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Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
European concept Belfrit is expanding rapidly in Hungary. The Belgian fast food chain opened its 16th unit in the Budaörs Auchan at the end of September. Belfrit’s main profile is...
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PICK Liver patés won the Hungarian Product Grand Prix
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
On 2 September, the annual Hungarian Product Grand Prix was held in Parliament’s Felsőházi hall, where László Kovács, president/CEO of PICK Szeged Zrt. received this year’s grand prize for PICK’s...
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Heaven in hell
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
It is the end of the year, the time has come “to cast an account”. HELL Energy Magyaroszág Kft. is happy to do it, since HELL energy drink has been...
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Törley Gála wins gold medal at Mundus Vini
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Törley’s Gála sec champagne won the only gold medal for Hungary at the MUNDUSvini Great International Wine Awards in Germany. In the wine competition there were 5,726 entries from 44...
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Sauces from behind the bars
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Every enterprise has to face difficulties sometimes – but the producer of JailHouseFire hot sauces is really special: their products are made in a Florida penitentiary, in 3 varieties. Distributors...
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Wider range of services on Auchan’s website
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Auchan Magyarország Kft.’s website (www.auchan.hu) has been revamped. Shoppers can now create their own profiles, which the system recognizes and only shows promotions in their favourite stores. It is easy...
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Shoot…the chef!
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Sydney Morning Herald organised its annual (and the world’s only) gastronomic art photography competition, Shoot the Chef. Winners were selected at the end of September and their photos can be...
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GfK Hungária is 20 years old
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
GfK Hungária was founded in 1989 by GfK’s Austrian affiliate, Fessel-GfK. Back than the company employed less than ten people, now it employs ten times more and its sales turnover...
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Wine advice from the computer
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Laurel Kft.’s oenological information terminal is also called a digital sommelier. Recently two of these devices were installed in CBA stores with IBM AnyPlace Kiosk as their base, helping shoppers...
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A star is born with Tesco Express
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
A 400-m² Tesco Express will open in Budapest’s former Csillag store on Rákóczy Road, together with a café that intends to continue the traditions of the old Ostende café....
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Hungarians finish 4th
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
As part of the Hoventa trade exhibition, the Central European preliminaries of the Global Chefs Challenge were organised for the second time. Tamás Tóth and Zsolt Berki put on a...
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Facing the challenge in New York – part 3
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: “Starting at the Boulud – this is all...
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New marketing director at Heineken Hungária
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
János Makkay replaced Cor Honkoopot in the marketing director’s seat at Heineken Hungária Zrt. János Makkay worked at Unilever for seventeen years, directing market affaires in six countries from 2007....
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Development is knocking at the door?
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Despite economic difficulties Ákos Niklai, the president of Magyar Turizmus Zrt. thinks that the perspectives of HoReCa are hopeful, because the sector is about to develop if it can improve...
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Campaign for dishwashers
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Calgonit and Bosch launched a campaign, named “Take it seriously” for popularising environmentally friendly methods and dishwashers. According to research findings, cleaning dishes with a machine requires 2.5 times less...
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Gastronomic tour for foreign journalists
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Magyar Turizmus Zrt. invited 16 journalists to make themselves acquainted with Hungary’s culinary values on 20-24 September. The flavour-trip started at Óbuda and continued in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Tokaj and Budapest....
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New head of Henkel Magyarország
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
From 1 October, economist Dieter Knoll (46) is the new head of Henkel Magyarország. Ferenc Deák, the company’s former managing director stays with the company in its Düsseldorf headquarters. The...
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Placards in the socialist era
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
From 10 October 2009 until the end of February 2010, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism exhibits Hungarian retail, tourism and HoReCa-themed placards from the period 1945-1989....
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PICK targets Japan
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Hungarian Weeks were organised in Japan for the 7th time. One of its main sponsors has been PICK SZEGED Zrt. for two years now. PICK opened its representation in Tokyo...
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Artisjus royalties
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
On 3 September 2009, the Society Artisjus Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors’ Rights held an informative meeting for HoReCa organisations and the representatives of the Hotel Association of...
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The real guest book
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Nearly all restaurants and bars with their own website have a virtual guest book, but few people write into them – customers believe they are censored. They are probably right...
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Every tenth restaurant and pub is in the edge of bankruptcy
Date: 2009-10-27 00:01:45
The hosts living up their last emergency reserves. According to a survey, every tenth restaurant and pub is in the edge of bankruptcy. Beside the traffic decrease, to get bank...
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Danone's products remain popular
Date: 2009-10-27 00:01:00
The food giant's shares were increased by 2 percent, after the company reported on Friday: that the demand for the dairy products of the company has increased, in spite of...
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Agárdi Pálinka took everything
Date: 2009-10-26 00:04:25
2009 is the year of great international recognitions in the history of Agárdi Pálinka; the Agárdi Pálinka won Distillery of the Year, the Distillator of the Year, the Best Pálinka...
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Burgers sell well
Date: 2009-10-26 00:02:00
The McDonald's reported a 1.15 USD per share in the third quarter of 2009, which is higher than the 1.1 USD per share estimations of the analysts. McDonald's record of...
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Nestlé report
Date: 2009-10-26 00:01:00
The Nestlé SA has announced its financial results for the first nine months of 2009. The company's turnover is 79.5 billion Swiss francs, that is a 3.8 percent revenue growth...
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Rosenthal porcelains in the new loyalty action of SPAR
Date: 2009-10-26 00:00:38
In Hungary, SPAR was the first national commercial chain that launched exclusive point collecting actions, offering a number of premium products on discount prices, such as WMF cutlery, Zwilling Five...
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Self-service cashers at a Tesco in England
Date: 2009-10-26 00:00:20
Tesco came up with a surprising novelty: The first store in England, where self-control, bar code based control occurs has opened; therefore there is virtually no need for cashiers. In...
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Eighty percent of the toursists at Balaton are Hungarian
Date: 2009-10-22 00:04:00
In the first eight months of the year, nearly one million guests spent 3.4 million nights in the Lake Balaton, which is a 6.5 percent drop in traffic and a...
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Quelle under liquidation
Date: 2009-10-22 00:00:55
The rescue action for the German mail-order service did not succeed. The company's liquidation plan was announced on Monday, because there were no investors,. who would save the company. According...
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