Company and Personal News
New officers for Maspex
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Marek Bucior was appointed general director of Maspex Olympos Kft. on 23. January. He has been working for Maspex Wadowice Group for 8 years, first in Poland and later in...
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Coop is the franchise system of the year
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Co-op Hungary Zrt. has been awarded the title “Franchise System of the Year 2007” by the Hungraian Franchise Association. We asked László Murányi, CEO of Co-op Hungary Zrt. about the...
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Recipes in Interspar stores
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Spar Magyarország Kft. has a new service for its customers. They offer a wide range of continuously up-dated recipes in 29 Interspar hyper markets from 17. January to 31. December....
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Blessing or curse?
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
1986, Hosszúhegyi State Farm. The name Hey Ho gets selected for use by the general director and one of the best known Hungarian brands is born. By the early 90’s,...
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New managing director for Danone from America
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Andreas Ostermayr (38) was appointed the new managing director of Danone Tejtermék Gyártó és Forgalmazó Kft. on 11. February. He had begun his career with Unilever, later joining the German...
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Quality always wins!
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
This is the slogan chosen by STI Petőfi Nyomda for 2008. .The German owned printing enterprise with annual revenues of EUR 50 million held an event under the title “Theatre...
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Gyermelyi tészta
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
A film about the irresistible attraction to Gyermelyi. The product is used as bait: the smart restaurant owner is eating Gyermelyi in the restaurant window… And success follows. Agency: Well...
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In memoriam József Törley
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Törley Pezsgőpincészet celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of its founder, József Törley on 9. January. The Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Catering has an exhibition about the history...
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Merci, Valentin
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Storck celebrated Valentine’s day with consumers in stores and cinemas. A romantic comedy directed by Tamás Sas and sponsored by Merci started playing on 14. February. Storck also uses elegant,...
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Multibrand
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Manage wisely! promotion Agency: Human Telex/Phd Customer: Unilever Magyarország Kft. Product: Multibrand (Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Flora, Cif, Coccolino, Baba, Sunsilk, Signal, Amodent, Floraszept, Rexona, Rama, Globus, Delma, Delikát8, Bertolli, Lipton)...
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Cooking playgrounds
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Garabonc, Tiszaroff, Hernádkak, Lábatlan, Pécsely, Csögle, Pásztó, and Tiszacsege are the eight settlements which have won playgrounds conformant with EU standards in the “Cook a playground” promotion organised by the...
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The Bonbonetti group
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
The Bonbonetti group is the largest and oldest Hungarian group of companies in the sweets industry. At the moment, three major brands belong to the company: Cherry Queen, tibi, and...
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Chio allocating 418 million to development
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Chio Magyarország Kft. will spend HUF 418 million on development in 2008. Their most important new project worth HUF 167 million will take place in the Győr plant. Chio generated...
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GEFCO duplicated its sales in Hungary
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
The EFCO logistics integrator specialis had HUF 4 billion income, twohold as last year. Half of the sales came from distribution of vehicles and groupage and full/part-load road transport....
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Henkel 4Q Net Profit +11%
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
In the full year, Henkel posted sales of EUR13.07 billion, up 2.6% from 2006, organic sales grew 5.8%. Earnings before interest and taxes, or EBIT, in the fourth quarter...
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Fine on Magyar Cukor Zrt. because of water pollution
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
In February 33,000 m3 pollutioned water fall into brook Ikva from company's distroyed reservoir. The bad case happened in Magyar Cukor's Petohazi plant, the firm has to pay HUF 22...
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Intelligence ADT Ultra•Max at Marionnaud
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
8 of the 10 international retail chains prefer ADT's solutions. After a successful test periode in 2007 Marionnaud choose for protection the Ultra-Max®, the authentic Acousto-Magnetic technology. The first...
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Extra guarantee at Indesit Company
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
Customer can raise the „normal” two years guarantee at Indesit products with another two, at Hotpoint-Ariston products with extra 3 years. According to GFK Research Company on the Hungarian market...
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Electrolex sales over HUF 200 billion
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
The sales growth is to thank to the capacity increase of the plants in Jaszbereny and Nyiregyhaza. Last year Electrolux sales increased with 11% to HUF 201.1 billion. The company...
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Procter & Gamble Co to cut about 15 percent of its management staff
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
The company aims to accelerate annual productivity growth from 6 percent to 7 or 8 percent over the next five years. The world's largest household and personal-care products maker also...
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Aldi enters the Polish market
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
The German discounter Aldi, opened its first seven stores in Poland on 25 February. The network’s discounts are located in Poznan, Jelenia Gora, Sulechow, Glogow, Zory, Brzeg and Tarnowskie Gory....
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One third market share for Heineken Hungaria
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
In spite of bad business environment the company increased its sales and profit in 2007. Last year the company sold 9% more beer, almost 2,400 hectoliters, the nettó sale...
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Developments at Hungexpo
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
In the latest phase of improvements made by owner GL events, construction has been launched on Pavilion G.Gross exhibition space there will be 9,504 sq m, the indoor high 12...
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Anheuser-Busch Considering Counter-bid For Scottish & Newcastle
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
Anheuser-Busch reported to be examining whether to launch a last-ditch counter-offer for Scottish & Newcastle, the UK's biggest brewer. According to an unsourced article in the Sunday Times newspaper, the...
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Auchan To Revamp Private Label Packaging
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
The new packaging focus on modern looks and clarity. The programme, which was started at the end of 2007, has been rolled out to 800 of its 10,000 lines. Auchan...
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Kofola Buys Slovak Non-Alcoholic Wine Brand
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
The Czech company becomes Coke Zero competitor with bez soda launch. Czech beverage firm Kofola has acquired the “Vinea” brand, also known as the “non-alcoholic wine” from Slovak wine producer...
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M&S Reported To Be Discussing Moves Into India And Israel
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
Marks & Spencer is in talks with India's Reliance Retail for an equal joint-venture for apparel, food and cafes, according Economic Times, citing unnamed sources. A deal could be reached...
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