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With the help of British Telecom, Unilever becomes part of the everyday life of two billion people

BT and Unilever expanded their already existing outsourcing contract by EUR 173 million. In the following four years BT will speed up technological innovation in more than 100 countries, in...

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Business and brand building at the same time

Another great initiative in catering: Arany Kaviár restaurant in Budapest serves its own caviar brand to guests and to a few selected partners. The Siberian sturgeon roe is produced by...

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Embassy of Tuscany in Budapest

Hungarians like Italy and Italian cuisine and last year the first Italian deli opened in Budapest. Toscana Gusto procures all products from family farms in Tuscany. It took two years...

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Knorr Home Style Soup Base

Knorr Home Style Soup Base is a new premium product which makes the flavours of dishes richer and more delicious....

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Soaring retail growth in Malta

A quick estimate by Eurostat pointed out that in April 2010 the volume of retail turnover decreased by 1.6 percent in the EU-27 and by 1.5 percent in the eurozone,...

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Rice turnover concentrates and the 501-1,000-gram format is dominant

Retail sales of rice diminished by 2 percent in value and by 3 percent in volume in the April 2008-March 2009 period. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, the size...

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Ready to be transported and put on the shelf

Global trends influence the Hungarian collective packaging market. One of the current trends is using lighter cardboard products, especially on developed markets. In Europe demand is constantly growing for below...

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Henkel’s turnover grew considerably in the second quarter

In the second quarter of 2010 Henkel’s sales revenue totalled at EUR 3,890 billion, rising by 11.6 percent from the second quarter in 2009. Adhesive Technologies and Cosmetics branches contributed...

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Bankruptcy

Opten Informatikai Kft. announced in August that a record number of accommodation service providers and catering ventures went bankrupt in the first six months of 2010. The number of companies...

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Crowd trampling

Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail chain has been fighting for months against paying a USD 7,000 fine, while they are spending millions of dollars to settle the case in the...

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Fütyülős by Zwack

Fresh, fruity and fizzy elder taste from Fütyülős, with a low, 5% alcohol content; carbonated and contains caffeine....

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Packaged products (CPG) in the virtual space

It is more likely that consumers would visit the website of a packaged product (CPG) than become the manufacturing brand’s followers on Twitter or Facebook, irrespective of the product category...

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Growing diversity on the rice and flour market

Eating in restaurant less often could have entailed an increase in flour sales, but market players’ opinion is that demand remained stable. – The fact that flour sales did not...

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Rondo Kft. has been a key player in the Hungarian packaging material sector since 1995

Cardboard is used by basically all industries, for collective, individual or shelf-ready packaging. Rondo’s partners are food and non-food companies manufacturing in Hungary. Rondo has also been IKEA’s European supplier...

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Strategic partnership will strengthen the distribution Rézangyal

Rézangyal Kft. and Coca-Cola Hungary signed an agreement on 15 June 2010, according to which from 5 July Coca-Cola HBC is the exclusive distributor of Rézangyal Classic Selection (11 flavours)...

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New CEO for Borsodi Brewery

From 1 August 2010 Zsolt Tőtös takes the CEO seat of Borsodi Brewery. Mr Tőtös has been working in the FMCG sector for 20 years, spending the last 9 years...

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Hoventa – for the 29th time!

Last September Hoventa, ‘privatised’ in 1993, returned to founder Hungexpo. The event is still the biggest domestic HoReCa event, which went through rough times recently. Hungexpo’s goal is to make...

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Restructuring, not restoration

Market research company NPD asked the opinion of 71,000 consumers and found that shopping habits changed for good, there is no hope for restoring them. The cake has become smaller...

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Flóraszept’s new product's

Flóraszept’s new products offer a cleaning alternative to housewives – at an advantageous price....

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Retail’s boat is still sailing on troubled waters

According to KSH’s quick report, volume sales in retail were down by 4.7 percent in the first four months of 2010 and by 5 percent in April, compared to the...

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A wide selection of organic flours is available

Those committed to eating healthy and organic constitute a stable group of organic flour buyers. After a recent decrease in turnover, sales increased in certain supermarkets and drugstores from the...

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The alcohol consumption of festival-goers knows no limits

Heineken Hungária Zrt. and Krétakör went to festivals to campaign for responsible drinking and the results give us food for thought. Péter Fancsikai directed a short film and an animation...

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The secret of quality: ISO 22000 standard for SPAR’s meat processing plant

SPAR Hungary’s meat processing plant was the first in Hungary to acquire the ISO 22000 certification, the requirements of which guarantee the excellent quality of fresh meat and meat products...

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Punto Gelato

The place is colourful, has a great atmosphere and is very 21st century. Cooked on the spot, 18-20 different types of ice cream are available at HUF 180; spectacular cakes...

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Mobile phones instead of loyalty cards

Coca-Cola and Rogers Wireless, a Toronto mobile phone service provider started a revolutionary cooperation. Codes printed on the inside of caps can be sent to the mobile company via SMS...

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Fasten yoghurt

Products in the Fasten yoghurt range constitute healthy and delicious alternative to those on a weight loss diet or to consumers who care about staying in shape....

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More people came, they stayed longer but spent less

A report by KSH reveals that at commercial accommodation sites the number of guests grew by 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent more nights were spent in January-May 2010, compared with...

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To the dustbin it goes!

In Hungary, the bin bag market surpasses the value of HUF 4 billion. According to Csaba Horváth, the managing director of Hok-Plastik, because of the influence of fossil fuel price...

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Liegl & Dachser – további sikerekre hangolva

Liegl&Dachser, a transportation and logistics joint venture seated in Pilisvörösvár has celebrated its 10th birthday recently. Engelbert Liegl, the company’s founder told that they intend to keep contributing to speeding...

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Szenkirályi established a new logistics centre

Szentkirályi Ásványvíz Kft. inaugurated its new Logistics Centre, named after Sándor Balogh, at the company’s premises on 1 July. The 4,000-m² building is the result of a HUF 500-million investment...

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