News and articles
Tesco became cheaper as a year before
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
More thousands of products are avelable under their last years price in Tesco units all over in Hungary. According to Monika Hackl, spokerperson of the retailer, Tesco helps people to...
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4,000 sqm big cold storage in Székesfehérvár
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
According to business daily Napi Gazdaság, the development costs of Alföldi Tej plant in the city was HUF 900 million. The new cold storages was technicaly open in December, but...
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Map of shopping in Auchan
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
French retailer has started to test a solution that aims to speed up shopping for customers by optimising their way through the store at its unit in Vélizy, France. To...
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Contactless payment at Carrefour France
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
The new card will be rolled out in France from 11 February 2009 by Carrefour's financial services division. Company hopes to sell 2.5 million PASS MasterCard cards in 2009 in...
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Extra duty for European food import
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
US wants to triple to 300 percent the import duty on world-famous Roquefort cheese, France turn to WTO. The US move was the latest volley in a larger, 13-year-old trade...
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Hungarians have more PC, DVD and CD player as the European average
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
According to Nielsen study people use more PC or laptops as watching tv. Nielsen asked 26,200 internet users in 52 countries about its home entertainment equipments. According to research 98%...
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One third of Hungarian on-line buyer are over 40 years
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
Internet is year to year more important as virtual market place – said GfK Hungária's Internet Insight Report. According to the survey the number of intensiv internet users grow by...
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OMV to reduce Austrian petrol station network
Date: 2009-01-23 00:00:00
Company wants to lower costs, raise its efficiency and concentrate on locations with higher customer frequency through its convenience brand Viva. Austrian oil company OMV has announced that it is...
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Tesco CEO asked for easier credit for companies
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
The ECB lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point last week to 2 percent, its fourth cut in as many months, reacting to the deepening euro zone...
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Salmonellosis Is In Decline
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union and that the number of cases due to Salmonella infections in humans fell for the fourth year...
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Coca-Cola opens bottle recycling plant
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. and United Resource Recovery of Spartanburg unveiled a new $60 million “bottle-to-bottle” recycling facility. The state-of-the-art plant, said to be the largest of its kind in the...
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Auchan payed out its part-owner of its Romanian subsidiary
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Auchan increased its shareholding to 100% in MGV Distri-Hiper, founded on May 2005 to set up and operate stores under the Auchan banner in Romania. Auchan acquired a 29% stake...
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Environmental Ministry offers paper bags instead of plastic
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
This year the green tax has changed, retailer must to pay more after the small plastic bags. It is not necessary, that the price of fruits or bakery products must...
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Decission about Pápai Hús credit on beginning February
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Pápai Hús Kft. won the tender for Pápai Hús Zrt. „under liquadition” last year's end. The government assumed state guarantee on 80% of the loans, HUF 5.5 billion, the buyer...
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SPAR buys stores in UK
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Retail Week has reported that SPAR has bought 11 former Somerfield stores and it will convert the stores to its Eurospar format. Eurospar stores differ to SPAR stores in that...
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X. Wine Growing Viniculture Conference in Eger
Date: 2009-01-22 00:00:00
Subtitle of the four days event is 'For Marketability of the Hungarian Wines', the main menu are wine marketing and developing the technology of wine growing viniculture. The conference was...
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Award for Kométa 99 Zrt.
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Company won the „Il Ponte” Award by the Hungarian – Italian Trade Chamber, on its Christmas party last year. The traditional event was organized by the chamber and the Polis...
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Goodwill of the Hungarian wines in Africa
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Wine region Sopron supports an university team at the Budapest-Bamako Rally. The youngest team of the race, students from the „Green University” – West-Hungarian University – took also some bottle...
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Kraft makes money with IT technology
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Kraft's iFood Assistant , a 99-cent application, wich offers recipe tips and help creating custom shopping lists — while providing feedback to Kraft on what users are buying. Food giant...
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Double-digit sales increase at Hofer
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Aldi’s Austrian branch had EUR3.3 billion in turnover last year, this year company plans to expand the chain (421 units) with additional 20 stores in Austria. As known discounters have...
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Delta M Group comes out from Ukraine
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
The Serbian retailer last year developed a supermarket network called Smak in a joint venture with Ritzio Entertainment Group in Ukraine, has closed down its network. RetailStudio reported the retailer...
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Metro Group launches efficiency programme
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
The Group’s structures will be simplified to realise the maximum growth momentum and customer orientation while significantly reducing costs. 15,000 of staff will be fire. Metro Group in Germany has...
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Saturn to expand in France
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Metro Group-owned consumer electronics superstore banner Saturn in France is due to roughly double its store count to 60 by the end of 2011. According to Lebensmittel Zeitung the operation...
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SPAR Netherlands to increase store chain
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
SPAR in the Netherlands has said it wants to open 20 to 30 new grocery stores over the year 2009. In 2008, turnover increased by nearly 25% up to EUR630...
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Penalty due to misleading ads and broken promissies
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:00
Hungarian Compatition Authority imposed a fine on three big retailers in total value of HUF 14 million. Tesco have to pay HUF 10 million fine because misleading ads in its...
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EU plans global food stock chain
Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:00
European Parliament call on the EU to take the lead in establishing a global food inventory regime and a global system of food stocks in order to provide adequate advance...
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EU restarts export subsidies for dairy
Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:00
This week the European Union restarts export subsidies for butter, cheese and milk powder to help dairy producers hurt by falling prices. The European Commission said it would also buy...
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Forrest Papír's plant developing cancelled
Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:00
Company said the reason for cancelling the investion is only partly the financial crisis, Forrest Papír see now better possibility for growth if they stain in the rent construction. The...
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Not the penalty is the cardinal goal
Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:00
According to business daily Világgazdaság, the authority leaves time for the hospitality industry to get used to the new rules of inventory. There is a panic between the caterers because...
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Wal-Mart Pulls Out Of Nielsen's PRISM Initiative
Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:00
Researcher says original marketer and agency backers of PRISM continue to support the initiative, too, including P&G, Unilever and Kraft. Wal-Mart is pulling out of Nielsen's PRISM (Pioneering Research for...
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