so despite the decrease in...

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McDonald's rewarded its loyal workers

McDonald's rewarded 93 of its loyal employees at the end of 2009. The fast food chain rewarded loyal employees, working for 10, 15 and 20 years with a total sum...

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Schlecker closes 500 stores

According to the owner of the largest German drugstore network; their turnover has been declining on the domestic market, since 2004 so they are planning the conversion of the whole...

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The world's largest beer producer completely stopped

As the result of a labor dispute, the world's leading brewery, the Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (AB) was forced to completely stop the production of beer, in its Belgium plants on...

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