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OTP-economic index: SME sector's prospects further deteriorated
Date: 2012-01-11 12:50:27
OTP Bank’s economic activity index for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has decreased to another nadir. The confidence of the SME sector’s managers further reduced – told the OTP...
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German economic performance decreased in the last quarter
Date: 2012-01-11 12:49:28
In Germany – adjusted with price effects – a 3 percent increase occurred in the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011. The data of the German Statistical Office met the...
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Orange juice on a 30-year record level
Date: 2012-01-11 12:20:41
he futures rate of orange juice increased to a three decades peak, backed by an official investigation. If the finds investigation will detect that the products that are used during...
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The Spar locked and withdrawn its stocks, originates from Aqua-Pet
Date: 2012-01-11 12:11:42
The Spar Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft. locked and withdrawn the mineral water stocks manufactured by the Aqua-Pet Kft. – informed the company on Wednesday. The action was made after the Animal...
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Tesco gathered twenty million forints to the Hungarian Interchurch Aid Organisation
Date: 2012-01-11 12:10:26
As the result of Tesco’s voucher action twenty million HUF was gathered for the Hungarian Interchurch Aid Organisation. The szeretet.éhség (love.hunger) fundraising action was launched on the 28th of November...
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Magazine: Economic insecurity rewrites the definition of luxury item
Date: 2012-01-11 11:22:57
Forbes magazine published an article about the conquest of hiding luxury, which started in about 2008. Instead of showing off fashionable and very expensive brand names discretion prevails. At the...
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American optimism prevails
Date: 2012-01-11 10:43:36
Despite continuing high unemployment and a persistently challenging economy, a majority of Americans say they are optimistic about 2012 both in terms of the country as a whole (62%) as...
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Cafeteria is still an important tool of motivation
Date: 2012-01-11 10:41:39
losely related to employee satisfaction and morale, employee motivation may be considered both an action and a status. The action occurs when management takes steps to foster a work environment...
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Exhibitors and visitors are becoming more active
Date: 2012-01-11 10:00:03
Trade fairs and exhibitions play a key role in strengthening trade relations with foreign markets. The importance of Russian and Asian events keeps growing but the leading trade fairs are...
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AKI: increase in agricultural producer prices
Date: 2012-01-11 08:50:32
In Hungary, agricultural producer prices typically rose; the producer price of cereals and oilseeds, or the producer price of pork was significantly above the level of the same period of...
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Retail food sales edge up 4% in 2011
Date: 2012-01-10 13:58:21
According to market research company Nielsen, retail food sales in Hungary rose 4% in value terms in the twelve months to last November from the previous twelve-month period. Sales of...
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Transfer-price business breakfast – an invitation
Date: 2012-01-10 13:26:51
A brand new business breakfast is going to open its gates by PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers Hungary Ltd.) on 26th January 2012, with a major focus on transfer-prices which had been introduced...
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New CEO at Unilever Food Solutions
Date: 2012-01-10 13:10:55
Csaba Burján has been working for Unilever for 18 years and has gained experience at various financial and sales jobs within the FMCG and cosmetics sphere. The expert used to...
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Half billion HUF for the hungarikum related tasks
Date: 2012-01-10 12:50:35
In the near future, the Cabinet rearranges about 500 million forints from to hungarikum related tasks – reports Magyar Nemzet. According to the newspaper the rearrangement is expected to be...
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The entertainment industry's revenue this year may rise over a thousand billion USD
Date: 2012-01-10 12:38:18
According to the forecast of the CEA; the entertainment industry's revenues this year may rise over a thousand billion USD, due to the distribution of smart phones and tablet PCs....
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K&H Bank: a new department dealing with the financing of agriculture and food industry
Date: 2012-01-10 12:34:07
The K&H is one of Hungary's leading financial institutions, and it is traditionally strong among the agricultural and related – primarily food – companies. This is proven by the fact...
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The global advertising market is growing despite the euro crisis
Date: 2012-01-10 12:32:25
The Warc has modified its 2012 forecasts for the global advertising market. According to the company's experts; the sector will grow by 5.4 percent this year, this a 0.9 percentage...
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The two-thirds of the sites offering consumer loans are irregular
Date: 2012-01-10 12:26:54
Only 30 percent of the 562 websites, that are offering consumer credit investigated by the national authorities are line with EU consumer protection rules – said the Competition Authority's website...
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Simply Mediterranean – Italian Catholic food industry focuses on domestic products
Date: 2012-01-10 12:25:14
The first Catholic Italian food portal, the Simply Med offers less expensive and only domestic products, which aims to help to the crisis-stricken families and parishes as well as the...
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Lidl launches its own branded mobile service
Date: 2012-01-10 12:20:58
In the first few months of the year, dthe domestic range can be expanded with a new mobile brand. The Lidl.supermarket chain launches its own branded mobile service. The business...
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U.S. consumer credit loans on a decade high level
Date: 2012-01-10 12:10:59
According to the datas publsihed by Fed; the U.S. consumer lendings in November increased by much more than expected by, 20.4 billion dollars, has not seen since November 2001. On...
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Magazine: Quality, health and reliable base materials are the appeal of Hungarian products
Date: 2012-01-10 12:08:18
According to Ágnes Villányi, Nielsen’s commercial relations director six out of ten consumers find it important to buy Hungarian food products. One third of them told the main reason is...
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Tesco doubled its charity sum
Date: 2012-01-10 10:52:25
Tesco, in strong co-operation with the Hungarian Ecomenic Charity have launched their campaign on 28th November, under the name love.hunger, within the compass of which customers have purchased 200 Huf-coupons...
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Dangerous goods competence for the Romanian market
Date: 2012-01-10 10:43:32
Dachser strengthens its European network with one of the most modern dangerous goods warehouses in the region. Dachser has opened a dangerous goods warehouse near Bucharest with an area of...
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Uncertainties around the bill-hungaricum
Date: 2012-01-09 13:10:42
The government bill on Hungarikum law aims major goals. But the bills has several problems. Neither the text of the proposal or the budget does not indicate the source of...
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Analysts continue to expect growth in trade surplus
Date: 2012-01-09 13:00:32
Although the trade surplus of 666 million euros of November 2011 is expected to be smaller than the analysts’ expectations further surplus is expected in the trade balance. The Central...
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Unprecedented scale in shopping tourism near the border
Date: 2012-01-09 12:55:39
Slovakian buyers are storming stores of Hungary; unprecedented scale occurred in shopping tourism near the border, because the forint / euro exchange rate was at a historical peak, even 320...
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Strongbow Gold: the secret gold of Klapka
Date: 2012-01-09 12:52:50
A new product, a new brand has been launched within the compass of a special campaign by Heineken: Strongbow Gold apple cider was intruduced to the widest audience as György...
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NFH: there are many infringing sales presentations
Date: 2012-01-09 12:35:25
The staff of the consumer protection authority were found out that the organizers of the presentations did not carry out their commercial activities in accordance with the law in 63...
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The winemakers of the Somló wine region urges for unity
Date: 2012-01-09 12:34:14
The winemakers of the Somló wine region urges for the unity of the winemakers of the Somló wine region in Devecser on Monday. The hill judge of the mountain village...
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