Company and Personal News
Reviczky returned to Praktiker
Date: 2010-01-07 00:00:02
After a few years break, the face of Praktiker in Hungary is Reviczky Gábor actor again. The blue and yellow DIY chain want to achieve people friendly marketing communication from...
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The Hungarian Wine Marketing Non-profit Ltd. is under liquidation
Date: 2010-01-06 00:02:11
The owners of The Hungarian Wine Marketing Non-profit Ltd. decided on liquidation. The company's management indicated even in the summer, that their operational resources are not sufficient for 2009. Support...
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Kraft Foods sold one of its pizza division
Date: 2010-01-06 00:01:54
Kraft Foods Inc. sold one of its pizza division to Nestlé SA, for 3.7 billion USD. With the selling of the business sector, Kraft Foods further improves its bid for...
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SPAR: 118 tons of food in the ”To Give is a joy” campaign
Date: 2010-01-06 00:00:58
Between 15th and 20th December 2009, SPAR supermarket’s stores gave place to the ”To Give is a joy” campaign of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service for the 14th time. The...
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Asda came up with the “action of the decade”
Date: 2010-01-06 00:00:35
Asda made another step, in the race of the British supermarket chains, when the company announced the action of the decade. It is a further pressure on Tesco, which will...
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New sales manager at Metro Commercial Ltd.
Date: 2010-01-06 00:00:02
From the 1st of January 2010, Óvári György is the new marketing director of METRO Commercial Ltd. His predecessor, Zsombor Tibor continues his career as the Central and Eastern European...
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New CEO at Metro
Date: 2010-01-05 00:00:12
According to the company's press release; from the 1st of January 2010, Peter Schweighofer is the CEO of Metro Commercial Ltd. Previously, for a half year, Jeroen de Groot led...
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Milk exports to Slovenia
Date: 2010-01-04 00:01:09
From January, daily 25 thousand liters of fresh Zala cow milk will be transported from Füzvölgy and Miklósfa to Slovenia. The Fűzvölgy Agricultural Production Co. has signed a one year...
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New commercial director at Wrigley Hungária
Date: 2010-01-04 00:00:05
From the 1st of January 2010, Walter György will be the new sales director of the sales team at Wrigley Hungária Ltd. Hungary's leading chewing gum distributor, the Wrigley starts...
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Retail expansion at the Frankfurt airport
Date: 2009-12-30 00:00:05
The Hamburg based Heinemann company plans to invest 20 million euros at the Frankfurt international airport until 2012. The company would like to expand its retail space from 9000 to...
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The Borsodi Brewery pays attention to the region
Date: 2009-12-28 00:00:18
The Borsodi Brewery supports the work of the five foundations for five, in the course of the”My Neighbor is a Brewer”, with its 1.7 million HUF gift. The company helps...
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Coca-Cola: climate-friendly refrigerators
Date: 2009-12-28 00:00:02
Coca-Cola announced scheduled to the Copenhagen climate conference: The company will replace its vending machines and refrigerators to climate-friendly HFC-free refrigerators until 2015. With the switch to the HFC-free equipments...
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There is no restriction of competition in the market of Túró Rudi
Date: 2009-12-22 00:01:01
The Economic Competition Authority (GVH) granted that Sole-Mizo Zrt. to gain control over the Túró Rudi business of Danone Ltd. Sole Mizo Zrt. contracted with Danone Ltd. in october 2009,...
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Slovenian trade network expands in Croatia
Date: 2009-12-22 00:00:09
The largest Slovenian trade network, the Mercator buys its Croatian competitor, the Getro supermarket chain. Under the agreement, 16 Getro businesses will be purchased with the company name and the...
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Brazilian turkey on British tables
Date: 2009-12-21 00:00:02
The Christmas turkey travels more than ten thousand kilometers to the table of British families. One of the largest supermarket chain, the Asda transports the birds from Brazil, to Great...
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Tesco spent 10 billion HUF on benefits
Date: 2009-12-19 00:01:01
Tesco counts for a slight expansion in 2009, compared to the 602 billion HUF of the past year – said Antal Erzsébet the company's Chief Financial Officer on a Friday...
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Lipton opens an Ice Park
Date: 2009-12-19 00:00:07
The Városliget Skating Rink is closed, due to renovation. Lipton opens an Ice Park instead the former location for those who wish to skate. The 1400 square meters icepark is...
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Tesco's product to comment online
Date: 2009-12-18 00:03:12
Tesco’s and Vélemény.com web portal’s cooperation has launched. In the course of the cooperation more than 1,500 Tesco Color products were uploaded to the page, all of them are free...
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Coca Cola was also awarded by the public relations association
Date: 2009-12-18 00:01:54
Coca-Cola Hungary has been included among the prize-winning companies' on the CSR Best Practice competition, announced by the MPRSZ (Hungarian Public Relations Association). Coca-Cola Hungary’s central element of the CSR...
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Arany Bika’s owner filed bankruptcy
Date: 2009-12-18 00:01:29
Civis Hotels Ltd. filed for bankruptcy. The company is safe for a time from FHB’s liquidation procedure. The management said, that they are discussing with an investor who promed 35...
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Gift Card from Arena Plaza
Date: 2009-12-18 00:00:59
The Arena Plaza started a trend, by launching the marketing of “Arena Plaza Gift Card” on 12th December 2009. The rechargeable gift card can be a solution for many people,...
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Ipsos: effective “surface management” in the spirit of ideal contact
Date: 2009-12-18 00:00:38
The Ipsos outdoor optimization system, the Special Plus is available for the market participants since 2004. By examining the outdoor advertising devices it was found out that three-quarter of the...
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The Russians stock upload improves the results of Carlsberg
Date: 2009-12-18 00:00:12
Carlsberg significantly revised upwards its forecasts for this year. The result was improved up to the Russian traders. The Danish manufacturer, expects 60 million USD more operating profits for this...
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DM opened three new stores
Date: 2009-12-17 00:00:15
DM expanded its network with three new businesses in early December, so the company ends this year with 257 operating drugstores in Hungary – the company said. The new stores...
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Saving several billions with mechanical washing up
Date: 2009-12-16 00:00:55
The “Get serious” environmental campaign has ended. Calgonit’s and Bosch's initiative was intended to illustrate the very significant energy consumption difference, between traditional washing up and mechanical dishwashing. On the...
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Caffé Perté entered into the vending market
Date: 2009-12-16 00:00:21
Twenty-five percent of the total domestic coffee turnover are through vending machines, that from however, the premium category is almost completely missing. The Caffé Perté seeks to expand in this...
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From New York to Budapest, every mother wants the best
Date: 2009-12-15 00:00:55
In the course of an international research O-I, the glass packaging manufacturer, asked 60 young mothers in 10 cities of the world, about how much they using pre-packaged baby food,...
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MasterCard opposed credit card commission rules
Date: 2009-12-15 00:00:48
MasterCard Europe strongly opposes the proposal, which maximize the inter-bank clearing commission level, during credit card usage. Gauder Milán regional director of Mastercard believes; state intervention will obstruct credit market...
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Social warehouse and shop opened in Tata
Date: 2009-12-15 00:00:20
Szalay Zoltán és Szalay Tamás, and the MAGOSZ opened social warehouse and a shop in Tata. There is no need to transport the food around Europe to purchase healthy ingredients...
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Penny expands in Romania
Date: 2009-12-15 00:00:15
The German Rewe's Penny Market expands. The network reached 100 stores in Romania after the opening of 28 stores this year. Penny Market plans to open further 25 units next...
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