Company and Personal News
Metro Group sales grow by 5.9%
Date: 2009-01-14 00:00:00
The Metro Group has reported that its preliminary sales grew to EUR68 billion over the 2008 financial year. However, growth did not reach expected levels of more than 6%. The...
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Dreher makes campaign for responsible alcohol drinking
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
Brewery Dreher Hungary made a new website under the title www.alkohol.info.hu. The aim of the site is to inform the public about effects of alcohol drinking. Dreher started its CSR...
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Tesco redesigns former Woolworths shops
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
Retailer giant Tesco has confirmed it plans to buy and reopen former Woolworths supermarkets under Tesco Express brand. The first unit will be open soon in Ulverston, near to Liverpool....
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Bizerba debuts new product at NRF Annual Convention
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
Bizerba is presenting its fresh produce management system consisting of a new shop scales system K, the retail framework developed by Bizerba and a comprehensive content database. With this system...
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Iceland rebrands 51 Woolworths Stores
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
The frozen food chain has bought 51 of the 800 stores from the now defunct Woolworths group. Iceland will be creating in the region of 2,500 jobs across UK. The...
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Edeka To Create 8,000 Jobs In 2009
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
German food discount giant plans to expand its market share in Germany to 30% by 2010 from currently 27% by opening 1,000 new stores between 2008 and 2010. Edeka officially...
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New CEO at Tchibo Budapest
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Andrzej Jackiewicz leads Tchibo's Hungarian subsidary since January 2009. The 41 years old Polish specialist is responsible for strategic growth of the Hungarian firm. In frame of Tchibo's coffee branch...
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Bijou Brigitte stabilized its sales in Germany
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Net income grow by 2.2% to 375 million euros, but the increase came from the new shops. The German discount jewelry retailer opened 80 new unit in 2008. The Hamburg...
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New marketing manager at Mio Technology
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
From 1th January 2009 Zsuzsanna Banga joined as marketing manager to Mio Technology. The 28 years old specialists gradueted at Miklos Zrinyi University, she started her carreer at Acer Computer...
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Pannontej continous production
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
According to on-line business portal VGO the crisis were solved at Pannontej's plants in Zalaegerszeg and Répcelak. The company get 60% of the contracted gas volue and it is enough...
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Growing year for Spar
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
SPAR Switzerland has reported a 6.3% rise in sales for 2008 to CHF957 million. The SPAR and EUROSPAR stores generated revenues of CHF533 million with a 7.0% rise. Sales of...
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Fresh & Easy sponsors schools in the US
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
Tesco’s US-unit Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has launched a school fundraising programme called Shop for Schools. In the promotion, running run from 1 February through to 31 March 2009,...
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Lidl called back champagne because of glass splinter
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
The retailer removed from the shelves the Moscato Spumante Dolce sweet champagne with serial number L2485W1 content 0,75l and called back the product. Other Moscato's champagnes with different serial number...
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Tchibo voted for Lewis PR
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
From January the London based PR company's Budapest office works on the Hungarian communication task of Tchibo. Tchibo called for tender last year in November, three PR agencies got the...
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Hungerit works on quorter capacity
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
When the gas problem can't be solved in short periode, next week we can't process the contracted live poultries – said Jozsef Magyar, company's CEO to business daily Vilaggazdaság. Instead...
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Pick Szeged decreased producing
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
In company's Baja plant mashines work with 50% capacity, in Pécs and Alsómocsolád and Szeged the total producing were stoped. Because of limitation of usable gas the company must to...
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Interposed closure of some Tesco supermarkets
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
The retail chain is looking for import in fresh milk and meat, after the producers of the sector said, because of the gas usage limitation they can't delivere to the...
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Carrefour Market to open in Milan
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
Carrefour opened its first Carrefour Market store in Italy in suburban Milan in December. While it is the 1,599th store in Italy, this is the first time the multi-format, single-banner...
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COOP declares price war in Switzerland
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
The retailer has lowered the prices of 600 branded goods by 12% on average to compete with prices offered by the discount chains. COOP has declared a price war against...
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TESCO announces GBP100 million in price cuts
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
The supermarket chain said this took its total investment in price cuts over the last fortnight to GBP200 million. Tesco, the UK retailer has announced a further GBP100 million of...
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Bonduelle don't supply Intermarché
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
Intermarché in France has refused to accept price rises of 7.5% for vegetables manufactured by Cassegrain-Bonduelle. As a result, the brand is temporarily unavailable in Intermarché outlets. Commenting on the...
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This year Maspex Olympos distributes Plusssz
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
The plusz brand belongs to Maspex Wadovice, the parent company of Hungarian Maspex Olympos. The manufacturing and the product developing remains in Poland, only the distribution will be made by...
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Saxoo to open on new markets
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
There are 32 Saxoo stores in Hungary and four in Slovakia. But the franchise aims to start expanding in Austria, France and Czech Republic. Swiss-owned Hungarian “club wear” franchise Saxoo...
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Plus stores will be SPAR supermarkets
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
From 1th of January started the rebanding of the formel Plus stores. Spar Hungary singed an agreement for buying 174 Hungarian Plus stores in March 2008. After Bruessel”s green light...
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Winter specialists from Nespresso
Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:00
Building on its expertise of delivering highest-quality coffees, Nestlé Nespresso S.A. introduced an exclusive collection of fine, luxury sweets for its Hungarian customers. Nespresso has just introduced the seasonal flavors...
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Asda presents supermarket clinic
Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:00
Wal-Mart-owned Asda is offering customers blood tests in one of its UK stores in a bid to cut hospital waiting times. The instore clinic, funded by the Health Service will...
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Marks & Spencer 5.5% sales decreasing
Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:00
UK retailer Marks & Spencer is expected to report its worst Christmas sales figures for 10 years. The UK press has reported that the retailer is expected to report like-for-like...
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Pepsi and Beckham Finish the Relationship
Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:00
PepsiCo Inc said it is ending its endorsement relationship with English soccer star David Beckham after 10 years in a move described as mutual by both sides. Terms of Beckham's...
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ALDI US opens units in NYC
Date: 2009-01-05 00:00:00
According to a report in the Financial Times, Aldi hopes to open its first store in New York City in the course of 2009, as it continues its steady US...
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Asda cuts prices on 1,000 essential items
Date: 2009-01-05 00:00:00
The range of reduced items includes 200 health & beauty items, 100 frozen food lines and three-packs of selected fresh meats or bottles of wine. In the UK, Wal-Mart owned...
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