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Two digits growth at Coca-Cola Beverages Hungary

The company increased its market shares and get now 20 pct, one third of the sales came from the new products.   The growth is thank to the fact too,...

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Imperial Tobacco's Altadis takeover offer

UK's Imperial Tobacco Group pays 50 eur per Altadis share, valuing the manufacturer of Gauloise and Fortuna cigarettes at 12.8 bln eur.   The board of the Franco-Spanish company Altadis...

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French Supermarket Workers Strike over Wages

Thousands of French supermarket workers went on strike on Friday to demand higher salaries and better job conditions. The strike by supermarket employees was the latest in a series of...

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Mihaly Hardy leaved Tesco

The specialist was the retail chain's communications director since 2006, former he worked 20 years as television reporter, editor and news director. There is no news about his successor at...

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Unilever Acquires Leading Russian Ice Cream Company Inmarko

The acquisition will further strengthen Unilever's position as the world's number one ice cream business. It will also strengthen Unilever's portfolio and competitive position in Russia, one of its priority...

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Burger King Keeps Rising

Worldwide same-store sales, or sales at locations open at least a year, rose 4.5 percent.Americas second burger chain said its second-quarter – ended on 31 of December 2007 – profit...

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Aldi to open in February

According to market informations giant adcampaign starts in February, but the news is not fixed by the company, it never promotes the store openings.  It is unkonwn how many stores...

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dm to start in Bulgaria 2009

The local dm stores will have an area of 400-450 sq m and could be housed in large-scale shopping centers. dm Drogerie Markt, the Austrian retailer of household medicinal supplies,...

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Top-100 Hungarian Companies are Less Optimistic

The ECOSTAT TOP-100 business confidence index was 86,6% at SME's 79,4% in January 2008.  Hungarian companies are looking to the future with a degree of apprehension, according to the stats....

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A Helping Hand for SMEs for free

The Mentoring Business Transfer is sponsored by European Union, essential business informations are teached in 10 days.  The Hungarian Chamber of Commerce & Industry takes part in the program, wich...

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Mondi to develope in Poland

International paper and packaging manufacturer, Mondi investes €305-million Swiecie. The company comannounced in a statement that its new lightweight recycled container-board machine would be situated at its Swiecie mill, in...

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Fake products in value of HUF 18 million were atteched at Jozsefvarosi and Rakospalotai Markt

The specialist of Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard opens 15 closed kiosks and containers.  According to authority 3,000 fake clothes and 200 paar of fake shoes were found. At Rakospalota...

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Sodexho Alliance renamed Sodexo

The evolution of the brand shows the grow and progress to become the premier global outsourcing expert.   France based contract caterer and facilities company Sodexho Alliance has been renamed...

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Tesco opened a new front in the ongoing supermarket price war

In a sign that the discounters' growing popularity is starting to concern Tesco, the retail giant will start to match Aldi and Lidl's prices on over 2,000 product lines. Aldi...

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On page 12 of the April 2007 edition of Trade Magazin an 1/1 advertisement was published by Zwack Unicum Nyrt. 1/1.

A statistical table by IWSR (International Wine and Spirit Record) for 2006 was also published as part of the ad. We have been informed by the advertiser that the published...

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Pápai Hús opening new wholesale outlet

Pápai Hús Zrt. has opened a wholesale outlet in Budapest. They do deliveries in and around Budapest at favourable rates....

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Extraordinary snapshot – domestic food industry in 2007

The well known and grave problems of the Hungarian food industry continued to exist in 2007 and no major positive breakthrough took place. Domestic purchasing power is in decline, while...

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Active year for Reál

Many Reál stores were opened in Budapest last year, including the first Prémium Reál Élelmiszer supermarket in Lurdy ház, but the number of stores outside the Budapest region also increased....

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HUF “in the pilow”

Investors have generally become more cautious world-wide – summed up Ákos Kozák, managing director, the findings of the survey “Investment Barometer” prepared by the Gfk Group for the The Wall...

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Joya Soja Drink Pur

The first drink of the Joya product line which is not flavoured and contains only natural sugars, as it is made without added sugar....

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Investment into packaging by Hungerit

Hungerit Zrt. has developed a unique packaging solution in co-operation with Sealed Air Cryovac. As a result of installing the new MULTIIVAC Darfresh® packaging machinery, fresh poultry will stay fresh...

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Football European Cup: + EUR 1,4 billion

According to a survey prepared for MasterCard, the 2008 football European Cup may yield a profit of EUR 1,4 billion for the economy of the continent. Each of the games...

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Has been better – will be better?

Regarding last year, everybody agrees that it has been a difficult period and it’s far from being over. As a result of austerity measures, purchasing power and sales dropped, while...

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Constantly high SPAR standards

Private label products in the premium category, many new stores and the quality Hungarian poultry trademark are all things acquired by SPAR in 2007. – The decrease in real incomes...

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Budapest hotels: below average

Commercial places of accommodation generated total gross revenues of HUF 209 billion in the January-October 2007 period, which is 4 per cent up, compared to the same period in 2006....

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NIVEA Hair Styling Diamond Gloss Styling

NIVEA Hair Styling Diamond Gloss Styling are rich in vitamin B-3 and give hair a diamond shine full of life, while also making it extra strong....

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There will be sugar

I have good news for the readers of TM. There will continue to be enough sugar on the shelves in the future. However, it is bad news for me, that...

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Cheaper RFID with new platform

The revolutionary Sensormatic® iREAD™ technology of ADT can help to reduce the introduction costs of RFID into retail trade. Sensormatic iREAD platform, the new application of the EPCglobal Gen 2...

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Gateway to world trade

The Global European Food Industry Event of ECRM to be held between 9-11. March in Budapest is intended to help trading enterprises and suppliers in making contact. ECRM helps the...

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Difficult year behind and ahead of us

Last year was a difficult one as a result of austerity measures and decreasing purchasing power. Though exact figures are not available yet, the end of the year shopping frenzy...

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