Company and Personal News
Marks & Spencer takes plastic clothes hanger back
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
Research suggests Britain has 540 million surplus coat hangers, weighing 17,000 tons. It is suggested as many as 100million a year are thrown away and sent to landfill, where they...
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Succesful beginning of Tesco „Color”
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
One week after the start, the Tesco „Color” has big success at the customers. Color-products had a huge sales, the most popular was the frozen noodle, but the meat...
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Reál Hungária for Sunday store stop
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
The company believes in public regulation, where describe that only the small shops in family ownership and the marketplaces could open at Sundays. Tibor Kujbus, CEO of Reál said the...
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Lidl privat label brands in the Netherlands and Sweden
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
Fairglobe consists of the six products: bananas, coffee, tea, juice, chocolate bars and cane sugar. Lidl is also increasing its promotion and new products development in Italy, where the company...
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SABMiller invests in Romania
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The beer giant is set to invest EUR50m in expanding production and modernising its facility in Timisoara. The company's Ursus Breweries subsidiary in the country confirmed that it will plough...
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New retail chain – RIA by Interfruct
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The founder of RIA – the Interfruct Kft. calculates on 80 new member, independent stores, this year, and another 500 next year. The members of the chain will get several...
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Loss of Lipton fails to hold Campari back in H1
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
Campari's wine division performed particularly well, bringing in a 19.7% lift in sales, hitting EUR56.9m. Group net profit rose by 2.5%. The Italian drinks company said today that operating profit...
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Grolsch increases its profit
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
The Dutch brewer said that operating profit for the six months to the end of June rose to EUR11m compared to EUR10.2m in the corresponding period a year earlier. The...
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InBev prepares heavy investment for Belgian breweries
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
InBev is looking to invest up to EUR60m in operations at three of its breweries. The Belgium-based beer giant confirmed that it will plough the money into its Hoegaarden, Jupille...
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Brandcasting and Music Factory at the Coca-Cola summer campaign
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
Online concerts and 35,000 songs in the music collection at Sziget Festival. The innovative new marketing elements, developed by Neo Interactive enriched big success at the target group. At the...
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Coca-Cola makea recycling popular
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
The incentive for members of the public to recycle more will be cash prizes of up to £18,000 for local Football League clubs to spend on youth development. Coca-Cola Great...
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CBA protects the Sunday shop stop
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
It is not necessary that the shops are open on every day – said Katalin Neubauer, CEO of CBA Retail Chain. According to the leaders and 30,000 workers of CBA...
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Coca-Cola Invests $60 Million
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
Coca-Cola Co. will invest more than $60 million to build a plastic bottle recycling plant in Spartanburg, USA. The plant will produce 100 million pounds of food-grade recycled plastic for...
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Unilever has developed more salt-reduced products
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
The range of products within the Pot Noodle brand will now contain 50 per cent less salt than in 2005, continuing the company's programme to reduce salt levels in all...
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PepsiAmericas has set up a joint venture in Bulgaria
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
The american beverage company, which initially owns 20% of the joint venture, said that the new arrangements with Agrima will result in PepsiAmericas owning 100% of the joint venture as...
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Turo Rudi production in China
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
EU-Milk Technologies Kft. made a joint venture with a chinese agriculture company to process milk products as the famous hungarian Turo Rudi (curded cold sweets), yoghurt and kefir. The company,...
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Nestlé has lined up the acquisition of a mineral water company
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
Upon completion of the deal, Nestlé_Waters will control slightly less than 25% of the Swiss bottled water market. The food and drinks giant confirmed today that it has agreed with...
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Unilever to cut 10-12,000 jobs in Europe
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
Unilever's announcement in August that it would cut up to 11 pct of its workforce over the next four years as part of the 'One Unilever' programme. Anglo-Dutch consumer...
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Dunkin' Donuts develops new zero trans oil
Date: 2007-09-03 00:00:00
US-based Dunkin' Brands has developed a new oil in order to create trans-free fat bakery products without sacrificing quality, flavour and taste, the company said this week. The Dunkin'...
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“Challenging” UK, US but InBev still up in Q2
Date: 2007-08-31 00:00:00
The Belgium-based brewer has reported a strong showing in its second quarter, despite “challenging conditions” in both the UK and US. Sales in the period rose by 7.6% in...
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Coca-Cola to close concentrates plant near to Dublin
Date: 2007-08-31 00:00:00
The beverage giant would shut down one of its three ingredients plants in Ireland. The company will shift the production of concentrates from the 30-year-old plant in Drogheda, north of...
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Royal Unibrew buys Latvian brewery Livu Alus
Date: 2007-08-30 00:00:00
The Danish brewer Royal Unibrew AS bought Latvia's third-largest brewery Livu Alus for 130 mln dkr. The acquisition, which is subject to approval by relevant authorities, is expected to be...
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Bioethanol at Tesco from Monday
Date: 2007-08-30 00:00:00
The Tesco Megapark in Pesterzsebet will be the first Hungrian and east-european gas station of Tesco where the green friendly drives can buy bioethanol. Europe second biggest hypermarket chain is...
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Cadbury to buy Intergum
Date: 2007-08-30 00:00:00
Cadbury's planned acquisition of the Turkey-based chewing gum manufacturer Intergum has been approved by the competition regulator. Cadbury announced the proposed 333m acquisition in June this year, claiming the move...
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Run on furniture – especially at IKEA
Date: 2007-08-30 00:00:00
The Hungarian IKEA has reported HUF 38.6 billion revenues for its financial year ending 31 August, which is a 16% increase from FY2006. IKEA Lakberendezési Kft. had 4.7 million customers...
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Heineken fixed its 20-25% profit growth forecast
Date: 2007-08-30 00:00:00
The Holland-based brewer said that net profit for the six months to the end of June fell markedly, by 30.4% year-on-year, to EUR302m, although net profit took a hammering from...
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Help worth 5 million from Tesco
Date: 2007-08-29 08:00:00
Over HUF 5 million has been collected by customers and employees of Tesco between 1. July 2006 and 30. June 2007 for Kézenfogva Alapítvány to help retarded children. The biggest...
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Second Bauhaus under construction in Szigetszentmiklós
Date: 2007-08-29 08:00:00
Construction of a new, 20,000 square meter Bauhaus store has begun near Szigetszentmiklós. Europe’s leading “do it yourself “chain is building two stores in Hungary with an investment of HUF...
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Sugar free Coke turning 25
Date: 2007-08-29 08:00:00
Coca-Cola light was the first sugar free soft drink to appear in 1982. Today, 119 million glasses are consumed daily in 173 countries. Coca Cola light is the market leader...
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