Company and Personal News
Danone and Wahaha Agree to End Lawsuits
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
Both company want to return to peace talks,” the companies said in a joint statement. French dairy products producer Groupe Danone SA and China's Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. said...
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Heineken Acquires Syabar Brewing Company
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
The portfolio consists of the national mainstream beer brand Bobrov, which holds the number two position in the market and the recently introduced premium brand Syabar. Heineken will acquire...
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Alcoa sells packaging/consumer unit
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
Alcoa has agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses to New Zealand's Rank Group Limited for $2.7 billion. Alcoa's packaging / consumer unit generated about $3.2 billion in revenue...
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Aldi, Lidl outstrips
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
The discounter Lidl has a study that Aldi first competitor in the number of transactions in Europe obsolete. In terms of product prices had both merchants also diverge. In the...
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BAUHAUS Opened its Second Hungarian Store
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
The biggest, 20,000 sqm Hungarian „do-it- yourself” store offers 120,000 products. The new store opened on 27. December in Szigetszentmiklos, near to Budapest, it made 111 new workplaces. With its customer-centric...
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2008 – Slowly Quicken in Hungarian Economy
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
Next year Hungary's internal and external balances to improve, while real wages may begin to increase. A report jointly published by economic research institute GKI and Erste Bank is projecting...
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Minor burns because of Starbucks mugs
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
Starbucks is voluntarily recalling an estimated 167,000 of its Fusion Coffee Mugs because they may pose a minor hazard to users. According to Starbucks and the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...
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MasterCard Faces Fines
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
EU Commission accused MasterCard of applying illegal fees and threatened it with a massive fine. MasterCard uses a complex mechanism to determine a minimum price merchants must pay for...
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Fruit growers at Zwack Palinka Manufaktura in Kecskemet
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
For invitation of Sandor Zwack more than 30 fruit grower arrived at Kecskemét. The guests could see the way of their fruits from coming into the plant trough the destillation...
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Two new SPAR supermarket open on the same day
Date: 2007-12-18 00:00:00
From 18th December customers from Ocsa and Halasztelek enjoy the leisured shopping at SPAR supermarkets. Both stores are almost 1,000 sqm and offer 10,000 kind of products. Because of Christmas...
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Borsodi Beer Academy is open
Date: 2007-12-18 00:00:00
The goal of the school is the popular the highbrow beer consumption and to teach people how to draught the beer and let them know more about the types of...
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Salami of Szeged a product of protected origin
Date: 2007-12-17 00:00:00
The European Commission qualified the winter salami of Szeged as a product with protected designation of origin (PDO) on Friday. The famous flavourful salami was the first Hungarian product put...
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(HU) SPAR Együttműködés a Magyar Máltai Szeretetszolgálattal
Date: 2007-12-14 00:00:00
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Karstadt deploys item-level RFID in Stock System
Date: 2007-12-13 00:00:00
German department store chain Karstadt is now piloting item-level RFID in stock system. Karstadt avoided the higher cost and complexity of conventional item-level RFID configurations by using ADT Security Services'...
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New Aldi Stores in US
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
Supermarket chain Aldi is planning to increase its US store numbers by up to 100 during 2008. The aggressive expansion proposals could see the German discount chain enlarge its volume...
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Vouchers for HUF 4 million at Bauhaus
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
The new store in Szigetszentmiklos opens its doors on 27. December 2007. Every people who come with a barrow on the first day's morning can get a lottery ticket, 200...
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Greek Coke Bottler is looking for buyout
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
Greek Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling is looking for small- to medium-sized buyout opportunities in central Europe and Russia. The world's second-largest bottler of Coca Cola drinks, is looking to boost...
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Coca-Cola to double water bottling capacity with EU support
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
The technological upgrade would help improve region's competitiveness and would also create new work possibilities. The Hungarian unit of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, plans to pump HUF 2.5 billion...
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Danone Wants Wahaha to Negotiate End to China Feud
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
French food group offered to drop all legal actions against Hangzhou Wahaha Group. Danone in late November had offered to suspend six legal proceedings against Wahaha as a sign of...
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Green Spirit of Electrolux
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
The swedish company started a new environment protection program called Green Spirit. Electrolux Professional is totally committed to the environmental issues at every stage of the product life cycle: from...
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A new Hungaricum from Torley
Date: 2007-12-10 00:00:00
The famous Hungarian champagne company offers a spirit made from marc.The new palinka is produced from very sweet muscotel grape with high technology. The spirit is a new Hungaricum, specialist...
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New head of sales at Unilever – home and personal care department
Date: 2007-12-10 00:00:00
Peter Szabo works since 8 years at Unilever, has financial, marketing and sales experiences. Since November 2007 he is the new leader of sales team. The former leader, Monika Voros...
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