Company and Personal News
The staff of Carlsberg strike for beer
Date: 2010-04-12 00:00:40
The staff of the world's fourth largest brewery began to strike, because after the 1st of April, the management of Carlsberg limited lunchtime beer consumption. Hundreds of drivers and warehouse...
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Pizza Hut to close two-thirds of its restaurants in Iceland
Date: 2010-04-12 00:00:20
Except for one, the Pizza Hut closes its restaurants in Iceland, because due to the crisis the demand decreased towards its products – stated the company on Friday. In Iceland...
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Hundred million HUF investment in Oroszlány
Date: 2010-04-12 00:00:10
The Kolcsár bakery in Oroszlány doubles its holding area with a hundred million HUF investment. The Central-Transdanubian Regional Development Agency supports the investment, with a fifty million HUF non-refundable support....
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Pernod Ricard loses lawsuit on Bacardi's Havana Club Rum
Date: 2010-04-09 00:30:00
A lawsuit by Pernod Ricard SA had been rejected to stop rival Bacardi Ltd from selling “Havana Club” branded rum in the United States. Both companies sell rum under the...
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Mars, Incorporated committed to using sustainably sourced fish
Date: 2010-04-09 00:22:34
Mars, Incorporated’s Petcare business has announced its commitment to using only sustainably sourced fish by 2020. Set against a backdrop of dwindling global fish stocks, Mars, which operates one of...
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Unilever to buy palmoil from sustainable sources by 2015
Date: 2010-04-09 00:19:21
Unilever announced that it has secured enough GreenPalm certificates of sustainable palm oil to cover the requirements of its European, Australian and New Zealand-business. This announcment means that they will...
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1 million HUF to the most popular female handball team from Arany Ászok
Date: 2010-04-09 00:09:10
Popular beer brand Arany Ászok – in collaboration with the Hungarian Handball Association – is beginning a fan-game from 8th April, in which handball fans can vote for their favourite...
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Szentkirályi remains the best-known Hungarian mineral water brand
Date: 2010-04-08 00:05:20
The company increased its market share both in volume and value last year. According to the research of Szonda Ipsos; Szentkirályi remains the best-known mineral water brand in Hungary, and...
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Hungarian Innovation Director, at Europe's leading fruit juice manufacturer
Date: 2010-04-08 00:05:00
Zarándy Katalin will be the Innovation Director of Eckes-Granini Group at the company’s headquarters in Nieder-Olm, from the 1st of May 2010. Zarándy Katalin graduated at the International Business School...
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Eight million HUF fine for Tesco
Date: 2010-04-08 00:01:40
The Competition Authority fined Tesco, to 8 million HUF, because the company used unfair trade practices in certain actions between the 1st of September 2008 and the 16th of March...
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Tesco pays back the price of the contaminated baby foods
Date: 2010-04-08 00:01:00
Contamination was found in other products of the manufacturer, so the chain withdraws these products from the market – informed the chain MTI. The communication of the company says, that...
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New Hungarian products in the Tesco
Date: 2010-04-07 00:06:55
New Hungarian specialties were added to the offer of Tesco. Tesco, launched a dialogue last November with the domestic small and medium sized enterprises. As a result of this dialogue,...
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The Pöttyös Túró Rudi is the strongest Hungarian brand
Date: 2010-04-07 00:04:50
The B & P, Braun & Partners Hungary and the GfK Hungária Market Research Institute compiled the ranking of the domestic brands, for the first time. As the gold medalist...
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Becherovka novelty
Date: 2010-04-07 00:02:50
Spring is the period of renewal, refreshing, the period of vivid moments. The Jan Becher Becherovka Karlovarské company developed a new product, under the name: Becherovka Lemond. The product is...
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Tesco sold 3.5 million chocolate eggs
Date: 2010-04-07 00:01:18
Ten million eggs and 3.5 million chocolate eggs were sold in the Tesco before the Easter Holidays. Among the meat products the most popular were Hungarian products. Beside ham, the...
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Tesco sold carcinogen baby food
Date: 2010-04-07 00:00:15
The Plant and Soil Conservation Directorate of the Budapest and Pest County Agricultural Office forbidden the marketing of carcinogenic baby foods in the stores of Tesco Global Co. Slovak origin,...
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Fizzing air in Kékkút
Date: 2010-04-06 00:05:40
Nearly two hundred elementary school students could study about the protection of natural waters and a healthy hidratatation, on the occasion of World Water Day celebrations, on the 2nd of...
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Hungexpo renews its exhibitions and its own-organised events
Date: 2010-04-06 00:04:00
Hungexpo Co. renews its traditional exhibitions, and puts a greater emphasis on their own organized cultural and sports events at the Budapest Fair Centre – said Ganczer Gábor CEO to...
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The Ezermester network is expanding in the countryside
Date: 2010-04-06 00:02:50
So far, thirty-six stores joined to the Hungarian DIY purchasing association. Until the end of the year, the number of members can reach one hundred. "Currently, thirty-six stores are operating...
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“Big Fresh Price Cuts” at the Malaysian Tescos
Date: 2010-04-06 00:00:10
The Tesco hipermarket chain announced a huge price reduction campaign in Malaysia, in a total value of 30 million Malaysian ringgit (about 9.2 million USD). The campaign named "Big Fresh...
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The Pöttyös Túró Rudi is the strongest Hungarian brand
Date: 2010-04-02 00:08:25
The first list that ranks the most powerful brands in Hungary completed. The Pöttyös Túró Rudi, which is a traditional Hungarian brand for fourty years, stands on the top, followed...
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The number of minor infridgements increases
Date: 2010-04-02 00:03:25
The National Consumer Protection Authority carried out concentrated checks in trade, before the Easter holidays. The inspectorates carried out nearly 700 checks, in just one and a half week before...
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Slovak imports from Tesco
Date: 2010-04-02 00:02:25
Not only technical products, stationery, private label products and garments will arrive to the Hungarian Tesco stores through Slovakia, but they will transport a significant part of food in the...
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New CEO at Cerbona
Date: 2010-04-02 00:01:12
Gosztonyi Gábor, the new CEO will replace Szabó István Tivadar at Cerbona Zrt. Gosztonyi Gábor will take over the operational management from the 6th of April. Gosztonyi Gábor arrives to...
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llegal hamburger plant in Göd
Date: 2010-04-02 00:00:25
Finance and food safety inspectors dismantled an illegal hamburger plant on Thursday, following a public announcement. The plant was in the basement of a functioning meat shop, in Göd, Pest...
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MasterCard tripled in the Tesco
Date: 2010-04-01 00:09:12
MasterCard's tripled the purchases with cards at the end of last year, in the Tesco hypermarkets, with an innovative marketing action. In November and December 2009 at several cashiers the...
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Aranyászok is the supporter of the Hungarian professional women handball
Date: 2010-04-01 00:01:28
Arany Ászok as the committed partner of team sport, joins now to the fans of the Hungarian professional women handball and supports the playoff of the Hungarian Women Handball NB...
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It seems Auchan mineral water is OK
Date: 2010-04-01 00:01:12
According to the preliminary results; Auchan Hungary’s private label mineral waters meet the standards, although the final results are expected after Easter- reports the Agricultural Office (MgSzH). In the April...
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Shop of Hungarian products in Győr
Date: 2010-04-01 00:01:12
Hungarian products shop opened as the part of the Magosz network in Győr-Adyváros. INSZOL Zrt. renewed a 250 square meters of shops in the one-storied building of the former Patyolat...
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Gallicoop closing a succesful year 2009
Date: 2010-03-31 00:07:21
Another company closing a successful 2009: GALLICOOP Co. comprises the largest closed system turkey meat producing integration in Eastern Hungary, and their 2009 income has been over 25.5 billion HUF,...
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