News and articles
Hungarian beach-festival with special-offer tickets
Date: 2009-06-23 00:08:00
One single special-offer ticket is valid for 9 days for 100 swimming-pools, aquaparks, beaches, thermal-and spa baths: the beach-festival organized by Hungarian Tourism Ltd. starts on 27th June and closes...
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Cadybury's success: chocolate getting more popular in Britain
Date: 2009-06-23 00:07:00
Britain's major chocolate producer Cadbury is very likely to fulfill its business plans for the year as Brits are buying more and more chocolate, while US traffic is about to...
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Ocado launches automatic re-order software
Date: 2009-06-23 00:06:00
Online grocery delivery firm Ocado is currently in the process of developing software that can predict when a household needs to re-order a particular product and will add it to...
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Tesco with a debt of net 10 billion pounds
Date: 2009-06-23 00:05:25
Tesco Plc’s decade of international expansion has pushed debt ratios at the U.K.’s largest retailer to record levels, endangering the company’s credit rating and sparking a backlash from fund managers...
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Carrefour entering Russian market
Date: 2009-06-23 00:04:00
Carrefour has established its first outlet in Russia. The company opened a hypermarket in a shopping centre in the capital Moscow. The grocery retailer has leased 14,300 square metres of...
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Sensation – departing client contact director
Date: 2009-06-23 00:02:00
László Farkas, former client contact director of Sensation Event Marketing is leaving his poisition starting from 19th June and starting his new position as the manager of Claybird Group. Fazekas...
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La Festa prize game is over
Date: 2009-06-23 00:01:00
La Festa cunsomers' prize game came to an end and the big Voga Hunt is over too, in which La Festa took part as a collaborative partner. Within the Compass...
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CIES: abudance in food, yet 40 percent is never eatean
Date: 2009-06-22 00:23:00
The 53rd World Food Business Summit in New York City, gathered 660 CEOs and senior managers of the world's food and consumer goods retailers and manufacturers, from 44 countries for...
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Retails aiming to increase less than expected
Date: 2009-06-22 00:22:05
Retail companies are not planning to add the 5 percent VAT-rate increase to all their prices, to be introduced on 1st July – companies interviewed by MTI pointed out. The...
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Bus-tourism may see a 15 percent increase this year
Date: 2009-06-22 00:22:00
Bus-tourism is more popular than ever all over Europe, and this tendency is already visible in the Hungarian foreign trade trends as well – an article by Világgazdaság states. A...
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Newbies by Főgáz
Date: 2009-06-22 00:21:02
Budapest gas-company Fővárosi Gázművek and E.ON have just announced their newst innovative product, a broiler working by gas within the compass of a press conference on 17th June. The new...
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New Tesco-hipermarket in Hajdúszoboszló
Date: 2009-06-22 00:21:00
The newest member of the Tesco retail-chain has opened on 19th June. The new, 5 thousand square metre building is open ever day of the week. The new store in...
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Sió Prémium brand communicated by Creative Partners
Date: 2009-06-22 00:20:00
Sió-Eckes Ltd, producer of Sió fruitjuices, has launched a creative tender to communicate the brand Sió Prémium. The winner of the tender is Creative Partners agency. The brand Sió Prémium...
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Smurf-success by Spar
Date: 2009-06-22 00:13:00
The SPAR point-collecting game and the smurf-figures have been rather successful in the past few months, they are now even available for auction on various community portals. This shows that...
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Travel agency liquidated due to insolvence
Date: 2009-06-22 00:10:00
MKEH, the office in charge of Hungarian commercial authorisations has legally cancelled the acivity of the travel agency called 5 Kontinens Travel Agency Ltd. – as announced on the official...
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European farmers expecting EU to stabilize dairy market
Date: 2009-06-22 00:06:00
European Union leaders called on the European Commission to study how to stabilise the dairy market, and put a halt to falling prices of import dairy products in Europe. Austria,...
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Wal-Mart opens high-efficiency store in California
Date: 2009-06-22 00:01:00
Wal-Mart has opened a new store in Sacramento, California which is said to be one of their most energy efficient stores in the U.S. With the opening of this new...
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Eu `Vend Cologne: 300 exhibitors and 5000 visitors are expected
Date: 2009-06-19 01:14:00
Hungarians spend 30 billion HUF per year on food purchased from food machines. 35-40 thousand food machines are working in Hungary. The fair of the trade sector, w named Eu'Vend...
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Most of the Hungarians do not plan going on holiday longer than 5 days in a year
Date: 2009-06-19 01:09:22
According to the National Media Analysis of GfK Hungária and Szonda Ipsos, 76 percent of the Hungarians stated that they did not have any holidays in the past year. The...
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Smart scales offer wine to cheese
Date: 2009-06-19 00:57:34
The intelligent, computer-controlled scales, now appeared in Hungary not only shows the weight of the goods, but also recognizes, what they are; showing how many calories are in the purchased...
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Five buyers interested in Borsodi Brewery
Date: 2009-06-19 00:47:15
There's a great interest towards ABInBev brewing industry group's Eastern European breweries offered for sale, including Borsodi Brewery. ABInBev wants to sell eleven breweries in Bulgaria, in the Czech Republic,...
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Shrinking expo markets, but it is better than expected
Date: 2009-06-19 00:41:08
The economic crisis affected the exhibitions and the events as well. Less exhibitors, renting less exhibition spaces on fairs and on exhibitions. Downturn was 10 percent so far, however, the...
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Turnover increased by six percent at Auchan
Date: 2009-06-19 00:36:05
Both Auchan Hungary Hypermarket chain and its French parent company increased its turnover in 2008. The company's own branded products can be purchased from autumn on the domestic market. Auchan...
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SPAR opens a new supermarket in Mosonmagyaróvár
Date: 2009-06-19 00:35:05
SPAR Hungary Ltd. opens a new supermarket 18 June in Mosonmagyaróvár at AD Flexum department store. Meanwhile the company continues to expand its own branded products. The SPAR supermarket is...
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Economic Competition Authority enters 'VAT-war'
Date: 2009-06-19 00:34:01
Economic Competition Authority was informed that the from 1 July some retail businesses turned to its suppliers with a call for price reduction. Economic Competition Authority seeks to clarify the...
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Piarist wine 2009
Date: 2009-06-19 00:22:23
The Furmint of Count Degenfeld Vineyard and the Szürkebarát of Nyári Pince (Summer Cellar) has won the Piarist Wine title. The winners of the Hungarian Piarist wine competition will be...
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Almost 4 billion euros had been disappeared in the German retail market, last year
Date: 2009-06-19 00:18:12
Last year, 3.9 billion euros inventory shortage has been generated in the German retail market. Thieves are responsible for 2 billion euros, but the rest disappeared by the result of...
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Food and Agricultural World Forum in Budapest
Date: 2009-06-18 00:48:41
Between 20 and 23 June the Food and Agricultural Forum will be held in Budapest – stated Gráf József Minister of Agriculture. The event is entitled: “Global Challenges and Local...
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Budapest is the eighth most popular Conference venue
Date: 2009-06-18 00:42:37
Budapest moved to eighth place from the former twenty-fourth in the 2008 year ranking of the Union of International Associations (UIA) on the list of the most popular Conference venues....
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Meat business branch of Globus bought by Czech buyer
Date: 2009-06-18 00:39:52
Hamé of the Czech Republic has acquired the French-owned meat-processing department of Globus in Budapest, which had a turnover of 5 billion HUF last year. Because of the economic crisis,...
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