Company and Personal News
                    Maspex investing in The Ukraine
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Maspex is to establish a sugar processing plant in the Ukraine. The EUR 50 million .project of the Polish soft drinks manufacturer will be completed in three years. Revenues of...
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                    Mattel's executive vice-president said not the chinese  producers made mistake
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-24 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The vast majority of those products that were recalled were the result of a design flaw in Mattel's design, not through a manufacturing flaw in China's manufacturers U.S. toy...
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                    Coop protects closing on Sundays
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-24 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Most of the 32,000 employees are women, who could be with their family on Sundays – said Laszlo Muranyi, CEO of Coop Hungary Zrt. Coop is owned by 300,000 small...
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                    Paul Bulcke is Nestle's next chief executive
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-24 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The 53 years old Bulcke will take over the role in April, when current chief executive and chairman Peter Brabeck relinquishes his executive responsibility and becomes simply chairman. The...
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                    Silver medal for György-Villa Pinot noir rosé
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-21 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Two hungarian wines won silver medal at the Mondial du Pinot Noir, in its 10th year, one of them was the product of the György-Villa Kft. This Pinot noir rose...
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                    HostLogic development direct for food industry companies
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-21 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The new ERP based service developed by HostLogic, an audited SAP hosting partner, covers the food industry's special demands. The program models the food industry companies all business and producing...
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                    Coop rally secondly
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-20 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The racers, suppliers of Coop visiting stores and producer plants too. CEOs of hungarian food industry companies by the dozen will tour the country on Thursday and Friday at the...
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                    Héliosz-Coop Kft. closed the producing
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-20 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The excellent quality hungarian Salina cooking oil disappears from the stores' shelves. The small plant, as the other minor plants couldn't manage the cost decrease of raw material. Last year...
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                    Unilever the third valuable brand in Europe
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-19 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Finnish phone maker Nokia is Europe's most valuable brand is Nokia, which the study estimates is worth EUR 32.332 billion.According to the brand value study by the European Brand Institute,...
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                    Patrón Spirits at East-Europe
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Las Vegas-based Patrón said its entry into the Czech market follows a record-setting year for the company in Europe. Company has finalised a distribution deal for the Czech market with...
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                    The Hungarian Unilever probably will be not closed
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
												                    
				
                A supervising is probably, but the good efficiency indexes protect the hungarian arm of Unilever from the axe. From June the Hungarian Unilever is the middle east-european regional center and...
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                    Hame buys another Romanian food maker
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market. Production of pates and canned meat will not continue in Antrefrig, it...
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                    Pepsi wants to make Lipton Eistea more popular
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
												                    
				
                PepsiCo and Unilever have announced a major expansion of their Lipton RTD tea business joint venture. The two companies confirmed that the partnership will spread to a further 11 countries...
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                    Horváth Rudolf Intertransport Kft. has opened its new logistic base in Hatvan
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The investition costs USD 4.5 million, the hall is almost 10,000 sqm and lying in the industrial park of Hatvan. One day before an other company opened its logistic hall...
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                    Map on Theodora's bottles
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Directorate of the National Park at Balaton and the Kekkuti Mineralwater company signed an 5 years agreement about using the map of the Balaton National Park on the Theodoras' bottles....
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                    Marks & Spencer takes plastic clothes hanger back
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Research suggests Britain has 540 million surplus coat hangers, weighing 17,000 tons. It is suggested as many as 100million a year are thrown away and sent to landfill, where they...
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                    Succesful beginning of Tesco „Color”
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
												                    
				
                One week after the start, the Tesco „Color” has big success at the customers. Color-products had a huge sales, the most popular was the frozen noodle, but the meat...
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                    Reál Hungária for Sunday store stop
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The company believes in public regulation, where describe that only the small shops in family ownership and the marketplaces could open at Sundays. Tibor Kujbus, CEO of Reál said the...
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                    Lidl privat label brands in the Netherlands and Sweden
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Fairglobe consists of the six products: bananas, coffee, tea, juice, chocolate bars and cane sugar. Lidl is also increasing its promotion and new products development in Italy, where the company...
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                    SABMiller invests in Romania
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The beer giant is set to invest EUR50m in expanding production and modernising its facility in Timisoara. The company's Ursus Breweries subsidiary in the country confirmed that it will plough...
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                    New retail chain – RIA by Interfruct
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The founder of RIA – the Interfruct Kft. calculates on 80 new member, independent stores, this year, and another 500 next year. The members of the chain will get several...
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                    Grolsch increases its profit
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The Dutch brewer said that operating profit for the six months to the end of June rose to EUR11m compared to EUR10.2m in the corresponding period a year earlier. The...
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                    Loss of Lipton fails to hold Campari back in H1
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Campari's wine division performed particularly well, bringing in a 19.7% lift in sales, hitting EUR56.9m. Group net profit rose by 2.5%. The Italian drinks company said today that operating profit...
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                    InBev prepares heavy investment for Belgian breweries
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
												                    
				
                InBev is looking to invest up to EUR60m in operations at three of its breweries. The Belgium-based beer giant confirmed that it will plough the money into its Hoegaarden, Jupille...
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                    Brandcasting and Music Factory at the Coca-Cola summer campaign
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Online concerts and 35,000 songs in the music collection at Sziget Festival. The innovative new marketing elements, developed by Neo Interactive enriched big success at the target group. At the...
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                    Coca-Cola makea recycling popular
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The incentive for members of the public to recycle more will be cash prizes of up to £18,000 for local Football League clubs to spend on youth development. Coca-Cola Great...
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                    CBA protects the Sunday shop stop
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
												                    
				
                It is not necessary that the shops are open on every day – said Katalin Neubauer, CEO of CBA Retail Chain. According to the leaders and 30,000 workers of CBA...
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                    Coca-Cola Invests $60 Million
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
												                    
				
                Coca-Cola Co. will invest more than $60 million to build a plastic bottle recycling plant in Spartanburg, USA. The plant will produce 100 million pounds of food-grade recycled plastic for...
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                    Unilever has developed more salt-reduced products
                    
                        
																								Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
												                    
				
                The range of products within the Pot Noodle brand will now contain 50 per cent less salt than in 2005, continuing the company's programme to reduce salt levels in all...
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