Company and Personal News
                    Investestment with extra profit
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-11 08:30:17
												                    
				
                European Conformity Check Ltd. (ECC) helps for companies in food industry to find the right tender for their investion of material assets. According to Zoltán Csomár, financial director of ECC,...
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                    TESCO and Unilever team up to create perfect convenience store
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-11 06:17:59
												                    
				
                Tesco and consumer goods company Unilever have joined forces to create the perfect convenience store. For over two years Unilever has been conducting research into how to put together the...
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                    Lidl sells cars online in Germany
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-11 06:06:40
												                    
				
                The website will offer the Opel Corsa for just under EUR11,000 and the Volkswagen Cross Polo for EUR14,000. Schwarz Group-owned discount retailer Lidl has begun selling cars at 25% off...
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                    Carrefour expands in Bulgaria
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-11 05:45:31
												                    
				
                French retailer will open its first store in the Black Sea city of Burgas on 26 March. The store will offer 50,000 SKUs and the strategy of the chain is...
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                    Asda may move into Ireland
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-11 05:30:55
												                    
				
                Wal-Mart-owned British retailer is in advanced discussions with an Irish developer over plans to make its first foray into the Republic, the Sunday Business Post in Ireland reported. It is...
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                    OBI sponsors a 'preserving the climate' program
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-10 07:08:07
												                    
				
                The aim of the „Reduce consuming”” program is to publish that the households should use less energy for lighting, heating etc. The program also organises educations. This year the main...
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                    Metro eyes Russian hypermarkets
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-10 06:05:04
												                    
				
                German retailer Metro's hypermarket unit Real is seeking acquisitions in eastern Europe, unit head Joel Saveuse told the Financial Times Deutschland paper in an interview. Saveuse did not say which...
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                    Pernod Ricard – Cleaning the portfolio
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-10 05:20:37
												                    
				
                Pernod Ricard announces that it has signed an agreement to sell its cognac brand Bisquit and associated inventories to Distell Group Limited for 31 million euros. The transaction also includes...
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                    Tesco plans to convert closed pubs
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-10 04:56:34
												                    
				
                The retailer is planing to cash in on pub closures by converting them to small town centre stores. Tesco has lodged ten applications for conversion in the last three months...
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                    Demise after 60 years sales
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-10 04:37:10
												                    
				
                Circuit City was the second-largest consumer electronics retail chain in the U.S. The company had 567 stores in the US and 770 smaller units in Canada. Going-out-of-business sales at all...
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                    „Spring coupon days” started
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-09 08:00:43
												                    
				
                2 shopping malls from the capital and 3 from the country take part in the action organised by www.napiakciok.hu. The owner of the website made a successful action before Christmas....
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                    Tesco urges to shopping tourism
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-09 06:20:18
												                    
				
                The leaflets of Hungarian Tesco are also available in Slovakian Érsekújvár and Fülek. Because of the weak HUF day to day more Slovakian come to Hungary to make their weekly...
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                    Henkel untouched by crisis
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-09 06:06:20
												                    
				
                In 2008, sales increased 8.1% to 14.13 billion euros, mainly on the company’s National Starch acquisition. Adjusted for foreign currency exchanges, sales rose 11.6%. Profits increased 31% to 1.23 billion...
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                    Lidl to reduce product range
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-09 05:05:08
												                    
				
                According to Lebensmittel Zeitung's informations the complete assortment is under close scrutiny, with a special focus on duplications. After years of continuous line extensions, Schwarz Group's discounter Lidl is reportedly...
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                    Coke to invest $2 billion in China
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-09 04:53:31
												                    
				
                The Coca-Cola Co. plans to invest $2 billion in China over the next three years. The investment would go toward new plant and distribution infrastructure, sales and marketing, and research...
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                    Who will be greener? – environment competition by Tesco
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-06 12:33:47
												                    
				
                The most diligent pupils win money for class excursion in value of HUF 500,000. The Tesco’s waste redemption competition for pupils between 6-18 ages starts today, the winner will be...
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                    New sales director at Kékkúti Ásványvíz
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-06 11:41:11
												                    
				
                From 1th of February Csaba Csiszkó is the sales director of the company. The 40 years old specialist is responsible for execution of Kékkuti’s business plans, and developing of the...
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                    Six months – more than 1,000 new MasterCard places of recipient
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-06 10:26:46
												                    
				
                Thanks to MasterCards new sales program, from July 2008 the number of Mastercard recipient places grow by 1,145. There are 9 million debit or credit card on the Hungarian market...
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                    Packaged Starbucks coffee in Europe
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-06 10:03:47
												                    
				
                Starbucks and Kraft Foods have announced they will launch packaged Starbucks coffee in select supermarkets in France and Germany. The aim is to expand super-premium Starbucks coffee in Europe. Beginning...
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                    Rewe reports 11% sales increase
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-06 09:37:58
												                    
				
                Group posted a full-year sales to around EUR50 billion in 2008, including sales of independent retailers. Sales outside its home market, Germany, grew by 15.4%. After a "really good year"...
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                    Nestle sees acquisition opportunity in Poland
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 12:26:46
												                    
				
                The world’s biggest food maker, is seeking acquisition targets in Poland to boost production in the European Union’s largest ex-communist economy, the head of its Polish operations said. The Switzerland-based...
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                    SIÓ helps for children from needy families
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 12:12:34
												                    
				
                Action under the name „Thanks for SiÓ!” the firm call the schools fo a tender. The soft drink company helps for 1,000 children from needy families to get their new...
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                    Levi Strauss stops producing in Hungary
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 09:55:30
												                    
				
                With closure of its Kiskunhalas plant 549 employees will lose their jobs, along with hired labour. The company experiences a marked drop in demand for its clothing and other consumer...
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                    Synergon Subsidiary Has Become „The Most Dynamic Start-Up Company”
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:10:26
												                    
				
                Synergon subsidiary, Synergon Retail Systems Kft. received the award given to Hungarian start-up companies. Steinbinder Romulus, the Managing Director of Synergon Retail Systems Kft. received the certificate of merit “The...
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                    New Sole Gustoso butter creams
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                SOLE-MIZO Zrt launched a special, premium product in February. Owing to the special colloid structure of the butter cream made from real milk cream, it has a different, more beneficial...
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                    First Spar stores converted from Plus opened
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                The first Spar store converted from Plus opened in February in Hatvan, Sopron and Sárbogárd. As a result of the biggest acquisition ever completed by SPAR Magyarország Kft., the complete...
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                    Food events in the Balkans
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Mac-Line Hungary Kft. is a company specialising in trade events organised in the Balkans. Last year, they helped 445 Hungarian companies in attending 36 events in ten countries. – In...
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                    Switch it off!
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Borsodi Sörgyár Zrt. has joined the joint “Switch it off” campaign of the EU and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is intended to remind people of the importance of...
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                    11 members for Reál Hungária Drink
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Two new members joined Reál Hungária Drink Kft. in February. With Bora Kft. and Piramis Kft., new counties are now covered by the distribution network of Reál Hungária Drink, which...
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                    New support from Henkel for kids’ health
                    
                        
																								Date: 2009-03-05 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Henkel Magyarország Kft. has given Bókay János Gyermekalapítvány a donation of HUF 1.3 million to purchase diagnostic equipment for preventing cot death. The equipment is to be used by the...
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