Company and Personal News
Prettier METRO
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
METRO changed its market strategy two years ago and has remodelled half of its stores since then. The result is spectacular. METRO Cash & Carry focused on remodelling 4 existing...
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Music of the future
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Hungarian Guild of Caterers has reached an agreement with the Copyright Office on the possibility of reducing the royalty to be paid by certain businesses where music is played....
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Bravo, this was Michelin-like!
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Ákos Sárközi, sous chef of Alabárdos completed the qualifying rounds of the “Tradition and Evolution” competition with the highest score. Last year, Attila Bicsár, the chef of Alabárdos, Won the...
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Beer at higher level
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Beer Academy established by Borsodi Sörgyár Zrt. was opened on 17 December. This institution offers a training course which includes a general review of beer types, the proper tapping...
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Pápai Hús opening new wholesale outlet
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Pápai Hús Zrt. has opened a wholesale outlet in Budapest. They do deliveries in and around Budapest at favourable rates....
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Active year for Reál
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
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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Attractive and capable bartenders
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The II. Campari Miss Catering and Beauty Bartender Contest was held in the Kaméleon Klub, on 10 December. 12 beauties entered the contest which consisted of 3 rounds....
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Star chef in legal action
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Zsolt Both, chef of Novotel, did not accept his new position within Accor, as the chef of Hotel Korona and took legal action to fight his transfer. However, this seems...
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Police station in Tesco
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
A small police station has been set up in the Szolnok Tesco hyper market. Tesco intends to develop a similar co-operation with police forces elswhere, as well. n...
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Coop-Christmas for children
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Fifteen hundred children attended the Christmas party held by Tisza-Coop Zrt. on 21. December in Tiszaliget. Tisza-Coop Zrt. is a regional purchasing centre of the Coop group which has already...
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Constantly high SPAR standards
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
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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Their most important achievement in 2007 was reaching a membership of 2,000.
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
In 2003, this was only 600. They saw many members return who had left earlier. They stay out of politics and focus on professional issues. A younger generation has taken...
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Segal: new address
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Viktor Segal, one of the best known members of the new generation of Hungarian chefs opened his new restaurant in Decmber in Ó utca. – I have been unable to...
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Cheese promotion dedicated
to the number 3
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Prizes from the prize game of SOLE-MIZO ZRt. promoting cheese were handed over at the end of November. 3 participants were able to win a HUF 300,000 trip with 3...
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Dreher saving energy
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The opening ceremony for the new bio-gas and water purification plant of Dreher Sörgyárak built for HUF 0.5 billion was attended by Dr. Gábor Fodor, minister of environmental policy and...
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„Tour de Tesco” continuing
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The minimum size for Tesco stores is 1,000 square meters. They opened 22 stores in Hungary last year, making the total 122. The price sensitivity of Hungarian consumers has become...
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Six months after being elected, he is still forced to tackle administrative obstacles.
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
His ideas have been greeted enthusiastically, but he still does not know when he will be able to start actual work. As he has not been inaugurated yet, he cannot...
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Coffee from the shade
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
“Coffee produced in the shade” is becoming increasingly popular in the US. This kind of coffee bean is not grown in plantations, but in rain forests, under the trees. It...
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Cryovac launches printable top web for vacuum packaging
Date: 2008-02-01 00:00:00
The new Darfresh TP100 allows manufacturers to use high quality printing to differentiate their products.The new Darfresh TP100 top web film is printed on the surface using flexography in up...
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Ferroro to Built chocolate plant in Russia
Date: 2008-02-01 00:00:00
The 200 million euro factory will produce 25,000 tons of its Raffaello and Kinder Chocolate brands annually.The Russia's chocolate market is valued at 250 billion rubles ($10.2 billion) with a...
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OBI is Going to Extend in Romania and Slovakai
Date: 2008-02-01 00:00:00
With more than 500 stores OBI is the undisputed No 1 in the German market and one of the leading European DIY retailers, overall sales worth was EUR 5.8 billion....
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New Business Environment Rating system by Coface
Date: 2008-01-31 00:00:00
Complementary to Country@ratings, a new rating is thus available that reflects business environment quality by 150 country. On the occasion of its annual country risk conference, Coface forecasts slower world...
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From industrial place to retail center at the former Zalahus plant
Date: 2008-01-31 00:00:00
With 35-40 million euros investment a shopping center ring by green parks, playgrounds and car parks will be built by Convergence Capital Ltd. The construction works started in second half...
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Espresso and cappucino are the most popular coffees
Date: 2008-01-30 00:00:00
According a research by Valdo Café Hungarians drink coffee because of taste and its impact, most of use think coffee is unhealthy. Compatriots enjoy coffee mostly at home, daily once...
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HUF 45 million food was donated in Spar stores
Date: 2008-01-30 00:00:00
Volunteers and officers of Hungarian Order of Malta collected foods durables 11th time in Spar stores for poor families and old people living alone. Last in the Christmas action 130...
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Henkel Awards for research and technology invention
Date: 2008-01-30 00:00:00
Finally, eight interdisciplinary project teams were chosen to receive the coveted prize. The jurors of the Research/Technology Invention Award 2007 found it no easy task to pick the winners among...
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Silver for Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest from Germany
Date: 2008-01-29 00:00:00
According to German readers of Business Traveller the second best hotel in Europe is the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest. Since 1995 the hotel got several awards, year to year the...
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Tommy Hilfiger halts flotation
Date: 2008-01-29 00:00:00
The move could also prompt a rethink at other high-profile fashion brands, such as Prada and Salvatore Ferragamo in Milan. Hilfiger, viewed as an all-American lifestyle brand and famous for...
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New CEO at LLP Budapest
Date: 2008-01-29 00:00:00
Zsolt Ambrus works from 1 March, he was the former division leader of Microsoft Dynamics Hungary. The specialist worked for Oracle, than in 2003 he joined to Microsoft Hungary, first...
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