News and articles
The GKI – Microsoft's business competitiveness and environmental indices
Date: 2009-10-16 00:04:00
The Competitiveness Index (VEX) decreased in the second quarter of 2009, in all countries, including Hungary. The value of the business environment index (UX) is slightly higher, compared to the...
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Financial investor bought the Borsod Brewery
Date: 2009-10-16 00:03:25
World's largest brewery, the Anheuser-Busch InBev sells its subsidiaries in Central Europe and the Balkans – including Borsodi Brewery. The buyer is the CVC Capital Partners venture capital firm, which...
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Széchenyi Card: seven hundred billion loan outplacement
Date: 2009-10-16 00:03:02
Seven years, 700 billion HUF loan outplacement, 120 thousand cards, more than 150 thousand requests – this is the Széchenyi-card balance. The government will continue to support the most successful,...
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Auchan expands the range of own branded products
Date: 2009-10-16 00:02:59
Auchan Hungary Ltd., expects expansion from the introduction of private label products. According to the company’s CEO, it will not counteract the traffic decrease caused by the crisis. According to...
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Food collecting at Tesco hypermarkets
Date: 2009-10-16 00:02:00
On the occasion of World Food Day, national Food collecting will be held on 16th and 17th October in Tesco hypermarkets. In the course of the action,anyone can put food...
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Hungarian DIY chain to keep the competitiveness on the domestic market
Date: 2009-10-16 00:01:25
The Hungarian DIY retailers are trying to compete against the chain of stores with common image and procurement. So far, 16 retailers are grouped under the Ezermester (Handyman) name plate,...
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Tesco-town at the Olympic Games
Date: 2009-10-16 00:00:30
Tesco is also preparing for the 2012 London Olympic Games. As the part of the preparation not only the store, but a town quarter would be built not far from...
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Nescafe Dolce Gusto arrived to Hungary
Date: 2009-10-16 00:00:15
The joint creation of Nescafe and Krups, the Dolce Gusto brings genuine coffee house atmosphere to home, arrived to Hungary. The Dolce Gusto is more than a coffee machine it...
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Slovakian giant in the Hungarian meat industry
Date: 2009-10-15 00:04:28
The Slovakian financial investor, the Penta group’s Hungarian meat companies merging has been completed. The Debrecen Meat Zrt., the Szole-Meat Ltd. of Szolnok and the Csabahús Ltd. of Békéscsaba have...
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The U.S. retail trade turnover increased without the car industry
Date: 2009-10-15 00:04:02
U.S. retail sales fell by 1.5 percent in September. This is the biggest drop, since last December. But if the car industry is not taken into account, a more than...
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Gyulai Meat Ltd: One billion loan with government guarantee
Date: 2009-10-15 00:03:45
Gyulai Meat Ltd. got a one billion working capital loan and signed a contract over government guarantee. – The company got the one billion HUF commercial bank lending for five...
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GVH: Tesco ads are not infringing
Date: 2009-10-15 00:02:00
The message of Tesco's price comparison ads are that; in the Tesco always will be some product that is cheaper, than the Interspar – stated the Competition Authority (GVH) which...
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Trigránit starts to build an entertainment center competing wit Las Vegas
Date: 2009-10-15 00:01:35
TriGranit plans to build Europe's leading entertainment, commercial centre, in the outskirts of Pozsony. The built area of Metropolis will be over 1.2 million square meters, the investment value will...
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Franchise even stronger during crisis
Date: 2009-10-15 00:01:21
The long-term survival of franchise systems has much more chanse, compared to other businesses. The economic crisis – due to the usage of network benefits – may increase the benefits...
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New Aldi store is building in Tatabánya
Date: 2009-10-15 00:00:45
Aldi supermarket chain bought a two hectar area from the Local Government of Tatabánya. The facility’s construction permits have been partially completed. The property can be found near the main...
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NaturAqua celebrates Zalaszentgrót’s 25th birthday with a special label
Date: 2009-10-15 00:00:30
” Happy 25th birthday Zalaszentgrót!” – NaturAqua celebrates Zalaszentgrót’s 25th anniversary of inauguration to city with this label.The town locates in the valley of the Zala River and is the...
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Heineken Hungaria continues charitable initiative
Date: 2009-10-15 00:00:12
Heineken continues its social responsibility program. The company expresses its commitment for the development of towns with traditional beer breweries with the for Sopron / for Martfű program. The 2008-launched...
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Fine tunes on food code
Date: 2009-10-14 00:15:00
The Parliament adopted the law proposal, about the prohibition of unfair distribution practices against agricultural and food suppliers, which was sent back by the President of the Republic for consideration....
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Anuga 2009: New Releases and high quality; trying to meet with the changing needs of the consumers
Date: 2009-10-14 00:08:00
The first four days from the World’s greatest food fair, with Hungarian eyes – Bajai Ernő reports from Cologne: – This is the 11th Anuga, in which we participate. Now...
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Prices increased by 4.9 percent in a year
Date: 2009-10-14 00:05:58
The monthly inflation rate was 0.1 percent in September. Compared to last September, the prices have increased 4.9 percent. In the first nine months, prices were 3.9 percent higher than...
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The Minister of Agriculture would give bonus support to the dairy industry
Date: 2009-10-14 00:05:00
Twenty Minister of Agriculture would separate an additional 300 million euros, for the support of the community milk market from next year's EU budget. The amount would came from resources...
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Csabahús: two hundred million investment
Date: 2009-10-14 00:03:30
The capacity-increasing 240 million HUF investment of the Békéscsaba meat plant was handed over. Békéscsaba meat plant which is the member of Debreceni group and is a part of Penta...
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German optimism seems to fade away
Date: 2009-10-14 00:03:25
ZEW institute's German economic mood index decreased from the 57.7 points of September to 56 points in October, while analysts expected 58.3 points. According to the preliminary expectations of the...
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The result of Cerbona improved
Date: 2009-10-14 00:03:12
Cerbona Food and Commercial Zrt. published the results of the first nine months of 2009. The pre-tax profit is 32.5 million HUF, which is a significant improvement, compared to the...
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The third Henkel Innovation Challenge International Student Competition has started
Date: 2009-10-14 00:02:42
Henkel launched the third Innovation Challenge International Student Competition, which calls for creative product ideas from students. In the course of the “Create the future with the Henkel” slogan the...
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The Cherry Queen supported the first Central European Korona event
Date: 2009-10-14 00:02:00
The introduction of the new Cherry Queen tastes campaign connected to the Korona event, that was orgainsed for Haas & Czjzek porcelain and crystal store’ 130th birthday. The participants of...
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Anuga’s exhibitors and visitors are seeking for a way out of the crisis
Date: 2009-10-13 00:03:25
Anuga, the world's largest food fair reached its half-point on Monday. The more than ever additional events indicate that market players are consciously and specifically looking for development opportunities. In...
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The Conscious Consumer Index has strengthened
Date: 2009-10-13 00:02:35
The latest Conscious Consumer Index (TVI) of Kirakat.hu and Ipsos slightly increased in the first half of 2009. The loyalty index toward Hungarian products has increased a lot, but consumers...
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A significant drop in agricultural producer prices
Date: 2009-10-13 00:02:08
The agricultural producer price level in August fell by 11.8 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. The price of plant products decreased by 16.4, live animals...
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Dreher’s non-alcoholic beer has success
Date: 2009-10-13 00:01:55
The Dreher 24, is the first non-alcoholic beer with real beer taste, has been marketed a year ago. The introduction of the new product was a great success, so Dreher...
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