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Coca-Cola/Happiness Factory

Happiness Factory – the movie shows us the fairytale inside world of a coke machine and also shows us in a creative way what happens when the machine runs out...

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Heineken Hungária ending a good year

Heineken Hungária achieved a 16 per cent increase in operating profit and 12 per cent rise in net revenues in 2007. Sales grew to 392,000 hectolitres, with net revenues reaching...

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Chocolate festival with bon-bon book

A chocolate festival was held by Szamos Marcipán Kft. for the second time on 5. March, under the title “Wondeful Chocolate” with the aim of promoting quality and the culture...

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Magnetic beer brands in hyper markets

Since beer sales grew last year, even though it was a difficult year for everybody, optimism regarding 2008 seems to be justified. As a result of new strategies, hyper markets...

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Fighting instore theft

There is no such thing as perfect security. Store owners can do no more than to make life as difficult for thieves as possible. Expensive products can be fitted with...

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SIÓ prémium

A nice moment, a well-known face, our everyday environment, all making us feel ourselves to be at home in the World, just like a well-known flavour. Our World. SIÓ. Agency:...

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Slowly improve of the internal and external balances of Hungary

By the end of the year the economy will be out of the slump it slipped into last year. Inflation, however, will start to decline more substantially only around the...

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Store openings, online sales boost H&M

Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB posted a 28 percent rise in first-quarter profits from strong online sales, new stores, and a beneficial exchange rate.   Europe's second-largest clothing...

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Nordic Partners' buy Hame

The Czech anti-monopoly office UOHS said it has approved Icelandic company Nordic Partners' acquisition of the largest Czech canned food producer Hame.  The price of the deal was not disclosed....

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Coop-Carrefour Deal ended in Switzerland

The former Carrefour hypermarkets will be Coop Megastores from June, so the Coop chain has now 24 big stores in the Alpen country.  The Swiss watchdog approved Coop to buy...

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Toxic mozzarella from Naples

Italy's buffalo mozzarella industry was in crisis yesterday as a third of producers faced closure amid fears that their cheese had been contaminated with cancer-causing substances.   Several batches of...

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Increasing business confidence in Germany and France

Europe economy is running, the unemployment is in 25 year low and no crisis to see at properity sector.   The euro rose against the dollar, reversing an earlier decline,...

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Fourth Hungarian among the best McDonald's employees

Agnes Horvath (33), Operations Director of McDonald’s Hungary is the youngest from the Hungarians who got this award.  The McDonald’s President’s Award, the most prestigious McDonald’s employee award across the...

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Fresh products from Lekkerland

Thanks to the new ice-romm of the company, built from 50,000 euros in Budapest, in the logistic center of the company, from 1 Marc Lekkerland can deliver 30 kind of...

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Increase at women fashion by Hugo Boss

Fashion group's sales grow 9% to EUR 1,632 million, Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 19% to EUR 220 million.   In Germany, HUGO BOSS again saw sales...

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Campagne for Eating Hungarian Poultry

The Hungarian Poultry Product Broad propagate buying poultry growing up in Hungary. In part of the intagrated communications campagne a conference is organised.  The board hopes that people will protecting...

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8 new Profi stores in Romania

Profi Rom Food, operator of the Profi and Albinuta store networks in Romania, plans to invest E8.0m in 2008 to open new Profi stores in the country.  The company will...

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Heineken Makes Acquisition of Czech Drinks Union AS

The acquisition, for an undisclosed amount, must be assigned by competition watch dog. Companies hope to close the deal until June. Brewer Heineken has announced the acquisition of Czech privately...

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Sainsbury's Sales Grow 4.1% rise in Fourth-Quarter

Despite the slowdown in consumer spending, Sainsbury's said it continues to see strong growth from non-food sales, thanks to its investment in developing its product ranges and infrastructure as well...

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Nespresso presented Goroka Coffee from New Guinea

Grand Cru is is perfect combination of crema, body and taste, offering distinct individual aromas and flavor notes. Senses such as sight, smell, taste, aftertaste and touch can be used...

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Lidl 'spied on staff in Germany

Surveillance teams would arrive early on Monday mornings to install between five and 10 miniature cameras in Lidl stores, according to the German news magazine Stern.   The retail chain...

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Shiny outlook for 2008 at Tiffany

Tiffany & Co posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday as increased sales overseas and new stores helped offset the effect of a shaky U.S. economy that has strained consumer spending....

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Adidas -Vulcabras joint venture

The new company will sell shoes, shirts and other sports apparel from Reebok in South America.   The joint venture starts business April 1, pending regulatory approval, and will be...

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Regional tenfold difference between the yearly budget in the region

Austrian has the most money, Ukrainian the less. 42% of the cost is given for food in the now growing countries, in Hungary this share moved from 29 to 23%...

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New CEO at Biopont

From March Mark Egervari, former economic director leads Hungary's biggest bioproduct distributor.  The specialist has an economy and legal qualification, joined the company last summer. The former CEO, owner of...

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Budaors is Tetra Pak's new Easter-Midle European Centre

The new founded company: Tetra Pak Duna results from former Tetra Pak Hungary, Austria, Czech and Slovakia.  Svend Weidemann, leader of the new built company, former head of sales in...

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Tesco has the biggest sales in Hungary

According to Nielsen Research in 2007 only hypers and discounts could develope, but some from the winners cathegory only must stagnate, Tengelmann gave up. The list of the power is...

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Smart shopping trolley with dietetic advices

Microsoft is helping design the ultimate shopping trolley: a cart that will guide you round the store, suggest recipes…and tell you if you're sticking to your diet.   Developed by...

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Figo plays at Szentkirályi's group

The gold medalist Portugase futballstar arrived today at Budapest, where he got a press conference, met his fans and than drove to Szentkirály for shooting the ad campagne.  Tomorow the...

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World champion of motor GP is the ad face of Burn energy drink

Coca-Cola Hungary protect Gabor Talmacsi motogp World Champion.  More than 1000 people saluted the star at Club Tihany, where Coca-Cola made him a party. When he arrived people could see...

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