Company and Personal News
The cleanest vodka of the world arrived at Hungary
Date: 2012-09-06 09:13:12
Goral, common name, represent the choice of the best, that can offer the unique High Tatras nature and the skillful mastership of Gorals, saved in traditional distiller recipes. The perfect...
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GfK: In 2011, two-thirds of the households have purchased wine
Date: 2012-09-05 12:50:38
Last year, two-thirds of the households purchased wine with some regularity. Most people prefer the red variety, and more and more people are discovering the rosé. Primarily consumers by wine...
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Euro area’s retail sales have declined
Date: 2012-09-05 12:20:53
In July, retail sales volume fell in the euro area on monthly and on annual levels – said EU's statistical office the Eurostat announced on Wednesday. Retail sales on a...
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Hungary slipped back in the rankings of global competitiveness
Date: 2012-09-05 12:10:09
Switzerland leads the Global Competitiveness Ranking of the World Economic Forum for the fourth year, Hungary slipped back from the previous year's 48th place to the 60th – shows the...
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The EU support of tobacco growers can remain
Date: 2012-09-05 11:53:20
The EU support of tobacco growers can remain, so the Hungarian Tobacco industry will receive the about 7 billion HUF next year – said Glattfelder Béla Fidesz MEP on Tuesday....
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High-quality hungarian wines are becoming increasingly popular abroad
Date: 2012-09-05 11:26:00
The Amand Wine Export Kft. – exporting high-quality hungarian wines – received nearly 150 million HUF from the Euroventures IV venture capital fund and from a private investor, the Charles...
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Tesco enters the e-book market
Date: 2012-09-05 11:10:33
Tesco purchased an e-book distribution company in Great Britain for 7.2 million USD. With this step the company has entered the e-book market. The Mobcast has a catalog of 130...
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Prestigious honor to the François President Brut champagne
Date: 2012-09-05 11:05:07
On 30 August, The Wine of Bodafok competition was held at the BCE Soós István Wine and Business School and Secondary School on the occasion of the 23rd Champagne and...
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Miss Cherry Queen 2012 – Chocolate Queen Selection on the Sweet Days
Date: 2012-09-05 11:02:52
After the high success of last year’s Sweet Days Chocolate Festival, the Bonbonetti Group awaits the visitors with a variety of special programs this year again. Hungary's the last great...
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The rate of alcohol consumption depends on the shape of the glass
Date: 2012-09-05 11:00:17
The shape of your glass is probably the last thing on your mind when you are down the pub. However, researchers at the University of Bristol believe the shape of...
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The age of electric vehicles has come
Date: 2012-09-05 10:35:28
The leading energy and automation group the ABB was also present at the 59th meeting of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (MEE), where Steven Dorresteijn, the company’s guest speaker presented the...
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GKI: Keeping the wrong direction
Date: 2012-09-04 14:50:02
Since the government does not want to introduce changes in its economic policy, the conclusion of the agreement with the IMF is not possible, and thus investors’ confidence necessary to...
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This year's Hungarian Quality Product Awards were handed over
Date: 2012-09-04 14:05:27
The Hungarian Quality Product Award ® recognitions were handed over for the 15th time. This year more than ever, a total of 58 tenders of 53 applicants received this prestigous...
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The first phase of the Auchan-Cora acquisition has ended
Date: 2012-09-04 12:42:03
The fact that the Auchan supermarket chain will take over Cora’s seven hypermarkets in Hungary became official on 27 April. Since then, the transformation of the stores were carried out...
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New leader at Coca-Cola Hungary
Date: 2012-09-04 12:06:52
Strarting from 1st September 2012, the new CEO of Coca-Cola Hungary is 33 year-old Romanian expert Adrian Cernăuţan. The expert of economics is coming from the subsidiary of Romania....
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The harvest of maize started earlier
Date: 2012-09-04 12:00:28
Compared to the previous years, maize harvest began two weeks earlier in Békés county. The average yield per hectare is between 3.6 to 3.7 tons. Veres Vilmos, leader of the...
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Industrial producer prices up by 0.4% in both euro area and EU27
Date: 2012-09-04 11:26:48
In July 2012, compared with June 2012, the industrial producer price index1 rose by 0.4% in both the euro area2 (EA17) and the EU272. In June3 prices fell by 0.5%...
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McDonald's opens vegetarian fast food restaurants
Date: 2012-09-04 11:02:38
McDonald’s, the US-based hamburger chain, is to open its first ever vegetarian-only outlets in two Indian pilgrimage centres as it seeks to expand in a market where cows are sacred...
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The Sága Foods is expanding its product range with prune silk ham
Date: 2012-09-04 11:01:09
One of the largest Hungarian meat company, the Sága Foods Zrt. enters the market again with a brave innovation in September: with the 100g packages, special prune silk ham. The...
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The range of the Hungarian Quality Product Award will be expanded with Green walnuts
Date: 2012-09-04 11:00:45
Our grandmothers still knew that nuts are healthy and delicious even when they are green. They found out a recipe where the green nuts turn black and anyone can eat...
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Lidl: new campaign with a new partner
Date: 2012-09-04 10:22:21
Lidl chose its new strategic communications partner, instead of the usual tendering model via chemistry meetings. After the meetings, Lidl found the Carbon Group as the most suitable to plan...
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KSH: the volume of exports increased by more than 9 percent in June
Date: 2012-09-03 12:29:02
The foreign trade turnover also expanded in June. The volume of imports by 9.3 the volume of exports increaserd by 4.0 percent compared to a year earlier – the Central...
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The proportion of Hungarian products increased in the stores of Lidl
Date: 2012-09-03 12:18:36
Over the past five years, Lidl has increased the proportion of Hungarian products in its 153 domestic outlets from 34 to 52 percent and the number of Hungarian products continues...
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Less companies go for cafeteria-packages
Date: 2012-09-03 11:46:29
Following a stagnation of the previous three months, the amount of companies offering a set of fringe benefits have declined. In the coming year the domestic SMEs is less than...
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The manufactoring of plastics can bring a new sugar factory
Date: 2012-09-03 11:20:53
The Rural Development Ministry is thinking about the production of environmentally friendly plasic made of polylactic acid. The idea can boost the production of sugar beet and can generate the...
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Baromfi Coop inaugurated the new hatchery in Petneháza
Date: 2012-09-03 11:15:26
The Baromfi Coop Kft. dealing with breeding of poultry hatchery and feed manufacturing inaugurated its new hatchery on Monday, in Petneháza, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. The new unit of the company belonging...
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The food price increase reaches Slovakia
Date: 2012-09-03 11:14:36
Because crop failures caused by the drought and due to world market price increases a significant food price increases can be expected in Slovakia in the next few months –...
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Twenty hectoliters of Capuccino in honor of Julius Meinl
Date: 2012-09-03 10:55:00
Bartenders in the capital of Croatia – Zagreb – made the largest cup of cappuccino in the world: 2 012 litres. This achievement became the first record in this category...
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New leader at Zimbo Perbál
Date: 2012-09-03 10:23:18
Attila Horváth, the CEO of Zimbo Perbál has left the company on 31st August 2012. The new CEO is Jens Hillebrand from 1st September, who learned the trade in Germany,...
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Camping cheese prize-show proved to be successful
Date: 2012-09-03 10:04:34
An ATM-card worth more than 3 million HUF has found its owner thanks to the prize-show launched by Camping cheese. The same applies to the monthly 100 thousand HUF salary...
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