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Dreher supporting tomorrow’s entrepreneurs

A special pen developed to improve handwriting won the main prize this year in the “Tomorrow’s young entrepreneur” competition organised by Dreher Sörgyárak Zrt. Dreher provides HUF 6 million and...

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Regional player on home ground

Rauch Hungária is a successful competitor in the fruit juice market, which has good reason to be optimistic about the future. In spite of rising costs and the success of...

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Between two worlds

Geographic location and religion both have a major influence on eating habits in Turkey. Though it is based on several hundred year old traditions, Turkish cuisine has changed significantly as...

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Energy for Talmácsi from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Magyarország held a spectacular, whole-day event in March to celebrate the fact that, Gábor Talmácsi has become their platinum-rated partner. Talmácsi will appear in campaigns for the Burn energy...

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Vilmos… not easy for him either

Five men in rubber boots, each with a small glass in his hand, form a circle. This is the third round. Their faces are red from the cold and the...

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Turkish honey

According to Aloglu Özcan, owner of „Három testvér” restaurant in Fény utca, most working people in Turkey visit a catering unit at least once a day. Breakfast and lunch are...

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Competition to encourage outdoor activities

drogerie markt launched a competition for primary schools on 10. April. It is intended to encourage children to focus on sport and outdoor activities when the weather is good.. Creative...

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AXE3

AXE3 – Mix in order to get noticed! The essence of Axe3 is that two aerosols with different fragrances are packaged together, which should be used simultaneously to get a...

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Coffee advertising performance

An Illy Cafe located in New York uses a new version of the very popular form of indirect advertising called product placement. A 90 minute theatrical performance titled “28 seconds”...

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Revenues up by 20 per cent for SIÓ-ECKES last year

The net revenues of SIÓ-ECKES Kft. were up by nearly 20 per cent last year and reached HUF 17.6 billion in 2007. They continue to remain the market leaders in...

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Kalinka Premium Vodka

Slava is a 27 year old Russian, who has been living in Hungary for 6 years. He likes to live here. He sends video messages to his friends in Russia...

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Food patriot

A conservative MP, David Cameron has recommended that labels should be introduced to mark food products of genuinely British origin. He believes that inaccurate labelling makes it difficult for consumers...

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Hungarian Succes at Sunday Times Wine Club

Hungarian offer stands from several white and red wine and a champagne of Torley, together with withe wine from Winery of Nagyrede and the Royal Tokaji.  Hugh Johnson – author...

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Danone to Spend EUR 220 Million in R&D

In 2008, Danone plans to conduct 50 clinical studies, as the company shifts its strategy from biscuits and dairy products to health food products. French dairy and baby food company...

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New Wellneshotel in Zsira

Spanish Iberalta Group plans to built wellness hotel near to Hungarian-Ausztrian border in Zsira. The developing costs are 15-16 millios euros.  On the Austrian site of the border there are...

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Carlsberg's majority ownership in Estonian Beer Company

75% of the Shares of Saku Õlletehase AS went to the Carlsberg, the rest are freely tradable on Tallinn Stock Exchange.  The previous owners of BBH AB were Scottish &...

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Hungarian Industrial Producer Sales Price Rose by 10 % in One Year

Domestic sales prices of the whole industry grew by 0.8% in March 2008 compared to the previous month, which figure was slightly higher than the monthly increase rate measured in...

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New Milli drink yoghurts on the shelves

The new products are to buy in two tastes: strawberry-raspberry and peach-maracuja. The drink yoghurts have 10% fruit content.  Friesland Hungaria developes several healthy foods, under the name Milli too,...

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Four new Aldi store to open in Mai

The German discount chain started with 5 unit in midle of April, one week later other 4 stores were opened.   According to Aldi website, after the 2th of Mai...

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Metro Q1 Loss Widens, But Sales Up The Metro Group

Net loss for the quarter amounted to E4.0m, from E1.0m last year; while EBIT amounted to E152m. However, sales rose 7.3% to E15.6bn, helped by strong growth in Eastern Europe....

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Environmentfriendly Tender for hotels

Almost every Hungarian hotel has now an environmental program, the next step is to involve the guest and the neighbours to the action. The Hotel Association of Hungary calla for...

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Lactalis Enters Romanian Dairy Market

The French dairy giant completed its takeover of the Romanian LaDorna group in a deal reportedly worth up to EUR 100 million.  Lactalis acquires all shares of LaDorna, which is...

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Lidl chain with 260 units in Poland is looking for buyer

Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported, citing unnamed sources, that Schwarz is seeking a buyer for its Lidl stores in Poland, which are potentially worth around 250 million euros.  The Polish paper...

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Heineken's giant investment in Sopron

The new watercleaner system costs EUR 2.2 million. The plant was built from 100 tons of steel, 800 qm beton and 1,000 meter steinless steel. The company use the same...

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Big success at Gyermelyi Paste Wednesday

Almost 300 restaurants offered paste specialities on half price. 40,000 guests taste the dishes.   According the new researches Hungarian likes pastes, people eaten yearly 6-7 kilos from it. Paste...

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Luxury hotel with monolithic towers for Esztergom

Plans have been revealed for a 230-room, 5+1-star hotel to be located in Esztergom's Prímás-sziget. The complex was designed by Gábor Zoboki, award-winning architect of the Palace of Arts, who...

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Refreshing the Zsolnay Cafe at Béke

The Radisson SAS Béke Hotel has inaugurated its new catering facility, the Zsolnay Cafe & Bar Lounge.  The new facility brings together the offers of the former Zsolnay Café and...

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