News and articles
Poisonous 'Colgate' in teh USA
Date: 2007-06-18 00:00:00
Last week the US's Food and Drug Administration recalled toothpaste sold in discount stores in four American states after it was found to be tainted with a poisonous chemical. The...
Read more
Kaiser Food reckon with a good business year
Date: 2007-06-18 00:00:00
The company plans 10% revenue growth this year. Facing last year's HUF 4.8 billion incomes, Kaiser Food wait for HUF 5.2 billion. As result of last years plant modernizations, what...
Read more
Reducing packaing
Date: 2007-06-18 00:00:00
Britvic, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, and Nestle are among the companies joining Unilever and others in signing a commitment to cut down on packaging and food waste under a UK programme....
Read more
Heineken has acquired a brewery in the Czech Republic
Date: 2007-06-18 00:00:00
The global brewer said that it has bought Krusovice Brewery from Germany's Radeberger Gruppe for an undisclosed fee. The transaction is expected to complete in September, subject to clearance from...
Read more
KA-VOSZ gave the 75,000 Széchenyi Card and took the 100.000 demand
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
20% of SMEs use this card, the interested credit is over HUF 350 billion. The Szechenyi Card is a good solution for short period liquidity problems. The credit can be...
Read more
STI on Growing Path: Takeover of Petöfi, Hungary
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
After a strong increase in turnover in 2006 of more than 10%, STI Group Lauterbach, Europe´s number 1 producer of displays and a major player in the packaging sector, announces...
Read more
Operative steps against black commerce
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
According to VOSZ, the government should handle in the same way the venders on the black market, the mongers outside the stores and the legal worker traders.Sándor Demján, president of...
Read more
368,000 sm new retail center will build in Hungary
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
Nex year 17 million sm new retail center will be finished in Europe, Hungary is on the 13. place. According to AIG/Lincoln the retailcenter market is one of the fastest...
Read more
Supervisors will be not on a holiday, but will bob up on tourist places
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
The food safety control authorities are ready for an increased monitoring. In the summer places served for public eating, summer camps and events organiser can matter for abrupt check. The...
Read more
Bohemian days in Bigmarkethall
Date: 2007-06-15 00:00:00
Bohemia's turist attractions, cultural souvenirs, food industry and art is showing from Thursday to Saturday in Budapest. The customer welcome bohemian volk music played by Group Svejk in the Markethall,...
Read more
Modus to build largest retail scheme in Bucharest
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
UK developer Modus Properties, in partnership with Nova Imobiliare, are on course to build the largest retail and leisure destination in Bucharest, Romania. Phase one of the €450 million scheme,...
Read more
EU to invest €4m into harmonizing Russian, European sanitary standards
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
The 30-month project, to be conducted in cooperation with Russian authorities, will be launched June 20. This is expected to help establish stronger economic ties between the European Union and...
Read more
Cobra beer focus on new markets
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
Cobra is eyeing annual sales growth of 50% over the next three years and has earmarked India as key to meeting that target. UK based Cobra Beer, founded by an...
Read more
Miller targets “Latinisation” with new beer
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
Miller Brewing is rolling out a new beer across the US in an attempt to capitalise on the “Latinisation” of the country's culture. Following test marketing in five markets over...
Read more
Auchan Hungary targets 7% sales rise, network expansion for this year
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
The Hungarian subsidiary of French retail chain Auchan will keep expanding its network and operate a chain of 17-20 units within five to six years. Last years revenue was HUF...
Read more
Payment of the dividends in August by Hungary Zwack AGM
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
Hungarian distiller Zwack has announced that to pay HUF 2 bn as dividend from the 2006 after-tax profit. The remaining HUF 626.794 m into profit reserves. The HUF1,000 payment of...
Read more
Anheuser-Busch can use the brand name Budweiser
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
US brewer Anheuser-Busch has won the latest round in the legal fight over the Budweiser trademarks. The dispute between them goes back for decades and there have been many court...
Read more
Decreased food prices
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
Hungary's agricultural producer prices rose by 7.9% year on year in April, falling from a growth of 8.9% in March, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) has reported. Excluding fruits and...
Read more
Summer attack in Tesco
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
In only one weekend run out some many bikinis in the Tescos, as normally in a whole week. 200% increase in the sale's tatistics. There were more than 900,000 customer...
Read more
New online ad possibility for SMEs
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
According to Google from now the hungarian users can get the AdWords Business Pages. Intended for businesses without their own websites, AdWords Business Pages are informational webpages that advertisers can...
Read more
SPAR Sponsorship for european athletic
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
European Athletics and SPAR International are pleased to announce that the world's largest voluntary food retail chain has extended its commitment to athletics for a further four year period, until...
Read more
New line in Szentkirályi plant
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
The capacity will be double, from 220m liter to 450 million liter per year. Ending of the development, starting last year, the Szentkirályi's new manufactory hall and Hungary's most modern...
Read more
Biofuels jack up food prices
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
The rapid increase in global biofuel production will push global corn prices up by 20 percent by 2010 and 41 percent by 2020. Thanks to high oil prices and hefty...
Read more
Chio-Wolf protest against fat labelling
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
According to the company the labelling would make the customer cranky, and at the end the consumption would decrease dramatically. The snack manufacturer Chio-Wolf Kft. thinks, that the proposal of...
Read more
EU unifies rules for organic food labelling
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
Mass catering operations are excluded from the new rules although countries can choose to apply national rules if they wish. EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling over new rules...
Read more
Fast expanding russian snack market
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
PepsiCo will build a second snack manufacturing plant in Russia to meet the growing demand in the country. The new plant will be based at Azov in the Rostov...
Read more
Cadbury gets sweet on Romania
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
Cadbury Schweppes has bought a 93 per cent stake in Romanian sweets maker Kandia-Excelent, from Kandia, a private equity investment holding company managed by Meinl Bank. Kandia-Excelent is the second...
Read more
Over 34,000 professionals in attendance at Alimentaria Lisboa 2007
Date: 2007-06-12 00:00:00
Innovation played a key role in areas such as the New Product Zone and The Intelligent Shop (La Loja Inteligente). Alimentaria Lisboa, the International Food Show, held at the modern...
Read more
The poultry price will be HUF 30-40 more expensive
Date: 2007-06-12 00:00:00
The recent rise in price has several motives: rising of energy and feed costs, and a scarcity of goods, because the cheap products of South-America illuminated. The stop of...
Read more
Multilevel campaign for Sara Lee Hungary
Date: 2007-06-12 00:00:00
The coffee marketing group spelt a bidding tender in Februar 2007 for the communication of Douwe Egberts brands. On the strength of creative ideas and the fullness of the campaign...
Read more