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The most popular women’s handball team in League 1 receives one million Forints

From 8 April, those supporters who buy Arany Ászok can vote on their favourite women’s handball team for a month. The team with the highest number of votes receives HUF...

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Sialogue for improving the conditions of dogs

Mars organised a meeting for experts, NGOs and public authorities who work for solving the problems of domestic animal keeping. Participants of this Social Dialogue discussed problematic issues and proposed...

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Keleti falls

One of the last great Czech classics on the Hungarian market, Becherovka gave in to the current trend: it is being flavoured. Becherovka Lemond now boats the fresh flavours of...

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Airwick Aqua Mist

Air freshener spray with a propellant-free formula that is a real innovation, which stands alone on the market....

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Economic policy dilemmas

According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the Hungarian economy will stagnate in 2010 and a moderate growth is expected only in the second half of...

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Personalised rejuvenation

Cosmetics manufacturer Skin Mood offer perfectly personalised cosmetics products to consumers. They employ dermatologists, chemists and geneticists who create face creams based on consumers’ own genome; it takes 20 days...

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Functionality gets a leg up

The economic recession hit the foot care category hard, buyers were forced to make decisions by looking at the prices only, which resulted in a fallback amongst premium brands. Renáta...

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New CEO for BAT Hungary and BAT Austria

From 1 January 2010, Octavian Dascalescu (39) is replacing Emil Moskofian in the CEO’s seat of British American Tobacco (BAT) Hungary. He started his career at BAT Romania in 1997...

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The most frequent places for buying certain categories

Hyper- and supermarkets are the most frequent places for buying categories such as carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, beer, household cleaners and chocolate – states Nielsen ShopperTrends....

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‘Fishing net instead of fish!’ – a new element in the Food Avalanche programme

Syngenta and the Hungarian Food Bank Association launched their Food Avalanche programme for the 3rd time in February 2010. There were 26 applications and 9 winners were announced. Municipalities and...

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We give you everything we have!

Designing and operating bathrooms for bars and restaurants gives great creative freedom to owners and designers alike. Donna Dooher, the owner of Mildred’s Temple Kitchen restaurant in Toronto ran a...

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NÖM MIX Yoghurt cream

They are healthy to consume and the experience is enhanced by the fresh, biteable fruits in the yoghurt cream....

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In the developed world growth is already palpable

According to an analysis by credit insurance company Coface Hungary, in the first quarter of 2010 companies’ insolvency indicator augmented by 12 percent, compared with the same period in 2009....

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Most people expect the growth of the Internet

Hungarian Mediaindex, a survey by Marketing&Media and Ipsos revealed that 83 percent of those asked expect growing advertising revenues on the Internet for the second half of 2010. The heads...

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Shoe care brands are strong

The Nielsen Retail Index registered 13 percent lower value sales in shoe care product retail, while volume sales were 20 percent lower in comparison with the previous year. Average price...

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Wage increase at Kométa

Kométa ’99 Zrt. was the first meat-industry company to start negotiations with trade unions and to increase the wages of employees by 3.5-4.5 percent as of 1 March. The average...

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Coffee in a hundred different ways

On 23-25 April, Magyar Kávétársaság Kft. organised the Marvellous Coffee trade fair. Bravos, Pellini, Mauro, Musetti, SaraLee, Semiramis, Pasco and Nestle were all present. The event’s objective was to facilitate...

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McFancy

No matter how we might scold McDonald’s, the company is still the most characteristic player in the world of restaurants, with both their ideas, good or bad. For the 2010...

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Eden Caramel

Gluten-free product without added sugar, the caramel taste of which offers great pleasure for people of all ages....

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Strengthening Forint, expanding food export

According to a preliminary estimate by KSH, our foreign trade surplus was EUR 374 million (HUF 103 billion) in February, up EUR 78 million (HUF 14 billion) from February 2009....

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Surprising changes in online content consumption

Data from the gemius/Ipsos Audience online audience measurement system shows that the Internet using habits of certain target groups and the character of consumed content has changed considerably. While the...

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Gloomy Sunday?

The battle in the past 10 years between retail chains and trade unions about Sunday shopping seems to settle for a draw in Hungary. However, the debate continues on a...

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Bestillo is the favourite of Gyula dwellers

Bestillo Pálinkaház’s raspberry pálinka was the spectators’ favourite at the 11th Kisüsti Pálinka festival in Gyula, where the jury tested 851 pálinkas and distillates. Boldogkő Fruit Kft., the manufacturer of...

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Industrial Oscar for Tetra Pak

The Budaörs plant of Tetra Pak is the first Hungarian packaging material manufacturer that has won the Manufacturing Excellence Award of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance. The industrial ‘Oscar’...

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They are writing a blog and selling pizza

Domino Pizza restaurants’ customers can now place the chain’s widget, a ‘Social Affiliate’ tool on their website, blog, Facebook or Twitter profile. Those who read the page can click on...

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Peridot mineral water

Naturally alkaline mineral water....

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Agricultural prices augmented at the beginning of the year

KSH’s report informs that the production price index of agricultural products went up by 0.2 percent in February 2010, compared with the same period a year before. This February vegetable...

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Competing with the neighbours drives the garden product market

Experts say that the development of people’s gardens depends on how much they earn and on their rivalry with neighbours. From year to year, the garden product market expands by...

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Tracked fleets

Many companies distribute solutions such as vehicle tracking system, satellite fleet management system or GPS fleet tracking. In everyday conversations GPS (Global Positioning System) means a navigation system installed in...

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Riceland’s prize game continues!

This year started well for one participant of Riceland’s loyalty programme – players only had to collect 5 Riceland logos – as in both January and April one lucky winner...

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