Company and Personal News
Metro Q1 Loss Widens, But Sales Up The Metro Group
Date: 2008-04-29 00:00:00
Net loss for the quarter amounted to E4.0m, from E1.0m last year; while EBIT amounted to E152m. However, sales rose 7.3% to E15.6bn, helped by strong growth in Eastern Europe....
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Lactalis Enters Romanian Dairy Market
Date: 2008-04-24 00:00:00
The French dairy giant completed its takeover of the Romanian LaDorna group in a deal reportedly worth up to EUR 100 million. Lactalis acquires all shares of LaDorna, which is...
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Lidl chain with 260 units in Poland is looking for buyer
Date: 2008-04-24 00:00:00
Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported, citing unnamed sources, that Schwarz is seeking a buyer for its Lidl stores in Poland, which are potentially worth around 250 million euros. The Polish paper...
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Heineken's giant investment in Sopron
Date: 2008-04-24 00:00:00
The new watercleaner system costs EUR 2.2 million. The plant was built from 100 tons of steel, 800 qm beton and 1,000 meter steinless steel. The company use the same...
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Big success at Gyermelyi Paste Wednesday
Date: 2008-04-24 00:00:00
Almost 300 restaurants offered paste specialities on half price. 40,000 guests taste the dishes. According the new researches Hungarian likes pastes, people eaten yearly 6-7 kilos from it. Paste...
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Refreshing the Zsolnay Cafe at Béke
Date: 2008-04-23 00:00:00
The Radisson SAS Béke Hotel has inaugurated its new catering facility, the Zsolnay Cafe & Bar Lounge. The new facility brings together the offers of the former Zsolnay Café and...
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Luxury hotel with monolithic towers for Esztergom
Date: 2008-04-23 00:00:00
Plans have been revealed for a 230-room, 5+1-star hotel to be located in Esztergom's Prímás-sziget. The complex was designed by Gábor Zoboki, award-winning architect of the Palace of Arts, who...
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(HU) Elkészült a második aszeptikus palackozósor Dunaharasztiban
Date: 2008-04-21 00:00:00
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New users of Mood Media Services
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
In the last months Mood Media has several new domestic and international partners. Cora signed a 3 years agreement with the company, in its supermarkets Cora can change daily the...
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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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Rossmann to open shops in Albania
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
The first unit will open in autumn in Tirana, the next in port Durres. Rossmann has 570 foreign shops all over the world, some units are operationed together with A.S....
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Tesco Express rolls into China
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
Chinese consumers have taken to “big box” retailers, such as America’s Wal-Mart, France’s Carrefour, and Tesco itself, which has 55 hypermarkets across China from Beijing to Shenzhen. But now...
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Israel's Strauss Buys Russia's Cosant Coffee Brands
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
Chornaya Karta and Kaffa brands will be integrated into Strauss's coffee activities in the region. Strass to pay $93 million. Israeli food and beverage maker Strauss Group said in a...
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Danone sales grow by 18.7% in First Quarter Sales 2008
Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
According to company's consolidated report sales increased to Euro 3,760 million, thanks to Activia and the purchase of Dutch baby-food maker Royal Numico NV. Sales rose to 3.76 billion euros...
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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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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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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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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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