News and articles
In place of chocolate wellnes nutrition at Campbell Soup
Date: 2007-08-10 00:00:00
Godiva could fetch more than $1 billion. It has annual sales of about $500 million. The premium chocolate business does no more fit with Campbell's strategic focus on simple meals....
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No more full trust in branded products
Date: 2007-08-10 00:00:00
While product, packaging and branding are still key, consumer want products that deliver incremental health and wellness benefits coupled with an understanding of the impact of these products on individuals,...
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Friesland called back its products content apricot jam
Date: 2007-08-10 00:00:00
The producer said the dioxin level of its outputs is anyway under the healthy level. The company's decision born after getting the fact of its czech supplier, that the bought...
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Arena Plaza is sold
Date: 2007-08-10 00:00:00
Plaza Centers N.V., a leading emerging markets property developer, has announced that it has executed a binding agreement for the sale of its Arena Plaza shopping and entertainment centre in...
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Enormous potential for sports nutrition market in Europe
Date: 2007-08-10 00:00:00
There could not be a better time for companies to tap into the market, and pitch their products not just at professional athletes but to normal consumers too. According to...
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Golden lolliPOP competition again!
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
Until 7 of September are entries waited for Golden lolliPOP competition, organised by IN-STORE, where the applicants will compete in six categories. Public can vote on internet, the winer production...
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Reconstruction of Parizsi Nagy Aruhaz starts
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
The new building will open for the public at second half of 2008. The house on the Andrassy street is a national monument, the first mall in Budapest was open...
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2,000 tons dioxin tainted fruit concentrate was found in Germany
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
According to german authorities the product was non-traded yet. German authorities said that they had launched a massive hunt for food products that may have been contaminated with carcinogenics originating...
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Fake Beluga – with dangerous bacterias
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
The delicacy, which had been mixed unhygienic with cheaper varieties of caviar, was being sold in Moscow supermarkets. Russian food safety authorities confiscated and destroyed 270 kilograms of contaminated Beluga...
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Dioxin poisoned Czech apricot jam transported to Hungary
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
Friesland Hungaria made the first self announcement, that some of its products contain the jam, imported from the Czech Republik, which had a high dioxin level. The supervisors check 13...
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The newest Euronics shop is open at Lurdy
Date: 2007-08-09 00:00:00
Soon Office Depot and Morgen Stanley will be renter of the almost 10 years old Lurdy-house. At the mall, built in 1998, last year was a chancing in management, and...
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Already 8 companies use extended nutrition labeling
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
Eight multinational FMCG companis, Coca-Cola, Danone, Kraft Foods, Kellogg's, Mars, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unilever offers extended nutrition information on their products in Hungary too. The firms joined in will give...
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Inolens 12 extends the shelf life of chocolate products
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
The Slovenian-based company Vitiva launched its new ingredient at this year's IFT Anuual Meeting and Food Expo, held in Chicago. Inolens 12 is an alternative to synthetic antioxidants because...
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New CEO at Metro Cash& Carry Hungary
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
José María Cervera (42) works since 16 years at Metro-chain. The original legal expert new CEO joined in Makro, the Metro AG's spain subsidiary in 1991. At first he worked...
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400 million euor bid for unfinished Arena Plaza
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
Active Asset Investment Management (aAIM), backed by Manchester United soccer team manager Sir Alex Ferguson, is to buy Arena Plaza, and has agreed to buy a portfolio of German retail...
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For the first half of the year 8,2% grow is detected
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
According the Central Statistics Office Hungary's industrial output jumped by 8.7% year on year in June, according to preliminary unadjusted figures and also according to figures adjusted for working days....
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Strength Union's regulation to stop foot-and-mouth disease
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
The European Union banned imports of livestock from Britain, includes all live animals, including cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, as well as all fresh milk and meat, which can transmit...
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Green light for Heineken
Date: 2007-08-08 00:00:00
Czech Antitrust Body said OK for Krusovice Takeover by Heineken. Heineken currently operates in the Czech market through its Austrian subsidiary Brau-Union AG. After the Krusovice takeover, Heineken's market share...
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Black slaughters in region Vas
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
Between December and July 17 tons poultry were processed on the illegal slaughter houses. On the slaughter houses in Csákánydoroszló and Szentgotthárd, working without any permission, were more thousand poultry...
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Wal-Mart reveals Indian wholesale plans
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
The world's largest retailer, yesterday gave a vote of confidence in the booming Indian economy with plans to introduce a network of cash-and-carry superstores across the country. The venture, with...
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List of the shame about staffs with flich
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
Only people with serious criminal or series foul could be on the list, and only after strangulated detection. In Hungary products in value HUF 100 billion are disappeared in the...
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Actions against fake clearances
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
The Hungarian Competition Authority gave penalty in value of million HUFs because two stores bade shoes with big price reduction alluded to fake bankruptcy proceedings. The supervising of the competition...
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China to launch nationwide food safety offensive
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
China will launch a nationwide crackdown and propaganda offensive to fight public alarm about unsafe food, the government announced. "The overall quality of our country's products has been steadily improving,...
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Close 100 Hungarian Quality Products at CBA store
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
The hungarian store chain, processing 3000 stores, started with the tittle Hungarian Quality Products two years ago. With this action the company wished to help the Hungarian food industry, and...
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Amazon.com does fresh food
Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
Amazon.com, the internet retailer known for its massive book sales, has begun delivering fresh foods directly to consumers' doorsteps. The experimental marketing program is initially limited to Mercer Island in...
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Budapest will be the Unilever's region center
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
According to Kreativ, Unilever made a new central-european region's base in Budapest. In the frame of One Unilever program, the Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Sloven, Croation and Bosnian market will be...
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Appearance of trade union will be stronger in the food industry sector
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
Trade union of the Association of Workers in food industry is protesting against Tortellino Ltd. and wrote a broadcast message.According to the declaration the company is breaking the labour standards...
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Multitudinous food-poisioning at hungarian Grand Prix
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
A thai buffet would be closed on saturdays evening, is suppliers will be checked too. According to information of Index news portal- thai chicken menu gave rise of poisoning.Fourteen adults...
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Parfums in the British pubs
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
Artificial scents are set to be pumped into British pubs to mask the smell of stale beer, sweat and other odours previously camouflaged by cigarette smoke. Mitchells and Butlers, which...
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