Company and Personal News
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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Contrasts under the Caribbean sun
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Guadeloupe is an island in the Caribbean sea with an area of 1700 square kilometres and a population of 420 thousand. It is not a well known holiday destination for...
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To break conventions
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Zsolt Mészáros became the marketing manager of Borsodi Sörgyár ZRt. in January 2007. He had spent 13 years with Unilever in various marketing positions. He began his career as a...
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Shrinking costs, growing profits
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
InBev, the largest brewery group in world has published its 2006 results. The organic volume of sales increased by 5,5 per cent last year, while revenues grew by 7,9 per...
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Diverse trends, constant growth
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Retail sales of household detergents are expanding constantly and amount to nearly HUF 20 billion annually. The rate of growth is different for various segments. The segment of washing agents...
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The masculine beverage
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
Beer is a masculine beverage, according to data for the second half of 2006 from GfK Hungária and Szonda Ipsos PMX. One out of two people above the age of...
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Win, place, show
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
The success of business plans for the year largely depend on the outcome of annual negotiations. All key account, sales, marketing managers and even general directors face a high level...
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To be and to be seen
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
András Simon was trained to be a lawyer but had 11 years of of experience as a television journalist when he became the PR manager of Magyar Telekom on 1....
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GFK Group among the billionaires
Date: 2007-03-28 08:00:00
With growth of 19 per cent last year, the GfK Group achieved revenues of over EUR one billion in the fiscal year 2006. Profit increased from 12,6 per cent to...
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