News and articles
Cross-Border Debit Card Spending Increases
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
The usage of European Maestro debit cards1 for cross-border payments at retailers rose by 24% in 2007 compared to the previous year. As European consumers get into the habit of...
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Increase at wellness hotels's winter
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
In January-February 2008, public accommodations reported 2.7 percent more tourism nights and, at current prices, 8 percent higher revenues. Due to above average growth, EU guests spent 9 percent more...
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Business confidence decreased
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
According to think tank Ecostat the business confidence of both Hungary's 100 largest companies and small and medium-sized enterprises stood at 89.5% at the end of March, lower than in...
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Costumers would favors Hungarian Brands
Date: 2008-04-07 00:00:00
According to the TNS Hungary – OmnicomMediaGroup research only 10% of asked people can exactly different the Hungarian and international brands. 500 shoper, over 15 years were asked about...
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Autum Brau Beviale in Nurnberg
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
More than 1,400 exhibitors, one third outside of Germany, 36,000 visitors on most important exhibition of beer industry, BRAU Beviale 12-14 November 2008. Altogether 45 nations were represented on the...
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Two More German Chains Caught Spying on Employees
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
A report has emerged showing that the chains Plus and Edeka may also spy on employees. A week after reports emerged that the major German supermarket chains Lidl and Schlecker...
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Coface Downgrades its United States Rating to A2
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
Coface analysis has shown a deterioration in the payment behavior of U.S. companies in January and February 2008. The tougher access to credit is handicapping the most vulnerable companies operating...
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Lacoste store on the Andrassy street
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
The 75 years old brand is turned over by Notos Hungary Kft.. The company has 3 unit and plans to triple the sales in the next few years. Lacoste...
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Red Bull Removes Taurine to Access French Market
Date: 2008-04-04 00:00:00
France’s food safety agency AFSSA had previously not authorised the sale of Red Bull’s products due to the presence of taurine, an organic acid in the drinks, as its long...
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Austrian State Honours for SPAR Hungary's CEO
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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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13% revenues increase at Nielsen-group
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-03 00:00:00
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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Brands for Health & Well-being
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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
Date: 2008-04-02 00:00:00
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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