Company and Personal News
800 thousand visited the Corvin since opening
Date: 2010-12-16 15:42:11
Since its 27 October opening, the new downtown shopping center, the Corvin puts a special emphasis on development and on operation. The latter proved to be very effective. Since the...
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Ipsos: Thanks, we are fine
Date: 2010-12-16 15:40:05
We had an odd year: good and bad experiences cumulated in the mood of the people. The three-quarter of the Hungarians complained about of their finances ans financial situation and...
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New world brand in Hungary: Hard Rock Cafe arrives next autumn
Date: 2010-12-16 15:12:47
The first Hard Rock Café in Hungary will be opened in the VÁCI1 business center next autumn, at the Ferenciek square – was announced on Thursday. The American restaurant chain...
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Tesco helps with the Christmas preparations
Date: 2010-12-16 15:00:54
The Christmas preparations soon to be started in the kitchens. In recent weeks, more than twenty tons of poppy, nearly five tons of nuts and over 350 thousand walnut had...
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A pleasure to give: charity action by SPAR and Maltese Charity Service is on
Date: 2010-12-16 09:18:19
The charity action “It's a pleasure to give” is on now: it basically means that volunteers of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service are going to gather perishable food for those...
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Food Avalanche: 10 thousand food packages to those in need
Date: 2010-12-16 07:20:25
Perishable food of more than 25 million HUF has been gathered within the compass of three-year-old Food Avalance charity action. The program was organized by Hungarian Food Bank Association and...
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Men are are efficient when buying Christmas gifts
Date: 2010-12-16 05:43:37
Even though this year Christmas gifts are going to be more modest than last year, the holiday will be a lot like in the previous years. Most people spend less...
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Silver Sunday was successful, traders are confident
Date: 2010-12-16 05:36:41
According to traders this season is much more intense than last year. There are more customers, mainly interested in technical products. The real rush is expected for next week. Malls...
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Industrial production increased over 8 percent in the last 12 months
Date: 2010-12-16 05:30:46
The volume of industrial production grew by 8.3 percent in October 2010, compared to the same period of last year. The production in the first ten months of the year...
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VOSZ: The majority requires Sunday's opening hours
Date: 2010-12-15 16:10:30
According to the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers (VOSZ), the whole Hungarian economy and the majority of the population require weekend opening hours of the retail shops. In the...
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New leadership for Henkel's Adhesives Business
Date: 2010-12-15 15:32:42
Thomas Geitner (55), Executive Vice President Adhesive Technologies and member of the Management Board, will resign from office effective December 31, 2010 for personal reasons. Jan-Dirk Auris (42), currently Senior...
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Young people spend more on Christmas gifts
Date: 2010-12-15 13:30:54
Young people spend more, but less and less young people pay with cash at Christmas. One study found that the youngest bank customers spend an average of nearly 23 thousand...
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Sows should gave birth to more piglets to catch up with Western Europe
Date: 2010-12-15 13:00:41
The efficiency of pig production should be increased. Currently a sow has an average of 18 to 20 piglets. This should be increased to 26 to 28 – said Német...
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UPS: Christmas peak in delivery
Date: 2010-12-15 12:50:30
The staff of UPS are ready to deliver 430 million packages in December. The 22nd of December is expected to be the busiest day of UPS. According to the expectations...
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Rézangyal selected a PR-agency
Date: 2010-12-15 11:51:09
Starting from December 2010, all pr-tasks linked to one of Hungary's greatest premium spiririts distributor Rézangyal will be carried out by Red Lemon Media PR Agency. The two companies have...
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The Competition Authority punished again
Date: 2010-12-15 11:29:42
The Competition Authority fined another company organizing consumer groups. The Quantum Invest like the others, has published misleading advertisements, therefore fined to 4.7 million HUF and prohibited the company from...
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Market-leader domestic mineralwater brands sponsors Hungarian movie
Date: 2010-12-15 11:27:14
The Hungarian movie Üvegtigris 3 has been supported by Szentkirályi Mineral Water Ltd.: the movie is going to be in the cinemas in December 2010. Levente Balogh, owner and CEO...
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Corrugated products will see a major price-increase
Date: 2010-12-15 11:15:55
Due to the higher costs of basic materials, it is likely that the prices of corrugated pruducts will see a major increase in the near future. According to the Association...
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Tesco collects PET bottles
Date: 2010-12-15 10:27:40
Tesco encourages its customers to collect the PET bottles and aluminum cans-back, between the 24th of September 2010 and the 11th of February 2011 in more than 110 hypermarkets across...
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Agricultural products prices increased by a quarter in one year
Date: 2010-12-14 15:47:10
The level of agricultural product prices were 24.7 percent higher in October 2010, than a year ago. In particular, the price level of plant products increased by 37.1 percent, the...
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Declining turnover, but positive results for Pick Szeged
Date: 2010-12-14 15:21:51
After last year's 64 billion HUF, PICK Szeged Ltd. expects a 58 billion HUF turnover – László Kovács, CEO of PICK Szeged Ltd. pointed out within the compass of a...
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Meat test with test purchases: one-fifth of the items had a problem
Date: 2010-12-14 15:05:52
Five from 26 items had problems, during test purchases, meaning the item was not of sufficient quality – states the National Meat Institute (OHKI), after the joint test, carried out...
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Unilever: award for sustainable attitude
Date: 2010-12-14 14:46:05
The Ethics in Business Award is an annual prize conferred by the World Forum for Ethics in Business to honor individuals and companies that have demonstrated the importance of human...
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Tetra Pak helps the large families
Date: 2010-12-14 12:19:19
The Tetra Pak Hungária gave 12 thousand liters of milk as gift for Christmas to the National Association of Large Families (NOE), giving a support for a total of one...
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Asia’s retail sales taking the lead
Date: 2010-12-14 12:16:22
According to a recent study; the consumption of the population, will accelerate in such an extent after the crisis, that within four years the annual retail sales of Asia may...
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Tesco would buy the Romanian Real-shops
Date: 2010-12-14 12:15:40
According to the informations of Ziarul Financiar; Tesco would acquire the Real food stores in Romania. With the acquisition Tesco as a new entrant would be the third largest players...
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Hungarian webstores to introduce free delivery
Date: 2010-12-14 12:14:35
On the 16th of December several hundred of webstores will deliver the product free to the customers. Everyone will receive the products by Christmas. The first was organized in the...
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In case of force majeure producer is exempted
Date: 2010-12-14 12:10:59
Monday, the National Assembly amended the Agricultural Market Act. The producers, in the case of a force majeure event are not obliged to the full compliance of yield sales contracts...
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Men use list, women their intuition during purchasing
Date: 2010-12-14 12:10:19
According to a survey; about 80 percent of the Christmas gifts are purchased by women. It often happens that they buy even their own gifts and put them under the...
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Negative record in sugar production: a further price increase may come
Date: 2010-12-14 11:55:24
The sugar production is expected to decrease to its two decade nadir in the world's third largest sugar-producing country, in Australia. According to the report of Abares, the Australian Agricultural...
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