News and articles
Grolsch increases its profit
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
The Dutch brewer said that operating profit for the six months to the end of June rose to EUR11m compared to EUR10.2m in the corresponding period a year earlier. The...
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Loss of Lipton fails to hold Campari back in H1
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
Campari's wine division performed particularly well, bringing in a 19.7% lift in sales, hitting EUR56.9m. Group net profit rose by 2.5%. The Italian drinks company said today that operating profit...
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Private label is making large market share gains in organic food products
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
According to TNS, in the UK, seven of the top ten selling organic products are now retailer brands. Tesco Organic has more than 1,200 items. Sainsbury's So Organic range "has...
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InBev prepares heavy investment for Belgian breweries
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
InBev is looking to invest up to EUR60m in operations at three of its breweries. The Belgium-based beer giant confirmed that it will plough the money into its Hoegaarden, Jupille...
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PET bottle recycling
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
Fe-Group Invest Zrt will soon complete the installation of a new piece of PET plastic bottle cleaning equipment purchased for HUF 200 m at its Budapest center. The company collects...
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Hungary inflation trickles down to 8.3% yr/yr
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
According to Central Statistics Office (KSH) datas Hungary's consumer prices rose by 8.3% year on year in August. The price of flour rose 7.1% m/m and shot up by 33.2%...
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Healthy Europeans – the Probiotics market will double in the next years in the EU
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
According to Frost & Sullivan's market riport, the European food and beverage probiotics market is expected to more than double by 2013. The Strategic Analysis of the European Food...
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New type of urban store is testing in France
Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
The French Casino supermarket chain is testing a new urban store concept for its supermarket banner in Paris. The store places the Casino private label products in optimum display positions...
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European monitoring because of the additives
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
The European Commission said it had asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to evaluate the British study, that has found that additives in drinks, sweets and cakes can contribute...
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Considerable increase at cosmetics and toiletries
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
According th new research of Euromonitor, the global cosmetics and toiletries market is experiencing very strong sales growth. Sales of cosmetics and toiletries at a world level grew by a...
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Maspex Wadowice Group launch own sugar plant in Ukraine
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
The new plant worth to EUR 50 mln. will be constructed in the village Grigoryevka, Kyiv region. There is a plan to launch enterprise in three years. Maspex has already...
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Missing labeling, USD 20 million damage
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
A warning, that the Trade Aid's chocolate bars may contain traces of nuts and/or dairy products which can cause anaphylaxis was left off a labelling print run at the Belgian...
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Brandcasting and Music Factory at the Coca-Cola summer campaign
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
Online concerts and 35,000 songs in the music collection at Sziget Festival. The innovative new marketing elements, developed by Neo Interactive enriched big success at the target group. At the...
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New Gatorade and Bottled Water at PepsiCo
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
G2, PepsiCo said, will have 25 calories per eight-ounce serving and is the first new Gatorade product since the original drink was introduced in 1967. The original lemon-lime Gatorade has...
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Ad campaign to eat meat with the famous actor Robert Koltai
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
From the HUF 96million budget of the Hungarian Agrar Marketing Center's there will be big and citylight posters, radio and print ads to see and to hear. The goal of...
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(HU) Dinamikusan növekszik az ásványvíz és sör fogyasztás Magyarországon
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00
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Hungarian customer buy the own-brand products
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
According the research firm Nielsen 20% of food shopping contribute the Hungarian for own-brand products, at cosmetics and chemicals it's not so high but there is an increasing in it....
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First large Chinese greenfield investment in Borsod
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
Livan Biodegradable Product will invest 18 million euros in the new plants in Alsozsolca and Edeleny. The plants will manufacture packaging material for European markets. The plants will start off...
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Coca-Cola makea recycling popular
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
The incentive for members of the public to recycle more will be cash prizes of up to £18,000 for local Football League clubs to spend on youth development. Coca-Cola Great...
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CBA protects the Sunday shop stop
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
It is not necessary that the shops are open on every day – said Katalin Neubauer, CEO of CBA Retail Chain. According to the leaders and 30,000 workers of CBA...
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Four levels shopping center on the Corvin Promenade
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
The shopping centre is spread over 34,600 square meters of rental space, it include nince mid-sized retail units, a supermarket and an underground parking lot offering 1,200 slots. French real...
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Polgár logistics basis ends first unit
Date: 2007-09-07 00:00:00
As part of the first phase of a 38,000 sqm logistics center development project in the Polgár industrial park, the developers have put into operation the first warehouse of 6,000...
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Scotland gets tough on alcohol retailers
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
The Scottish government has unveiled plans to restrict retailers in the country in how they can merchandise alcohol in their stores. Scottish retailers will be banned from offering a range...
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Beer Institute spends US$310,000 on lobbying in the USA
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
The Beer Institute has lobbied the US government to the tune of US$310,000 in H1, according to a disclosure form. In a form filed with the Senate's office of public...
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Mattel in third made-in-China toy recall
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
Mattel's new recall affects 850,000 toys around the world. These are all accessories for Barbie playsets, and contain "impermissible levels of lead" in their paint, according to the company. No...
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16. Budapest International Wine Festival 2007 in the Buda Castle
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
At the Wine Exhibation and Fair between 5-9 of September this year the guest can taste the 3300 wine of 220 vintners from 15 countries.Yesterday evening there was a big...
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We eat one ton dioxin tainted guar gum
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
One firm from Szeged, processing in bakery industry bought and used dioxin tainted guar gum between March – Mai. There is no news about illness. The company use guar gum...
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Coca-Cola Invests $60 Million
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
Coca-Cola Co. will invest more than $60 million to build a plastic bottle recycling plant in Spartanburg, USA. The plant will produce 100 million pounds of food-grade recycled plastic for...
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Hungary industrial output growth 9.4% yr/yr in July
Date: 2007-09-06 00:00:00
According to preliminary unadjusted figures and went up 9.4%, according to figures adjusted for working days, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) has reported. In June, the KSH detected a growth...
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Unilever has developed more salt-reduced products
Date: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
The range of products within the Pot Noodle brand will now contain 50 per cent less salt than in 2005, continuing the company's programme to reduce salt levels in all...
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