Company and Personal News
The Kiss Cottage Bon-Bon won Product Award
Date: 2009-09-21 00:02:50
The Kiss Cottage Bon-Bon marketed by BioHun Ltd. won Hungarian Quality Product Award title, on the Hungarian Quality Product Award 2009 contest. The reason, pointed out that the Kiss Cottage...
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Tesco Expressz opened in Zugló
Date: 2009-09-21 00:01:10
On Friday, a new Tesco Express store opened in the 14th district of Budapest, under number 125 Erzsébet királyné útja. With this store there are 13 new format Tesco shops...
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SPAR Wins Convenience Retailer of the Year 2009
Date: 2009-09-18 00:01:20
SPAR has won the NACS sponsored Convenience Retailer of the Year 2009 competition, which was awarded on 15th September 2009 in London. The success of SPAR with the recently opened...
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No buyer for Gyulai Meat Factory yet
Date: 2009-09-18 00:01:00
Until 15th September no one made a bid for the Gyulai Meat Factory – said Ruck János the CEO Gyulai Meat Factory The Meat Factory is still waiting for the...
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Plaza Centers purchases in Lodz
Date: 2009-09-18 00:00:30
Plaza Centers is planning to build a 45 thousand square meter shopping and entertainment center in Lodz. According to the Chief Executive Officer of Plaza Centers; Poland can be the...
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Riverside entered into confectionery industry
Date: 2009-09-17 00:02:00
The acquisitions market leader the Riverside acquired the majority ownership of Kaul GmbH. that is a world leader in the development of coating materials of confectionery products, such as jelly...
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Tesco bond for 500 million pounds
Date: 2009-09-17 00:01:30
The world's third biggest retailer the Tesco will issue 500 million bond – reports Bloomberg News Agency. The bonds are secured by the rent of the reantal areas in the...
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Record number of participants at the Coop Rally
Date: 2009-09-17 00:00:40
The fourth “Coop-rally for quality Hungarian foods” will start 17th September, from Szeged. Eighty teams will took part on the arcade car racing, The contestants cover the 15 percent of...
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Personnel changes at the Mona Hungary Kft.
Date: 2009-09-17 00:00:30
The Mona Hungary Kft. strongly welcomes Mr. Kiss János, Senior Key Account Manager, who strengthens the team since July 2009. Kiss János arrived from Auchan, Globus and then from Friesland...
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Dieter Knoll will replace Deák Ferenc in the lead of Henkel
Date: 2009-09-16 00:01:30
Deák Ferenc Managing Director of Henkel Hungary will continue his professional career at the center of Henkel Group in Düsseldorf, from 1st October 2009. Dieter Knoll will replace him,who led...
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Auchan always wins on Auchan’s price comparison site
Date: 2009-09-16 00:00:50
The Pénzcentrum tried Auchan’s recently launched price comparison website. The Internet portal put together three different types of consumer package. Auchan won at each. From the 1st of September a...
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Hungary Meat bought the Mangalica meat partly from Pick
Date: 2009-09-15 00:02:50
The Meat sent to Japan as a model was partly bought from Pick Szeged Zrt, partly bought live animals from Mangal Ilon Ltd. which is the company of Moldován András,...
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CORA – Pricer cooperation in electronic shelf labelling
Date: 2009-09-15 00:01:00
After a successful pilot, the Pricer Electronic Shelf labels system (ESL) will appear in further CORA hypermarkets. Cora is one of the largest retail chain in the French food market....
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Renewal of the Csillag Store
Date: 2009-09-15 00:00:50
New developments will revive the downtown. First, the Csillag store will be renewed with, a small Tesco Express on the first floor. This will be the first time that a...
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PICK-communication of false Mangalica meat
Date: 2009-09-14 00:03:55
According to the communication of Pick Szeged Zrt.; the company achived with long term market construction work, that Pick Szeged continuosly deliver pork to the Japanese market, where reached outstanding...
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Green-school action from Tesco
Date: 2009-09-14 00:02:30
Tesco started a waste returning competition between 11th September 2009 and 11th January 2010 called; “Is your school green?” The campaign is the continuation of the earlier actions, “Who will...
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New Chief Executive Officer at Tesco Hungary
Date: 2009-09-14 00:02:00
Per Bank became the new Chief Executive Officer of Tesco-Global Zrt Department stores. The specialist was the managing director of Coop Denmark previously. Tesco operates more than 160 stores in...
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Unilever leads Dow Jones’ Sustainability Index this year also
Date: 2009-09-14 00:01:00
Unilever again earned the first place in the food category of the Dow Jones Sustainability index. The company leads Dow Jones’ Sustainability Index for 11th years now, without a break....
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Toxic antibiotic in the products of alba-Méz Ltd. and Klenácz apiary
Date: 2009-09-14 00:00:50
Cattle and pigs are often given the type of antibiotic, that was found by a German laboratory in honey sold in Hungarian shops. Bremen based Applica found trimetoprin and sulfodimetoxin...
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Univer mayonnaise remains the market leader
Date: 2009-09-11 00:00:55
The competition is getting sharper on the market of condiments, but the fully Hungarian-owned Univer still the market leader with a 43.7 percent market share. The company will held a...
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Pick liver pâtés product family won Hungarian Product Grand Prix
Date: 2009-09-11 00:00:20
Hungarian Product Grand Prix trademark attests the continously controlled extremely high quality and reliability, among the products. With the 2009 year prizes, 208 applications of thousands of products won the...
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The most effective Tetra Pak factory is in Budaörs
Date: 2009-09-10 00:03:50
Tetra Pak Group had a successful year worldwide in 2008. It increased its revenues by 5 percent compared to the previous year. The Budaörs factory is one of the most...
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Subway develops despite of closures
Date: 2009-09-10 00:01:00
Subway closed five units this year in Hungary. The American restaurant chain mainly offering sandwiches, now operating with 16 units, as the propery of independent franchise partners. Turnover moderated as...
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Keineken vs. Heineken
Date: 2009-09-10 00:00:30
Keineken brand means: Not Heineken. Keineken beer was launched by a Swiss brewery because they fed up that the local shops were flooded with the Dutch alcohol. Heineken is now...
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Hungarian mangalica pig is counterfeited in the Japanese market
Date: 2009-09-09 00:04:00
Kovács László, CEO of Pick Szeged Zrt reported told to agrarhaszon.hu that Japanese wholesalers are selling Hungarian mangalica meat at the Japanese market, at very low prices. The fake ’Hungarian’...
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Csányi Sándor and Slovakian Penta are also interested in Herz
Date: 2009-09-09 00:03:00
Both Csányi Sándor and Slovakian Penta would enter in the tender for the asset items of the Herz salami. Beside them, a group of German investors also appeared on the...
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One billion worth bottling plant in Badacsony
Date: 2009-09-09 00:02:15
Bazaltbor Badacsony Ltd. is building a wine bottling plant, with a capacity of 300 thousand bottles. Beside the new bottling plant, a new winery and a wine-hotel will be built,...
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Alaszka Ltd. bought Éléskert
Date: 2009-09-09 00:01:00
The ownership concentration between the member companies of Real Food Hungaria Ltd. continues. The Debrecen based Alaszka Ltd. recently acquired 100 percent ownership in the Éléskert Ltd. of Gyula. The...
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The SPAR on the 18th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Fest
Date: 2009-09-09 00:00:55
The SPAR Hungary Ltd. will be the main sponsor – just like the previous years – of the 18th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival, which became one of the...
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Cadbury would not let to be purchased
Date: 2009-09-08 00:02:30
The U.S. food group Kraft Foods, made a 16.7 billion USD bid for the purchase of the British Cadbury confectionery industry company. The proposed deal would allow annual savings of...
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