Company and Personal News
Procter & Gamble's one million USD donation
Date: 2008-01-11 00:00:00
The company gives free tetanus vaccines to poor kids in Africa. The face of the campaign is Salma Hayek. Salma Hayek, the actress who herself became a mother last year,...
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Italy's Cola Dairy Products to Acquire Bulgaria's MyDay
Date: 2008-01-10 00:00:00
Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has given the green light for the Italian company to acquire a 60% stake in Bulgarian dairy products maker. The CPC decided that...
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The most lucky Toffifee fan travels to Lapland
Date: 2008-01-09 00:00:00
Storck Hungary started its winning game in 2007 autumn, the lucky winner starts her trip end of January. The Toffifee Santa waited for the draws under the slogan Imagine, draw...
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Tengelmann Sells Plus Greece
Date: 2008-01-09 00:00:00
Delhaize Group's bought all 33 Plus stores in Greece. Delhaize Group's retail presence in Greece is through its majority ownership of Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos S. A.. The combination of both companies...
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Papai Hus opened its new distribution center in Budapest
Date: 2008-01-09 00:00:00
The center, operating in Vagohid street deliver the products to stores and catering companies in Budapest. According to company's press realise the quality and food safety is guaranteed by strong...
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Clorox going to be greener
Date: 2008-01-08 00:00:00
The consumer products giant bought Burt's Bees, the beeswax manufacturer for $913 million . Clorox plans to turn Burt's Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like...
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New Inditex SA subsidary
Date: 2008-01-08 00:00:00
The new store chain of Zara's owner will market only clothing accessories. Inditex SA opened its first Zara-store in 2004, in Budapest. Nowadays the store chain has several shops in...
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World's first FSC-certified Tetra Pak packages hit Sainsbury's shelves
Date: 2008-01-08 00:00:00
Tetra Recart is the first Tetra Pak package with a label of certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). FSC is an international organisation which sets standards for responsible forest...
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$3 .1 million compensation because of poisened pet food
Date: 2008-01-07 00:00:00
The company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide in 2005 will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners. The pet food, which contained...
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LLP Group goes West
Date: 2008-01-04 00:00:00
Consulting and IT services firm LLP Group opened offices in Belgium and in Luxembourg. This follows fifteen years of steady growth that started in Prague in 1992 and resulted in...
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(HU) Január 21-ig még lehet csatlakozni a Torkos csütörtökhöz
Date: 2008-01-04 00:00:00
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Sales Up 14% In Year-Ending Week in the US
Date: 2008-01-04 00:00:00
Retail sales jumped 14% in the last full week of December, helped by post-holiday discounts and the redemption of gift cards. The report by ShopperTrak RCT added that retail traffic...
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P&G to move tampon manufacturing from Hungary to the US
Date: 2008-01-04 00:00:00
Procter & Gamble has announced plans to relocate manufacturing work from a Budapest suburb to the United States. Procter & Gamble is moving production from a plant manufacturing tampons and...
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Good year of Törley
Date: 2008-01-03 00:00:00
The sales in 2007 increased with 9%, and token the value of HUF 16 billions. Törley champagne are popular all over the world, the product is market maker in Hungary...
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Auchan to acquire 14 hypermarkets in Russia
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
French retailer Auchan, currently has 15 hypermarkets in Russia, agreed to buy 14 hypermarkets from Turkish group Enka. Financial terms of the deal are unknowed. The Russian retail market has...
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Tesco health checks in UK
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
The supermarket chain introduced a new medical service at price of £10, what will rising to £20 at the end of January. A pharmacist will measure weight, blood pressure and...
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Eismann the new owner of Family Frost
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
Included in the deal is a Nestlé factory in Törökbálint, where Family Frost products already account for 75% of total output. Nestlé has signed an agreement to sell its Family...
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Waitrose focus on overseas
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
The company licens the Waitrose brand to Dubai-based retailer Spinneys, and is in contact with potential partners in South Africa, and in the USA. Spinneys has been selling a wide...
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ASDA's Healthy Steps at the Own Brand Food
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
From January over 9,000 food and drink items are free from artificial colourings and flavours, hydrogenated vegetable oil and Aspartame. From now on where flavours or colours are used in...
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New TEAOR Numbers – more detailed
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
The companies have to use the new kind of numbers from 1. January. The business which can't change the TEAOR numbers automatically, must be notified until 30 June 2008 at...
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CBA Online Service from the Center
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
Next year the logistic works from the central premise. The online activity finish with CBA Internet Aruhaz Kft, in the future the owner CBA Kereskedelmi Kft. will carry on the...
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