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Kraft Completes Acquisition of Groupe Danone's Global Biscuit Business
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
The acquisition includes biscuit operations and assets in more than 20 countries, including 32 manufacturing facilities. Kraft said that the addition of Danone's biscuit business will transform the company's international...
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16,000 kilos poisoned pear from Italy
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
Specialist measured twice more fungicide as much the authorized maximum. Until the problem was disclosed more than 13,000 kilos were sold. Authority said pears are not danger for people, for...
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EU Tenders for Developing Hungarian Logistic Centers and Services
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
From the HUF 11,3 billion 25-35 project could be financed. In a frame of tenders 30% of building cost of a regional and 50% of building cost of an...
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British traders are on call
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
Shoplifters will steal more than £431 million worth of goods during the build-up to Christmas in England. On the busiest shopping day of the year, on Saturday, December 22, retailers...
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Campona to buy for €110 mln
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
The shopping center was opened 8 years ago, its occupancy level is over 97%. Basic tenats are C&A, H&M, Electro World, Hervis. ING Real Estate has today announced the €110...
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Food prices continue to rise
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
Experts agree that the prize increase of maize and rice will be on a higher rate than this year. The latest report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization...
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HUF 100 million packaging developing at Hungerit
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
The warranty period growth to 18-21 days. The new developed packaging system use the technology of Sealed Air Cryovac. The Multiivac Darfresh packs one ton per hours. The DARFRESH® packaging...
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Sio steps on the Energy drink market
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
From 1. January 2008 Sio-Eckes is the local distributor of Bomba! Energy drink in Hungary. Next year Sio will offer four soft-drink brands, the Sio and hohesC fruit drinks, the...
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Slow growth, stubbornly high inflation
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Hungary's internal and external balances are expected to improve on expectations this year. According to the latest report by think-tank GKI and Erste bank published the government deficit to shrink...
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New Christmas Credit Offer by Tesco
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Tesco branded electronic goods are sold for 12 months credit, without any interest. The retail chain starts this christmas season with a new bank contact. Hungarian Cetelem Bank offers six...
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Consumers like own-brand goods
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Almost three quarters of consumers have a positive perception of supermarket own-brand goods, a new study has found in England. Supermarket supplier Catalus questioned over 500 consumers on how they...
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Tesco US in top ten supermarkets by 2015
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
British grocer Tesco Plc could sales $10 billion with its Fresh & Easy n the United States by 2015, TNS Retail Forward said "There is demand for this type of...
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6th renewed store of METRO was open in Nyiregyhaza
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
In the next years all METRO stores will be renovated. The METRO Cas&Carry Nyiregyhaza opened in November. In the store the retail spaces are bigger as before and the supply...
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Test lab in the future's restaurant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Cameras monitor every reaction of the customers. In the new research center, devoted to exploring a both simple and complicated question: What makes people eat and drink the way they...
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10 tons food was found in the re-labeling plant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
In the Sparkle-action the supervisors pounced in a food depot in Budapest. In the illegal food depot relabeled and new dated foods: meat, sweets, eggs and softdrinks were found. The...
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Auchan to invest 0.5bn-euro in Romania
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French retailer targets 22 cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants by 2010. "We will continue to expand with large-scale hypermarkets, because this what we specialise in. The Discount Market store...
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Brilliant Tesco start in the US
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is going down well with shoppers. Fresh & Easy has now been open for nearly three weeks, with 13 stores trading in Los Angeles, Las...
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HUF 24 million donation by Real
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
This year 12 children foundation get HUF 24 million from Real Hungaria Elelmiszer Zrt. It was the fifth autumn, that Real paid charity from its own branded products sold in...
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Conctactles payment starts in Europe
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French hypermarket chain to trial contactless payment of MasterCard Europe. Normal the PayPass technology is used by shopping under 25 euro, but this card could make the payment 40% faster...
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Hungarian Tax and Financial Control Administration increase the default penalty
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Next year guilty must pay HUF 1 million because of invoice problem. The default fines increase from HUF 100,000 to 200,000, form 200,000 to 500,000. One million HUF is...
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Fake milkdisributor found
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
The Budapester enterpreuter operated without permissions. In Sparkler-action, collective control of several authorities, 5 tons milk product were found. The milk, cheese, cottage-cheese in value of HUF 7-8 million must...
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HUF 680 billion excise in government pocket
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Due to the continuously control increase the legal petrol, cigarettes and alcohol sales. According to industrial dates there was 7.1% higher sales in the first 10 months as a year...
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Next year's carriage must cover the lost from this year too
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
According to plans of Budapest local government trucks should pay ten times higher fees for coming into the city as now. Association of Transport Companies said this year carriage can't...
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Fütyülős on the Budapest-Bamako Rally
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Charitable contributions of most popular product of Zwack. Budapest-Bamako rally is a charity Africa run, starts on 12 January 2008. On the end of the tournament, in capital of Mali...
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Sweets at the Cologne ISM: boom with higher prices
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The ISM exhibition held in Cologne has come into the focus of attention again, as a result of the global boom in the sales of sweets. This event is to...
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Secrets of developing a brand
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Borbála Pesti, senior brand manager of Milli, used the introduction of Milli Túróvarázs to emphasise that curd is one of the most versatile and innovative ingredients. products. Judit Sipos, director...
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Need for renewal among frankfurter brands
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Private label products have been increasing their share in the market of frankfurters so far. This however, has lead to brand manufacturers increasing their efforts in the field of innovation....
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Imported wine in one out of six glasses
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
According to estimates, the quality of grape produced this year will be good, but its quantity will be less than usual. Wine production will just be sufficient to cover domestic...
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The great diet–losers winning
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Both Spar Magyarország Kft. and TV2 both appear to be winners. Especially, since they have succeeded in finding a common marketing objective which will enhance the position of both brands...
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Spectacle and gifts for the end of the year from Zwack
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
If over 40 per cent of the annual sales of a company are generated in the October-December period, trade marketing and marketing professionals have to consider very carefully what and...
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