News and articles
SPAR Wins Convenience Retailer of the Year 2009
Date: 2009-09-18 00:01:20
SPAR has won the NACS sponsored Convenience Retailer of the Year 2009 competition, which was awarded on 15th September 2009 in London. The success of SPAR with the recently opened...
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No buyer for Gyulai Meat Factory yet
Date: 2009-09-18 00:01:00
Until 15th September no one made a bid for the Gyulai Meat Factory – said Ruck János the CEO Gyulai Meat Factory The Meat Factory is still waiting for the...
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Vietnam Trade Expo at Asia Center
Date: 2009-09-18 00:00:50
A three-day fair and exhibition will be held at the Asia Center from Friday. On the joint event of ITD Hungary and Asia Center, the Vietnamese prime minister will take...
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Plaza Centers purchases in Lodz
Date: 2009-09-18 00:00:30
Plaza Centers is planning to build a 45 thousand square meter shopping and entertainment center in Lodz. According to the Chief Executive Officer of Plaza Centers; Poland can be the...
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The signation of the new advertising ethics code
Date: 2009-09-17 00:03:55
From the 30th September the new Code of Hungarian advertising ethics will come into force, with expanded content, renewed in structure and signed by 26 organizations on 16th September. The...
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The Hungarian companies’ losings are over five percent
Date: 2009-09-17 00:03:30
According to Direktinfo Kft.; the losings of the Hungarian companies increased over five percent, compared to last year’s average, one and a half percent loss. A significant part of the...
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Domestic markets are in transition
Date: 2009-09-17 00:03:10
The editors of Event Manager and O | G | H – Open Gates Hungary Ltd. carried out a survey at the beginning of the autumn season, in the areas...
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Budapest hotels drop behind
Date: 2009-09-17 00:02:10
According to Smith Travel Research’s report; the crisis weakened Hungarian hotels more, than the hotels of other countries in the region. While Budapest’s, hotel occupancy (49.2 percent) decreased by more...
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Riverside entered into confectionery industry
Date: 2009-09-17 00:02:00
The acquisitions market leader the Riverside acquired the majority ownership of Kaul GmbH. that is a world leader in the development of coating materials of confectionery products, such as jelly...
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Community Wine Campaign will start
Date: 2009-09-17 00:01:50
Hungarian Wine Marketing Kht. Launches a nation wide image campaign, in order to promote Hungarian wines in mid-September. The campaign is produced by the Action-NXS advertising company. Its slogan is...
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Tesco bond for 500 million pounds
Date: 2009-09-17 00:01:30
The world's third biggest retailer the Tesco will issue 500 million bond – reports Bloomberg News Agency. The bonds are secured by the rent of the reantal areas in the...
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Great demand for own branded products in the U.S. and New Zealand
Date: 2009-09-17 00:01:00
Recession significantly changed the eating habits of the citizens of New Zealand and U.S.A. More and more people purchase sensible and economical, while fewer and fewer choose to takeaway meals....
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Record number of participants at the Coop Rally
Date: 2009-09-17 00:00:40
The fourth “Coop-rally for quality Hungarian foods” will start 17th September, from Szeged. Eighty teams will took part on the arcade car racing, The contestants cover the 15 percent of...
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Personnel changes at the Mona Hungary Kft.
Date: 2009-09-17 00:00:30
The Mona Hungary Kft. strongly welcomes Mr. Kiss János, Senior Key Account Manager, who strengthens the team since July 2009. Kiss János arrived from Auchan, Globus and then from Friesland...
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The agricultural sector is in competition handicap
Date: 2009-09-16 00:06:30
According to the study of Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI); The Hungarian agricultural enterprises – especially the small and medium ones – can get loans with an extra 5-8 percent...
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Tourism exhibition in the West End
Date: 2009-09-16 00:05:00
It is no longer apart of September, that Hungary’s colorful tourism do not appear at the Millennium roof garden in the WestEnd City Center. The 3rd Főszezon Domestic tourism exhibition,...
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U.S. Retail is in progress
Date: 2009-09-16 00:04:00
The U.S. retail sector sales produced the highest increase of the past three and a half years in August. The total retail sales increased by 2.7 percent instead of the...
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Hungarian honey bottle will be given an award
Date: 2009-09-16 00:03:20
Award will be given to the Hungarian honey bottle on 23rd September on the Awards Ceremony of the 2009 packaging competition. The winner bottle illustrates Hungary, with hexagonal bee cells,...
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Low point of wheat
Date: 2009-09-16 00:03:05
The price of wheat, has not been so low since April 2007, as it is now. The volume of production was increased by favorable weather conditions in the United States,...
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German economic sentiment is under expectations
Date: 2009-09-16 00:02:00
The German ZEW economic sentiment index increased to 57.7 points in September from the 56.1 points of August. Sixty points were expected. According to ZEW Institute of Economic Research, the...
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Dieter Knoll will replace Deák Ferenc in the lead of Henkel
Date: 2009-09-16 00:01:30
Deák Ferenc Managing Director of Henkel Hungary will continue his professional career at the center of Henkel Group in Düsseldorf, from 1st October 2009. Dieter Knoll will replace him,who led...
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More and more people buy online with card
Date: 2009-09-16 00:01:00
Slowly, but the caution of the Hungarian cardholders shopping online, is getting soluble. According to MasterCard's home study, 8 percent of the respondents regularly use card to purchase on the...
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Auchan always wins on Auchan’s price comparison site
Date: 2009-09-16 00:00:50
The Pénzcentrum tried Auchan’s recently launched price comparison website. The Internet portal put together three different types of consumer package. Auchan won at each. From the 1st of September a...
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Wellness hotel from a pension in Balassagyarmat
Date: 2009-09-16 00:00:30
A three-star wellness hotel is building in Balassagyarmat with the extension of a pension. The project cost nearly half a billion HUF, with tender support. The 45 percent of the...
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Supermarkets increased market share
Date: 2009-09-15 00:05:59
According to GfK Hungária Market Research Institute supermarkets have continued to increased their market share, over the past nearly one year. Real winners of the the last one year, were...
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Coffee is more popular than chocolate and mineral water
Date: 2009-09-15 00:04:25
According to Nielsen market research company’s latest research, retail coffee sales increased 5 percent compared to the same period the previous year, between the August 2008 and July 2009 period....
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Scandinavians love Budapest
Date: 2009-09-15 00:03:40
The largest Swedish travel agency network, the Ticket, published the summer and autumn sales top lists of metropolitan destinations. According to the list, U.S. boomtowns have fallen, the winners are...
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Food prices decreased significantly in a month
Date: 2009-09-15 00:03:10
According to the Central Statistical Office (KSH); the monthly average retail price decreased 0.3 percent in August. Compared to the August 2008, the prices increased by 5 percent. In the...
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Hungary Meat bought the Mangalica meat partly from Pick
Date: 2009-09-15 00:02:50
The Meat sent to Japan as a model was partly bought from Pick Szeged Zrt, partly bought live animals from Mangal Ilon Ltd. which is the company of Moldován András,...
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Holiday checks are thirty percent more popular than last year
Date: 2009-09-15 00:02:00
According to the most recent datas of the Hungarian National Holiday Foundation (MNÜA); the usage of holiday checks increased by more than 30 percent. This year, nearly one and a...
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