News and articles
ZEW-index: German economic sentiment fell
Date: 2011-08-23 12:49:39
In August, a significant deterioration occurred in the economic sentiment in Germany – shows the survey of ZEW. The main index decreased from -15.1 points to -37.6 points (a level...
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More and more fast-food restaurants in Russia
Date: 2011-08-23 12:49:36
The American fast-food restaurants have become a global phenomenon several years ago. China and India continue to be a rapidly developing market, but the industry finds a growing demand also...
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11 percent of the British retail spaces are empty
Date: 2011-08-23 12:45:58
More than 10 percent of the retail spaces were empty at the end of May – told the British Retailers Consortium (BRC) on Monday. The organization's research found that an...
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Cheap Ukrainian wheat can break down the prices
Date: 2011-08-23 12:41:41
The cheap Ukrainian wheat also occured in Hungary, after the traders of the EU applied for permits for the imports of more than 1.6 million tons of grain in July...
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Vegetarian Festival in the Weekend
Date: 2011-08-23 12:30:53
Macrobiotic and vegetarian tasting sessions, organic and organic-based product presentations, nutrition specialist lectures, relax and dance lessons and many interesting programs are awaiting the participants of this year's Vegetarian Festival...
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Important state award to Coop-collegues
Date: 2011-08-23 11:15:48
Three collegues of Coop Ltd have received the most important state award on 20th August, namely the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Republic. Dr. József Tóth, president-CEO of Coop Tisztaföldvár,...
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Magazine: margarine plays an important role in shopping frequency
Date: 2011-08-23 10:58:51
Margarine retail sales declined by 3 percent in both value and volume in the April 2010-March 2011 period, compared with the same period a year before. The annual market was...
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PICK sees an increase
Date: 2011-08-23 10:36:42
PICK has kept is market-leading position, and even saw a 0.5 percent increase in spite of difficult market situation. Among many other things, this is linked to the great marketing...
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(HU) A Rauch bemutatja a Happy Day Spritzer-t, a frissítők új kategóriáját
Date: 2011-08-23 09:59:43
Happy Day Spritzer is pleasantly carbonated and fruity, but at the same time it is a tender combination of flavours that makes a real novelty on the fruit drinks market,...
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Sió-Eckes helping with school-start
Date: 2011-08-23 09:03:32
Sió-Eckes Co. is going on with their four-year old charity program, called Thank you, Sió!. This year, the program has supported more than a thousand primary schhol children in need,...
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Red Bull sports programs are on
Date: 2011-08-23 08:49:06
Moments before the final, a massive thunderstorm was threatening to soak Red Bull Manny Mania, yet miraculously the clouds parted and Joey Brezinski was able to skate his way back...
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Europe-wide srowth slowdown
Date: 2011-08-22 13:40:17
As noted in our Eurozone Outlook update, forward-looking PMI indicators clearly signal a sharp slowdown ahead, including in core economies, as shown by the new-orders-to-inventory ratios in the manufacturing sector,...
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Private pension fund real-returns are in banks
Date: 2011-08-22 13:30:44
A survey carried out on behalf of Budapest Bank and Budapest Alapkezelő found that Hungarian do spend their the real return of their private pension funds, but prefer to place...
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Compensation to Pécs-companies
Date: 2011-08-22 13:15:23
The municipiality of Pécs is willing to pay compensation fee of 45 million HUF to 38 Pécs-based companies which needed to be closed temporarily due to investments of European Capital...
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(HU) A német versenyképesség fenntartásához évi 400 ezer bevándorló szükséges
Date: 2011-08-22 12:35:09
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Farmer Expo attracted 30 thousand visitors
Date: 2011-08-22 12:30:32
Over 30000 visitors and 300 exhibitors were present at this year's Farmer Expo at UD's Centre for Agriculture. The 20th Farmer Expo was organized this August on the campus of...
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Magazine: Consumers spread less margarine on their slice of bread
Date: 2011-08-22 11:26:40
– Base material prices have grown like never before and as a result product prices augmented, so a difficult year awaits distributors – says Ágota Puskás, category operations assistant manager...
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SPAR voted for Hungarian melon, too
Date: 2011-08-22 10:52:46
The Hungarian Melon Association and FruitVeb with the support of the Agricultural Marketing Centre spendt more than 20 million HUF, to stimulate the consumption of Hungarian melon domestically. The promotional...
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State award at Univer
Date: 2011-08-22 10:43:57
The Minister of Rural Development has awaded Univer's director of corporate relations Györgyné Marosfi with the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Republic on 19th August 2011. The expert has been...
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StarBev eyes international expansion for Staropramen
Date: 2011-08-22 10:41:13
StarBev has announced ‘significant investments’ in its Staropramen brand, as it eyes international expansion. The company has invested €1.2m in a new visitor centre at its Staropramen brewery in Prague,...
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Auchan contra GVH
Date: 2011-08-22 10:34:44
The Municipal Court of Justice of the Auchan Hungary Ltd., because the Office of Economic Competition (GVH) Procedure of the Competition Council fined HUF 30 million, claiming that the retail...
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Support to Kézenfogva Foundation by Lidl Hungary
Date: 2011-08-22 10:32:51
Lidl Hungary has supported Kézenfogva Foundation with a more than 1 million HUF, as a whole 1 184 000 HUF. The money came from Cien suncreams sold between 9th June...
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Russia at the Budavári Pálinka and Sausage Festival
Date: 2011-08-22 10:27:07
In the romantic Buda Castle, on the Savoya Terrace, twenty palinka brewers and ten professional sausage makers present their mastery at the 2011 Buda Castle Palinka and Sausage Festival, offering...
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New science information system at six CBA-stores
Date: 2011-08-22 10:07:49
The new, customer-friendly CBA CENT store has a brand new science information technology. Among many other equippments, newly improved touchpad IMP cash-machimes and MK500 price-control machines, and NCR space-scanners are...
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HP cutting off PC department may affect upstream supply chain
Date: 2011-08-22 08:22:52
As Hewlett-Packard (HP) decided to perhaps spin off its PC business, which contributes revenues of about US$40 billion, it is becoming more obvious that HP intends to turn its focus...
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Breweries against drunk driving
Date: 2011-08-22 07:46:39
Breweries have decided to create a speciasl event in order to call attention to the importance of responsible drinking, which was launched on 25th July, the Day of Sober Responsible...
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Bakers do not plan price increases until the end of September
Date: 2011-08-19 14:15:18
Bakers are waiting for the stabilizing of flour prices, but then the bread may become more expensive if production costs rise. Kurdi András, the President of the Hungarian Bakers' Associatuin...
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Domestic winemakers urging the strict quality control of imported wines
Date: 2011-08-19 13:55:02
Domestic winemakers and the association of farmers ask for the intervention of the Ministry of Agriculture to repel the dubious origin import wines in order to defend the domestic grape...
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Morgan Stanley: the momentum of the global economy decreasing, business and consumer confidence declining
Date: 2011-08-19 13:30:45
Morgan Stanley modified the expected global growth rate for this year from 4.2 percent to 3.9 percent. The correction was made with reference to the not appropriate policy reactions for...
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Without subsidies, the breeding of native species is impossible
Date: 2011-08-19 12:50:21
Despite the expansion of mangalica and gray cattle products in trade, only the support can help the breeders of the local native animals to escape even without losses. Without the...
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