News and articles
Americans drink more since the crisis
Date: 2009-04-23 03:36:36
People seem to drink more since the crisis: the USA sees a 1.4 percent increase in volume when it comes to alcoholic beverages – a new research by AC Nielsen...
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Coffee sells well, but roasters are not happy with the competition between retailers
Date: 2009-04-23 03:35:34
German coffee roasters are increasing sales as the coffee culture becomes fashionable but a retail price war puts them under huge cost pressure, the head of Germany's coffee industry association....
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A conference on electronic invoicing
Date: 2009-04-23 03:31:32
ECR Hungary opens its EDI e-invoice conference on 6th May in Budapest. Electronic invoicing does not only spare people extra expenses, but is also an environment-friendly solution. Paper-based invoicing systems...
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Addel Webstore purchased by Habostorta Ltd.
Date: 2009-04-23 03:25:48
Habostorta Ltd. purchased the 100 percent ownership of Addel.hu which had a 170 billion HUF traffic per year. E-commerce is a cost-effective solution on the market. Using the page launched...
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auction site on the market with free uploads
Date: 2009-04-23 03:12:23
The seller doesn’t need to pay anything, there are no listing,-or commission payment costs – the operating manager of Eden-Design pointed out. According to operating manager Richárd Balogh, the portal ...
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Defining what is considered to be a Hungarian product is a shaky area
Date: 2009-04-22 04:55:54
Not even the recently introduced Food Codex defines properly what is considered to be a Hungarian product and whether items made of Hungarian ingedients fall into this category or not...
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Herz salami is part of the European elitclub now
Date: 2009-04-22 04:52:10
The official productname „téliszalámi from Budapest” has been listed on the protected, geographically indexed productlist of the European Comittee. According to an announcment by the European Comittee, the Hungarian product...
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Nestlé Nespresso's 2008 results surpassed their own expectations
Date: 2009-04-22 04:49:46
Nestlé Nespresso S.A., the premium quality coffee company reached 2.262 billion Swiss francs in sales in 2008, more than two times more than in 2006. The growth of the company...
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Coca-Cola reported a solid first quarter
Date: 2009-04-22 04:44:12
The Coca-Cola Company today reported solid first quarter 2009 results despite a challenging economic environment, with unit case volume increasing 2 percent, successfully cycling 6 percent growth in the prior...
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Interspar Road Show starting in mid-May
Date: 2009-04-22 04:33:04
„INTERSPAR Road Show” is the name of the project organized by Spar Hungary Ltd. and Just A Bit of Attention Foundation which is about to start on 16th May and...
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Children's taste is less sensitive to sweets, so they eat more chocolate
Date: 2009-04-22 04:29:55
Whilst the sense organs are fully functional from birth onwards, perception is a matter of practice. Sensory tests at TTZ Bremerhaven have shown that other benchmarks apply for children than...
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A crisis-resistant marketing tradeshow
Date: 2009-04-22 04:27:28
PROMOTION is a tradeshow organized by HUNGEXPO Ltd., introducing and promoting new, crisis-resistant and efficient marketing and communicational technologies and strategies. In spite of all doubts, recession may have a...
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Unilever reducing salt-content of its entire food-portfolio
Date: 2009-04-22 04:24:08
In the next few years, Unilever is going to undertake a worldwide effort to reduce the salt content of almost its entire food portfolio, covering 22,000 products. Unilever’s aim is to...
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Everyone in Europe consumes too much
Date: 2009-04-22 04:20:42
If people switched more of their consumption from animal to plant-based food there would be a smaller impact on the environment. A paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology by...
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Central-Europe loves Tesco
Date: 2009-04-21 07:58:23
Tesco has closed its worst year in 2008 as its profit has barely reached a 5 percent increase in the UK – however, the company is being amazingly successful in...
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Wine-producers afraid of changing rules of contribution fee
Date: 2009-04-21 07:24:56
Wine-producers strongly disagree with the new plans affecting wine-laws, bringing about changes in the field of circulation-contribution fee. The main goal of the contribution is to gather money for local...
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Univer opening new possibilities for the market og agricultural ingredients
Date: 2009-04-21 07:22:24
Food produced in the new, Kecskemét-based factory of Univer is going to be more up-to-date and a greater amount than before, which opens a new gate to the market of...
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A growing interest in social shops, a new store in Miskolc
Date: 2009-04-21 07:11:10
A new social shop has just opened in Miskolc, the nineteenth in the country already, where products come directly from the growers. Prices are lower than usual in these so...
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Pepsi buys bottlers for 6 billion dollars
Date: 2009-04-21 07:10:12
PepsiCo plans to buy about the shares it does not already own in its two largest bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas for about $6 billion, at the same time...
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G8-G5-meeting in Italy: commercial limits loosening
Date: 2009-04-21 07:08:22
Debate at the first meeting of farm ministers from G8 and G5 states has shifted towards improving food security. Food protectionism, as exercised by both rich and poor countries in...
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Hungarian Agraracademy last weekend
Date: 2009-04-21 06:59:59
Representatives of Hungarian agriculture and food industry gathered for a two-day long program last week in Pápa. According to József Gráf agricultural and rural development minister, 2010 is going to...
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Aldi UK up 11 percent in customer numbers
Date: 2009-04-21 06:52:51
German discount grocer Aldi saw an 11 percent rise in shopper numbers in the UK and Ireland in the first quarter of this year – according to fresh data by...
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Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
Date: 2009-04-20 03:47:54
Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for...
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Thirty-percent cutback at Pepsi in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-20 03:45:12
PepsiAmericas FÁÜ Zrt. is facing a thirty-percent cutback which is affecting nearly 200 employees – as written in the Saturday issue of Népszabadság. Bencze Madlen, HR-manager of the Hungarian Pepsi-products...
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Dr Pepper says that those who spend more on ads get out of the recession stronger
Date: 2009-04-20 03:43:35
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. is risking a different approach to the recession than other major advertisers: boosting its marketing budget, saying that's what worked best in the last big...
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Nestle organic sales Ggrowth Seen at 3.7 percent
Date: 2009-04-20 03:26:19
Nestle, the world's largest food company, is expected to post a 3.7 percent rise in organic sales growth for the first quarter, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. Closely-watched underlying,...
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Producing re-started at the syrup-works in Szob
Date: 2009-04-20 03:20:57
The well-known syrup-plant in Szob is opening its gates again this week – a company owned by Tibor Sári has bought the facory – as announced in the Friday issue...
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New website by Completa opened
Date: 2009-04-20 03:07:47
The new website is supposed to function as an online coffehouse, providing visitors with plenty of information about the Completa product-family. The new site www.completa.hu offers a wide range of...
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Nearly one billion euro sales on the Romanian beer-market
Date: 2009-04-20 03:04:50
The four multinational companies of the Romanian beer-market are closing a year with a nearly one billion euro sales – as announced in the Friday issue of Ziarul Financiar. Eighty...
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Domestic FMCG market turndown in Q4 in 2008 and in the first two months of 2009
Date: 2009-04-17 03:21:13
Daily consumer-products value has rosen faster than inflation, yet in October when worldwide economic crisis had been announced, the market fell back with 3.7 percent – a survey called Commercial...
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