Company and Personal News
Five years 22 McCafe
Date: 2008-01-25 00:00:00
The biggest market player of the Hungarian Caffee market plans dynamic growthing and not care for rivals. The first McCafé started in 2003 in Hungary, last five years 21 was...
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New sales director at Sara Lee Hungary
Date: 2008-01-25 00:00:00
The specialist worked as head of sales at Borsodi Beer. From 1. January Zsolt Mihalyff is the sales director at Sara Lee's retail division. The specialist is working in retail...
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Coface, Islamic Corporation to Upgrade Trade Credit Coverage
Date: 2008-01-25 00:00:00
Coface, a major guarantor of trade credit, announced that it has reached a cooperation agreement with the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC). The ICIEC...
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METRO Group: New competencies within Management Board
Date: 2008-01-25 00:00:00
Frans Muller takes over as CEO of Metro Cash & Carry, the former director Thomas Hübner leaves for health reason. Frans Muller joined METRO Group in 1997 as Country Manager...
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Nestle to Sell Buitoni Pasta Plant in Italy
Date: 2008-01-25 00:00:00
The Swiss food giant would like the buyer to develop the plant and invest in advertising, but Nestlé would keep the brand ownership. Buitoni is Nestlé's authentic Italian brand, which...
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Carrefour to buy Indonesian retailer share
Date: 2008-01-24 00:00:00
The world's second-largest retailer ,agreed to buy a 75 percent stake in Indonesian group Alfa Retailindo ALFA.JK for 49.3 million euros. The takeover comes as Carrefour continues its strategy to...
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High raw material prieces got not negative impact on Lindt result
Date: 2008-01-24 00:00:00
The Swiss company increased its sales the full year revenue for 2007 will hit €1.8bn, a 14 per cent increase from the year before. ong sales of premium and dark...
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LLP Group increased product portfolio
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The new member of the business solutions is Inform EAM, an enterprise asset management solution system. Infor EAM is monitoring and managing the deployment, performance, and maintenance of company assets,...
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HUF 400 Millions Investment at Chio Hungary
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The company developes its plant in Gyor with new furnace, kneader mashine and keeps on reconstruction of packiging mashines. In part of the total HUF 418 Millions developing plan some...
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Tchibo Planning To Sell Stores in UK
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The German group has put 33 of its UK stores on the market, as it seeks to scale back its portfolio of smaller shops. The 73-strong chain sells coffee alongside...
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Cheap shopping for Polishs by March
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
Aldi opens its first outlet by March in Poland. The German giant was originally expected to enter the market in summer 2007, but this was postponed due to problems in...
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Tesco's new style in UK: Multi-level Town Centre Store
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The company plans to sell food, televisions, clothing, homewares and toys over two or three floors as its rivals Debenhams, Marks&Spencer do. Tesco plans to build department store-style shops for...
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Sandor Beke, the new sales director at Dr. Oetker Kft
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The specialist was appointed by the international team of Dr. Oetker (Beirat), he got the position by 1. February 2008. Sandor Beke works at the company since 1998, he started...
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Billa to open 10 new stores in Bulgaria
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The supermarket chain of German Rewe is present in Bulgaria since 2000, nowadays it has 29 units. Billa Bulgaria intends to open eight to ten more stores by the end...
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New leader at Coface Hungary
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00
The Coface Group appointed Zoltan Dercze to country director of Coface Hungary, the former director Mikael C. Szabo turnes back to Sweden to lead the Coface Sverige. Zoltan Dercze was...
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Kellogg bought Russian’s biggest breakfast cereal maker
Date: 2008-01-22 00:00:00
United Bakers’ products, marketed primarily under the Yantar and Lyubyatovo brands, are very popular, and the company said it had a market share of 90 percent. The deal gives Kellogg...
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Douglas Holding net gains 16%
Date: 2008-01-22 00:00:00
Europe biggest perfumery chain last year sold 1.1 billion euros. Douglas Holding AG said its full fiscal-year net profit rose to 88.1 mln eur after the company sold its Rene...
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Danone Eyeing Stake in Keventer's Milk Unit
Date: 2008-01-21 00:00:00
The French company is seeking a majority stake in the Indian the unit, which has a capacity of three million liters a day. But the Indian company – which is...
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$1.2B investment in food industry
Date: 2008-01-21 00:00:00
Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management to pay $34.5 per share of Performance Food. Performance Food said it will be combined with Vistar Corp., a foodservice distributor that Blackstone and...
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Nestle repeats medium term sales growth goal 5-6%
Date: 2008-01-21 00:00:00
Swiss food group Nestle reiterated a longstanding medium-term goal of 5 to 6 percent annual growth in organic sales. The world's largest foodmaker also repeated its target of steady annual...
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InBev's financial service center in Hungary
Date: 2008-01-21 00:00:00
The company got HUF 760 million subsidy from the Ministry of Hungrian Transport and Economy. InBev said in 2006 to decrease company's employes in West-Europe, to relocate the financial, trading...
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Carlsberg's share fell from the mountain
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
Investors think at 800 pence, the S&N transaction would be to much. Carlsberg A/S, the Danish brewer jointly bidding for Scottish & Newcastle Plc, fell to a 13-month low in...
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Drink Tchibo Coffe – thinking about saving money – special offer in Austria
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
Erste Bank's „Sparefroh” bundles available at some 60 Tchibo/Eduscho locations in eastern Austria. Erste Bank is forging new paths in the marketing of financial products in Austria. From 11 January...
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Carrefour Express is year to year faster in Poland
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
Last year 120 million, this year 100 million euros investment in Poland. The world's second largest food retailer works since 1997 in Poland, it started an intensive expansion in 2005....
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Metro sold the Extra Retail Chain in Germany
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
From July Rewe will rename 245 Extra stores, in 2004 the company bought 119 Extra shops. The sale of Extra enables Metro to concentrate its food retailing operations solely on...
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Toblerone 100 years succes
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
An exhibition in Bern salute for Toblerone, what is one of the 20 most well known Switzer brand. Theodor Tobler (Jean Tobler's son) and Emil Baumann (production manager and Tobler's...
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Weak dollar hits Delhaize Group revenue
Date: 2008-01-18 00:00:00
Delhaize has more than 1,300 supermarkets in the United States and plans 146-156 new one. Fourth-quarter group sales declined 3.4 percent to 4.68 billion euros ($6.94 billion), matching the average...
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