News and articles
Tchibo to open first shop in Arena Plaza
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Tchibo's changing product ranges include everything from an exciting kid's toy to a fashionable jacket or a cool MP3 player. The start will be marked by the opening of the...
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A shipment of 47 tons of frozen sardines was rejected
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
The sardines, imported from a Japanese trading company originally from the United States were infected with disease-inducing bacteria. The report said sample inspections showed the sardines were infected with listeria...
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Deal with POS
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
A new website, megallitotabla.hu, started by Conint-Print. The site shows wide range of BTL tools. megallitotabla.hu can be a good start point for people interesting or working for BTL, retail...
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English owner at Plaza in Ozd
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Dawnay Day Carpathian PLC said it has acquired a retail portfolio of four properties from the Austria-based MID Group. The property investment company said that after the purchase costs, the...
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Bird flu in Russia
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
More than 230,000 birds have been culled at a poultry farm in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory. The lethal H5N1 virus was identified at the farm on 4th September. Following an...
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China has the third-largest economy
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Since 2002 China has advanced from the world's sixth-largest economy to No. 3, overtaking the U.K. and Germany and India and narrowing the gap with the world's two largest economies:...
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Nielsen's new software can decrease the assortment's loss at the stores
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
The research company developed a new software communicates between the producers and the retail places and can amend the product availability at the shops. The assortment's absence makes 4 billion...
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Politicians against throw-away bottles
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
MDF, Hungarian party said the traders should take back every kind of bottles. According to partei's opinion extension of the deposit cost for throw-away bottles would help to increase the...
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Zagorka invests to increase production capacity
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
Heineken's bulgarian brewery plans to invest EUR15m between 2008 and 2009. The company builds a new 2100 sq. m. warehouse and buy four new cyllindricconic tanks to extend its fermentation...
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Probiotic Club at Danone
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
Famous yoghurt eating stars joined to the exclusive club. The club members together with specialists popularize the probiotic food in front of media workers until year's end on three events....
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Theodora, the most public Hungarian mineral water
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
The Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt. has 16,5 share between Januar-August 2007 on the mineral water market. Since four years Theodora is the most public mineral water in Hungary. According to ACNielsen...
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7% decrease at the Confidence-index
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
55% of managers expect domestic demand to remain unchanged and 27% expect decreasing demand. The monthly Ecostat Top-100 index, a gauge of confidence at Hungary's biggest hundred companies dropped to...
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Less ready meals in Britain
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
According a survey despite time pressures, the majority of mothers are said to prefer to cook meals from scratch rather than open a jar or heat ready meals. The research,...
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A new Fornetti sandwich comes
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
With HUF 600-800 million investigation new logistic and research central to build. Soon comes the Fornetti specialty, taste like the old milk-loaf had. Last year Fornetti franchise companies had 66...
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Aldi eyes city centre locations
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
The success of Aldi's first city centre store at the Arndale Centre in Manchester has prompted the retailer to seek out further city centre locations as it continues with its...
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HUF 12 million conraband
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
Customs officers seized 31,000 cartons of cigarettes in a van. The worth of contraband cigarettes was 12 million forints, the products brought into the country from the Ukraine. The officers...
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Germans don't do shopping
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
In Surprise Fall German retail sales fell unexpectedly in August, affected by the impact of higher oil prices and the credit-market turmoil. Sales, adjusted for inflation and seasonal swings, fell...
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Foreign companies barred from importing meat into Russia
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
Over 80 foreign companies were stripped of meat import licences into Russia this year because of deemed poor quality. "The right to export meat to Russia was stripped from...
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Burger King to Debut Branded Snacks
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
A licensing agreement with The Inventure Group will put the snacks in retail outlets this fall. Beginning this month Burger King fans can have it their way at vending...
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Judgment of first instance at Paprika-action
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
The health of customers was not endangered, but they were mystifed by Szegedi Paprika Rt. . The company have to pay HUF 10 million fine. The first rate defendant, the...
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New retail manager at Acer
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
Laszlo Berente works first of all with the bigger retail chains and other top-partners. The specialist, economist and HR manager speaks english and until the last time worked at CHS...
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Auchan to invest in Portugal
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
The retail group will invest about 600 mln eur in Portugal over the next three years as part of an expansion plan. The group plans to expand its Pao de...
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Swiss cartel authorities back Aldi and Lidl expansion plans
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
Swiss regulators back expansion plans of German discount retailers Aldi and Lidl, Handelsblatt reported, citing a statement made by the Swiss cartel office. The report said the cartel office approved...
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METRO Group dashes in Turkey
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
Media Markt, brand of the METRO GROUP opens its first Turkish store in Istanbul. Following Metro Cash & Carry and Real, Media Markt is now the third sales brand of...
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New Visa card with EMV system
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
V PAY is a chip and PIN only product, with no legacy requirement to support manual imprinting, cardholder signature and magnetic stripe reading. 17 million cards will be change. The...
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One week for the entrepreneurs
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
Free presentations and discourses about questions serve the Hungarian entrepreneurs from 27 September to 6 October, organised by Budapest Chamber of Industries. Days of the Chamber's program begins with the...
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Warm food voucher is popular
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
According to GKI research company, in 2003 only 300,000, this year 570,000 employees get warm food vouchers. 58% of the competition sector's employees get cold food vouchers and 18% warm...
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The best bartender is looking by Stella Artois
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
The three week competition started 24 September in six regions of Hungary, the best in show will be on 9. October in Budapest. The first 3 from all regions can...
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Medicines at Drogerie Markt
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
Until the end of 2007 the company hopes to open drug corners at the all chain, in 2003 stores. It costs HUF 500 million. This time medicament can be sold...
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Heineken introduces new light lager in Russia
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
The new brand will be positioned in the premium class beer segment and will be supported by a wide promotion campaign across various mass media. Heineken has introduced a new...
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