Company and Personal News
Nestlé recals three of its coffees
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:50
Nestlé Hungária Ltd. recalls the Alta Rica, Cap Colombie and Espresso instant coffee product lines – published the Hungarian Food Safety Office, on its website. The reason of the recall...
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SIÓ: Twenty pallets of Fruit juice for the volunteers
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:42
The SIÓ-ECKES Ltd. offered several millions HUF worth of fruit juice to the professionals and the volunteers, who are fighting against the flood in Northern Hungary. Friday afternoon, with the...
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Metro continues its Asian expansion
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:30
German trading group Metro is massively expanding in China and at other growing markets in Asia. In long terms Asia, and in particular China always played an important role in...
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Tesco supports the introduction of minimum alcohol prices to combat against abuse
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:20
Tesco supports the prohibition of the distribution of alcoholic products below cost prices in Britain. The new British government would impose minimum prices for drinks in order to discourage excessive...
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The PepsiCo also invests in Chinese agriculture
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:10
The U.S. PepsiCo. will invest 2.5 billion USD in China in the next three years – announced Indra Nooyi, president and CEO of the company in Friday in Shanghai. The...
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The food industry should be treated as a strategic sector
Date: 2010-05-21 00:03:41
The food industry may ruin, if we fail to boost innovation – states the Hungarian National Food Technology Platform. According to their calculations; 45-50 billion HUF should be invested in...
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There is no ceasefire between the stores and the suppliers
Date: 2010-05-21 00:02:32
Next week, the suppliers will make a statement against those food retail chains, that are most violate the unfair trading practices law. The two major problems with the food retail...
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Széchenyi Card: 7.6 billion debt, from 750 billion
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:20
The Hungarian companies has reached 750 billion HUF credit line through the Széchenyi card system. Currently 1600 companies are on the black list, but the bankruptcy rate is relatively low.The...
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Hungary's competitiveness has improved
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:15
Hungary improved from last year’s 45th place to the 42nd in IMD’s 2010 competitiveness rankings – reports the Swiss IMD, the world's leading business school. According to the latest ranking;...
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We can trust only in certified organic products
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:50
The Biokontroll Hungária Nonprofit Ltd. will install mobile laboratories in order to test organic food production and the products. The three vans will carry out at least 500 checks in...
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The Ifo-index shows an improvement the global economic sentiment
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:40
The global economic sentiment index of the German IFO Institute for Economic Research improved further. The index of the second quarter rose to 104.1 points, from the former 99.5 points...
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The Hungarian Food Bank Association surprises 28 thousand children
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:30
As the result of the fundraising initiative of the Hungarian Food Bank Association a total of 28 thousand needy children will receive gifts on the occasion of children’s Day. The...
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Recognized artists in the national jury of Henkel.Art.Award 2010
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:20
Henkel Hungary Ltd. invited four artists to assess the works of Hungarian artists who take part in the Henkel.Art.Award 2010 competition, and to select three of them who can participate...
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The European Parliament does not support meet glueing
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:10
The European Parliament vetoed the European Commission's decision, which made it possible to use the thrombin enzyme as food additive. The thrombin was used to glue the meet parts that...
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New CEO at Cerbona
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
From 6 April, Gábor Gosztonyi is the new CEO of Székesfehérvár company, Cerbona Zrt. His predecessor, Tivadar István Szabó will remain a member of the Board of Directors. Gábor Gosztonyi...
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The source of fresh and safe products
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
József Surányi, the head of METRO’s quality assurance department says: – Our major goal is providing partners with quality, fresh products. Our customers can be sure that fresh food products...
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Variations on eco-bottle
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Andrew Kim, an 18-year old designer unveiled a new concept, which uses squared Coca-Cola bottles that can be folded when empty – they become up to two-thirds smaller than when...
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Puskás Öcsi is the face of Szentkirályi in Australia too
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
At the end of April, Szentkirályi launched its new advertising campaign that uses the image of Puskás Öcsi – not only in Hungary, but in Australia and the US as...
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The world has been drinking Nescafé to wake up for 70 years
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Nestlé Hungária Kft. celebrated NESCAFÉ’s 70th birthday from 14 May until 1 July in 2009, with a series of promotions. In SPAR, Coop, Tesco and Penny stores there were several...
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STI Packaging RO Srl officially opened its gates
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
On 15 April 2010, STI Group’s 13th plant was officially inaugurated in Cluj-Napoca (production already commenced in January). Dr. Tom Giessler, the group’s chief financial officer and a managing director...
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Heartening domestic retail data
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to KSH’s report, after a 0.6-percent growth in January, retail turnover in Hungary stagnated in February, but the annual downturn diminished from 5.6 to 4.3 percent. In terms of...
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Cheese in chocolate-type multi-block form
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Chunka Cheese’s experts had two things in mind when they created a cheese block design that is similar to a chocolate bloc or bar: convenience and simplicity. Smaller sections of...
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Whitening toothpaste is stable in popularity
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Toothpaste volume and value retail sales grew only in hypermarkets and in the 201-400 m²-channel in March 2009-February 2010 – the Nielsen Retail Index informs us. Hypermarkets’ value share reached...
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New CEO for BAT Hungary and BAT Austria
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
From 1 January 2010, Octavian Dascalescu (39) is replacing Emil Moskofian in the CEO’s seat of British American Tobacco (BAT) Hungary. He started his career at BAT Romania in 1997...
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Pampers and UNICEF continue the battle against newborn tetanus
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In 2010, Pampers and UNICEF keep fighting for eliminating newborn tetanus by 2012. This year Gabriella Jakupcsek will represent the campaign in Hungary. After every Pampers product bought from 1...
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Hungarian pigs cannot cope with competition
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and fruit/vegetable products. Their last report reveals that this year we can expect a global growth...
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ChocolateStory
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
These days one of the strongest consumer trends is transparency. US company Original Beans plants a tree after every bar of chocolate they sell. Documents in the packaging indicate the...
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The teeth situation
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hungarian people’s oral hygiene is still below par. Márton Pál, brand builder with Unilever Magyarország Kft. shared some data with us: toothbrush usage is 1/person/year, toothpaste consumption is 3 tubes...
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dm changes the design of its shop windows
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
dm Kft. will refurbish the shop windows of 32 stores by September and in 5 years time all of their units will look different. The idea for the new façade...
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Economic policy dilemmas
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the Hungarian economy will stagnate in 2010 and a moderate growth is expected only in the second half of...
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