News and articles
Stella Artois's Museum+ program won Summa Artium Projekt Award
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
The jurey awarded Stella Artois and Museum of Fine Arts's common palmary program. In frame of the Museum+ Program Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors on Thursday evenings, with longer...
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Szentkiralyi Mineral Water on new wawes
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
From December the mineral water brand steped into cosmetic industry with two new crem. Szentkiralyi – who belongs the licence- developed the „Vizek kremje” (Top of the cremes) hand and...
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More expensive foods – less consumption in Europe
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to a research by Nielsen in 21 European countries, in 11 countries people buy less food as before. In the 3. quater such countries came on the list as...
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New Cafeteria Card by OTP
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
The multifunction card can be used by several fringe benefits. The OTP group started with OTP cafeteria Card on 1th December 2008. This special card can be used trough POS...
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Tesco Sales slowling
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
Tesco PLC reported its worst U.K. sales performance since the 1990s and slashed its capital-expenditure plans in an effort to preserve cash, as the economic downturn continued to hit retailers...
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Angry retailers
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to the Hungarian Trade Association, the Agricultural Ministry wants to make retailers pay dear because of the lack of competitive strength of domestic agriculture production. Last week the ministry...
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Price of industry jumped
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to Hungarian Central Statistic Office the domestic sales prices of industry rose by 1.2% in October 2008 compared to the previous month and were 13.2% higher than in October...
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Investments in manufacturing were down
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
In the third quarter of 2008 the volume of investments in the national economy– on the basis of preliminary data – decreased by 2.3% compared to the same period of...
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Arab investors build luxury hotel, spa in Veszprém
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
The investors from Saudi Arabia and Dubai want to complete the project in two to two-and-a-half years. A group of Arab investors plan to spend billions of forints to build...
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INKU is bankrupt
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to report in Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag, on an Austrian provincial court on Tuesday officially started the bankruptcy proceeding against INKU – also in the Hungary interested furnishings store chain....
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Latin America Grows in Popularity as Trade Partner
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to a 2008 survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, undertaken on behalf of Atradius, the leading global credit insurer, the countries of Latin America continue to be attractive markets...
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Retail Sales Expected To Grow Over Christmas Despite October Drop
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
The German retail association, HDE, has said it expects Christmas sales to grow by 1% year-on-year, despite news that sales fell in October due to lower consumer spending. Citing a...
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Hungarian eat less Christmas sweets
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
According to GfK survey last year the market of Chirstmas chocolates and candless decreased, also the number of consumer and the bought volume pro person was less. Hungarians bought 10%...
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Costa Coffee presedes Starbucks in Budapest
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
The Italian-started, UK-based coffee chain is to open its first two cafés in December. The company, via Lapker Zrt. that sealed a franchise deal with Costa Coffee, will in the...
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Palinka feast at Kossuth square
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
December's first weekend is a celebration of Hungarian Palinkas. The feast started on 5th December at the ministry of Agriculture, where people can taste several kind of Hungarian orign spirits....
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Cadbury closed its Budapest Office
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
The company makes a new distribution system, from 1th February 2009 one distributor will responsible for all Cadbury products sold in Hungary. Last years Cadbury invested huge money for promoting...
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Supermarkets against the plastic bag in Britain
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
Britain's biggest supermarkets say they are on course to reduce by half their use of plastic bags by Easter. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Waitrose are making progress in cutting the...
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Morakert plans franchise shops
Date: 2008-12-02 00:00:00
The non-profit based Morakert wants to focus on its core business, to admit, proceed, package and sale the fresh vegetables and fruits from the farmers. Morakert was founded in 1996,...
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New Praktiker stores in Bekescsaba and Szekesfehervar
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
The Bekescsaba unit is the 18th of the chain, but also the warehouse in Szekesfehervar will be open before Christmas. The smallest unit in Bekescsaba has 4200 sqm retail area...
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10. Buy Nothing Day in Budapest
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
Some two dozen environmental activists marched down Budapest's pedestrian Vaci Street, pushing shopping carts to mark the annually held Buy Nothing Day on Friday. Each year there are more goods...
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Money for e-commerce developing from the government
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
Only Hungarian SMEs and micro entrepreneurs can take part in the tender, also commerce chambels and interest group organs are welcome. There are several tenders in progress in Hungary that...
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Hungary second on tops list of CEE shoplifters
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
A new study conducted by the British Centre for Retail Research revealed that Czechs top the list of Central and Eastern Europe’s biggest shoplifters. Published Nov. 12, the 80-page report...
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European Food-chain Parliament
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
Members come from all segment of food sector from farmers to processors, retailers, quality controllers, consumer protection organisations etc. The Central Agriculture Office Food and Feed Safety Directorate (CAOFFSD) organized...
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Expectations hit historical bottom again
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
After the historical bottom recorded in October the value of GKI’s economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects fell further in November. According to the survey conducted by GKI Economic...
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Satisfied clients on Signexpo-Digitalexpo
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
The exhibitors of the event said several business were made, all want to come back on the next fair in 2010. The common exhibition of Signeypo and Digitalexpo had almost...
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Shopfront competition in Hungary
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
The Hungarian Trade Association is looking for the most innovative and beutiful Christmas shop-window, tenders can be sent until 21 December. The assocition wants to call attention to values of...
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Kaufland tests self-service payment in Germany
Date: 2008-12-01 00:00:00
As reported by Lebensmittel Zeitung, one Kaufland store in Leipzig has been equipped with 12 self-payment machines. The customers can decide if they want to pay at one from 24...
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Hungarian GDP almost stagnats
Date: 2008-11-28 00:00:00
In the first three quarters – according to a flash estimate – the gross domestic product increased by 1.5%. In Q3 – in line with the effects of global market...
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METRO boss recommends lowering of VAT
Date: 2008-11-28 00:00:00
According to reports in Financial Times Deutschland, the Chief Executive of Metro Group, Eckhard Cordes, has said that VAT should be lowered to support the German economy. According to Cordes,...
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Electro World stores in Slovakia
Date: 2008-11-28 00:00:00
In its interim financial statement, DSG announced that it has opened its first two stores in Slovakia. The company was already present in the country under its e-commerce division, Pixmania....
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