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13% revenues increase at Nielsen-group

The revenues for the full year ended December 31, 2007 were $4,707 million, operating income for was $416 million.  Reported operating income for the full year 2007 was $416 million...

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Local Tastes, Bio Food to Win in European gastronomie

According to specialist the fresh and bio food will be day to day more popular in the European restaurants and homes.  In some West-European countries the chefs can choose to...

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More attention for older people

In the next 15 years 700,000 employees will missing in Hungary, the society and the government should take the older people in the work. According to specialist 9.6 million people...

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New Univer plant in Kecskemet

The developing costs HUF 2,7 billion, in the new 9,000 sqm building will work the plant, but storages, social facilities will be there too. In the future the company closes...

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Kofola pull out of Hungary

The Polish-Czech company started with Kofola in 2007 Mai in Hungary, it planed to get 3-4% market share in a short periode, contrarily the company had HUF 369 million lost...

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Ice tea from Szentkiralyi

From middle of April Szentkiralyi brings ice tea at first with lemon and peach taste on the market in 1.5 and 0.5 liter bottle.  The new product are available in...

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Austrian State Honours for SPAR Hungary's CEO

President of the state gave Peter Feiner the Big Merit of Austrian Republic.  According to the justification the CEO got the award because of excellence leading one of the most...

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Red Bull to launch premium cola

It has no preservatives, additives, phosphoric acid, artificial colourings or flavours, says Red Bull.  Red Bull Simply Cola will be 100% natural, the company says, and the only cola that...

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Henkel has taken over business segments from Akzo Nobel

The Adhesives and Electronic Materials businesses previously owned by National Starch. In 2007, these two business segments generated sales of 1.83 billion euros.  The purchase price was about 3.7 billion...

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New City SPAR to Open

After total rebuilding the new store waits its costumers on Erzsebet boulevard in Budapest. The new supermarket has a bigger sales room, 550 sqm, there are some counter in for...

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Brands for Health & Well-being

The Association of European Brands made a charta with almost 50 company, who assumed to take more attention for research and developing programs about healthy living.  According to Henley Centre...

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Fall In Retail Sales in Germany

According to preliminary data from Germany's Federal Statistics Office, retail sales fell by 1.6% month-on-month in real terms in February and also fell 0.3% on an annual basis.  Despite a...

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Hungary manufacturing PMI rises to 52.5 % in March

The rate of the March growth was smaller than in the same month of 2007 (59.0), and equals the increase detected in March 2006. According to the Hungarian Association of...

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Design Awards for the FMCG sector

The in Hungary 3 years old DesignRoom magazin found a Design Award for companies who use design as value added on the products and in communications too. This is the...

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Nielsen's first experiences by Aldi in Poland

The first stores of the German discount chain were opened on West and South part of Poland, the offer was more than 900 kind of products, 95% of them FMCG....

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Twice more experiences for MOL and WestEnd cardholders

The basic customers of two companies can enjoy the synergies of programs' from April. Mol has more than 500,000 basic customers, WestEnd has 23,000 cardholders. From this month the cardholders...

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Henkel Art.Award. for Contemporary Drawing

Entries for the Henkel Art.Award.2008 are to be sent by June 8, 2008 at the latest (date of postmark) to your local Henkel office.   The prize winner will be...

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Tchibo Family presentes: Espresso Album by Varadi Roma Cafe

Hungary's most loved expresso sponsors the Varade Roma Cafe concert on 26th April in Budapest at Laszlo Papp Sportarena.   The concerts seems to be a unique, the stage has...

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Merci Petits in Heart form box for Mother's Day

This sweet present is worthy suvenir for moms. There are new tastes in the festive pack. Aside the classic flower bouquet merci Petits in heart form box is the right...

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Aldi starts with 17 stores in Hungary

The discount chain opens its units midle April. The company offers firt of all privat label products, 10-20 of them weekly twice on action price. According to press information there...

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Delhaize Group'Acquires 14 Supermarkets in Romania

The Belgian international food retailer paied 18.6 million euros for the La Fourmi chain.   La Fourmi was the first supermarket chain to open in Bucharest in 1992. For 2007,...

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3th City Spar opens soon

The company believes in downtown stores, where people don't need a car to shop, its next unit will be in centre of Szeged on Szechenyi square. Spar bought the Plus...

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Tesco puts Fresh & Easy rollout on hold

With almost 60 stores now open since its launch in November 2007, Tesco has taken the decision to take a three month break from opening any new Fresh & Easy...

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Pernod Ricard wins €5.63bn for Absolut Vodka

Pernod beat off the favourite Fortune Brands, the American maker of Jim Beam, along with Bacardi and an investment group controlled by the Wallenberg family.  Pernod, whose portfolio of brands...

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Also Schlecker spyes employees

Union representatives are claiming a second large German chain, Schlecker, has been watching its employees through spyholes. Workers at the discount drugstore have reported that store detectives and security staff...

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