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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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Cantaloupe from Honduras brought Salmonella outbreak in the US and Canada

The FDA advises that U.S. grocers, food service operators and produce processors remove from their stock any cantaloupes grown packed and shipped from this country.  Based on current information, the...

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Voice of Entrepreneurs association in spring time

It's the third event series round in Hungary about questions concerning the domestic entrepreneurs. This year tax decrising and transparency of tax system is on the table. National Association of...

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Extra reports for Microsoft Dynamics users

LLP signed an agreement with the Dutch Jet Reports office to sell its business solutions in Hungary.  LLP from now deliveres many Jet Reports solutions to compliment  Microsoft Dynamics offering....

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At first European can taste Coca-Cola's RTD coffees

The Coca-Cola Co. is launching three premium coffee beverages in Europe under a partnership with Trieste, Italy's illycaffè first announced in October 2007. The sale beginns in April in 10...

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Hungarian economy will bottom out from the last year’s “growth hole”

According to the forecast prepared by GKI Economic Research Co. in co-operation with Erste Bank the internal and external balance of the economy will improve further considerably in 2008.  The...

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Carlsberg Discussing Sale Of Turkish Unit

Carlsberg has revealed that it is in talks to sell its 95.65% stake in Turkish unit Turk Tuborg TBORG.IS to Israel-based Central Bottling Company Group (CBC). The Danish brewer said...

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Metro's Extra Disposal Cleared

The German cartel office has unconditionally approved retail group Metro's disposal of its Extra supermarket chain to Rewe. The 245 Extra chain stores that generate E1.6bn in revenue will be...

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Nestle's New Chinese Factory to Triple Ice-Cream Output

Nestle opened a new ice-cream factory in the Chinese city of Guangdong this week as part of its bid to increase its market share in the country. The 22,000-sq-m plant...

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Stockmann To Open First Department Store In Lithuania

Finnish retailer Stockmann said it plans to open its first department store in Lithuania after signing a preliminary lease agreement for a unit in a new shopping centre in the...

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Unemployment grow in Hungary

In the period of December 2007–February 2008, the number of employed people was 3,855 thousand and the number of unemployed people was 337 thousand, which meant an nemployment rate of...

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Unit is strength by castles too

The Castle Hotels of Hungary Association has now 14 member, a historical restaurant and 13 castles in the country. The goal of the association is to protect, save and show...

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Ban British finance minister from pubs

A blogger-led internet campaign aiming to ban British finance minister Alastair Darling from U.K. pubs after he raised alcohol taxes appears to be making headway.   The campaign to prevent...

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Uninterrupted expansion by Kékkúti

Total revenues of Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt. from sales of mineral water exceeded HUF 12 billion last year. The three Kék-kuti brands, Theodora, Nestlé Aquarel and Perrier held a combined market...

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Tourism treated unfairly? According to Tamás Károvits, member of the board of the Budapest section of MATUR, this sector is not treated like it should be by the government. The...

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Date Swedes and drink beer with Romanians!

A survey has been prepared about European beer culture by the market researchers Added Value for SABMiller. 7,500 consumers have been interviewed in 15 European countries for the survey. There...

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Instore: the moment of truth

Cheapness is till the key consideration regarding instore tools, but at least cardboard displays are becoming increasingly attractive. Companies specialising in instore communication are confident however, that western solutions will...

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Coffeeheaven

Another international cafe chain has arrived. Their first cafe was opened eight years ago in Poland and today they have 44 cafes there. The unit opened in Ferenciek tere is...

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Food still fuelling inflation

In February 2008, average consumer prices were 1.1 per cent up compared to January and 6.9 per cent higher than in the same month of 2007. Food prices were up...

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Mester Könnyû csirkemellfilé grillsonka Mester provanszi ízesítésû csirkemellfilé-sonka

Owing to its protective gas packaging, it has a long shelf life. Its speciality comes from the Provance flavouring and grilling....

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Coca-Cola/Happiness Factory

Happiness Factory – the movie shows us the fairytale inside world of a coke machine and also shows us in a creative way what happens when the machine runs out...

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Revenues of Henkel CEE over EUR 2 billion

Revenues of Henkel Central Eastern Europe (Henkel CEE) grew by 17.7 percent to EUR 2,214 billion in 2007. Each division of the company produced double digit growth in 2007. A...

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