News and articles
Hershey to Close one of its American Plant
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
A Naugatuck factory where candy bars such as Mounds and Almond Joy have been made for 85 years, is shutting down for good. The shift is part of an overall...
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Reorganizations at Kraft Foods
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
Kraft FoodS Inc. said it will close its Cobourg, Ont., manufacturing facility by October 2008. The Northfield, Ill., food company has 380 employees at the Cobourg plant, which makes cereal,...
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Plus and Netto Marken-Discount to Form Joint Venture
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
The Tengelmann Group will in future be cooperating closely with the Hamburg-headquartered EDEKA Group. The new company in which EDEKA has a 70 percent stake and Tengelmann 30 percent will...
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McDonald's would sell up to 21% of its company-owned restaurants
Date: 2007-11-19 00:00:00
McDonald's said that it would like to reduce the number of company-owned restaurants in the United Kingdom and Canada. The move is in accord with longstanding demands by Ackman and...
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Developing at cheap offers researcher Fapados Group
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Soon starts a new website www.fapadosszallasok.hu which collects the offers of the hungarian hotels. The site calculates the correct discount price too. The Fapados Group, owner of the website, organises...
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Renovation program for one million USD at Holiday Inn hotels
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
All Holiday Inn hotels, more than 3,000, open or under development are expected to have implemented the relaunch programme by the end of 2010, with the first due to open...
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Bank of the year 2007- CIB Bank is on the top
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Mastercard Bank of the year 2007 competition's second place is MKB's, the third is for OTP. The most sympathetic bank for the public was Raiffeisen Bank. Most of the biggest...
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Hungary's biggest shopping centre opens
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
After two weeks and 3 hour lag yesterday Arena Plaza opened its gates. People run to buy cheap flat tvs and other discount price products. The 180,000-square-metre Arena Plaza will...
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Slackly developing on hypermarkets
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
According to Nielsen Research Company this year until November 11 new hypermarket were opened, last year, there were 17, two years before 15 new hypermarket opened its gates. There are...
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Food price increase in EU
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
European prices for bread, cheese and other food increased in October at the fastest annual pace in more than five years. Food-price inflation in the 13-nation euro region accelerated to...
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London to ban the free plastic bags
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Shoppers in British Capital could soon be forced to buy reusable carry bags as part of a push to ban free throwaway plastic bags. A group of 33 local London...
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Web searches and confirm for hungry people
Date: 2007-11-16 00:00:00
Restaurants will be listing at a charge of registration fee on the website called www.etteremkereso.hu, offers can be changed daily. A region map and several filters help for guests by...
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IFE and FOODAPEST together
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
Food industry meeting point of east and west on 20-22 November in Hungexpo Budapest. IFE Foodapest is the new annual international trade fair for food, drink and hospitality professionals in...
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(HU) Három standdal jelentkezik az idei IFE-FOOD kiállításon az Agrármarketing Centrum
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
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Profits boost for Sainsbury's
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
First-half profit climbed 27 percent on increased organic food sales. The supermarket giant has a 4.7 per cent increase in turnover to £10bn. Pre-tax profits came in at £240m for...
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Soybean price on the top, near to the 20 years old record
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
China wants to buy in big volume, it riese the prices on the global market, now it stand at 10.7 USD a bushel. Soybean futures jumped sharply on the Chicago...
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Adding carbon monoxide to meat packages devices congressmen in the US
Date: 2007-11-15 00:00:00
Last week there were several scandals in the US, a few days ago 500 tons of meat must be recalled because of e-coli. Meat manufacturers has used a process to...
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Szechenyi Card 2 to come
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The government will not close the Szechenyi Card's interest subsidy, the card will be renewed. The minister of economy Janos Koka said, the government give interest subsidy until 31. December...
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Joint venture between Sealed Air and Teknick Packaging Group in Turkey
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The newly established joint venture aims to be one of the largest food packaging company in the region. Teknik Packaging Group, one of the leading packaging groups in Turkey,...
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Accusation against the leader of the confectionery
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The specialist will be convicted because of carelessness joepardise and murder. Last August food poisened sweets were delivered from the confectionery at Seb in region Vas to the public kitchens...
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Hungarians are trustless, but 25% of them never see what to eat
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
According to TARKI and Image Factory research 75% of the costumer in Visegrad countries check the warranty period, but only the half of them listen to components. There are...
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Gross domestic product growth
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The increase was 0.3 percent as compared to the preceding quarter, by the seasonally adjusted data. According to the joint preliminary estimation of the HCSO and Ecostat the gross domestic...
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Bird flu in England
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The authorities have now culled more than 5000 birds on the Redgrave Park farm, near the town of Diss in Suffolk. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)...
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Hospes hotel in Budapest in 2009
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
The Spanish hotel chain Hospes Hotels & Moments is planning to open a five-star hotel in the Hungarian capital. According a company statement „Hospes is currently considering different expansion opportunities,...
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Quality award for Romantik Hotel Kis Helikon Heviz
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
The hotel won many awards in the last one and half year, this time it got the Award of House of Hungarian Quality 2007. november 13. On the event of...
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Due to negative press sales sill increased at snack market
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
According to Euromonitor PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and United are the most successful snack companies. The topping position thanks to strong sales of popular favourites combined with innovation in the...
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European Comission defended the Balaton snack
Date: 2007-11-13 00:00:00
Kraft Foods is set to take an even larger share of the EU snack market after receiving conditional approval by the European Commission to purchase the biscuit, cereals and snack...
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First Törley dancegala
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
Wide collection of dance art, from Latin dances to Hungarian folkdance were to see on the jubileum dance gala. The event stagey with due decorum, elegancy and movement was patroned...
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Pessimistic mood in Hungarian Economy
Date: 2007-11-12 00:00:00
According to GKI conducted survey, with European Union support, the overall confidence index down from September's minus 16.8 to minus 21.1 percent for October. The consumer confidence index deteriorated from...
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