Company and Personal News
VM: seeds are strategic products
Date: 2013-03-08 12:30:39
The Hungarian seeds are strategic products. Production is implemented currently on 130 thousand hectares. The expansion of the production area is a national security interest – Szépe Ferenc, internationally renowned...
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Ten percent of mobile users use their cell phone to compare product prices
Date: 2013-03-08 11:17:56
One in ten Hungarian mobile users also use their cell phone to compare the product prices of different products. In Hungary, most people search for informations on electronic goods for...
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The ROSSMANN is the fastest growing company in the sector
Date: 2013-03-08 11:10:47
The ROSSMANN Group with its turnover of 5.95 billion euros and with its 16.1 percent growth remained the drugstore markets’ most intensively growing company in 2012. The Hungarian results reflect...
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Small farmers destroy tens of thousands liters of milk
Date: 2013-03-08 11:04:08
Small farmers are forced to destroy tens of thousands liters of milk in Tolna countys since the beginning of the week. The processor does not take over the products due...
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Manage a Tesco store, and travel to London!
Date: 2013-03-08 11:01:11
Tesco’s international online business simulation competition will be held for the second time and will start on 18 March. In the scope of the competition, students can interactively gain an...
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Ericsson ConsumerLab: women precede men in smartphone use
Date: 2013-03-08 11:00:23
According to the research of Ericsson ConsumerLab, the growing popularity of smartphones is primarily due to women. Women use all the smartphone features more and more regularly than male users...
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Horsemeat scandal: new chapters in Romania
Date: 2013-03-08 09:28:29
The Romanian National Foodsafety Authority has published on its website: horsemeat has been found last week at the lake of Tarnica near Cluj. The meat is of 922 kilograms and...
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Television advertising revenues have fallen with 11 percent
Date: 2013-03-07 12:25:40
The TV market closed a difficult year in 2012 – shows the results of MEME. Television advertising spendings were below 50 billion HUF for the first time in 2012. The...
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Nébih: a bi-monthly investigation was ruined by the news coverage on horse meat scandal
Date: 2013-03-07 11:22:53
The independent investigation of the press and the recently published news baffled the two monthly jointly investigation of the National Food Chain Safety Office and other authorities – Oravecz Márton,...
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Product development starts at Gyulahús in scope of the Mintamenza Program
Date: 2013-03-07 11:13:30
Product development starts at Gyulahús Kft., in scope of the Mintamenza Program. The meat industrial company has signed a memorandum on Wednesday with the Complete-Food, Békés county-based consulting company. The...
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Professional security solutions offered by METRO
Date: 2013-03-07 11:12:18
METRO renewed its security offerings, and from the 1st of March, professional home improvement solutions will be available at the DIY department. From the spring, the chain began selling its...
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MVH: the 2012 EU Food Aid Program is near completion
Date: 2013-03-07 11:01:02
The aid organizations contracted with the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) in the scope of the EU Food Aid Program will complete the delivering of food products mid-March this...
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Quality, innovation and service led Nespresso to achieve its 2012 results
Date: 2013-03-07 11:00:49
Nespresso closed a good year. The company achieved a double-digit growth in 2012. The company has consolidated its position in the European markets and expanded in the strategically important Asian,...
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Henkel’s sales and earnings reaching record levels
Date: 2013-03-07 10:32:43
Sales rise 5.8 percent to 16,510 million euros (organic: +3.8%) Adjusted* operating profit: +15.1 percent to 2,335 million euros Adjusted* EBIT margin: +1.1 percentage points to 14.1% Adjusted* earnings per...
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Aptina and Sony cross-license their camera patents
Date: 2013-03-07 09:37:03
Aptina today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Sony, which provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio. Aptina and Sony have built industry...
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Coop: food donation to 6,362 children with special needs
Date: 2013-03-06 12:15:17
The Coop Aid Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resources supports the meal of 6,400 children with special needs all across the country. The 15 million HUF worth...
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NAV: the tax authority investigates new areas this year
Date: 2013-03-06 12:00:18
The MAZARS international audit and consulting firm raises the domestic enterprises’ awareness to the fact that the NAV launches investigations in new areas in 2013. According to the MAZARS, investigations...
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The two other owners of Pápai Hús accepted the offer of the local government
Date: 2013-03-06 11:45:48
The two other owners of Pápai Hús accepted the offer of the local government, so the meat factory will soon be owned by the city – Áldozó Tamás (Fidesz) mayor...
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CBA’s sales increased by almost 2.4 percent last year
Date: 2013-03-06 11:25:42
Last year, the total turnover of the CBA network was 578.5 billion HUF, 2.4 percent more than in 2011. CBA operates a total of 3,225 units in the country, 147...
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The 25th OBI store was opened in Győr
Date: 2013-03-06 11:05:41
OBI opened its 25th store in Hungary. The DIY chain with the opening of its unit in Győr has arrived to a milestone: it has strenghtened its leadership on the...
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Praktiker would open ten new stores
Date: 2013-03-06 11:04:03
In the next three years Praktiker would continue its mini-store expansion in Transdanubian towns with a catchment area of thirty thousands inhabitants. The DIY chain renovated all of its department...
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(HU) Nem vonja ki az IKEA a mandulás csokitortát egyik országból sem
Date: 2013-03-06 11:00:47
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Szentkirályi, in cooperation with the Ministry of Rural Development
Date: 2013-03-06 10:45:52
The Ministry of Rural Development has signed a strategic agreement with Szentkirályi MineralWater Ltd., with which the ministry agrees that the company plays an important role in the food industry...
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Government's strategic cooperation with Waberer's International
Date: 2013-03-06 09:00:21
The government will sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Hungarian logistics company Waberer's International, a resolution published in the fresh issue of official gazette Magyar Közlöny shows. The agreement will...
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Discounters have taken the leading position
Date: 2013-03-05 21:34:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Household Panel survey, in 2012 Hungarian families spent 2 percent more on household cleaners than in 2011. Despite the growth in value sales consumers rationalised their...
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Health and intimate hygiene
Date: 2013-03-05 21:24:58
Mariann Varga, brand manager with Alveola believes that if we want to be healthy, we have to keep our body clean – not forgetting about intimate hygiene either. The company’s...
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Manufacturer brands significantly increased their share from sales
Date: 2013-03-05 21:22:14
Energy and sports drinks sales have been growing fast for years, but last year brought an 8-percent decline in retail volume sales and a 2-percent drop in value sales (December...
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Energy drinks slowly leave the tutti-frutti flavour behind
Date: 2013-03-05 21:09:05
After the two-digit growth of previous years last year shocked the energy drink market with a one-digit sales drop. However, this decline could easily be forecasted after the details of...
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Reasonable changes in the fruit-vegetable sector
Date: 2013-03-05 21:03:40
The fruit and vegetable sector is becoming increasingly polarized: on the one hand the role of retail is more and more important in selling fruits and vegetables, and this requires...
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Even better price/value ratio squeezed out of those plastic bottles
Date: 2013-03-05 20:58:45
Due to the elevated packaging material and ingredient prices, to a certain extent wet condiment prices rose in the spring of 2012, which obviously led to a bit lower volume...
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