News and articles

Europe's largest economy grew by 3.6 percent in 2010

German Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 3.6 percent in 2010, compared with a year earlier – said the German statistics office on Wednesday. According to the communication of the...

Read more

Last year, cereal production fell by 9 percent

Last year, 12.3 million tons of grain was produced on nearly on 2.6 million acres, on 11 percent smaller area than in the previous year. The yield decreased by more...

Read more

France reclaimed the first place

Once again, France was the world's leading wine producer in 2010, after a year earlier Italy overtook it – shows the analysis of IWSR  market research institute. Although wine producing...

Read more

India is already concerned about rising food prices

Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister has convened an extraordinary government meeting on Tuesday, in order to deal with the alarming rise of food prices. On the meeting, that was held...

Read more

Sziget Festival has to pay

On the 11th of January several press releases were published; that the Sziget Kft. should pay 2.5 billion HUF public land usage fee in 2011 for the festival site of...

Read more

The Saturn and Media Markt are no longer to “pull” Metro?

The Saturn and Media Markt chains were the pulling force companies of Metro Group, but in 2010 the two companies' earnings have stagnated, customers migrated to the Internet. The different...

Read more

Vinexpo 2011 – list of programs

Vinexpo sets the wine and spirits industry the challenge of invigorating its markets at its Bordeaux exhibition from 19 to 23 June 2011. Everything has been arranged for the international...

Read more

Honey infected with antibiotics on the Hungarian market

Honey-samples from Heves county are still being examined – daily paper Heves Megyei Hírlap learned from food safety and animal health board chief veterinary officer Dr József Eperjesi. The honey-controll...

Read more

Lajos Bognár's term extended

The minister respomsible for the operation of the Agricultural Commissioner Office is Lajos Bognár, and his term of office expired on 5th January 2011. However, the term was extended until...

Read more

ew technology of industrial wipers on the market

The WYPALL* wiper product range has all your options covered. Whether you need a low-lint, long-lasting wiper for heavy duty tasks or a single-use, cost-effective solution the WYPALL* range can...

Read more

Corporate volunteership is not popular in Eastern-Central Europe

Ranking of responsible business operation evaluates for the second time transparency and communicated CSR performance of largest companies of the CEE region. CSR 24/7 Rating is a CSR rating product...

Read more

The extreme weather and speculation drive up the price of raw food materials

The world price of raw food materials has increased over the past one and a half years, but the price of processed foods only slightly increased. Raw food materials are...

Read more

Online purchases: Paypal may be the solution to the distrust

Although purchasing with cash declined slightly, compared to last year, it is still the most typical among online customers. According to the annually repeated E-Shopping report of KutatóCentrum; The lack...

Read more

New sales director at Maspex Olympos Ltd.

Starting from 1st January 2011, the new commercial director of Maspex Olympos Ltd. is Zsolt Purmann. The expert started his carreer at British American Tobacco in 1998, then moved on...

Read more

Currently there is no way for more stringent control in EU imports

Hungary imports tens of millions of kilograms of pork and many hundreds of millions of liters of milk and dairy products each year. A part of these products are suspiciously...

Read more

The newest shopping center of Pest opens in April

According to the plans; the Europeum Shopping Center will open its gates on the Blaha Lujza Square before the Easter holidays, on the 14th of April. 70 percent of the...

Read more

The nationwide honey raid valuation is under way

Results of the nationwide honey raid is still under valuation. The examination was necessary, because antibiotics contaminated honey appeared in the domestic market. The test team of the Agricultural Office...

Read more

The awful Christmas weather affected Metro badly

The German Metro AG company announced that its fourth-quarter sales increased to 19.7 billion euros. This corresponds to an increase of 1.6 percent, compared to the same quarter of the...

Read more

TriGranit sells 50 percent of the Arena Centar in Zagreb

Europe's fourth largest real estate developer, the TriGranit Development Co. and Heitman European Property Partners IV (Hepp IV) announced today that the Hepp IV bought 50 percent stake in the...

Read more

Wine shortage expected this year

Only the half the usual quantity was produced in the wine cellars last year, so shortage is expected this year, and also a lot of wine varieties may disappear from...

Read more

Clorox.hu launched

DunaPro has launched a new website fosing entirely on Clorox-products so that consumers get an idea of not only the products, but also the process of production and the background...

Read more

How companies win: new book by the CEO of Nielsen

In a world of contracting markets and diminished consumer demand, The Cambridge Group founder Rick Kash and Nielsen Company CEO David Calhoun show companies how to find new customers and...

Read more

Henkel to launch new technology

Persil’s brand communication focusing on Cold Active technology launch received special attention in 2009. Using this technology, Persil Cold Active is able to handle tough dirt even at 30 degrees...

Read more

“Daphne” turns research project into a faster process

Daphne is a new end-to-end research device by GFk, which is based on the following five pillars: 1. Single source measurement GfK Daphne's single source method measures media behaviour, campaign...

Read more

New Széchenyi Plan: Economy can expand from two thousand billion HUF

In the scope of the New Széchenyi Plan two thousand billion HUF may flow into the Hungarian economy from the middle of January. According to former governmental and regulatory promises;...

Read more

Hungarian export increases further

According to the preliminary datas of the Central Statistical Office; the foreign trade balance, that was 652 million euros in November 2010 (179 billionHUF ) showed assets, which is a...

Read more

“New dimensions” of consuming in the Hungarian stores

Exciting developments are taking place at several Hungarian supermarkets: digital shelf labels, mobile application, pay phone, automatic cashiers revolutionarize  shopping habits. Few novelties: In the recently opened Tesco supermarket in...

Read more

Liberalization of home destillation deprived the state of huge tax-revenues

Since the liberalization of home distillation, the Hungarian budget was deproved of billions of revenue. However, excise tax on alcoholic beverages will not see a rise this year – MTI...

Read more

Cerbona under liquidation

The Cerbona Board decided beside liquidation, since the company faces serious liquidity problems in recent years, that were further strengthened by the crisis and the changes in the market. The...

Read more

Exchange war can be changed into a trade war, warns the Finance Minister

The Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega warns that the world is full of “trade war” to hold. According to the Minister of Finance; the United States and China are among...

Read more
Oldal