News and articles
Bizerba debuts new product at NRF Annual Convention
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
Bizerba is presenting its fresh produce management system consisting of a new shop scales system K, the retail framework developed by Bizerba and a comprehensive content database. With this system...
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Iceland rebrands 51 Woolworths Stores
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
The frozen food chain has bought 51 of the 800 stores from the now defunct Woolworths group. Iceland will be creating in the region of 2,500 jobs across UK. The...
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Edeka To Create 8,000 Jobs In 2009
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
German food discount giant plans to expand its market share in Germany to 30% by 2010 from currently 27% by opening 1,000 new stores between 2008 and 2010. Edeka officially...
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HUF 1 billion penalty at Sparkler II. control
Date: 2009-01-13 00:00:00
In frame of the adjusted monitoring authorities reserved products in value HUF 600 million. Supervision started on 20. November 2008, till 4. January 2009. inspectors punished in 5400 cases in...
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The end of the recession is unpredictable
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
In 2009 the decline of GDP in the entire European Union will probably close to 2%, within this the downturn in Germany and consequently in Hungary will be somewhat deeper....
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New CEO at Tchibo Budapest
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Andrzej Jackiewicz leads Tchibo's Hungarian subsidary since January 2009. The 41 years old Polish specialist is responsible for strategic growth of the Hungarian firm. In frame of Tchibo's coffee branch...
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“The Germans’ desire for beer is continuing to fall
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Beside the financial crisis a combination of an ageing population, changing drinking habits among younger people and the smoking ban which hit pubs and bars, had led to the drop...
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Consumers change product and shops to save money
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
According to Nielsen research last year the price of cooking oil grow by 28%, the increasing was 6% at sour cream and coffee, customers have to pay 2% more for...
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Bijou Brigitte stabilized its sales in Germany
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Net income grow by 2.2% to 375 million euros, but the increase came from the new shops. The German discount jewelry retailer opened 80 new unit in 2008. The Hamburg...
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Praline and chocolate sales grow in 2008
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
According to Nielsen last year 7% more food were sold in the retail as a year before. The total value of 90 categories, researched by Nielsen, was HUF 1300 billion,...
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Growing year for Spar
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
SPAR Switzerland has reported a 6.3% rise in sales for 2008 to CHF957 million. The SPAR and EUROSPAR stores generated revenues of CHF533 million with a 7.0% rise. Sales of...
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Fresh & Easy sponsors schools in the US
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
Tesco’s US-unit Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has launched a school fundraising programme called Shop for Schools. In the promotion, running run from 1 February through to 31 March 2009,...
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New marketing manager at Mio Technology
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
From 1th January 2009 Zsuzsanna Banga joined as marketing manager to Mio Technology. The 28 years old specialists gradueted at Miklos Zrinyi University, she started her carreer at Acer Computer...
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GKI's Consumer-business confidence in new historical low
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
Industrial companies' assessment of production and order stock worsened. But the evaluation of stocks of their own products improved. Plans for price changes were the same as in November, but...
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Pannontej continous production
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00
According to on-line business portal VGO the crisis were solved at Pannontej's plants in Zalaegerszeg and Répcelak. The company get 60% of the contracted gas volue and it is enough...
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Lidl called back champagne because of glass splinter
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
The retailer removed from the shelves the Moscato Spumante Dolce sweet champagne with serial number L2485W1 content 0,75l and called back the product. Other Moscato's champagnes with different serial number...
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OKSZ calls the retailers for energy efficient operating
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
The organisation suggests voluntary steps for saving energy to keep out the closing or limitation of retail spaces. Hungarian Retail Associciation launch a public appeal for gas saving operating of...
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Retailer are pessimistic, the service sector is no lower
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
After the bottom recorded during October and November the value of GKI’s economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects dropped again in December. According to the survey conducted by GKI...
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Tchibo voted for Lewis PR
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
From January the London based PR company's Budapest office works on the Hungarian communication task of Tchibo. Tchibo called for tender last year in November, three PR agencies got the...
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Hungerit works on quorter capacity
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
When the gas problem can't be solved in short periode, next week we can't process the contracted live poultries – said Jozsef Magyar, company's CEO to business daily Vilaggazdaság. Instead...
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Pick Szeged decreased producing
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
In company's Baja plant mashines work with 50% capacity, in Pécs and Alsómocsolád and Szeged the total producing were stoped. Because of limitation of usable gas the company must to...
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Interposed closure of some Tesco supermarkets
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
The retail chain is looking for import in fresh milk and meat, after the producers of the sector said, because of the gas usage limitation they can't delivere to the...
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Daily more millions of milk will be wasted vain
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
If the dairy firm will not take the fresh milks because of the limitaiton of gas usage, farmers have to throw out million liters of milk. Hungarian Agriculture Chamber ask...
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Gas restrictions was lifted on category II consumers
Date: 2009-01-08 00:00:00
Restrictions remain in place for “category I” consumers that use more than 2,500 cubic meters per hour. Hungarian gas transmission company FGSz said it would reintroduce the restrictions on category...
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This year Maspex Olympos distributes Plusssz
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
The plusz brand belongs to Maspex Wadovice, the parent company of Hungarian Maspex Olympos. The manufacturing and the product developing remains in Poland, only the distribution will be made by...
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Price in food industry low by 0.5%
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
Domestic sales prices of industry decreased by 1.3% in November 2008 compared to the previous month and were 10.8% higher than in November 2007. Export sales prices of industry measured...
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Saxoo to open on new markets
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
There are 32 Saxoo stores in Hungary and four in Slovakia. But the franchise aims to start expanding in Austria, France and Czech Republic. Swiss-owned Hungarian “club wear” franchise Saxoo...
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Plus stores will be SPAR supermarkets
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
From 1th of January started the rebanding of the formel Plus stores. Spar Hungary singed an agreement for buying 174 Hungarian Plus stores in March 2008. After Bruessel”s green light...
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Carrefour Market to open in Milan
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
Carrefour opened its first Carrefour Market store in Italy in suburban Milan in December. While it is the 1,599th store in Italy, this is the first time the multi-format, single-banner...
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COOP declares price war in Switzerland
Date: 2009-01-07 00:00:00
The retailer has lowered the prices of 600 branded goods by 12% on average to compete with prices offered by the discount chains. COOP has declared a price war against...
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