Company and Personal News
                    The OMV-cafes celebrate the International Coffee Day
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-30 00:00:05
												                    
				
                The VIVA cafes of the OMV filling stations celebrate the International Coffee Day for the second time on the 1st of October. On the 1st of October, on the occasion...
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                    One million HUF fine for Lyoness
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-29 00:00:01
												                    
				
                The Competition Authority fined Lyoness for one million HUF, because Lyoness did not fully informed the customers. Lyoness had not given full informations in three paid commercial appearances in the...
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                    Hungaria 55: This number represents the Hungaria champagne brand in 2010
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-28 00:02:01
												                    
				
                The Hungaria champagne brand, that was founded in 1955, is celebrating its 55th birthday this year. On this occasion, the Hungaria Champagne winery created the Hungaria 55 brand, a champagne,...
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                    New diections at Nestle
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-28 00:01:00
												                    
				
                The Swedish Nestle SA, has created the Nestle Health Science SA subsidiary and the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences in order to break a new route between the food and...
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                    Starbucks coffee becomes more expensive
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-28 00:00:55
												                    
				
                For the drinks demanding exceptionally high labor and raw materials a higher price should be paid soon at the Starbucks coffeeshops – announced recently Howard Schultz. The CEO of the...
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                    Unilever is buying up a hair care products manufacturer for 3.7 billion USD
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-28 00:00:05
												                    
				
                Unilever PLC, announced an agreement over the purchasing of the hair-care products manufacturer Albert Culver Co. Unilever would buy Alberto for 3.7 billion USD, 37.5 USD per share. The purchase...
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                    Two billion deal on the horizon: the Bright Food would  buy a confectionery producer
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-28 00:00:01
												                    
				
                China's Bright Food have secret talks over the acquisition of the British, United Biscuits (UB). According to the informations of The Sunday Times; the Shanghai-based company would buy the confectionery...
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                    Auchan employs disabled persons
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-27 00:01:05
												                    
				
                Auchan Hungary employs hundreds of disabled workers in its 12 stores from 2010, as cashiers, hostesses or salesmen. Auchan Hungary has signed a cooperation agreement with Work Force Kft., personnel...
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                    Pasta factory to be built in Verpelét
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-27 00:00:25
												                    
				
                A specialized, frozen, stuffed pasta factory is being manufactured in Verpelét, with a base area of 5400 square meters. The investment may give jobs to 150-200 people. The investment will...
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                    The Benedictines are building a mineral water bottling plant
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-27 00:00:05
												                    
				
                The Bencés Ásványvíz Palackozó és Kereskedelmi Kft. (the Benedictine Mineral Water and Trade Ltd.) will build a mineral water bottling plant in Ravazd, with 80 million HUF costs. The company...
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                    B & P, Braun & Partners made brand rankings in another country
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-24 00:07:25
												                    
				
                In Hungary the cult domestic brand, the Pöttyös Túró Rudi finished on the top of the rankings, while in Romania, the Coca Cola is the most powerful brand. The twelve...
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                    The website of Mars has been renewed
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-24 00:01:02
												                    
				
                Mars Hungary uptated its website with richer informations, international and domestic corporate news and with raising awareness examples in September 2010. The focus remains on the five principles ensuring the...
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                    Henkel strengthened its leading position in the sustainability ranking
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-24 00:00:58
												                    
				
                Henkel, had been included to the Dow Jones global sustainability index (DJSI World) and to the Dow Jones Europe Sustainability Index (DJSI Europe) for the fourth time. The company is...
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                    The 23-meter-high warehouse was built in three weeks
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-24 00:00:21
												                    
				
                In Hungary, a growing need occured for the Leier custom-made concrete elements, that are fast, economical, flexible in both vision and building construction methods. The custom-made concrete elements of Leier...
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                    MINI Cooper design with Coca-Cola light
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-24 00:00:01
												                    
				
                The Coca-Cola light continues last year’s highly successful Fashion Designer program with Car Designer program this year. This time, the design of a white Mini Cooper can be planned with...
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                    Törley and György-Villa wine auction successes
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-23 00:03:04
												                    
				
                Another record was set up on the charity wine auction of the 19th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival. The total amount of 3 million 300 thousand HUF was offered...
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                    Tesco does not launch a web store in Hungary yet
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:25
												                    
				
                While Tesco launches its online store in Poland and in the Czech Republic next year, in Hungary we should wait for Tesco’s webstore. According to Philip Clarke future CEO of...
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                    Kométa debuted with a new TV spot
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:01
												                    
				
                The Kométa ’99 ZRt. is working together with a new advertising agency. The Creative Partners won the company’s brand communication commission on a restricted tender, for about two months ago....
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                    Camping cheese was awarded the Superbrands prize
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                The independent jury of 16 expert members awarded quality for the sixth time. They decided that the Camping brand, with its decades-long traditions, can bear the Superbrands 2010 marking for...
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                    Beer fountain on the main square of Bőcs
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                On 12 August a fountain was inaugurated on the mains square of Bőcs (the birthplace of Borsodi beer) from which beer can also be drawn. The idea came from the...
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                    Sandwiches from Kométa salami for first-graders in Kaposvár
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In the first days of the 2010/2011 school year Kométa ’99 Zrt. handed out delicious salami sandwiches to 700 first-graders in 17 primary schools. The company’s managing director Giacomo Pedranzini...
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                    A ‘thank you’ to customers
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                On 25 August the Tesco Clubcard loyalty programme commenced: after buying something in a Tesco store shoppers receive a point on their personal accounts after every HUF 200 spent. When...
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                    Nestlé radically reduced its offices’ energy usage
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Nestlé Hungária Kft. uses 1,000 litres less water per day in its Budapest headquarters. 300 employees work in the 3,700 m² complex and the company reduced the building’s energy usage...
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                    New marketing director at McDonald’s
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                From 1 August Jörg Pizzera fills the position of marketing director of McDonald’s in Hungary. The Austrian executive started his career at Unilever and joined the McDonald’s team in 2006....
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                    Gallicoop’s five liver patés got top marking from consumers
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Gallicoop’s liver patés performed the best at the 10th Meat Hygiene and Meat Examination World Congress. The company entered the competition with five turkey liver patés: Grandmother’s, Natura, Premium, Crackling...
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                    Herz products resurface on the shelves
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Thanks to Bonafarm Group, Herz products find their way back to shops, less than six months after Bonafarm Zrt. brought the brand name. Nine products of the traditional high quality...
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                    Heineken Hungária’s new CEO
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                From SeptembervOladele Ajayi is the new CEO of Heineken Hungária. The first African manager in the Heineken Group to lead a Central European member company came from Nigeria. He studied...
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                    Nagel is the main sponsor
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Nagel Hungária Kft. is the main sponsor of POPAI Awards Hungary POP competition. The prestigious logistics company is connected to the field of ‘marketing at retail’ on many levels. They...
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                    METRO helps children who suffer from hunger in the summer
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Children’s Catering Foundation and METRO Hungary organised an awareness raising and donation collecting campaign in 4 cities and in the capital from 11 until 31 August, to help children in...
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                    Péter Feiner ask Ákos Kozák
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Question: Retail turnover fell in the first half of 2010. What do you think the perspectives are for the second half of the year? What can retailers and manufacturers expect...
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