News and articles
Food companies are showing a strong interest for allergen free penuts
Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
The process, which does not degrade the taste or quality of treated peanuts, and might even render them easier to process for use as a food ingredient. Peanut and nut...
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Hame buys another Romanian food maker
Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market. Production of pates and canned meat will not continue in Antrefrig, it...
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Good season at Lake Balaton
Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
The popularity of the Hungarian Sea grow because of the good water quality, the constance developing of accommodations and events, the mature marketing work and the safety. According to a...
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No more hungarian fetas
Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00
From 15 Octobor only greek fetas can be on the shelves – cautions the Hungarian Agriculture Ministry. Five-six hungarian plant produce feta, they know about changing since 5 years. After...
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Pepsi wants to make Lipton Eistea more popular
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
PepsiCo and Unilever have announced a major expansion of their Lipton RTD tea business joint venture. The two companies confirmed that the partnership will spread to a further 11 countries...
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Horváth Rudolf Intertransport Kft. has opened its new logistic base in Hatvan
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
The investition costs USD 4.5 million, the hall is almost 10,000 sqm and lying in the industrial park of Hatvan. One day before an other company opened its logistic hall...
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Map on Theodora's bottles
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
Directorate of the National Park at Balaton and the Kekkuti Mineralwater company signed an 5 years agreement about using the map of the Balaton National Park on the Theodoras' bottles....
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Backwater at the occupancy rate of hotel rooms
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
According to KSH the January–August the occupancy rate of hotel rooms was 59 percent. The gross room revenue of hotels grew by 1%, the net room revenue of hotels decreased...
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After Five Star Diamond came the Hotelier Award
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal Budapest won the Five Star Diamond of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, now its CEO Adrian Ellis got the Hotelier Award.Each year the American Academy...
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Alleviation of bioetanol fever by OECD
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
The rush to promote biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel is pushing up food prices and actually damaging the environment, a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development...
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China's knockback
Date: 2007-09-17 00:00:00
Beijing has rejected consignments of pork from the US and Canada because they contain a banned additive – in spite of a domestic shortage of China's staple meat, which pushed...
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No cash, no creditcard only a fingertip
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
A new system that scans customers' fingerprints and deducts the grocery bill from their bank accounts has taken supermarkets in southwestern Germany by storm. Almost two-thirds of the people who...
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Safeway Unveils First Solar-Powered Grocery Store
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California and plans to extend the program to nearly two dozen stores as part of a...
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50% increase at poultry procurement price
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
According to analysts from November, retailer must pay HUF 335 for one kilogram chicken, the price was HUF 215-220 before. Import can stop the appreciation. Laszlo Barany, president of Hungarian...
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Cafe de Colombia is a uniquely local product
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
Coffee produced in Colombia has become the first non-European Union product to be granted EU protection as a uniquely local product. The specific brand, Cafe de Colombia, joins a list...
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Marks & Spencer takes plastic clothes hanger back
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
Research suggests Britain has 540 million surplus coat hangers, weighing 17,000 tons. It is suggested as many as 100million a year are thrown away and sent to landfill, where they...
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Succesful beginning of Tesco „Color”
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
One week after the start, the Tesco „Color” has big success at the customers. Color-products had a huge sales, the most popular was the frozen noodle, but the meat...
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Reál Hungária for Sunday store stop
Date: 2007-09-14 00:00:00
The company believes in public regulation, where describe that only the small shops in family ownership and the marketplaces could open at Sundays. Tibor Kujbus, CEO of Reál said the...
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SABMiller invests in Romania
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The beer giant is set to invest EUR50m in expanding production and modernising its facility in Timisoara. The company's Ursus Breweries subsidiary in the country confirmed that it will plough...
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European wages far away
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
315 companies took part in a survey conducted by Hay Group Management Consulting Kft, participants stated that they are planning 5.6% to 6% wage increase in 2008. Total staff employed...
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New food-chain safety authority from October
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The authority, pertains to the ministry of agriculture, follows the road and quality of the food from the field to the kitchen door. The staff, 104 people come from the...
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New retail chain – RIA by Interfruct
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The founder of RIA – the Interfruct Kft. calculates on 80 new member, independent stores, this year, and another 500 next year. The members of the chain will get several...
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EU Court rejects Biraghi's 'Grana' cheese trademark application
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The EU's second highest court, the Court of First Instance, has annulled a decision made by the EU body for harmonisation of trademarks and ruled that 'Grana' is not a...
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Last warning for China
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The European Union gave China a “last warning”, saying the bloc may ban a range of Chinese products, including food and toys, that fail to comply with health and safety...
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The world celebrate with alcoholic drink
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
According the Gfk's fresh survey the people drink alcohol at home with friends or with family members or with the meal. 30,000 people's answers from 30 countries gave the basic...
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Europa and Convergence Capital bought Zalahús's site in Zalaegerszeg
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
The investors have other project in the capital. The investors, Europa Capital and the Convergence Capital build a retail establishment, cost is 30 million euro on the Zalaegerszeg site. The...
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Kempinski Zrt. bought there own share from Budapest Muncipial
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
Kempinski gave the best price on the tender. The hotel paid three times more, all together HUF800 million, for the shares, as the nominal value HUF 258 million was. ...
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Lidl privat label brands in the Netherlands and Sweden
Date: 2007-09-13 00:00:00
Fairglobe consists of the six products: bananas, coffee, tea, juice, chocolate bars and cane sugar. Lidl is also increasing its promotion and new products development in Italy, where the company...
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5 stars hotel opens in Tihany
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
The Echo Residence apartment hotel, opened recently, offers 18 units in two buildings, with 5-star services. All apartments are air-conditioned and come with terrace overlooking the Balaton. The hotel has...
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Grolsch increases its profit
Date: 2007-09-12 00:00:00
The Dutch brewer said that operating profit for the six months to the end of June rose to EUR11m compared to EUR10.2m in the corresponding period a year earlier. The...
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