Company and Personal News
Accommodation generally booked without agents
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
The number of nights spent by guests in commercial places of accommodation was down by 1.3 percent in the January-September 2008 period, compared to 2007. Revenues of the sector showed...
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V.U.K.K. – Circle of Unilever ex-employees
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
For quite some time, I have had the idea of sustaining and developing further a system of existing relations. Finally, the first VUKK meeting was held on 20. November. In...
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Slovenian winner at Art Award
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
This year’s winner of the EUR 7,000 Henkel Central Eastern Europe Art Award is Miha Štrukelj from Slovenia. A total of 500 works have been entered for the competition....
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Sales in addition to marketing
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Márta Galácz, originally appointed as marketing director of Ceres Zrt. in the spring, will also be responsible for sales activities in the future. In the past, she had worked for...
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Medals from France
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Champagnes of the Törley group (BB Zrt. Chapel Hill Chardonnay Brut, Törley Chardonnay Brut and Francois President Rosé) have won three medals at the Effervescents du Monde competition held in...
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Agricultural prices swinging
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Supply prices of agricultural products were down by 8.8 percent in September 2008, compared to September 2007. The price of plant products was down by 22.2 percent, while that of...
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Limonissimo
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Lemon substitute had been a popular product in the socialist era, owing to the popularity of tea made with lemon. Apart from lemon substitutes in the form of tablets, liquid...
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YO to be distributed by SIÓ-ECKES
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
The YO syrup owned by the Eckes-granini group is to be distributed by SIÓ-ECKES Kft. from January 2009. This syrup product line originally distributed by Maresi Kft., has been present...
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Secret shoppers in stores
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
In the retailer promotion of Kométa 99 Zrt., CBA, Coop and Reál stores are visited by secret shoppers on a random basis, who will hand over gifts, if the store...
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Household consumption of champagne still dropping last year
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
According to data from the ConsumerScan of GfK Hungária, the number of households buying champagne and sparkling wine continued to shrink last year, dropping to 45 percent of all households....
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Cooking oil producing highest price rise
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Prices were up by 5.1 percent in October 2008, compared to October 2007, and 0.2 percent higher than in September. Food prices were up by 0.3 percent compared to September....
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Clorox fehérítő
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Clorox has chosen a really funny ad this time. The animation solution used in the spot brings new colour into the category. Agency: DDB Customer: DunaPro Zrt. Product: Clorox fehérítő...
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Marché turning 25
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
The first Marché unit was opened in Stuttgart in 1983, which means that the chain presently composed of 79 units, is 25 years old this year. The strategy of freshness...
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Rationalisation by TV2
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Like foreign media enterprises, TV2 is also preparing for the crisis by rationalisation. Their news section is to be restructured and 35 employees of the group are to be laid...
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Concentration stopping in the fruit juice market
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Retail sales of fruit juice were up by 5 percent in terms of value in the September 2007 – August 2008 period, compared to the preceding year, totalling HUF 47...
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Shrinking orders
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
Industrial production was down by 0.7 percent in September 2008, compared to September 2007. Industrial export was down by 2.1 percent. Production of the processing industry was down by 1.8...
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Locals taking over Pápai Hús
Date: 2008-12-16 08:00:00
New owners are expected to take over management of Pápai Hús Zrt. in January. A partnership has been established by the management of Pápai Hús, local government of Pápa, livestock...
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Decreasing prices in agriculture
Date: 2008-12-16 00:00:00
In October 2008 the producer price level of agricultural products was 16.5% lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year – said the Hungarian Statistic Office. More specifically,...
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Electrolux cut jobs
Date: 2008-12-16 00:00:00
The company will fire 5% of the total employees, till now there is no information about from which region. Electrolux, the world's second-biggest home appliances maker, warned its 2008 results...
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Demand for households papers and desodors grow
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
According to Nielsen research the common sold household chemicals are the fabric softeners, the toilet papers, dushgels and pocket tissues. The value of the TOP 10 households chemicals is over...
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The production of manufacturing fell by 8.6% in October
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
According to Hungarian Central Statistic Office In October 2008, industrial gross output decreased by 7.2% compared to October 2007, the index adjusted for working days was equal to the non-adjusted...
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German firms plan wage hike in Hungary
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
According to a research, commissioned by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, German firms operating in Hungary plan an average 6.2% wage hike next year. The headline wages at...
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INTERMARCHÉ accelerates contactless payment
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
Intermarché and Ecomarché stores will use contactless payment technology in France in early 2009. One third of its tills currently use the system. For payments under EUR20 users will only...
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Collective bargaining ended
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
Employers and unions agreed at a Friday meeting of the OET to a general wage increase of 3-5% in 2009 and to establish Hungary’s monthly minimum wage at HUF 71,500...
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Pápai Hús in local hands
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
The government assumed state guarantee on 80% of the loans the buyer would take out from the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB). The buyer was a project company that was brought...
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New CEO at SáGa
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
The Holland-born Henk Slagt leads since November the SáGa Foods company. For the 48 years old specialist Hungary is well known, further he worked 5 years at Sara Lee Hungary...
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Cora would pay for PET bottles
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
From 15th December the retail chain startes a test periode and collect PET drink bottles in its Budakalasz and Torokbalint unit. On press conference the retailer said: first of all...
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This year in the first 11 months price increased by 6.3%
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
According to the Hungarian Statistic Office in November 2008 consumer prices decreased by 0.2% compared to the previous month and rose by 4.2% compared to November 2007. In November 2008...
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Dutch Supermarket Sales Growth forecast only 3% in 2009
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
The supermarket sector reported sales of 28.7 billion euros in 2007, a 4.7 percent rise. The sales in the week leading up to Christmas to go up by 7 percent...
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TESCO cuts prices in half in UK
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
The British retailer, will launch a half price sale on 1,000 products this weekend. The UK’s largest retailer will launch the promotion on 12 December, with Christmas food, drink, toys...
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