Company and Personal News
Something wrong with cheap ham
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Good ham is Hungarian and branded. In short, this is the advice given by the Association of Hungarian Meat Industry before Easter. This also applies to other types of meat...
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Szentkirályi winning again
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Szentkirályi mineral water won an award in Paris again this year, at the Mondial Spa & Beautè exhibition. Szentkirályi won the award for the best foreign carbonated mineral water again...
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Aiming for 500 again
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Scania ended an excellent year in 2006. Revenues, income and cash-flow reached an all time record. Registered orders were 44 per cent up compared to the previous year. Production capacity...
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No compromise!
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
GfK also examined the strategies of retail chains which reflect changing consumer attitudes. While in previous years, consumers accepted the compromise of low price for low quality, today they expect...
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Born to be the face
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
As an authentic representative of the Pepsi philosophy, Gaby the sexy housewife from Desperate Housewifes, alias Eva Longoria is the face of the advertising campaign for the new Pepsi Max...
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New warehouse
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
DHL Express Magyarország Kft. will establish a 3 hectare logistic centre in Budapest with an investment of HUF 4,5 billion. It will be completed in August or September 2007. A...
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On top of the wave of inflation
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Consumer prices rose at peak rate in the first months of the year. According to a KSH survey, the average increase in consumer prices was 1,2 per cent in February,...
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Iglo prize game
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Iglo succeeded in activating 300 thousand consumers with its SMS prize game during the last four months of 2006. During the promotional campaign, with a Peugeot 207 as first prize,...
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Structure intact during growth
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
The “price wave” generated by chocolate imports of recent years has not succeeded in changing the structure of the market or weakening the positions of strong brands. The dumping of...
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BILK changing its loading machinery
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
BILK Kombiterminál Zrt. began to change its fleet of mobile loading machinery last year. They purchase two new machines for HUF 300 million. They also made improvements in the software...
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Transfer prices to be documented
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
The number of international transactions is growing. Hungary is becoming integrated into the EU market end a growing number of international enterprises decide to establish regional headquarters of holding companies,...
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LLP becoming an Infor partner
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
LLP Group has become an official partner of Infor, the third largest business software supplier in the world. LLP Group is the official regional distributor of SunSystems, the business and...
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Pudding with cream improving its position
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
According to Nielsen, the retail sales of desserts made from milk products increased by 7 per cent in terms of value last year and is over HUF 7 billion. The...
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Wincanton moving into new location
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Wincanton has moved into new premises of 21,600 square meters in ProLogis Park, in Gyál, near the junction of M5 and M0. Wincanton rents over 172 000 square meters of...
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Brands are more important elsewhere
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Experts from PriceWaterhouse Coopers wanted to find out about the level of brand awareness in three countries of the region. Polish consumer habits are determined by the slow growth of...
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Törleys and art
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
A joint exhibition by two members of the Törley family has opened in Budafok. The paintings of Magdolna Piukovics and the sculptures of her daughter, R. Mária Törley are displayed...
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Health and pleasure for several target groups
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
The development of refrigerated milk desserts has been stable and dynamic. Between 2003 and 2006, the market grew by 50 per cent, with the volume of sales near 15,000 tons...
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Growing number of destinations
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Gebrüder Weiss Szállítmányozási és Logisztikai Kft. achieved a 16 per cent increase in turnover in 2006, maintaining its leading position in South Eastern European grouped forwarding services. They have 170...
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Multinationals within walking distance
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
According to dr. Károly Flaskay, managing director of PWC, the rate at which new shopping malls are built seems to be falling. On the other hand, hyper markets seem to...
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IMIGe getting stronger internationally
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
IMIGe with Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian and Polish offices and Sales Activation Solutions (SAS) Lts. have established a new holding under the name POS Media Group. IMIGe used to be owned...
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Mixed and sandwich type biscuits becoming more popular
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
7 per cent more sweet biscuits were sold last year than a year before that. According to the Retail Trade Index of ACNielsen, innovation played an important part in the...
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MAXITY: small enough for the city!
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Everybody is in a hurry in the city and we do not like trucks unloading in narrow streets. We would like to see transport vehicles with small turning circles, which...
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Shopping malls still most popular in Budapest
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
According to KSH data for 2005, the concentration of retail trade into large stores has continued. Shopping malls and hyper markets accounted for 30 per cent of overall retail sales...
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Food under scrutiny
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
According to Miklós Süth, national chief vet, food on the shelves in stores and marketplaces is going to be as safe again as it should be. Consumer trust has diminished...
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Winning Zwack spirits
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Of the ten spirits of Zwack Unicum Nyrt. nominated, 8 received prizes at the World Spirits Award competition held in Klagenfurt. Erdei Szeder és Bodza, Fehér Eper, Érlelt Cigánymeggy introduced...
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Playing with categories
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Biscuits have been manufactured in Hungary for over a hundred years. Sales are rising while the product range is becoming more colourful and diverse. – The categories where innovations appear...
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Sending packages from the local grocery
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
GLS General Logistics System Hungary Csomag-Logisztikai Kft. intends to increase the number of its partners doing deliveries from 130 to 350 in 2007 and to 750 in 2008. They hope...
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