News and articles
Support to farmers in advance
Date: 2009-04-29 00:37:46
Farmers can take up the 20 % of the already been awarded but not yet paid agricultural and rural development supports, since 23rd of April as a support in advance...
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Smurfs in Spar
Date: 2009-04-29 00:00:00
After previous years succesful loyalty point actions SPAR launches new point collection campaign. From 23rd April and 11th June 2009, customers of Interspar, SPAR, Kaiser's Plus stores, depending on the...
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Szobi-syrups in Nyárszentlőrinc
Date: 2009-04-28 09:49:56
The production of Szoby-syrups is going to restart soon by Szikszai Borásztati Ltd. in Nyárszentlőrinc. The previously liquidated factory has been purchased by SÁ-VA Drink Ltd. The new owner plans...
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The Hungarian pork is virus-free
Date: 2009-04-28 09:39:58
The Hungarian pork is safe for consumption in the animal health protection’s point of view, because the Hungarian pork plants has a closed production system – stated the Association of...
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Henkel’s Loctite glue breaks World Record
Date: 2009-04-28 09:38:10
Henkel has brought the Guinness World RecordTM of the “heaviest vehicle lifted with glue” to a new level. Loctite Superglue can now justifiably claim to be the strongest glue in...
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Eco-friendly Tesco bags
Date: 2009-04-28 09:34:23
Beside the building up eco-smart, environmentally friendly “green stores” Tesco also offers a number of environmentally-friendly bag. Such products are the returnable bags, which are free re-replaceable if breaks or...
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POS Media Hungary has appointed a new director of sales
Date: 2009-04-28 09:27:59
Since March of 2009 the previous sales manager Nikolett Neff occupies the sales director's post.at POS Media Hungary. The expert joined the firm in June 2004 as a junior sales...
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Recycled drinking cartons
Date: 2009-04-28 09:26:16
In four years Hungary has increased fivefold amount of the selectively collected and recycled milk and juice cartons. This is a modern packaging without preservatives to protect the stored food...
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Lake Balaton: More guests this year
Date: 2009-04-28 09:22:24
Because of the weak forint, Hungary could attract foreign tourists – said Róna Iván the Chief Executive Officer of Hungarian Tourism Ltd. The company forecast that more and more people...
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Ringier’s recordbraking 2008 result
Date: 2009-04-28 09:19:37
The Swiss media group has achieved strong growth especially in the digital media areas. Ringier which is present in 10 countries in Europe and Asia achieved 5,3 percent growth with...
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More social shops to open
Date: 2009-04-28 08:27:56
Further 70 social shops which selling only Hungarian produced agricultural products will be expand. Twenty-five Social shops are currently available. In May 70 further shops will be opened. The ultimate...
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Fire broke out in a store in Orosháza
Date: 2009-04-28 07:34:56
At least a $ 100 million HUF damage was caused to the store which caught fire Monday night in Orosháza. The fire was in the highest degree of alert, and...
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Swine-flu in Europe
Date: 2009-04-27 05:01:25
A new strain of swine flu has killed at least 81 people in Mexico, according to WHO it was treating the outbreak as “a public health emergency of international concern”...
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Production cut at Herz
Date: 2009-04-27 04:56:53
Production has been cut by Budapest-based salami-factory Herz Ltd. in the past few months – Endre Nagy, CEO of the company said in one of the dailes. According to certain...
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Cafeteria-tickets' system remains unchanged
Date: 2009-04-27 04:51:29
The government's proposal to cancel cafeteria-tickets has been subject to great debate country-wide, now they seem to have changed their mind and decided to leave the current system unchanged. EUFE,...
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Tesco in the city-centre?
Date: 2009-04-27 04:49:25
Tesco Express is the name of the new small units to be opened in the citycentre of Budapest, the first store would open in Nagykörút – the news by Népszabadság...
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A lack of skilled, young salespeople in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-27 04:46:21
There would be a strong need for skilled employers in trade in Hungary, but currently the majority of salespeople are those who has been not accepted by higher institutions of...
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Nestle, Unilever, Pepsi and Danone are among Alpro Soya bidders
Date: 2009-04-27 04:41:58
The European market-leader soya brand is for sale since the beginning of the year, Nestle or Unilever seem to have offered the most so far. Belgian media has said that...
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American saving money by buying cheaper brands and consider home-grown vegetables
Date: 2009-04-27 04:37:14
More than half of the Americans asked – 57 percent – are trying to save money by buying cheaper brands, 23 percent gave up smoking while 25 percent switched to...
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A growing number of online purchases in Hungary, too
Date: 2009-04-27 04:30:30
The number of airline-tickets sold online grew by 50 percent in the past one year. At Malév, 10 percent of the passsangers purchased their on the company's website, now this...
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European tourism may not be left untouched by swine flu
Date: 2009-04-27 02:34:56
World-wide swine-flu may have an effect on European tourism too, since WHO's alert thousands of cancelled flights have been reoprted. Europeans are cancelling their overseas flights, Hungarians do not travel...
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25 percent VAT only helps black market
Date: 2009-04-24 05:43:54
The Association of Food Manufacturers do not agree with the concept that only certain basic food products would belong to the middle-range, 18 percent VAT-category. The association has published an...
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Meat-industry associations do not agree with new VAT-laws
Date: 2009-04-24 05:38:33
Goverment plans about VAT-changes are unacceptable and unfair, according to most associations in the meat industry. They are convinced that certain products affected by the cut of VAT do not...
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Even „basic food products” may cost more from July
Date: 2009-04-24 05:34:57
The new 18 percent VAT-rate to be introduced in July is not going to bring about significant changes when it comes to the actual prices of products: bread and milk...
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Hungarian customers are afraid of losing their workplaces, and the increase of credit and energy pr
Date: 2009-04-24 05:21:59
While 31 percent of Hungarians involved in the survey are worried about workplaces in the first place, 22 percent of all citizens from 50 countries feel the same – a...
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Retail sales volume falling
Date: 2009-04-24 05:18:27
Hungarian retail sales volume falls adjusted 3.2% in February. January-February sales volume was down 3.0% from the same period in 2008 – according to KSH's new data. KSH's retail sales...
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Heineken's digital campaign proved to be successful
Date: 2009-04-24 05:13:05
“Know the signs” is part of the succesful “Enjoy Heineken responsibly” marketing plan through which Heineken aims to provide comprehensive information about the effects of alcohol consumption. The campaign has...
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Women are more likely to try new products
Date: 2009-04-24 05:09:35
Special offers do not only attract female customers: in fact more than seventy-five percent of netsurfers above 18 prefer buying special offer products – VMR research by NRC Market Research...
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State Printing Company winning 66 million HUF for nanotechnological improvments
Date: 2009-04-24 05:06:52
The 66 million HUF won by the State Printing Company is going to be spent on nanotechnological devices to fight agains the black market by recognizing false prints. „This new...
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The biggest hypermarkets offer more jobs
Date: 2009-04-24 05:04:40
Even though most companies needed to decrease the number of their employees, Tesco has just announced that they are about to make 26 thousand new workplaces available worldwide, while Wal-Mart...
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