News and articles
Another Hungarian director at the Eckes-Granini Group
Date: 2010-12-03 10:13:28
From 1 October 2010 Marianna Bartos fills the position of HR and organisational development director at Eckes-Granini Group. She graduated at ELTE’s Faculty of Arts and in the last 18...
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French Weeks in Cora stores
Date: 2010-12-03 10:11:55
Sopexa’s Hungarian office organised French Weeks in Cora hypermarkets on 3-14 November 2010. French Weeks tried to familiarise the wider public with a vast number of French products. This time...
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Univer – a 100-percent Hungarian brand
Date: 2010-12-03 10:10:20
Univer’s new ketchup campaign started in the middle of November and it stresses the fact that the product is made exclusively from Hungarian tomato. Univer is 100-percent Hungarian as regards...
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Brand Association and NFH cooperate
Date: 2010-12-03 10:07:55
The Hungarian Authority for Consumer Protection (NFH) and the Hungarian Brand Association signed and agreement of cooperation. NFH president Dr István Pintér emphasised that it was a common interest to...
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Generous donation to familiarize Hungarian dog breeds!
Date: 2010-12-03 10:05:28
In September ‘Dog Stories’ figures appeared in Kinder Surprise products. Ferrero Hungary donated HUF 3 million to Rex Foundation, to contribute to popularising dog breeds indigenous to Hungary....
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Tailored to customers’ needs
Date: 2010-12-03 10:03:59
On 3 November 2010 a revamped INTERSPAR store celebrated its 10th birthday in Tatabánya. The store did not close during the one-month renovation period, which made the interior more modern...
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The brand Házi Arany received a Magyar Bransa award in 2010
Date: 2010-12-03 10:00:30
Házi Piros Paprika Ltd. is celebrating its 20th anniversary now, and its brand Házi Arany received a special award now. The fully Hungarian-owned company selling and distributing paprika, spices and...
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The magic of packaging
Date: 2010-12-03 09:43:18
On 22-23 September Paris hosted ‘Taste Experience Anywhere’, a ready meal event which was organised by Sealed Air Cryovac and attracted 74 food processing companies, retailers and culinary enterprises from...
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Limited edition Davidoff Café Suprême Réserve
Date: 2010-12-03 09:42:07
Tchibo introduced the latest members of the limited edition Davidoff Café Suprême Réserve series: Indonesia Sumatra and Indonesia Timor coffees are special because of the characteristic arabica beans that they...
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Gérard Depardieu promoted his own wine at Hogatec
Date: 2010-12-03 09:40:17
Gérard Depardieu, the famous actor presented his own wine at the Metro Group’s stand at Düsseldorf’s Hogatec trade fair. There were 403 companies present from 16 countries, but there were...
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New CEO for METRO Hungary
Date: 2010-12-03 09:38:12
On 1 November Roland Ruffing assumed the position of CEO at METRO Hungary. Mr Ruffing joined the METRO team in 2004 when he started working for Makro Cash & Carry...
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Naszálytej products in gable-top shaped packaging
Date: 2010-12-03 09:35:17
Naszálytej Zrt. invested HUF 586 million in installing a unique milk processing line and filling machine, made by Tetra Pak, that is capable of performing both UHT and ESL heat...
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Bestillo Visitor Centre opened in Boldogkőváralja
Date: 2010-12-03 09:33:44
On 21 October the visitor centre of Bestillo Pálinkaház was inaugurated in Boldogkőváralja. Half of the HUF 90 million investment was funded from EU sources through the New Hungary Rural...
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Kométa is about
Date: 2010-12-03 09:31:58
In the next 2-3 years Kométa will invest HUF 3 billion – the company announced at a press conference on 17 November. Kométa will pay highlighted attention to lowering its...
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HELL conquers international markets too
Date: 2010-12-03 09:30:07
HELL Energy Drink was established in 2006 and it is now available in 18 countries. Hell has already become a dominant market actor in many countries, thanks to its consistent...
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In Forint terms Hungary exports more than before the crisis
Date: 2010-12-02 15:47:13
Between January and September, the export volume increased by 18, imports by 16 percent compared to the base period. The increase in euro was 22, and 19 percent. The trade...
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Hungarian companies are optimistic
Date: 2010-12-02 15:43:56
Hungarian business leaders are optimistic about their own companies and over the economic prospects of Hungary. Three quarters of them expect that their company’s revenue will reach or exceed the...
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Third of the pigs and one-fifth of the cattle have disappeared
Date: 2010-12-02 15:42:10
According to the Central Statistical Office; third of the pigs and one-fifth of the cattle have disappeared in the last ten years. This shows that animal breeding is vegetating for...
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Pizza Hut will not withdraw completely from Hungary
Date: 2010-12-02 14:40:26
The Pizza Hut restaurant chain, operated by AmRest Ltd. will not completely withdraw from the Hungarian market, despite many signs suggested this – reports Világgazdaság Online. “In our long-term plans,...
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Euro zone’s economy increased by nearly two percent in a year
Date: 2010-12-02 14:35:59
In the third quarter, the GDP of the 16-member euro zone increased by 0.4 percent, compared to the second quarter and by 1.9 percent, compared to the third quarter of...
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Dreher won the Green Frog Award
Date: 2010-12-02 14:25:29
The jury of the Green Frog Award alias the Central European Environmental Report set up by Deloitte juried 44 applications from three countries this year. The best sustainability report was...
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Consumption mood in the EU improved hardly
Date: 2010-12-02 14:24:09
Public spending growth slowed down in the third quarter in the European Union (EU). According to the survey of the Visa Europe; the nearly half billion inhabitants of the union...
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Pepsi’s five billion dollar deal in Russia
Date: 2010-12-02 14:19:23
U.S. PepsiCo, bought the largest Russian food and beverage producer, the Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods (WBD) for 5.4 billion USD. According to the Thursday announcement; in the first round, PepsiCo will acquire...
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Russia joins to the World Trade Organization
Date: 2010-12-02 13:37:59
Moscow and Brussels signed the document of the WTO accession on the 7th of December – said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov in Moscow. According to the report of...
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Bonbonetti comes up with a wide selection of Christmas candies
Date: 2010-12-02 12:59:49
This year, Bonbonetti has launched a number of new products, such as Bombonetti Szaloncukor Selection, a wide range if special Christmas candies. In the year of 1868 the biggest chocolate...
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Four new McCafés open this year
Date: 2010-12-02 11:44:33
Until the end of the year, two more – a Budapest- and a Budaörs-based – McCafé outlets are about to open. This way, the company opens 4 cafés as a...
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MVH goes on with food-aid program sponsored by EU
Date: 2010-12-02 11:35:04
Food distribution goes on in the next couple of weeks of year, on behalf of Hungarian Agricultural Authority (MVH) within the compass of a special food-aid program for those in...
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Hungarian companies only use social media for marketing purposes
Date: 2010-12-02 10:47:00
The majority of Hungarian companies still do not get the hang of social media: they mostly use it as a one way platform to distribute marketing messages, instead of focusing...
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GURU won Gold Effie Award
Date: 2010-12-02 10:07:33
Pöttyös GURU won Gold Effie at the gala event held at the National Theatre on 8 October. This was the ninth time that the most prestigious competition in marketing communication...
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A tax has to be paid for the crisis
Date: 2010-12-02 10:02:28
At the press conference of Magyar Nemzeti Bank it was said that if the companies who have to pay the special tax decide to transfer the extra burden to consumers,...
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