Company and Personal News
Vanish helps with money and clothes
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Vanish’s producer Reckitt Benkiser offered HUF 10 to the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service after each Vanish product sold in July. Collecting clothes all around the country is also part of...
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Facing the challenge in New York
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erte, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: “I was really calm before setting off, despite...
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New player on the energy drink market
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
A ”seductive” brand arrived at Hungary: the Playboy energy drink. It has been adapted to European taste and real ginseng, guarana, damiana and shizandra are among its ingredients, informs the...
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Deli counters competing
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
PICK SZEGED Zrt.’s ”Perfect deli counter 2009” in-store promotion campaign was a great success. 206 stores applied by 27 February 2009 and the first jury selected the 10 best, and...
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In a heated mood
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Hungary’s changeable continental weather is not always favourable. At the same time, terraces are an important source of restaurateurs’ revenues, therefore they try to make the terrace season longer by...
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Tesco donated clothes to charity
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. donated HUF 35 million worth of clothes in July to social welfare institutions and families in need. From its 95 hypermarkets, the chain regularly collects the products...
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Special prize: Tatabánya, CBA No.23. ABC, Hamschlager Trade Kft.
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
In 2001, after two years of operation Smatch closed this shop in Tatabánya’s city centre. Back then, Franciska Ferencné Treszl was desperate to find new jobs for the 20 employees....
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The practical and the special
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Distributors of professional parasols are now not only protecting customers from sunshine and rain: some are equipped with infrared heaters. An open fire is quite a surprising way of heating...
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Apenta competition finishes
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Maspex Olympos Kft.’s 9-week competition has finished. More than 100,000 envelopes were sent in and a 4-person family holiday at Siófok’s Hotel Azúr was drawn each week. The main prize...
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Main prize: Budapest, Hidegkúti út, CBA Príma, CBA-Gourmand Kft.
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Modern design, free underground parking, a moving staircase, a lift and smiley shop assistants – it is almost as we were in a foreign country. The 900 m² store opened...
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The best gastroblogs
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Nearly 500 entries of which 85 qualified – these are the most important data concerning hvg.hu’s Goldenblog 2009 in the gastroblog category. From the blogs of enthusiastic and talented amateurs...
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Black coffee becoming more colourful
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Expanding product range, a growing number of brands, coffee types ”beyond espresso” gaining ground and more knowledgeable consumers – coffee distributors say they hardly feel the recession! In the past...
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The last Plus shop had been rebuilt to Spar
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:10
The Plus brand has disappeared. The former Plus supermarkets became to Spar – a new corporate identity, extended range, high quality trade are waiting for the customers. The Spar Hungary...
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Auchan launches hypermarket price comparison site
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:00
Auchan launches a website, he www.hiperarak.hu which will compare the prices of the domestic hypermarkets. The www.hiperarak.hu website (currently not working) established in accordance with previous recommendations of Self-contolled Advertising...
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Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production
Date: 2009-08-27 00:04:00
Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production to two shifts at the recently built bacon plant, built by a 400 million HUF investment, due to the planned autumn launch of...
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Heineken says no to recession
Date: 2009-08-27 00:01:50
Heineken closed the first half of the year, with a 489 million euro net profit, 20 percent above the same period of the previous year. The turnover was 11 percent...
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Health Day in Tesco for the second time this year
Date: 2009-08-27 00:01:00
On the 28th August Tesco Health Day will be held for the second time this year. At 24 locations of the country, including 3 special places, healthy nutrition and lifestyle...
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Juicy dried plum is the autumn surprise of Danone Activia
Date: 2009-08-27 00:00:30
Danone Activia’s new autumn taste of juicy prunes with pear-apricot yogurt is available in four packs. The plum, and dried version is one of the most popular fruit of the...
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Foreigners spend more in Hungary, than Hungarians abroad
Date: 2009-08-26 00:03:40
In the first half of 2009, the total foreign consumption was 544 billion HUF, 21 percent more than the same period of 2008. Hungarians visiting abroad, spent HUF 379 billion...
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The 100th McDonald’s started with hamburger contest
Date: 2009-08-26 00:02:30
On August 28, in the city Győr the 100th McDonald's restaurant will be opened. It will be the third unit in Győr. There is no other restaurant chain in Hungary...
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Globus canned meat will be manufactured in the Czech Republic
Date: 2009-08-26 00:01:20
Czech Hamé food industry group will take the production of its Globus canned meat into the Czech Republic, which recently bought the manufacturing and distribution rights of the Hungarian registered...
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Tesco – new banking services
Date: 2009-08-25 00:03:10
Tesco supermarket chain widens the scope of its financial services and aims the full range of retail banking activities. Tesco recently announced, that 800 new jobs will be created in...
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Unilever: hot ice cream against climate change
Date: 2009-08-25 00:02:00
The market leader, Unilever fight with special tool against global warming: the company plans to produce an ice-cream, which will be sold at room temperature and buyers will frozen it...
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Aldi wins in the U.S. market
Date: 2009-08-25 00:01:20
Aldi can be among the big winners of the crisis: The German retail chain – famous for its low prices – can become a major player in the U.S. market,...
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Penny Market: more than 200 thousand people in the loyalty club
Date: 2009-08-25 00:00:40
Penny Market launched a loyalty club in June, which now exceeds 200 thousand members. The “Penny Fan Game” offers three chances of winning for every customer who requires the card...
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Holiday checks made up 9 percent of the income of accommodations last year
Date: 2009-08-24 00:03:21
Acording to Central Statistical Office, holiday checks were used in a value of more than 21 billion HUF at commercial accommodation last year. Fourteen billion HUF was recorded at the...
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Hospitality is a success story
Date: 2009-08-24 00:02:59
In the accommodation and hospitality sector the total value of investments were 58.4 billion HUF in 2008. This is 10.9 percent more in volume than in the previous year, while...
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World premiere at the Veszprém store of CBA Plaza
Date: 2009-08-24 00:02:20
As the result of the cooperation between CBA, Coca-Cola and Szintézis, a new purchase advertising tool has appeared in the Veszprém store of CBA Plaza: the E-rail which is an...
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Tesco hypermarket opened in Berettyóújfalu
Date: 2009-08-24 00:02:00
The 108 employees of the new 3,000 square meter complex, are waiting their customers seven days a week, between 6 am and 10 pm at Honvéd u. 13. The new...
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