Company and Personal News
Austrian home improvement chain opens in Bulgaria
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
BauMax AG, an Austrian home improvement retailer, is opening its first two stores in Bulgaria this week, the company said . The stores in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city after the...
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TV hurts Philips profit, weak economy looms
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
Philips Electronics reported a bigger-than-expected 28 percent drop, to 219 million euros in quarterly core profit on. First-quarter earnings before interest, tax and amortization (EBITA) fell to 265 million...
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Two coffee machine ideas won at NESPRESSO Coffee Luxury competition
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
Two group, both from the University of Moholy-Nagy, won the competition in death heat. The winner products were called „Erno” and „Enjoy it while flying”. The members of the jourey,...
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Euro zone industrial output growth slows
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
Industrial output in the euro countries grew 0.3% over one month and 3.1% over one year, the European Union's Eurostat data agency said in a first estimate. That marked a...
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Anti-Theft Solution in the bags
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
Sealed Air Cryovac Launches Unique and Proprietary Anti-Theft Solution, developed together with Checkpoint. SmartPak® tags are certified for direct food contact and inserted inside the Cryovac® shrink bags at the...
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New creamy dairy by Milli
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
From beginning of March Milli productfamily has a new member. Milli Janga Kaukazusi Kefir+ is a unique dairy product with pre and pro biotics. The new product suits well to...
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SPAR Donation for Fire Service of Monor
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
The donation, a special Mitsubishi land rover, took Attila Szekely, fire man lieutenant-colonel over from Zsuzsa Laber, the head of SPAR's communication unit. Fire service in Monor has yearly 1,000...
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POS Media Europe is expanding its leading position into Ukraine
Date: 2008-04-14 00:00:00
In order to achieve a fast market leader position it has established a strategic partnership with the Atlantic Group, the holding company of some of the main media agencies in...
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Agressive marketing fight at LCD Televisions
Date: 2008-04-11 00:00:00
Analysts said aggressive marketing by leaders Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in the key North American TV market threatened the market share of LG Display's client brands, such...
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German retailer Aldi to sell insurances
Date: 2008-04-11 00:00:00
German discount retail chains Aldi Nord and Aldi Sued plan to add insurances to their offering of cheap groceries and household products, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing sources in the...
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Yahoo! to Acquire Hungarian IndexTools’ Analytics Business
Date: 2008-04-10 00:00:00
Acquisition intended to enhance platform for comprehensive Web analytics and extend offerings for on-line marketers. Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has entered into a...
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Novelties from Milli
Date: 2008-04-10 00:00:00
Friesland offers two new cooking cream, one with 15% fatt and another with 3% fatt. Company creates the new low fat products in healthy moral, both are packed in 0,3...
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Almost 10,000 of its private label products will get new clothes, the change will be finished by the
Date: 2008-04-10 00:00:00
Auchan rolls out new packaging on privat label products The retailer says the packaging will give its products more visibility on the store shelves. The packages have a white background,...
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Gruppo Campari Eyeing Absolut Brands
Date: 2008-04-09 00:00:00
The company has made 12 acquisitions in 12 years and is “constantly on the lookout” for new purchases. Italian drinks company Gruppo Campari, owner of Skyy Vodka, would consider buying...
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WU2 to build on-line society
Date: 2008-04-09 00:00:00
EVM's Wukiland has nowadays 45,000 users. WU2's website was awarded to the best entertainer portal in 2007 at the e-Festival. Users of Wukiland can chat, mail and shopping for its...
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Lidl to open three outlets in Malta
Date: 2008-04-09 00:00:00
The supermarkets are situated in Santa Venera, San Gwann and Luqa, and have a sales area of 1,000 sqm. The investment was 14 million euros. Lidl Malta will be collaborating...
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German regulator plans to block merger of Netto, Plus stores
Date: 2008-04-08 00:00:00
The two companies last year said they plan to merge their discount supermarket chains in a joint venture operating 4,100 stores, in which Edeka would hold 70 percent. The...
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Cross-Border Debit Card Spending Increases
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
The usage of European Maestro debit cards1 for cross-border payments at retailers rose by 24% in 2007 compared to the previous year. As European consumers get into the habit of...
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Schumacher stars in Bacardi advert
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
In Hungary Karoly Gesztesi Actor, Gabor Bochkor riporter, Laci Gaspar Singer and the drummer of the group Hooligans Endi Kiss joined to the campagne. Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held...
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Praktiker Net Profit Falls 73%
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
Germany's second- biggest home-improvement retailer, said profit declined after a slowing economy caused domestic sales to retreat and the company's tax bill climbed. Total sales gained 25 percent to 3.95...
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Complaint for Sara Lee because of collective points
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
The Hungarian Compatition Authority didn't starts a process, the company made good the objections voluntarily. The complainter went to the authority because Sara Lee lives special points for collects on...
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Barry Callebaut sales 2.6 billion Swiss franc in the 1H
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
In the first six months, of the group's fiscal year ended February 29, 2008., the company sales more than 612,000 tons of products. It is third time more than the...
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HUF 5 million fine for Fotex
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
The Hungarian Competition Authority find the company's ad about bows false. The promotion run between November 2006-2007, Fotex offered cheap bows, but in the tv-ads missed, that the promotion is...
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25 percent Profit Increased at Inditex
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
The owner of Zara chain, the Spanish clothing retailer reported 1.25 billion euros profit, wich is the slowest profit growth in four years. More than four-fifths of the shops it...
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Lacoste store on the Andrassy street
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
The 75 years old brand is turned over by Notos Hungary Kft.. The company has 3 unit and plans to triple the sales in the next few years. Lacoste...
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Red Bull Removes Taurine to Access French Market
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
France’s food safety agency AFSSA had previously not authorised the sale of Red Bull’s products due to the presence of taurine, an organic acid in the drinks, as its long...
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