Company and Personal News
Johnson & Johnson's report brought positive surprises
Date: 2010-01-27 00:01:33
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
Date: 2010-01-27 00:01:25
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
Date: 2010-01-27 00:00:15
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
Date: 2010-01-26 00:01:26
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
Date: 2010-01-26 00:00:19
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
Date: 2010-01-25 00:07:45
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
Date: 2010-01-25 00:02:19
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
Date: 2010-01-25 00:00:45
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
Date: 2010-01-25 00:00:28
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:02:51
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:02:11
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:01:02
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:39
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:19
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
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:12
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
Date: 2010-01-21 00:03:07
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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Fitch rated Kraft BBB minus
Date: 2010-01-21 00:01:55
The Fitch credit rating, changed the rating of U.S. confectionery group the Kraft Foods ratings from BBB to BBB minus, after the purchasing of Cadbury. Fitch explained that Kraft’s Pro...
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Signature collection for the re-launch of Sciennet
Date: 2010-01-21 00:01:02
Sciennet’s loyalty community want to restart the system, with a pleading signed by the members. After difficult two months of waiting, the time has come to help the work of...
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Margitszigeti Crystal Water disappears
Date: 2010-01-21 00:00:45
The Margitszigeti Crystal Water disappears from the shelves of shops, because Pepsi’s Fővárosi Ásványvíz és Üdítőipari Ltd. will bottle the crystal water from Albertirsa. The company retains the "Kristályvíz brand...
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Half a million HUF worth ham in London
Date: 2010-01-21 00:00:10
The World’s most expensive Ibérico ham costs 1800 pounds (547 thousand HUF). The ham can be found in one of the most popular London store, the Selfridges. The more than...
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Kraft Foods has won the struggle for Cadbury
Date: 2010-01-20 00:02:55
Cadbury has adopted by the U.S. confectionery giant for a 18.9 billion USD bid, despite the fact that the company had fought for weeks against Kraft’s hostile manoeuvres. The 186...
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SPAR supermarket modernisation continues
Date: 2010-01-20 00:01:01
The SPAR Hungary Ltd. completed the redesign in 2009, on the 174 stores of the Plus network taken over in 2008. The stores opened again as SPAR Supermarkets. The biggest...
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The Bonduelle would acquire France Champignon
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:33
The Bonduelle Group and Butler Capital Partners announced, that negotiations are taking place, over the purchase of the France Champignon group. As the result of the 1997 fusion of the...
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METRO’s website renewed
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:30
METRO’s website the http://www.metro.hu was given new look and occurs with new features from the 18th of January. Thanks to the innovations, the appearance of the site, the novelties in...
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Csányi’s company purchased feed manufacturer
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:22
The Competition Authority (GVH) granted to the CSIM Pte. Ltd belonging into the interest of Csányi Sándor to buy the Tendre Ltd. dealing with animal feed. The CSIM is a...
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Tesco denies, that its Ózd unit sinks
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:05
The Tesco Store of Ózd will not be closed – states Hackl Mónika, head of communication at Tesco. According to the news spread in Ózd, the mall is constantly sinking,...
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Metro has fed up with price war
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:59
Metro retail chain's leader demands the cessation of increasing price reduction war in food trade. According to Eckhard Cordes; the price war is contrary with the original intention and has...
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NetPiac.hu was annexed
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:33
According to the agreement between the Bookline.hu and NetPiac Ltd., the NetPiac.hu online store will be absorbed into Bookline.hu’s own web store and will take over the operation from the...
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Diego Bevilacqua joins to the METRO Cash & Carry International team
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:22
With the appointment of Diego Bevilacqua, the company's international team expands with a new Customer Marketing Leader and the German METRO Cash & Carry will further strengthen its customer orientation....
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Sunflower instead of beer
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:07
Already this year, a Belgian group can start the production of high oilacid sunflowerm, in the building of the former brewery, in Komárom. It is planned, that every year, 20...
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