Company and Personal News
New sales director at SáGa Foods
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
From 10 August 2009, Csaba Vajdahunyadi (45) leads the SáGa sales team. After earning an MBA degree, he started at Procter&Gamble in 1992 and later worked as sales director at...
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Superbrands makes you more attractive
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Superbrands, present in Hungary for 6 years, is the only system that awards brand value in our country. It is the world’s biggest program of this kind that covers 82...
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Two prestigious awards for Henkel
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Henkel’s 2008 annual report won the League of American Communications Professionals’ platinum prize in the household/personal category. At the Stevie International Business Awards their brand building educational film finished first....
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Tesco’s own radio station launched in their stores
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Using Mood Media’s concept Tesco launched its new, private satellite radio station in Hungarian stores. The new radio offers Tesco the chance to broadcast music, its own messages and advertisements....
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Hunting for Voga with La Festa
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
The great hunt for radio presenter Voga and the competition are over. La Festa’s hostesses travelled round the country promoting their cappuccino, 3in1 and hot chocolate....
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Sara Lee’s new managing director
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
As of 1 August 2009, Carolina Schulten replaces president-CEO Dr. Tibor Seres in the managing director’s seat of Sara Lee’s Hungarian coffee and tea division. Carolina Schulten has worked for...
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The last Plus shop had been rebuilt to Spar
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:10
The Plus brand has disappeared. The former Plus supermarkets became to Spar – a new corporate identity, extended range, high quality trade are waiting for the customers. The Spar Hungary...
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Auchan launches hypermarket price comparison site
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:00
Auchan launches a website, he www.hiperarak.hu which will compare the prices of the domestic hypermarkets. The www.hiperarak.hu website (currently not working) established in accordance with previous recommendations of Self-contolled Advertising...
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Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production
Date: 2009-08-27 00:04:00
Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production to two shifts at the recently built bacon plant, built by a 400 million HUF investment, due to the planned autumn launch of...
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Heineken says no to recession
Date: 2009-08-27 00:01:50
Heineken closed the first half of the year, with a 489 million euro net profit, 20 percent above the same period of the previous year. The turnover was 11 percent...
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Health Day in Tesco for the second time this year
Date: 2009-08-27 00:01:00
On the 28th August Tesco Health Day will be held for the second time this year. At 24 locations of the country, including 3 special places, healthy nutrition and lifestyle...
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Juicy dried plum is the autumn surprise of Danone Activia
Date: 2009-08-27 00:00:30
Danone Activia’s new autumn taste of juicy prunes with pear-apricot yogurt is available in four packs. The plum, and dried version is one of the most popular fruit of the...
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The 100th McDonald’s started with hamburger contest
Date: 2009-08-26 00:02:30
On August 28, in the city Győr the 100th McDonald's restaurant will be opened. It will be the third unit in Győr. There is no other restaurant chain in Hungary...
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Globus canned meat will be manufactured in the Czech Republic
Date: 2009-08-26 00:01:20
Czech Hamé food industry group will take the production of its Globus canned meat into the Czech Republic, which recently bought the manufacturing and distribution rights of the Hungarian registered...
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Tesco – new banking services
Date: 2009-08-25 00:03:10
Tesco supermarket chain widens the scope of its financial services and aims the full range of retail banking activities. Tesco recently announced, that 800 new jobs will be created in...
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Unilever: hot ice cream against climate change
Date: 2009-08-25 00:02:00
The market leader, Unilever fight with special tool against global warming: the company plans to produce an ice-cream, which will be sold at room temperature and buyers will frozen it...
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Aldi wins in the U.S. market
Date: 2009-08-25 00:01:20
Aldi can be among the big winners of the crisis: The German retail chain – famous for its low prices – can become a major player in the U.S. market,...
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Penny Market: more than 200 thousand people in the loyalty club
Date: 2009-08-25 00:00:40
Penny Market launched a loyalty club in June, which now exceeds 200 thousand members. The “Penny Fan Game” offers three chances of winning for every customer who requires the card...
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World premiere at the Veszprém store of CBA Plaza
Date: 2009-08-24 00:02:20
As the result of the cooperation between CBA, Coca-Cola and Szintézis, a new purchase advertising tool has appeared in the Veszprém store of CBA Plaza: the E-rail which is an...
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Tesco hypermarket opened in Berettyóújfalu
Date: 2009-08-24 00:02:00
The 108 employees of the new 3,000 square meter complex, are waiting their customers seven days a week, between 6 am and 10 pm at Honvéd u. 13. The new...
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Spar bankrupted in Romania
Date: 2009-08-19 00:04:00
According to Ziarul Financiar; Romanian Spar asked for bankruptcy protection. The court of Arad registered the company due to the request of the two main shareholders – Ioan Adrian Cuc...
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Job-creating, logistics investment in Szeged
Date: 2009-08-18 00:06:55
The logistics center of Hansa-Kontakt Kft., which deals with food, chemical, beverage and tobacco trading, was built from 5 billion HUF. The logistics center with a 28 thousand square meters...
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Record in number of visitors, and in revenue on the Sziget Festival
Date: 2009-08-18 00:04:30
According to the report of econet.hu a record number of visitors (390 thousand) took part on the festival. Despite the decrease in sponsorship revenues, Sziget closed with a 150 million...
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Deloitte earlier this year also gave the Green Frog award
Date: 2009-08-18 00:03:00
Deloitte Hungary this year also presents, the Central European Environmental Report Award, in its popular name, the Green Frog Award. The prize will be awarded to the companies, which will...
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Loss in the first half year at Danubius
Date: 2009-08-18 00:02:00
The Danubius Hotel and Spa Nyrt. has reached a 1.3 billion HUF pre-tax loss in the first half of 2009. In the same period of last year its pre-tax profit...
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Tesco leaks into the Chinese market
Date: 2009-08-17 00:01:30
In September, Tesco will open a store in an another Chinese city; in Ninghai. Tesco was athe last chain which appeared in China in 2004 and currently operates only 73...
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Schlecker will take over 71, from the stores of the Woolworth chain
Date: 2009-08-17 00:00:30
German Schlecker network, which has businesses in Hungary will take over one-fourth, 71 from the stores of the bankrupted Woolworth chain of stores. The Woolworth Deutschland, which bankrupted in April,...
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Tokaj Merchant House should stay in long-term state ownership
Date: 2009-08-14 00:10:25
The Management of the Tokaj Merchant House Ltd. (TK) would like that it would be a rule that the most important wine company of the historic wine region would remain...
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Tesco: action in honour of the Hungarian state foundation
Date: 2009-08-14 00:08:00
From 14 to 27 August 200 well-known and popular fresh and dry Hungarian products will be brought into light in all Tesco stores of the country, during the period of...
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On of Aldi’s CEO waved goodbye
Date: 2009-08-14 00:04:00
One of the most important British leader Paul Foley, who was in charge for Great Britain and Ireland at Aldi unexpectedly left the company. According to analysts Sainsbury's and Asda’s...
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