News and articles
New leader at PwC Hungary
Date: 2012-02-09 12:54:19
From 1st July 2012, PwC Hungary has a new leader, Nick Kós. The 44 year-old Irish-Hungarian expert started his carreer at PwC in Ireland in 1990, then moved to Hungary...
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Allee shopping center: co-owners are wanted beside Allianz
Date: 2012-02-09 12:52:57
The the real estate developer ING Real Estate Development is selling the remaining 50 percent stake of South Buda's newest shopping center. ING RED spokesman informed that currently negotiations are...
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Diageo: profits decreased by one-fifth
Date: 2012-02-09 12:48:43
The world's largest bewerage manufacturer, the British Diageo Plc’s after tax profit was 953 million pounds in the first half its business year ended in December, 20 percent less than...
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Serbian authorities learn about Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed in Hungary
Date: 2012-02-09 12:40:30
The Ministry of Rural Development has held an international seminar for the experts of Serbian authorities on RASFF – Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed. The foreign ministers of...
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Randstad: Global employment trends in clients
Date: 2012-02-09 11:35:03
More needs to be done in order to ensure that the future of the jobs market is kept thriving, as countries across the globe continuously report that unemployment rates are...
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Scotland's most popular whiskey brand available in Hungary
Date: 2012-02-09 10:41:02
The most popular whiskey brand of Scotland, Famous Grouse has arrived to Hungary, the 115 year old “water of life” will undoubtly be very popular in Hungary, too. The Famous...
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Limited series of Makány Márta-shopping bags in Tesco
Date: 2012-02-09 08:36:11
10th February sees the release of the unique, Márta Makány design-bags in Tesco, which are available in limited series(50 thousand), in an environmentally friendly construction, in order to make shopping...
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KSH: foreign trade product sales increased by more than 10 percent last year
Date: 2012-02-08 13:26:53
According to preliminary datas, the Central Statistics Office (KSH), registered a double-digit growth of the forint and foreign currency value of the foreign trade product sales in 2011. In January-December...
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Foreign trade surplus will continue to grow this year
Date: 2012-02-08 13:10:29
Although the December trade surplus became lower than expected, analysts believe that surplus will continue to grow this year, partly due to the growth of export, partly and drop in...
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Several tonnes of dangerous food found in Europe
Date: 2012-02-08 13:00:49
Rancid olive oil, vinegar-smelling wine and inedible fish were also found throughout Europe, when authorities of ten countries struck on the distributors of false and dangerous foods, medical products and...
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Shoplifting costs billions, prevention pays off
Date: 2012-02-08 12:57:34
Shoplifting is not some force of nature, something can be done about it. Alert staff plus modern technology – only this combination reduces losses. Doing nothing is not an option,...
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Public scan at Auchan
Date: 2012-02-08 12:23:11
A public scan has been carried out at the Auchan store at Szentendrei út Budapest, by the Customer Protection Authority. The main goal of the scan was to illustrate how...
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Pike hatching begun in Rétimajor
Date: 2012-02-08 12:10:23
The artificial hatching of Pikes begun in Rétimajor at the Golden Carp Fishery Ltd. The company sells an annual 300 thousand units of pikes at both the foreign and domestic...
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Fruit Logistica is an important forum for Hungary
Date: 2012-02-08 12:03:53
Fruit Logistica is an important forum for Hungarian companies: 415.000 visitors attended from January 21st to 30th the “Grüne Woche” (Green Week) in Berlins Fair Center, and had the chance...
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McDonald's Hungary changes PR agency
Date: 2012-02-08 12:02:26
McDonald's Hungary works with a new public relations agency. The Noguchi Porter Novelli has won the commission on a multi-round tender – writes mmonline. The Noguchi will be responsible for...
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Magazine: Nine out of ten households buy mineral water
Date: 2012-02-08 11:53:57
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan survey, ninety percent of Hungarian households bought mineral water in 2010. Compared with 2009, the category’s reach expanded by 5 percentage points. Average volume purchased...
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The Tokaj wine region received historical landsape classification
Date: 2012-02-08 11:28:20
Réthelyi Miklós, National Resources Minister declared Tokaqj as a historical landscape. The Tokaj wine region appears on the World Heritage list of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
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Nokia – Layoffs in Komárom
Date: 2012-02-08 10:34:16
Nokia is laying off 2,300 people at its base in Komarom in northwestern Hungary, the company announced on Wednesday. Nokia said assembly would be deployed to Asia from Komarom, which...
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Egis revenue going high
Date: 2012-02-08 08:29:41
Shareholders of Hungarian drug maker Egis, majority-owned by France’s Servier, approved payment of a HUF 120-per-share dividend on after-tax profit from the business year ended September 30 at an annual...
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Hungarian industry’s momentum halt in the end of the year
Date: 2012-02-07 13:30:47
Industrial production was below expectations last December, but according to analysts, it cannot be drawn further far reaching conclusions from this data, because they consider the data brings a large...
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Magazine: The product fee law may change trends
Date: 2012-02-07 13:07:40
According to data collected by the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) from the database of KSH, in terms of value the domestic packaging industry produced a 14-percent...
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Hungary is a backmarker in consumer confidence
Date: 2012-02-07 13:05:03
The consumer confidence index in Hungary has dropped to 30 points from 61 points in two years. This index is the lowest in the world – states Nielsen market research...
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Ministry of Rural Development: beef exports to Turkey to be restarted
Date: 2012-02-07 13:03:43
The Turks agreed the measure package of the Hungarian authorities and, therefore, re-allowed the livestock, including beef imports from Hungary – told the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) to MTI...
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Opten: a further increase in the number of liquidations and dissolutions
Date: 2012-02-07 12:40:26
In January liquidation procceedings have started against 1,951 companies and dissolutions started against nearly two thousand companies. This is a 44 and 71 percent inncrease, compared to January 2011 –...
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Over two billion HUF after-tax profit for Zwack Unicum
Date: 2012-02-07 12:18:48
The Zwack Unicum Nyrt. increased its gross sales revenue by 1.8 percent, its after tax profit by 9.5 percent in its the first three quarters of its fiscal year ending...
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Super Bowl: the brewery spent millions on advertising
Date: 2012-02-07 12:13:56
The Anheuser-Busch U.S. brewery spent 15.75 million USD on TV advertising in four and a half minutes. It is true that it was broadcast during the finals of the Super...
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Charity wine auction gala with music in Győr
Date: 2012-02-07 12:07:23
Seven non-governmental organization organize a Charity wine auction gala together with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Győr on the 1st of March. With this year’s gala the Tocology of Győr Fondation,...
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The new Date ad by Heineken
Date: 2012-02-07 11:35:04
This may seem a bit weird to many of my readers, but so be it. The new Heineken ad, titled 'The Date' is a legendary date in action and highlights...
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Unilever Food Solutions launches its new brand proposition
Date: 2012-02-07 10:56:01
Unilever Food Solutions launches its new brand proposition with the release of a global authority report on the foodservice industry. The World Menu Report takes a close look at consumer...
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10 million HUF goes to happy winner purchasing Hungarian product
Date: 2012-02-07 10:18:29
This time, it was definitely worth purchasing Hungarian products. In 2011, as a whole, 245 gift packages worth 25 thousand HUF and 35 packages worth 100 thousand HUF have found...
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