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GfK Expands European Network
Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
The GfK Group has acquired a 26% stake in UK agriculture and animal health research specialist dmrkynetec, increased its holding in GfK Danmark in Denmark, and formed GfK Albania to...
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Meat products price grow over average
Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
In June 2008 the producer price level of agricultural products was 21.6% higher than in June 2007. More specifically, the price level of crops and horticultural products increased by 20.5%...
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Less wine were sold, the prices are higher
Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
According to GfK research company the most sold wine were the table wines, but year to year more quality wines are consumpted. 52% of Hungarian households bought some kind of...
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Dynamic Hungarian MS Companies
Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
The common analysis of Coface Hungary and Financial Daily Vilaggazdasag found several hounderts of fast growing Hungarian enterprises. The base of the analysis was the dynamic growing index by...
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Saving the water by McDonald's
Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
The fast food chain collect the rain, uses programmed irrigation and in the restaurants built in water saving taps. McDonald's Hungary use almost 50% less water as ten years ago....
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The Czech shopping centre boom comes to end
Date: 2008-08-13 00:00:00
The boom in shopping centre construction in the Czech Republic is coming to an end, according to the international consultancy firm DTZ. The shopping mall market in Prague and many...
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SPAR Èeská open 4 new stores
Date: 2008-08-13 00:00:00
SPAR Ceska, operates 27 Interspar hypermarkets and 4 Spar supermarkets in the CzechRep, last year reduced loss to Kc412.2m from 2006's Kc574.7m on sales Kc1bn higher on the year at...
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Special birthday presents by Auchan in Russia
Date: 2008-08-13 00:00:00
French retailer Auchan, operating in Russia since 28 August of 2002, has sent out a letter to all its contractors inviting them to celebrate the 6th birthday of Auchan in...
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Compared to the previous month food prices decreased by 0.7%
Date: 2008-08-13 00:00:00
In July 2008 consumer prices rose by 0.1% compared to the previous month and increased by 6.7% compared to July 2007. In the first seven months of 2008 the average...
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Drink sales throughout the country by Reál Hungaria Drink
Date: 2008-08-13 00:00:00
The new company was estabilished by 8 biggest Hungarian Drink Whole retailer and the Reál chain, from 15th September its leader is Istvan Seregély, formal domestic and import supplier manager....
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Danish Netto to build up internet business in UK
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
The discount supermarket chain is considering launching a limited online offer within two years as part of plans to create a £1 billion UK business. The Danish grocer is mooting...
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Palinka tour finished
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Csaba Vasi, the member of Hungarian Palinka Order, cycled 2300 km in two weeks and met 37 palinka distillers. The tour finished on 9th August in Ozora, where the order...
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Tesco Kipa opens store in Istanbul
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
A joint venture of supermarket chains British Tesco and Turkish Kipa, opens its first store in Istanbul. Tesco Kipa's store is the chain's 28th hypermarket in Turkey. The new...
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Sales of organic products decreased in UK
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Fresh food costs nearly 11 per cent more than a year ago and shoppers seem to be losing their taste for expensive organic produce, with sales down. Demand for them...
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Wal-Mart Spotlighting Products Made In Eco-Friendly Ways
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Wal-Mart wants to promote waste reduction and recycling, natural resources, energy and social or community impact and it's looking for products that fit that bill. Wal-Mart is telling its suppliers...
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German July Wholesale Price Inflation is almost 10%
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
The Federal Statistical Office announced on Monday that the wholesale prices rose 9.9% year-on-year in July, recording the fastest growth since November 1981, when prices rose 10%. July's annual growth...
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Accor's Upscale and Midscale Hotels grow over the average
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Accor's consolidated revenue totaled EUR3,765 million for the first six months of 2008. This represented a 5.2% increase at comparable scope of consolidation and exchange rates (like-for-like) and a 6.2%...
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New Leader at CBA
Date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Zoltán Noszlopy works for CBA since 2001, last year's end he became supplier manager, this year in February sales manager and from now he is the new chief executive officer...
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Letter of Advice from Tax Authority until end of October
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
This year 466,000 entrepreneurs and 1,584,000 privat persons or private entrepreneurs will get letter of advice, more than 50% of them about surtax on overdue payments. The Hungarian Tax and...
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Auchan outlet in Moscow to open following 11 months of delays
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
Auchan is due to open a large shopping mall of 160,000 square metres in Russia in September. The main project of Auchan in Russia including an Auchan hypermarket, as well...
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English Households Throwing Away Less Food
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
According to a poll fifth of UK households say they are throwing away less food as the credit crunch tightens budgets. The survey commissioned by Sainsbury's showed that the increasing...
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Coca-Cola Alucan from a Hungarian Designer
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
The special bottle was print only in 30,000 and will sell only at the Sziget event, its creator was Dániel Szentmihályi, alias SLOW. Coca-Cola called 10 designers for a tender...
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France considers higher tax on unhealthy food
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
The French government is considering raising taxes on unhealthy foods to as much as 19.6 per cent. No decision has been made, but an expert report advocating an increase...
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Cut-back at Interfruct
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
From 1. August the company fired 700 employes. If Interfruct's owner find a partner for developing the firm, it want to get the people back. Calslane Holding started the reorganisation...
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Nestle's difficulties in Russia
Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00
The lack of human resources and adequate infrastructure are the company's main obstacles, says Bernard Meunier, CEO of Nestle Russia. The development of the Russian market for healthy food, as...
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EU approves new vegetarian omega-3 source
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
UK-based supplier Croda Health Care has won European Union Novel Foods approval for a vegetable oil-sourced, omega-3 ingredient, as it expands its omega-3 offerings. Croda said “major European companies” were...
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32. BB Vintage Festival in Balatonboglár
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
Wine shows, concertes and other family programs wait the guests between 19-24 August on Platánstrand (Platan Beach) in Balatonboglar. The famous Vintage Festival, visited yearly by 250,000 guests, will be...
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Financial crisis and smoking ban kill the English pubs
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
Pub beer sales in the UK have sunk to their lowest level since the 1930s. Beer sales in pubs fell 10.6% between April and June compared to the same quarter...
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Victory of local tastes in the US
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
In an American research 82 percent of all customers told loud and clear, locally grown produce tastes better. One of the biggest brand names in food this summer doesn’t...
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More Turists from Abroad, Hungarian Spent Less Time on Holiday
Date: 2008-08-08 00:00:00
In January-June 2008 the total number of international and domestic tourism nights nearly stagnated in public accommodation establishments, while the revenue of these grew by 2% at current prices. ...
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