News and articles
54 million Visa transactions in Hungary
Date: 2009-01-27 00:00:00
Point-of-sale (POS) transactions made with Visa cards in Hungary rose 22.9% in Visa Europe's business year ended September 30, the card issuer said. The amount of money spent on POS...
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GLOBUS sales up in Czech Republic
Date: 2009-01-27 00:00:00
German hypermarket and DIY store operator is currently building its 14th Czech hypermarket, located in Ostrava. The retailer increased its sales by CZK2.6 billion up to CZK22.7 billion in the...
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Three agrocultural exhibition simultaneously
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
260 exhibitors from 13 countries show their offer on 22,600 sqm between 28-31 January at AGRO+MASHEXPO, Hungarian Garden and Viticulture & Winery and the Hungarian Garden. According to the organizers...
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ALDI increased sales in Ireland
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
In 2008 the discounter said it would spend EUR350 million opening a further 32 stores in the country over the next three years. In the Republic of Ireland, Aldi has...
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Duffy become new face of Diet Coke
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
The singer will appear in a multi-million-pound campaign, that will be rolled out across Europe in a series of 30-second and one-minute television slots from February. Welsh singer Duffy has...
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Delhaize tests new concept store
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
The Red Market store in Gembloux, Belgium incorporates elements of various store concepts that the group has recently developed and implemented across the world. Red Market store has a store...
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Benefit for processor, retailer and consumer
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
The operetor of Quality Food from Hungary mark, the Agricultural Marketing Centre (AMC) urge on bigger collaboration. According to a new research by AMC, the Quality Food from Hungary mark...
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Lidl to build mineral water plant in Germany
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
According to press informations, Lidl and the existing Lidl-owned supplier MEG invest around EUR100 million into the new plant. Schwarz Group-owned discounter Lidl in Germany is reportedly planning to build...
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II. Mangalica Festival in Vajdahunyad Castle
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
In frame of the program the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture shows to cultur history of the mangalica pig, which is a unique. The three days event this time is organised...
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Tesco reedems PET bottles and drink alucans
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
The new system operates in 37 Tesco stores. The retailer pays HUF 5 for five PET bottles and HUF 10 for five drink alucans. At the formal opening of the...
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Acceptance of holiday cheques increased
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
From January 2009 people can pay movie ticket, libery entrance, internet or adult education with holiday cheques. The Hungarian Foundation of Holiday started its work 10 years ago. The aim...
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HUF 2.5 billion subvention for dairy firms
Date: 2009-01-26 00:00:00
Agriculture minister József Gráf promisse central protection programs because of the low procurement prices. The subvention means partly buying the dairy products, restart the school milk program in value of...
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OMV to reduce Austrian petrol station network
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
Company wants to lower costs, raise its efficiency and concentrate on locations with higher customer frequency through its convenience brand Viva. Austrian oil company OMV has announced that it is...
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Tesco became cheaper as a year before
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
More thousands of products are avelable under their last years price in Tesco units all over in Hungary. According to Monika Hackl, spokerperson of the retailer, Tesco helps people to...
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4,000 sqm big cold storage in Székesfehérvár
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
According to business daily Napi Gazdaság, the development costs of Alföldi Tej plant in the city was HUF 900 million. The new cold storages was technicaly open in December, but...
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Map of shopping in Auchan
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
French retailer has started to test a solution that aims to speed up shopping for customers by optimising their way through the store at its unit in Vélizy, France. To...
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Contactless payment at Carrefour France
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
The new card will be rolled out in France from 11 February 2009 by Carrefour's financial services division. Company hopes to sell 2.5 million PASS MasterCard cards in 2009 in...
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Extra duty for European food import
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
US wants to triple to 300 percent the import duty on world-famous Roquefort cheese, France turn to WTO. The US move was the latest volley in a larger, 13-year-old trade...
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Hungarians have more PC, DVD and CD player as the European average
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
According to Nielsen study people use more PC or laptops as watching tv. Nielsen asked 26,200 internet users in 52 countries about its home entertainment equipments. According to research 98%...
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One third of Hungarian on-line buyer are over 40 years
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
Internet is year to year more important as virtual market place – said GfK Hungária's Internet Insight Report. According to the survey the number of intensiv internet users grow by...
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X. Wine Growing Viniculture Conference in Eger
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Subtitle of the four days event is 'For Marketability of the Hungarian Wines', the main menu are wine marketing and developing the technology of wine growing viniculture. The conference was...
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Tesco CEO asked for easier credit for companies
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
The ECB lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point last week to 2 percent, its fourth cut in as many months, reacting to the deepening euro zone...
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Salmonellosis Is In Decline
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union and that the number of cases due to Salmonella infections in humans fell for the fourth year...
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Coca-Cola opens bottle recycling plant
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. and United Resource Recovery of Spartanburg unveiled a new $60 million “bottle-to-bottle” recycling facility. The state-of-the-art plant, said to be the largest of its kind in the...
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Auchan payed out its part-owner of its Romanian subsidiary
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Auchan increased its shareholding to 100% in MGV Distri-Hiper, founded on May 2005 to set up and operate stores under the Auchan banner in Romania. Auchan acquired a 29% stake...
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Environmental Ministry offers paper bags instead of plastic
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
This year the green tax has changed, retailer must to pay more after the small plastic bags. It is not necessary, that the price of fruits or bakery products must...
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Decission about Pápai Hús credit on beginning February
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Pápai Hús Kft. won the tender for Pápai Hús Zrt. „under liquadition” last year's end. The government assumed state guarantee on 80% of the loans, HUF 5.5 billion, the buyer...
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SPAR buys stores in UK
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Retail Week has reported that SPAR has bought 11 former Somerfield stores and it will convert the stores to its Eurospar format. Eurospar stores differ to SPAR stores in that...
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Penalty due to misleading ads and broken promissies
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Hungarian Compatition Authority imposed a fine on three big retailers in total value of HUF 14 million. Tesco have to pay HUF 10 million fine because misleading ads in its...
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Award for Kométa 99 Zrt.
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Company won the „Il Ponte” Award by the Hungarian – Italian Trade Chamber, on its Christmas party last year. The traditional event was organized by the chamber and the Polis...
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