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Fornetti to Expand Output
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
With a view to cater for growing demand from Bulgaria and Romania, the company plans to expand the capacity of its plant by 250-300 tons per month. To reach its...
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Hershey to Close one of its American Plant
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
A Naugatuck factory where candy bars such as Mounds and Almond Joy have been made for 85 years, is shutting down for good. The shift is part of an overall...
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Reorganizations at Kraft Foods
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
Kraft FoodS Inc. said it will close its Cobourg, Ont., manufacturing facility by October 2008. The Northfield, Ill., food company has 380 employees at the Cobourg plant, which makes cereal,...
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Plus and Netto Marken-Discount to Form Joint Venture
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
The Tengelmann Group will in future be cooperating closely with the Hamburg-headquartered EDEKA Group. The new company in which EDEKA has a 70 percent stake and Tengelmann 30 percent will...
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Renovation program for one million USD at Holiday Inn hotels
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
All Holiday Inn hotels, more than 3,000, open or under development are expected to have implemented the relaunch programme by the end of 2010, with the first due to open...
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Bank of the year 2007- CIB Bank is on the top
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Mastercard Bank of the year 2007 competition's second place is MKB's, the third is for OTP. The most sympathetic bank for the public was Raiffeisen Bank. Most of the biggest...
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Hungary's biggest shopping centre opens
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
After two weeks and 3 hour lag yesterday Arena Plaza opened its gates. People run to buy cheap flat tvs and other discount price products. The 180,000-square-metre Arena Plaza will...
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Slackly developing on hypermarkets
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
According to Nielsen Research Company this year until November 11 new hypermarket were opened, last year, there were 17, two years before 15 new hypermarket opened its gates. There are...
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Food price increase in EU
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
European prices for bread, cheese and other food increased in October at the fastest annual pace in more than five years. Food-price inflation in the 13-nation euro region accelerated to...
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London to ban the free plastic bags
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Shoppers in British Capital could soon be forced to buy reusable carry bags as part of a push to ban free throwaway plastic bags. A group of 33 local London...
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Soybean price on the top, near to the 20 years old record
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
China wants to buy in big volume, it riese the prices on the global market, now it stand at 10.7 USD a bushel. Soybean futures jumped sharply on the Chicago...
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Adding carbon monoxide to meat packages devices congressmen in the US
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
Last week there were several scandals in the US, a few days ago 500 tons of meat must be recalled because of e-coli. Meat manufacturers has used a process to...
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IFE and FOODAPEST together
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
Food industry meeting point of east and west on 20-22 November in Hungexpo Budapest. IFE Foodapest is the new annual international trade fair for food, drink and hospitality professionals in...
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(HU) Három standdal jelentkezik az idei IFE-FOOD kiállításon az Agrármarketing Centrum
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
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Profits boost for Sainsbury's
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
First-half profit climbed 27 percent on increased organic food sales. The supermarket giant has a 4.7 per cent increase in turnover to £10bn. Pre-tax profits came in at £240m for...
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Szechenyi Card 2 to come
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The government will not close the Szechenyi Card's interest subsidy, the card will be renewed. The minister of economy Janos Koka said, the government give interest subsidy until 31. December...
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Joint venture between Sealed Air and Teknick Packaging Group in Turkey
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The newly established joint venture aims to be one of the largest food packaging company in the region. Teknik Packaging Group, one of the leading packaging groups in Turkey,...
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Hungarians are trustless, but 25% of them never see what to eat
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
According to TARKI and Image Factory research 75% of the costumer in Visegrad countries check the warranty period, but only the half of them listen to components. There are...
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Gross domestic product growth
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The increase was 0.3 percent as compared to the preceding quarter, by the seasonally adjusted data. According to the joint preliminary estimation of the HCSO and Ecostat the gross domestic...
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Bird flu in England
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The authorities have now culled more than 5000 birds on the Redgrave Park farm, near the town of Diss in Suffolk. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)...
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European Comission defended the Balaton snack
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
Kraft Foods is set to take an even larger share of the EU snack market after receiving conditional approval by the European Commission to purchase the biscuit, cereals and snack...
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Due to negative press sales sill increased at snack market
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
According to Euromonitor PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and United are the most successful snack companies. The topping position thanks to strong sales of popular favourites combined with innovation in the...
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First Törley dancegala
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
Wide collection of dance art, from Latin dances to Hungarian folkdance were to see on the jubileum dance gala. The event stagey with due decorum, elegancy and movement was patroned...
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Pessimistic mood in Hungarian Economy
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
According to GKI conducted survey, with European Union support, the overall confidence index down from September's minus 16.8 to minus 21.1 percent for October. The consumer confidence index deteriorated from...
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(HU) Itthon és az EU-ban is gőzerővel halad az INBÉ-jelölés terjedése
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
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Russian Unimilk to expand
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
According to Russian media reports the dairy producer Unimilk has acquired CJSC Tikhoretsky canned baby meat plant. The company completed the buy-out of the Krasnodar-based operation last week, which was...
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Aromadon to Expand Powder Marinades Output
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
Marinade universal, the new product provides piquant taste and aroma as well as a gold colour. Aromadon Ltd., a Russian manufacturer of spices, extracts and flavours as well as...
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Ginseng food supplements recall because of radiation
Date: 2007-11-09 00:00:00
Czech food supplement manufacturer Biopol GN have to recall its “Barney's” ginseng food supplements. This measure was imposed because Barney's ginseng, manufactured by Premium Quality Product of Canada, and...
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In the face of hard time InBev closed a successful third quarter
Date: 2007-11-09 00:00:00
Beer volumes increased 3.6% organically in 3Q07 year-on-year (yoy), with volume growth in all Zones except Western Europe. Year to date, overall beer volumes were 4.8% higher. Reveneu grew by...
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