Company and Personal News
Nestlé inks Henniez deal
Date: 2007-10-11 00:00:00
Switzerland's Commission de la concurrence (Comco) has approved Nestle's acquisition of a 61.66% stake in Sources Minérales Henniez SA. In September, Nestlé Waters has signed a deal to acquire bottled...
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New mozarella and ricotta plant at Ovartej
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00
The investment was HUF 500 million, in the new plant yearly 3000 tons mozarella and ricotta will produce. Most of them sell in Italy. The developing comes 40% from...
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Brau Union, Spitz team up over Gasteiner
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
Brau Union has turned its Gasteiner mineral water unit into a joint venture. The Austrian company, which is owned by Heineken, confirmed that it has sold 51% of Gasteiner to...
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New Nordsee restaurants in East-Middle Europe
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
The German company prepares to start 150 Campo's restaurants in the region, where the fresh meal would make in front of the consumer. Hainer Kamps, the owner of the Nordsee...
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Zwack success at the First Budapest Palinka and Sausage Festival
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
Costumers could meet Sandor Zwack and the Manufacture's Palinka Master Jozsef Somogyi. During the festival the Zwack Palinka Distillery in Kecskemét offers 21 kind of palinka. The Kosher line of...
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SABMiller Unit To Boost Exports
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
Brewer Plzensky Prazdroj, a unit of global giant SABMiller, has said it plans to double the worldwide exports of its premium lager Pilsner Urquell within five years. Company CEO Mike...
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Coca-Cola Doubles Capacity at Russian Plant
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
Coca-Cola HBC (CCHBC) has launched a third production line at its St Petersburg site to expand production by 200 million litres a year. The 20 million euro investment will double...
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Mars chocolate will be more expensive
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
Because of the raw material price Mars Hungary have to increase its price with 10-10%. First of all chocolates will be more expensive, at other products MM try to keep...
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Zaitisi Catering to open an exclusive restaurant in Budapest
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
The company is looking for a downtown place for its restaurant servicing 80-100 persons. Since this year's spring the famous Bohemian catering company has an agency in Budapest. It gotten...
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Baileys Mini is OK
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
Europe's highest court ruled U.K. premium drinks business Diageo can continue to sell its liquor in bottles using traditional U.K. measurements. The case is part of a long-running conflict within...
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Tesco hasn't to pay penalty
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
After Hungarian Competition Authority's inspection the Tesco is ready yearly to write out tender for shelf-service firms, so authority didn't punish to company. According to Hungarian Competition Authority Tesco's practice...
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Red wine with coke and badminton in bottle
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
The typically Hungarian products, made by by Kiraly Ital Kft., are available first at Metro- chain, soon they will be on other stores' shelves too. Királyi Fröccs, popularized by actor...
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Sodexho protects families, who famish
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
Sodexho together with local authorities and the Foundation of Children eating write out a tender for families. In the program 150 families will get cheques in amount HUF 15,000. The...
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Auchan waits 5-6,5% increase
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
The number of consumers grow at the chain, own-branded products come next year. According to Auchan's CEO the hungarian retail sector must face with decrease until next years's August,...
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Two million HUF donation for Hungarian Special Olimpicons by Kekkuti
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
More than 170,000 tenders arrived at Theodora's „Drip from the life” action, the donors cycling 3500km. Consumers had to send 6 Theodora bar codes, so they could win weekend for...
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Pepsi's Operating Profit in the sky
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) revenues rose by eight per cent to €2.6bn during the third quarter. The company, which is the world's largest bottler of Pepsi-branded soft drinks, revealed that...
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Kraft Foods to sell it's two juice brands
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
The sale of the Fruit2O water and Veryfine beverage brands to Sunny Delight Beverages Co. will be completed during the fourth quarter. Selling the two juice brands is the latest...
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Nestle Agrees Settlement with Italian Tax Authorities
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
Nestle Italia negotiated a 36-million euro out-of-court settlement with Italian Tax Authorities, it was announced yesterday. But the global giant, the world's largest food and beverage company, strongly denied any accusation of...
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Hungarian industrial designer could win the Henkel Art.Award
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
Rajmund Domán is one of the nominated, who takes home the Henkel Art.Award., endowed with a monetary prize of 7,000 euros as well as an exhibition of the artist's works...
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Cadbury takes one part of producment to Poland
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is to shut its chocolate factory in Keynsham, Somerset, with the loss of 500 jobs. The proposal is part of the company's attempt to restructure its UK...
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Rynart Hungary became bankrupt
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
The Dutch company asks for win up against itself. Rynart worked since 1993 in Hungary, many years had a dynamic growth, but in last years gotten a bad business politic,...
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Tchibo to open first shop in Arena Plaza
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Tchibo's changing product ranges include everything from an exciting kid's toy to a fashionable jacket or a cool MP3 player. The start will be marked by the opening of the...
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English owner at Plaza in Ozd
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Dawnay Day Carpathian PLC said it has acquired a retail portfolio of four properties from the Austria-based MID Group. The property investment company said that after the purchase costs, the...
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Nielsen's new software can decrease the assortment's loss at the stores
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
The research company developed a new software communicates between the producers and the retail places and can amend the product availability at the shops. The assortment's absence makes 4 billion...
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Zagorka invests to increase production capacity
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
Heineken's bulgarian brewery plans to invest EUR15m between 2008 and 2009. The company builds a new 2100 sq. m. warehouse and buy four new cyllindricconic tanks to extend its fermentation...
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Probiotic Club at Danone
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
Famous yoghurt eating stars joined to the exclusive club. The club members together with specialists popularize the probiotic food in front of media workers until year's end on three events....
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Theodora, the most public Hungarian mineral water
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
The Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt. has 16,5 share between Januar-August 2007 on the mineral water market. Since four years Theodora is the most public mineral water in Hungary. According to ACNielsen...
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A new Fornetti sandwich comes
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
With HUF 600-800 million investigation new logistic and research central to build. Soon comes the Fornetti specialty, taste like the old milk-loaf had. Last year Fornetti franchise companies had 66...
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Aldi eyes city centre locations
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
The success of Aldi's first city centre store at the Arndale Centre in Manchester has prompted the retailer to seek out further city centre locations as it continues with its...
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Judgment of first instance at Paprika-action
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
The health of customers was not endangered, but they were mystifed by Szegedi Paprika Rt. . The company have to pay HUF 10 million fine. The first rate defendant, the...
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