Company and Personal News
McDonald's: Increasing turnover and share price
Date: 2009-08-11 00:04:10
In July, McDonald's continued to rise its revenues. Thanks to the increasing demand for hamburger and coffee, the company's sales increased by 4.3 percent, which exceeded the expectations of analysts....
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The creditors of FoodExpress can only get the fraction of their claims
Date: 2009-08-11 00:02:30
Thirteen creditors with a total value of 823 million HUF submitted a claim on the liquidation of the Food Express, Hungary (FEH) Ltd. until deadline – reports the liquidator Csabaholding...
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Due to a dispute the production of Szobi Syrup can not start
Date: 2009-08-11 00:01:00
According to the new owner; at the Szobi Syrup Ltd., production still can not restart due to a dispute, even though the plan for this year was a turnover of...
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Levegő Munkacsoport will not start a lawsuit against the shopping mall
Date: 2009-08-11 00:00:30
Referring to the interest of the local residents, the Levegő Munkacsoport withdraw from the lawsuit against the Köki Terminál shopping centre. The green organization stressed that, after a long consultation,...
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Pándi cherry cake of Zilah coffee-house became the Cake of the Country
Date: 2009-08-10 00:05:30
The Industry College of Hungarian National Confectioners greets Hungary on its Birthday with Pándi cherry cake. For three years, on 20th August, in the course of the Prime Minister's Office...
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Tesco Express opened in Angyalföld
Date: 2009-08-10 00:03:00
A new Tesco Express store opened on 7 August in Budapest at Béke u. 13-19. in the 13th borough. The Tesco chains of stores has already 10 new format shops...
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Auchan can expect a serious punishment in Russia
Date: 2009-08-10 00:02:00
Retailers have accused the French-owned chain of stores, with violating several rules, when started to sale own branded vodka on the market. The Krepost branded Auchan vodka is advertised by...
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Dreher and Alcus: service-oriented communication platform
Date: 2009-08-10 00:01:00
Instead of periodic communication Dreher built a communication platform. This year Dreher not only supports Sziget Festival with the brandname Dreher but with www.annyiavilag.hu products. Arcus Interactive Group set up...
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Tesco operates transparently
Date: 2009-08-07 00:02:30
Tesco had been put on the list, which collects the most transparent domestic companies. The chains of stores is in the 12th place in the ranking. With this result, Tesco...
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School catalog of Interspar will be published again with wide selection
Date: 2009-08-07 00:01:35
The Interspar store this year will help product selection with school catalog, which will be valid from 13 August 2009, until 9 September 2009. More than a thousand school supplies...
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Dreher: online questionnaire about responsible alcohol consumption
Date: 2009-08-07 00:01:30
According to the results of the Online Program research of Dreher Breweries Ltd.; The most important thing is the individual temperance and education within the family. Nearly 5,000 adults took...
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The Report of Carlsberg caused a positive surprise
Date: 2009-08-07 00:01:00
Danish Carlsberg’s second quarter net profit increased to 1.94 billion korunas (375 million euros) from the one year earlier 1.42 billion.The result significantly exceeded the 1.6 billion korunas expectations of...
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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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