Company and Personal News
Törley and György-Villa wine auction successes
Date: 2010-09-23 00:03:04
Another record was set up on the charity wine auction of the 19th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival. The total amount of 3 million 300 thousand HUF was offered...
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Tesco does not launch a web store in Hungary yet
Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:25
While Tesco launches its online store in Poland and in the Czech Republic next year, in Hungary we should wait for Tesco’s webstore. According to Philip Clarke future CEO of...
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Kométa debuted with a new TV spot
Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:01
The Kométa ’99 ZRt. is working together with a new advertising agency. The Creative Partners won the company’s brand communication commission on a restricted tender, for about two months ago....
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Nescafé Plan: for sustainable coffee growing
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
At the end of August Nestlé’s Nescafé Plan programme started in Mexico City. Measures of the project show Nestlé’s committment on coffee farming, production and consumption. As part of the...
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International PRICER recognition for Szintézis Group
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
On 2 September 2010 the PRICER conference was organised in Paris, with the participation of partners from all over the world. Strategic development director Dávid Szabó represented Szintézis Group –...
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Béla Bozsó, managing director of Association of Building Engineers
“With the focus on energy efficiency”
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
– Is this the first time that you take part in Hoventa? – Yes. Hungexpo came up with the idea to make the themes of building engineering and energetics part...
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Chili lounge
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The interior is of minimalist design with a Mediterranean touch and Chili seats 40 people. Recipes of the dishes came from all over the world, brought by the owner himself...
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New Fiat fleet helps the work of METRO’s regional sales team
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Early August METRO Hungary and LeasePlan Hungária Zrt. ceremonially presented 55 cars from the 110-car fleet to the sales representatives of METRO. They chose Fiat Grande Punto 1.3 Multijet diesel,...
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Zoltán Poór appointed head of PannonMill
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From 1 September 2010 Zoltán Poór is the president-CEO of Komárom-based Pannonmill Malomipari Zrt. Hungary’s leading mill industry enterprise is owned by Austrian company LLI Euromills and presently produces flour...
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László Varga, president of Hungarian Bakers’ Association “They bring quality ”
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
– What does Hoventa mean to you? – Hungexpo and the Hungarian Bakers’ Association have been cooperating for a long time – we organised UKBA together. Our goal at Hoventa...
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What comes after the website?
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
There is no doubt that the future of restaurants’ advertising communication is the Internet. Today every 10th Hungarian has a Facebook profile, but only every 250th bar or restaurant has...
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Makó-style market opened in SPAR stores
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From August shoppers can buy original Makó products from traditional Makó-style wooden stands in SPAR stores. The idea came after Makó onion was granted protection from the European Union. A...
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’Let us make our school a winner’ organised this year too
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Univer Product Zrt. will launch the above mentioned programme once again from September. This year five main prizes are waiting for winners in the programme, which lasts from 1 September...
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We teach you so that you can buy it
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
METRO Customer Academy will create an opportunity for those in the Horeca sector to study. We discussed the topic with Piroska Balestra, METRO’s head of the customer academy department. •...
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Chat and Co.
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
We often hear about community media and probably many Facebook, Twitter, Iwiw, YouTube or Wikipedia users would not be able to define the term. The term defines communication tools which...
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Camping cheese was awarded the Superbrands prize
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The independent jury of 16 expert members awarded quality for the sixth time. They decided that the Camping brand, with its decades-long traditions, can bear the Superbrands 2010 marking for...
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Beer fountain on the main square of Bőcs
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
On 12 August a fountain was inaugurated on the mains square of Bőcs (the birthplace of Borsodi beer) from which beer can also be drawn. The idea came from the...
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Edible drinks
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
If there is a popularity ranking for cocktails in the United States, Bloody Mary probably has a place in the top 5. This drink was created in the 1920s and...
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Health-friendly restaurants
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The objective of the Health-friendly programme is to promote healthy eating. According to project manager Éva Péterfia, about 1,000 restaurants are interested in joining the initiative. Member restaurants forbid smoking,...
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Sandwiches from Kométa salami for first-graders in Kaposvár
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
In the first days of the 2010/2011 school year Kométa ’99 Zrt. handed out delicious salami sandwiches to 700 first-graders in 17 primary schools. The company’s managing director Giacomo Pedranzini...
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A ‘thank you’ to customers
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
On 25 August the Tesco Clubcard loyalty programme commenced: after buying something in a Tesco store shoppers receive a point on their personal accounts after every HUF 200 spent. When...
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Cold wonders of the summer
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The most disappointing thing a bar owner cans say to a guest in summer is ‘I do not have cold beer or Coke’. Blitz Chiller is the solution: a rapid...
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Nestlé radically reduced its offices’ energy usage
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Nestlé Hungária Kft. uses 1,000 litres less water per day in its Budapest headquarters. 300 employees work in the 3,700 m² complex and the company reduced the building’s energy usage...
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New marketing director at McDonald’s
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From 1 August Jörg Pizzera fills the position of marketing director of McDonald’s in Hungary. The Austrian executive started his career at Unilever and joined the McDonald’s team in 2006....
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Wine and women
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The ‘role’ of women in quality wine consumption does not cease to become more important. In the United States, 53 percent of those who drink wine at least once a...
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Cooks from the Web
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
11 September was the day when seven famous Hungarian gastrobloggers introduced themselves at an event on Tabáni Terrace called Blog Tasting. Our view is that it is restaurant owners’ interest...
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Gallicoop’s five liver patés got top marking from consumers
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Gallicoop’s liver patés performed the best at the 10th Meat Hygiene and Meat Examination World Congress. The company entered the competition with five turkey liver patés: Grandmother’s, Natura, Premium, Crackling...
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Herz products resurface on the shelves
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Thanks to Bonafarm Group, Herz products find their way back to shops, less than six months after Bonafarm Zrt. brought the brand name. Nine products of the traditional high quality...
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The collectors of region-specific Hungarian flavours
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Agricultural Marketing Centre launched its HÍR (traditions, flavours, regions) programme in 1998, with the objective of establishing a collection of Hungary’s traditional and region-specific products and promoting them. So far...
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The design is already 21st-century…
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
A plastic injection moulding enterprise in Százhalombatta was facing difficulties, so they started looking for new partners. They found them in catering, so Creaform started manufacturing designer party accessories, plates,...
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