News and articles
SPAR supermarket modernisation continues
Date: 2010-01-20 00:01:01
The SPAR Hungary Ltd. completed the redesign in 2009, on the 174 stores of the Plus network taken over in 2008. The stores opened again as SPAR Supermarkets. The biggest...
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The Bonduelle would acquire France Champignon
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:33
The Bonduelle Group and Butler Capital Partners announced, that negotiations are taking place, over the purchase of the France Champignon group. As the result of the 1997 fusion of the...
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METRO’s website renewed
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:30
METRO’s website the http://www.metro.hu was given new look and occurs with new features from the 18th of January. Thanks to the innovations, the appearance of the site, the novelties in...
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Csányi’s company purchased feed manufacturer
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:22
The Competition Authority (GVH) granted to the CSIM Pte. Ltd belonging into the interest of Csányi Sándor to buy the Tendre Ltd. dealing with animal feed. The CSIM is a...
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Tesco denies, that its Ózd unit sinks
Date: 2010-01-20 00:00:05
The Tesco Store of Ózd will not be closed – states Hackl Mónika, head of communication at Tesco. According to the news spread in Ózd, the mall is constantly sinking,...
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Smaller companies can get source
Date: 2010-01-19 00:04:07
The small business venture capital program may be launched in Hungary first, among the countries of the European Union, with a close to 31.5 billion HUF of EU support, a...
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Event Organizers: Alliance on the day of the profession
Date: 2010-01-19 00:03:21
Event organizers would probate their interests jointly. A traditional solution was chosen: they set up their own conference. Not only the members of MaReSz are expected on the professional day,...
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Ipsos: The advertising newspapers have a significant impact
Date: 2010-01-19 00:03:01
The untargeted advertising newspapers have a significant impact on customers, by motivating the impulsive purchases. Also inform of promotions and new products and give a kind of “hunting experience” –...
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The development of professional store chains can save the bakers
Date: 2010-01-19 00:02:37
Last year, the situation of the bakery companies has not improved, this year their market position may deteriorate further. The bakery companies can escape forward, with the development of professional...
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Cognac sales have been decreasing since 2008
Date: 2010-01-19 00:02:13
Cognac sales declined by 12.4 percent worldwide in 2009 – said the professional organization of the French Cognac Producers. Sales are reducing for the second consecutive year, after the 6.2...
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The Christmas turnover of SMEs decreased
Date: 2010-01-19 00:01:11
According to the online survey of MarketingCommando; The Christmas sales of the small and medium sized enterprises further reduced in 2009, compared to 2008. Fourty-four percent of the surveyed firms...
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Metro has fed up with price war
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:59
Metro retail chain's leader demands the cessation of increasing price reduction war in food trade. According to Eckhard Cordes; the price war is contrary with the original intention and has...
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NetPiac.hu was annexed
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:33
According to the agreement between the Bookline.hu and NetPiac Ltd., the NetPiac.hu online store will be absorbed into Bookline.hu’s own web store and will take over the operation from the...
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Diego Bevilacqua joins to the METRO Cash & Carry International team
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:22
With the appointment of Diego Bevilacqua, the company's international team expands with a new Customer Marketing Leader and the German METRO Cash & Carry will further strengthen its customer orientation....
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Sunflower instead of beer
Date: 2010-01-19 00:00:07
Already this year, a Belgian group can start the production of high oilacid sunflowerm, in the building of the former brewery, in Komárom. It is planned, that every year, 20...
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Grüne Woche Berlin: Hungarians meet with German purveyors
Date: 2010-01-18 00:05:29
One of the world's most prestigious agricultural and food industry exhibition, the Grüne Woche Berlin is in full swing. The Hungarian participants called the attention of more than 400 thousand...
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The consumption of vodka and gin increased last year
Date: 2010-01-18 00:04:21
Spirits turnover at the organized retail was stable with about 70 billion HUF, between December 2008 and November 2009, just as in the same comparable previous period. Compared to the...
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Hungarian competitiveness reduced
Date: 2010-01-18 00:03:25
The competition index (VEX) of GKI-Microsoft slightly decreased in the third quarter of 2009 in Hungary, Romania and Austria. The value of the business environment index (UX) was 20, higher...
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Hershey can buy Kraft Foods
Date: 2010-01-18 00:02:51
The Hershey can make a bid of 17.9 billion USD next week, for British Cadbury, baffling the buying intentions of Kraft Foods. The Hershey will finance the acquisition partly by...
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Pálinka consumption is popular
Date: 2010-01-18 00:01:15
The commercial brewed spirits rate increases by 10 percent annually, but the current annual production of 1.5-2 million, is well below of the hire brewing’s 10 percent reduction, still producing...
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Expanding American industry, rising consumer confidence in the U.S.
Date: 2010-01-18 00:00:55
In December, the industrial production of the United States increased by 0.6 percent, the same extent as expected. The manufacturing production decreased by 0.1 percent, in November, while mining production...
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German raid because of cartel of suspection
Date: 2010-01-18 00:00:38
The German Federal Cartel Office raided at 11 German retail companies and at 4 manufacturers, due to the suspicion of illegal price coordination. Raid took place at the largest German...
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New Persil sensitive skin products
Date: 2010-01-18 00:00:21
The consumers with sensitive skin have high expectations for the products used for washing up. The clothes are continuously in contact with the skin, so detergents should be skin-friendly. Henkel’s...
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Henkel brands are the official suppliers of the Dakar Rally
Date: 2010-01-18 00:00:09
Two Henkel brands (The Loctite ® and the Teroson) was elected as the official supplier of the Dakar Rally for the sixth year. The most sensational rally race of the...
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Grüne Woche: Hungarian food products in the focus of international interest
Date: 2010-01-15 00:06:20
Gráf József Minister of Agriculture informed 80 German and foreign journalists over the wide supply and high quality of Hungarian food, on Thursday afternoon’s press conference at the Berlin Fair....
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Annual inflation was 4.2 percent last year
Date: 2010-01-15 00:05:17
Consumer prices in 2009 increased by an average 4.2 percent. In last year December it was standing 5.6 percent higher than in the December 2008 and have not changed, compared...
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Szoftverbörze will be held in cyberspace
Date: 2010-01-15 00:04:29
Between 17 and 19 March, one of the largest Hungarian IT exhibition, the Szoftverbörze (Software bourses) will be held – this time in a virtual form. The exhibition is free...
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Giants’ struggle for costumers
Date: 2010-01-15 00:03:17
Deloitte made the ranking of the most powerful commercial chains. The great surprise is that Tesco slid down from the podium. The British Tesco was overtaken by the German Metro...
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A significant increase occured in the rate of domestic bank savings last year
Date: 2010-01-15 00:02:27
According to GfK’s survey; In Hungary, 17 percent of the population believe that they can save, in the fortcoming 12 months. The survey covers 14 Central and Eastern European countries....
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Cartel suspect – Metro is under investigation
Date: 2010-01-15 00:02:07
The German Cartel Office put under investigation several trade and production chains, because of the suspicion, that they coordinate their prices. The Metro is one of the companies, that are...
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