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Unbroken success last year
Date: 2012-05-03 20:09:41
Róbert Bárdi, sales director with Dunapack Kft. told our magazine that 2011 was a good year for the stronghold of domestic corrugated cardboard manufacturing: their sales revenue was HUF 31...
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GfK: the market sales have doubled over the last ten years
Date: 2012-05-03 12:30:24
According to the datas of the GfK Hungária research institute, the value of market sales have doubled over the last ten years. People mainly visit markets in the capital and...
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KSH: Slight increase in the foreign trade market turnover in February
Date: 2012-05-03 12:25:26
In February this year, the volume of exports exceeded last year’s datas by 1.1, while the volume of imports by 1.4 percent. In the first two months the volume of...
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The fruit distillate industry's performance continued to grow
Date: 2012-05-03 12:18:07
The quantity of pálinka increased by 27 percent, and was a total of 4.526 million hectoliter degree, which was boiled by 277,590 person. Their number was 33 percent more than...
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Vines had to be recultivated on the Great Plains
Date: 2012-05-03 12:13:04
Conflicting news appeared on severe frost damages in the vineyards. It will turn out in the end of May, how much damage the Easter freeze and in the winter caused...
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Metro’s revenues increased by seven percent in Eastern Europe
Date: 2012-05-03 12:11:13
In the first quarter of 2012 Metro’s performance was proper to the expectations of the analysts, however in case of operating profit, the company made a loss, that caused a...
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The Czech part of the Schlecker German drugstore chain was purchased
Date: 2012-05-03 12:10:21
The Czech part of the Schlecker German drugstore was purchased by the Czech p.k.Solvent (PKS) company. The TETA, that has 700 stores is now the property of PKS. This is...
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Magfrut: good sales opportunities for the Hungarian fruits and vegetables
Date: 2012-05-03 12:08:03
Hungarian producers can transport large quantities of asparagus, melons, pears, cherries and various salads from Hungary to Italy and to many other States of Western Europe – said Luciano Trentini,...
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Grumpy notes at the beginning of the year
Date: 2012-05-03 12:01:38
As an active ‘headhunter’ I am experiencing the influx of expats for the second time. The first wave came in the early 1990s and now because of the second wave...
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Tesco auctions its used assets
Date: 2012-05-03 12:00:17
Tesco auctions its used assets. The value of the 139 items is about 35 thousand euros on starting price. According to the communication of Intergavel Aukciószervező Kft. the Internet auction...
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Magazine: Steel bean
Date: 2012-05-03 11:59:05
Coffee and tea drinkers hate it when their taste buds are burnt by the hot drink. Coffee Joulies was invented by two young Americans. Thanks to a special non-toxic material...
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The rental of luxury goods can be the new trend in China
Date: 2012-05-03 10:40:21
Beside the sale and purchase of luxury brand products their rental is also increasing in China. According to the datas of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the sales of luxury goods in 2011 exceeded...
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Low consmer confidence index in Hungary
Date: 2012-05-02 13:18:53
Global consumer confidence increased five index points to 94 in Q1 2012, according to global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what...
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GKI: Something happened. Or not?
Date: 2012-05-02 12:38:55
The forint strengthened considerably last week after the news that the obstacles to the IMF negotiations might be eliminated soon. GKI forecasts that the implementation of the Szell Kalman Plan...
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Chamber of Agriculture: vegetable, fruit and tobacco growers can claim for support
Date: 2012-05-02 12:10:30
In the scope of the vegetable, fruit and tobacco restructuring national program, the farmers can claim for support in a single application – announced the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture. On...
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VM: the school milk program to be relieved
Date: 2012-05-02 12:10:13
An institution operator can sign a delivery contract with even more processors in the future, contains among other things, the amendment of the school milk program. According to the Wednesday...
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The regulation containing the detailed rules of the declaration of the food chain monitoring fee has been published
Date: 2012-05-02 12:05:12
The regulation controlling the declaration and payment of the food chain monitoring fee, lists the scope of those who should pay, the rate of fee and the payment deadlines. The...
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One of this year’s largest logistics company merge successfully completed in the Czech Republic
Date: 2012-05-02 12:00:37
On the 1st of May 2012, the Czech Republic’s logistics market witnessed the successful fusion of the Raben Logistics Czech a.s., the Transkam-Logistik spol. s.r.o. and the Raben Trans European...
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Gold Friday Reloaded
Date: 2012-05-02 11:55:42
The Gold Friday campaign of the Dreher Sörgyárak Zrt. in connection with the Arany Ászok brand was relaunched in April this year. The campaign last year has brought renewal not...
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New dm store opened in Pilisvörösvár
Date: 2012-05-02 11:50:40
The dm drugstore chain opened its new store in Pilisvörösvár on the 26th April 2012. On the occasion of the opening the drugstore chain awaits the customers with 5X points...
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Pepsi has launched an advertising offensive
Date: 2012-05-02 11:30:45
Pepsi began a large offensive: in the first quarter the company spent 25 percent more on advertising than a year earlier. The marketing campaign is the part of a major...
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Festival of Balaton wines in Budapest
Date: 2012-05-02 10:10:46
The wines of 35 wines cellars, including Kreinbacher, Laposa, Pálffy and Szászi Winery, as well as gastronomic and cultural offer await the guests of the 4th Balaton wine festival between...
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Kiwi fruits are being planted in Zala county
Date: 2012-05-02 09:52:00
A five-hectare kiwi plantation is installed near Becsehely, Zala county. The producers would harvest the first fruits three years later. The installation of Hungary's first utility-scale kiwi orchard has been...
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Nielsen: 6 percent growth in value, stability in terms of volume
Date: 2012-04-27 17:19:26
Global consumer confidence increased five index points to 94 in Q1 2012, according to global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what...
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Food sales picked up at Easter
Date: 2012-04-27 13:32:34
Food sales picked up during the Easter period. According to the informations of the chain of stores, the sales of hams increased the most. Among the typical food products of...
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KSH: 59 thousand more people worked in the first quarter than a year ago
Date: 2012-04-27 13:10:08
In this year's first quarter, the number of employees was 3 million 791 thousand, 59 thousand more than a year ago – told the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Friday,...
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The handover documents of the Cora stores were signed
Date: 2012-04-27 13:07:51
The handover documents of the Cora stores were signed on Friday afternoon – said Gillemot Katalin, Auchan spokesperson to MTI. The spokesperson said that from the afternoon, the stores will...
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Öko-Pannon: the new product-fee regulation can increase costs and administration
Date: 2012-04-27 12:55:57
According to the ÖKO-Pannon Kft., that coordinates separate waste collection and recovery, the new product-fee regulation can increase costs and administration significantly. However, the National Waste Management Agency draws attention...
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Magazine: Modest improvement in the Mediterranean
Date: 2012-04-27 12:47:16
The proportion of consumers in the Mediterranean who think their country is in economic recession: Portugal: 97 percent, Italy: 95 percent, Spain: 92 percent. In Italy FMCG retail sales augmented...
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Commercial toplist 2011: Tesco, CBA, Coop leading the list
Date: 2012-04-27 12:19:01
In spite of the extremely low customer confidence, retail sales volume of food, household chemicals only saw a 1 percent decrease last year, compared to the previous year. The moderate...
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