Company and Personal News
Árukereső has a new owner
Date: 2009-08-06 00:07:00
South African Naspers gained majority ownership in Hungary's largest consultant shopping portal ’Árukereső’. The 2004 founded Árukereső became Hungary’s market-leading price-comparison site. Under the agreement, the online shopping guide will...
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Henkel: declining sales, increase in profits
Date: 2009-08-06 00:05:30
In the second quarter of this year, Henkel sales decreased by 5 percent to 3,485 million euros, while operating profits increased to 279 million from 113 million euros and after...
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Procter & Gamble: 80 cent per share in the last quarter
Date: 2009-08-06 00:01:00
The Procter & Gamble, the world's largest manufacturer of household goods reported a decrease in the fourth quarter. But its results are still exceeds expectations. According to company reports that...
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Starbucks duplicates its units in Poland and in the Czech Republic
Date: 2009-08-06 00:00:50
The American café chain, sees strong growth potential in Central and in Eastern Europe and wants to double the number of Czech and Polish businesses within five years. The first...
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MasterCard: credit card is popular during the crisis
Date: 2009-08-05 00:07:00
Despite the difficult economic situation MasterCard Europe has reached a significant increase in many areas. In the second quarter of this year, MasterCard cardholders bought more with their card than...
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Pepsi purchased bottling plants
Date: 2009-08-05 00:05:00
PepsiCo Inc. has purchased its two large bottling plants, the Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) and the PepsiAmericas, (PA). The two companies have a total value estimated at 7.8 billion dollars....
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Hungarian subsidiary of poultry breeder Aviage expands its production capacity
Date: 2009-08-05 00:04:00
According to the informations of World Poultry, the Hungarian subsidiary of the world's leading poultry producer is preparing to expand its production capacity. The company plans to build an another...
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Pernod Ricard: responsible alcohol consumption with the champaigne of Formula 1
Date: 2009-08-05 00:01:30
The bid of G.H. Mumm champagne was closed last Friday. The 3 liter limited series bottle with the signatures of the podium finishers of the Hungarian Grand Prix was purchased...
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New Production Director at the Hungarian subsidiary of FrieslandCampina
Date: 2009-08-05 00:01:00
Szász József became the new Production Director from 1st August 2009 at the Hungarian subsidiary of the world's largest dairy company, the FrieslandCampina. The 38-year old, has been working in...
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Moderate profit at Metro, after the lossmaking first quarter
Date: 2009-08-04 00:04:00
The largest German retail network, the Metro AG reported a 48 million euros after-tax profit from the second quarter without minority shares, instead of the 453 million loss of the...
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Tesco introduces electronic shelf labels
Date: 2009-08-04 00:02:00
Tesco Budaörs will introduce automatically updated shelf labels from 15 August. About 44 thousand shelf labels will be replaced in Budaörs. With this, Tesco will take place among the chain...
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Tesco is launching a large-scale starting school action
Date: 2009-08-03 00:05:00
Tesco started its 'starting school' action. The chain of stores just like time last year, tries to easen starting the school year with extremely low pricess. In many stores teachers...
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Tesco Express stores opened in Óbuda and Csepel
Date: 2009-08-03 00:02:00
Two Tesco Express stores opened on Friday in Budapest. The new format stores has much smaller business space but waiting the customers with selected product range, and the usual quality....
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INTERSPAR is the most popular shopping place Gyula
Date: 2009-08-03 00:01:30
On the basis of the readers’ votes of the Gyulai Hírlap, the Interspar store became the most popular shopping place in the city. During the on-line research, the respondents assessed...
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Neslté – less sugar and salt
Date: 2009-08-03 00:00:30
The entire population of Hungary could had a breakfast from the 75 thousand tonnes of cereal, that is thanks to Nestlé got to the dining table of families worldwide over...
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From September “Our school will win!” again
Date: 2009-08-02 00:02:00
The children have taken the possession of the new playground of the Education Center of Marcalváros, which was realized from the main prize of the “Our school will win!” program...
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Cadbury tripled
Date: 2009-07-31 00:01:30
The British confectionery company – which is Europe's second largest confectionery group – reported a 313 million pounds net profit in the first half of 2009, increased almost threefold last...
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The newest supermarket of Székely-land opened
Date: 2009-07-31 00:00:30
The opening of the first discount store of Gyergyószentmiklós was surrounded by great interest. The discount store is the 76th Penny Market in Romania. "It has long been a need...
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Tesco advertises its stores to rent, on giant posters
Date: 2009-07-30 00:05:00
Tesco advertises its stores to rent in its hypermarkets, in newspapers, and as a radical new technique on giant posters – reported Hackl Mónika spokesman of Tesco Global Stores Ltd....
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Tesco Customers May Soon Find Chickens at the Checkout Counter
Date: 2009-07-30 00:03:00
Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, is embracing the recession-inspired trend to “grow your own” produce by offering allotment spaces to rent in the U.K and selling live chickens. Tesco encourages...
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Health care organizations protesting against Tokyo beer
Date: 2009-07-30 00:02:30
Health care organizations have expressed opposition yesterday, against the newest product of BrewDog brewery in Great Britain, because the brewery’s strongest product, contains twice as much alcohol than the recommended...
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Tesco sells than rents back its properties
Date: 2009-07-29 00:07:00
The Tesco chains of stores, sells its properties for 63 million euros, and then rents them back in Hungary. Max Curtis, the Global Communications Manager of the company stated that;...
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eBay innovates on the online market
Date: 2009-07-29 00:04:00
eBay implement a number of changes, especially to help traders who distribute large quantities of goods. Furthermore, more images can be uploaded beside the products, and product search will be...
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Ahold reports 11.5 percent sales increase for Q2
Date: 2009-07-29 00:03:00
Ahold – the international food retailer with supermarkets in the USA and Europe – has reported consolidated net sales of €6.4 billion for the second quarter ending July 12, 2009....
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Eleven million HUF for the Education Center
Date: 2009-07-29 00:02:00
Danone’s “Together, for the Children” (TEGY) aims the rehabilitation and healthy nutrition of children with cancer. This year the member institutions of “Together, for the Children” would like to establish...
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Seven hundred million HUF helped out Gyulai Meat Ltd.
Date: 2009-07-28 00:05:55
Again, the usual pre-crisis production is operating in the Gyulai Meat Ltd., after the owner povided 700 million HUF to the Factory – reported Ruck János Chief Executive to MTI....
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Heineken – festivals do not help out the brewing industry
Date: 2009-07-28 00:04:02
According to Michiel Egeler CEO of Heineken Hungária Breweries Ltd; it is conceivable, that Hungarian beer consumption will never come back to its 2006 and 2007 levels and if it...
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Gramex 2000 Ltd.- New bottling line from three billion
Date: 2009-07-28 00:03:00
The new bottling line of Gramex 2000 Ltd. is capable of charging preservative-free sport drinks, ice teas, fruit syrups into one-way PET bottles in aseptic conditions. The new bottling line...
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New Communications Manager at McDonald's
Date: 2009-07-28 00:01:00
Effective of June 2009, McDonald's Hungary has appointed Csilla Dudás as its new Corporate Communications Manager. Dudás will be responsible for all-inclusive PR activities and external communications of McDonald's Hungary....
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Tesco Express store opened in Óbuda and Kispest, hypermarket opened in Sárbogárd
Date: 2009-07-27 00:08:00
Two Tesco Express stores opened on Friday in Budapest. The new format stores has much smaller business space but waiting the customers with selected product range, and the usual quality....
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