News and articles
The big companies are more optimistic
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
Economic research firm Ecostat's business confidence index was 87,6% at SMEs and 100,5% at TOP 100 in November. At Hungary's one hundred largest companies, almost 25% of the managers reported...
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Kraft Completes Acquisition of Groupe Danone's Global Biscuit Business
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
The acquisition includes biscuit operations and assets in more than 20 countries, including 32 manufacturing facilities. Kraft said that the addition of Danone's biscuit business will transform the company's international...
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16,000 kilos poisoned pear from Italy
Date: 2007-12-04 00:00:00
Specialist measured twice more fungicide as much the authorized maximum. Until the problem was disclosed more than 13,000 kilos were sold. Authority said pears are not danger for people, for...
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Tesco US in top ten supermarkets by 2015
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
British grocer Tesco Plc could sales $10 billion with its Fresh & Easy n the United States by 2015, TNS Retail Forward said "There is demand for this type of...
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6th renewed store of METRO was open in Nyiregyhaza
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
In the next years all METRO stores will be renovated. The METRO Cas&Carry Nyiregyhaza opened in November. In the store the retail spaces are bigger as before and the supply...
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Test lab in the future's restaurant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Cameras monitor every reaction of the customers. In the new research center, devoted to exploring a both simple and complicated question: What makes people eat and drink the way they...
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Ten Commandments in the American Catering Trade
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Some restaurants from Los-Angeles collected a list about how to be gastfriendly, they hope other restaurants all over the world follow them. The regulations said for example, that every guest...
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10 tons food was found in the re-labeling plant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
In the Sparkle-action the supervisors pounced in a food depot in Budapest. In the illegal food depot relabeled and new dated foods: meat, sweets, eggs and softdrinks were found. The...
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Sio steps on the Energy drink market
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
From 1. January 2008 Sio-Eckes is the local distributor of Bomba! Energy drink in Hungary. Next year Sio will offer four soft-drink brands, the Sio and hohesC fruit drinks, the...
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Slow growth, stubbornly high inflation
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Hungary's internal and external balances are expected to improve on expectations this year. According to the latest report by think-tank GKI and Erste bank published the government deficit to shrink...
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New Christmas Credit Offer by Tesco
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Tesco branded electronic goods are sold for 12 months credit, without any interest. The retail chain starts this christmas season with a new bank contact. Hungarian Cetelem Bank offers six...
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Consumers like own-brand goods
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Almost three quarters of consumers have a positive perception of supermarket own-brand goods, a new study has found in England. Supermarket supplier Catalus questioned over 500 consumers on how they...
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Conctactles payment starts in Europe
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French hypermarket chain to trial contactless payment of MasterCard Europe. Normal the PayPass technology is used by shopping under 25 euro, but this card could make the payment 40% faster...
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Luxury hotel in Szentes Hungary
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
A new 4-5 stars hotel will develop from the former Hotel Pefofi. The investment is HUF 3.5-4 billion. The reconstruction started in Mai, for the works the local government made...
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Hungarian Tax and Financial Control Administration increase the default penalty
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Next year guilty must pay HUF 1 million because of invoice problem. The default fines increase from HUF 100,000 to 200,000, form 200,000 to 500,000. One million HUF is...
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Fake milkdisributor found
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
The Budapester enterpreuter operated without permissions. In Sparkler-action, collective control of several authorities, 5 tons milk product were found. The milk, cheese, cottage-cheese in value of HUF 7-8 million must...
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HUF 680 billion excise in government pocket
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Due to the continuously control increase the legal petrol, cigarettes and alcohol sales. According to industrial dates there was 7.1% higher sales in the first 10 months as a year...
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Next year's carriage must cover the lost from this year too
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
According to plans of Budapest local government trucks should pay ten times higher fees for coming into the city as now. Association of Transport Companies said this year carriage can't...
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Looking for Fondness on the Beach
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
85% of turism nights at Lake-Balaton realized at 4-5 stars hotels. Nowadays there are 27 high quality hotels at the Balaton, but there is additional need for 4-5 stars hotels. ...
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Fütyülős on the Budapest-Bamako Rally
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Charitable contributions of most popular product of Zwack. Budapest-Bamako rally is a charity Africa run, starts on 12 January 2008. On the end of the tournament, in capital of Mali...
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Auchan to invest 0.5bn-euro in Romania
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French retailer targets 22 cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants by 2010. "We will continue to expand with large-scale hypermarkets, because this what we specialise in. The Discount Market store...
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Brilliant Tesco start in the US
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is going down well with shoppers. Fresh & Easy has now been open for nearly three weeks, with 13 stores trading in Los Angeles, Las...
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HUF 24 million donation by Real
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
This year 12 children foundation get HUF 24 million from Real Hungaria Elelmiszer Zrt. It was the fifth autumn, that Real paid charity from its own branded products sold in...
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Tea filters in the convoy
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Sara Lee Hungary Zrt has donated nearly 215,000 tea filters to the II. Convoy of Donations organised by the Food Bank. The total value of tea and coffee donated by...
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New sales director for Interfruct
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Attila Boros has been appointed the new sales director of Interfruct Cash&Carry. He has been working in food retail for 12 years. He had previously occupied a management position in...
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TV partner for brand building
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Tamás Sipos, sponsorship manager of TV2 described the advantages of sponsorship over advertising spots. Sponsorship is linked to programs directly. In case of strategic co-operation, the channel offers Brand Care...
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Fragmented baking industry in weak bargaining position
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The gross production of the baking industry is expected to exceed HUF 100 billion this year, which represents 5 per cent of the food market. Production remains very decentralised with...
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Product info from the net
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
According to the Internet Insight Report of Gfk Hungária, Internet is already an important source of pre-purchase information for customers, despite the fact that online sales are still marginal in...
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Hunnium 895’
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
A premium quality 100 % fruit distillate. The Hunnium product line illustrates the most important events of the conquest, with reference to tradition....
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Happy and disgruntled
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
How satisfied are Hungarians? What makes them happy? These questions have been answered by Krzysztof Zagorski, general director of the Warsaw Public Opinion Research Institute. He was the only presenter...
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