Company and Personal News
Tesco supermarket opened in Kiskunlachaza
Date: 2007-11-26 00:00:00
From 23 November a 1,000 sqm store waits consumers beside the 51 motorway. The self-service supermarket offers 3-4,000 kind of products from Monday to Sunday, the store is open from...
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Awards for SaGa Food
Date: 2007-11-26 00:00:00
The company got several awards this year, the last one was The Excellent Hungarian Product Trade Mark. Two products, Sajtli and Turkey sausage won the excellency trade mark. SaGa won...
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Two million euros investment at Friesland
Date: 2007-11-23 00:00:00
Through the developing in Debrecen Milli products are made in one of most modern plants of its kind in East-Europe. Earlier production capacities were scattered across Hungary and Slovakia....
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Investiture of Hungarian National Quality/Excellence Award
Date: 2007-11-23 00:00:00
62 products from 32 product group of 19 producers won this year the award and the certificate. The Hungarian Agrar marketing Center organised the gala of National Quality/Excellence Award on...
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Unique B2B website: businessonline.hu
Date: 2007-11-23 00:00:00
The new website of Adverticum started on 21. November, followed the B2B printed issue. After ten years print version the magazine moved onto the net, and inform the IT specialist...
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Praktiker to expand further in Eastern Europe
Date: 2007-11-23 00:00:00
The DIY chain is set to step into the Ukrainian market next week and its next target on the agenda is Albania. Despite the negative impact of the government's austerity...
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San Francisco bans plastic grocery bags
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
Starting Tuesday traditional plastic bags are banned from supermarket checkout lines in San Francisco. The ban is being implemented under a city ordinance passed this year. City officials estimated 180...
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Matra Cukor Shuts Hungary Sugar Unit
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
German-based Nordzucker AG's parent company said it will relinquish one-third of the sugar production quota in Hungary. This move is in response to the European Union's drastic sugar reform, which...
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Excellent Hungarian Food Award for two products of Papai Hus
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
After a successful reorganization program the company cut 33,000 more pigs as in the last year period. During the IFE-Foodapest exhibition take part the award gala of Excellent Hungarian Food,...
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HUF 500 million for Hungarian National Tourist Office
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
If the campaign will be successful, the goal is extra 300,000 guest nights, then the organization gets another half billion HUF. From the extra source three new program start, all...
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Starbucks Plans 100 More UK, Ireland Outlets
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
Howard Schultz, the group's founder and chairman belives that in the U.K. coffee shop market far more growth to come. Starbucks Corp. is planning its expansion overseas, its biggest program...
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Maspex increase at Romanian pasta market
Date: 2007-11-22 00:00:00
Tymbark Maspex Romania buys majority stake in Romanian pasta manufacturer Arnos Romanian food and beverage group. Tymbark Maspex, part of the Polish Maspex Group, has announced its acquisition of 80%...
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Marché International's restaurant along the S1 at Vienna's Schwechat Airport
Date: 2007-11-21 00:00:00
The subsidiary of the Mövenpick Group, which open 6 restaurant at MOL gasstation in the next year, celebrates the grand opening of Austria's largest highway rest stop. Marché Schwechat will...
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Tradition and modernity – Lounge Editon 2007 arrived
Date: 2007-11-21 00:00:00
In Hungary only 60 bottle of newest Grand Marnier are available in retail. Lounge bars are the theme of this year 's limited edition, which is the fifth in the...
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Agrana to concentrate refining activities at the Kaposvár facility
Date: 2007-11-20 00:00:00
The second Magyar Cukor refinery at Petöhaza will be closed. In the course of the latest reform of the EU sugar market regime, talks are currently taking place in...
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SABMiller to pay the holland Grolsch for Euro 816 million
Date: 2007-11-20 00:00:00
SABMiller sees significant potential across Africa and Latin America, where the premium segment is still in its infancy, and in the more developed markets of Central and Eastern Europe. ...
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5% revenue increase at Lego
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
In Germany the company has 12% market share. Despite forecasts that sales would fall in 2007, the LEGO Group sold 5% more during the first half of the year than...
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Fornetti to Expand Output
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
With a view to cater for growing demand from Bulgaria and Romania, the company plans to expand the capacity of its plant by 250-300 tons per month. To reach its...
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Hershey to Close one of its American Plant
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
A Naugatuck factory where candy bars such as Mounds and Almond Joy have been made for 85 years, is shutting down for good. The shift is part of an overall...
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Reorganizations at Kraft Foods
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
Kraft FoodS Inc. said it will close its Cobourg, Ont., manufacturing facility by October 2008. The Northfield, Ill., food company has 380 employees at the Cobourg plant, which makes cereal,...
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Plus and Netto Marken-Discount to Form Joint Venture
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
The Tengelmann Group will in future be cooperating closely with the Hamburg-headquartered EDEKA Group. The new company in which EDEKA has a 70 percent stake and Tengelmann 30 percent will...
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Bank of the year 2007- CIB Bank is on the top
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Mastercard Bank of the year 2007 competition's second place is MKB's, the third is for OTP. The most sympathetic bank for the public was Raiffeisen Bank. Most of the biggest...
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Hungary's biggest shopping centre opens
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
After two weeks and 3 hour lag yesterday Arena Plaza opened its gates. People run to buy cheap flat tvs and other discount price products. The 180,000-square-metre Arena Plaza will...
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(HU) Három standdal jelentkezik az idei IFE-FOOD kiállításon az Agrármarketing Centrum
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
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Profits boost for Sainsbury's
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
First-half profit climbed 27 percent on increased organic food sales. The supermarket giant has a 4.7 per cent increase in turnover to £10bn. Pre-tax profits came in at £240m for...
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Joint venture between Sealed Air and Teknick Packaging Group in Turkey
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The newly established joint venture aims to be one of the largest food packaging company in the region. Teknik Packaging Group, one of the leading packaging groups in Turkey,...
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European Comission defended the Balaton snack
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
Kraft Foods is set to take an even larger share of the EU snack market after receiving conditional approval by the European Commission to purchase the biscuit, cereals and snack...
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First Törley dancegala
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
Wide collection of dance art, from Latin dances to Hungarian folkdance were to see on the jubileum dance gala. The event stagey with due decorum, elegancy and movement was patroned...
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Russian Unimilk to expand
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
According to Russian media reports the dairy producer Unimilk has acquired CJSC Tikhoretsky canned baby meat plant. The company completed the buy-out of the Krasnodar-based operation last week, which was...
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