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Sale and lease back

European commercial property sales and leasebacks are set to grow to about 30 billion euros a year as firms seek to unlock the value of real estate on their balance...

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Reorganization at Food Express

There is a hard competition between home delivery food services. Because of the cheap price of small companies, the biggest, Food Express has to make restrictions. A few years ago...

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Tesco moves into the buoyant UK property market

Sellers will be able to list their homes on a Tesco website for a one-off fee of about £200.Last year, rival supermarket Asda provided touch-screen terminals with details of properties...

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Decrease in Budapest but increase in Szabolcs

The interim biennial purchasing power index compiled by GfK Hungária shows that well-performing counties are stagnating or dropped back slightly. Since 2000 there was a permanent growing in the capital,...

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Year of M&A

According to Reuters global M&A activity is on target for a record year after a first-half surge.  An increase in cross-border corporate mergers helped Europe push past the United States...

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Gaining deeper customer insight is the key to gaining a competitive edge in the retail

Loyalty cards give retailers a better guide to customer preferences study finds."Customer loyalty is based on the extent to which merchants connect with customers' interests, values and needs," said Nigel...

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Hungary's external and internal balances improved in the first four months

Hungary's Central Statistics Office (KSH) has revised that the cumulated trade gap at the end of the first quarter was EUR 442.4 m, down from prelim EUR 463.9 m and...

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Price of household goods decreased, food prices increased

Domestic sales prices rose by 0.4% in May 2007 compared to the previous month, and by 7.8%compared to May 2006.  The export sales prices expressed in HUF were higher by...

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Italy wins in „cheese war”?

It sets up a thrilling finale when the full Court of Justice will rule later this year on whether “Parmesan” can be made only by northern Italians or by any...

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20 Bauhaus unit in the next years

Germany's do-it-yourself chain, Bauhaus, will debut in October in Dunakeszi.Bauhaus will open two further stores this year, one in Dunakeszi and another in Szigetszentmiklós, which will be followed by 18...

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Own brand confectionery grows across European markets

European confectionery private label market share is continuing to grow strongly, according the latest statistics by Neilsen for the Private Label Market Association. Results indicate that the retailer brand market...

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Reorganization by Zalabaromfi

The new owner, the Dale consortium bought the company for more than 50% of a start prise, HUF 2,4 billion. Dale started to reorganize and rationalized the company in Zalaegerszeg....

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Burger King will be open in Bohemia

AmRest, the listed restaurant operator – managing, among others, Burger King,Pizza Hut KFC – ask for working permit in Czech Republic. Until now the concret start of the first bohemian...

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European Food Safety got well

Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) which shows that notifications on risks to food safety fell by 5% in 2006 compared to 2005.This is the first time since the...

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Business confidence of big Hungarian companies improve in June

The index gauging the confidence of Hungary's largest corporations stood at 58 points in June, up 4 points from May and at a six-year high, indicating outstanding optimism, Ecostat, the...

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M.E.G.A. group is played into the hands of Ukrainian

The ownership change was made in Februar, after the re-labeling scandals, but the Registry Court has enroled now the two new owner from Ukraine. The M.E.G.A. Group, with five firme,...

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Food safety fine for Lidl

One of Lidl's polish eiscream had to be get out of the circulation and must be annuled, because the production was not safe enough, and the eiscream could be tainted....

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Tesco set to launch book club with UK's biggest publisher

Tesco, the supermarket chain with more than 1200 stores in the UK, is expanding its retail empire by launching a book club in collaboration with the UK's biggest publisher, Random...

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Spain Gives Nod to Nueva Rumasa's Acquisition of Parmalat's Clesa

According to Spain's business media, the national competition authority has given food group Nueva Rumasa the green light to acquire Clesa, the Spanish subsidiary of Italian dairy firm Parmalat. The...

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Hard competition on softdrinks market in Ukraine

Orangina Group, the beverage producer has acquired Rosinka, a Ukrainian soft drinks manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum.  Rosinka, which has a workforce of 600, saw its 2006 turnover reach 30...

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Toxic industry raw materials in chinese food

Chinese media are reporting that authorities have shut down 180 food factories, after inspectors found industrial chemicals in products from candy to seafood. Authorities say formaldehyde, illegal dyes and industrial...

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Charles' organic carrots rejected by Sainsbury's for being 'rotten'

SAINSBURY'S rejected royal carrots grown at the Prince of Wales's organic farm because they were “rotten”.   The supermarket giant said the quality of Duchy carrots from Highgrove had "deteriorated"...

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Nike is popular in Europe

With growth in the U.S. and abroad, plus surprisingly strong future orders, Nike allayed fears and buoyed hopes for some about the future of the world's largest athletic shoe and...

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Warehouses near to the downtown

Construction work has begun for a 20,000-square-metre (4.94-acre) business park in Táblás street in Budapest's 9th district. InNove Business Park will comprise warehouses and office space. It is located at...

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Uninterrupted growth at LLP

LLP Group, a leading provider of ERP and CRM solutions in Central and Eastern Europe, has reported 2006 total revenues of 7.7 million EUR, representing 12% growth over 2005.  The...

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Competition about the past 30 years

The final of the “Who knows more about the past 30 years?” organised by Sió-Eckes Kft. to commemorate their 30th birthday took place in the beginning of June. Teams from...

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Success in Luxembourg

The meeting for Ministers of Agriculture, held in Luxembourg in the beginning of June ended with positive decisions for Hungarian producers. As Ádám Ficsor Ádám, under secretary of the Ministry...

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Meetings and conferences

When a not very exciting conference is held next door and another similar one is held in the other end of the country, the choice is quite obvious. However, if...

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