Company and Personal News
The Good Milk prize winning game for Yogurt lovers has started
Date: 2013-05-16 11:10:54
The Mona Hungary Kft., which is the distributor of the Good Milk yogurt product family has launched a nationwide prize winning game with educational engagement. In the game lasts between...
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The Manta Swim is willing to conquer the pool and beach apparel market
Date: 2013-05-16 10:59:42
The Manta Swim Kft. that prepares a market conquest at the Hungarian pool and beach apparel market closed a successfully year in 2012. The 100% Hungarian-owned start-up company was founded...
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Six to eight thousand doses of prósza will be baked in Zalaegerszeg during Pentecost
Date: 2013-05-16 10:59:16
The Göcseji prósza festival will be held on 20 May in Zalaegerszeg. It is predicted that six to eight thousand doses of prósza (potato cake) will be baked, during the...
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Mondelez Europe: 4.5 billion HUF worth food industrial investment in Székesfehérvár
Date: 2013-05-15 12:15:20
The world's largest manufacturing company of snack products, the Mondelez International will invest nineteen million dollars, almost four and a half billion forints to the company’s European regional headquarters, that...
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Dialogue for the bees: The Bee Health in Europe Programme has arrived to Budapest
Date: 2013-05-15 12:08:39
Recognized domestic bee-health experts gathered today at the event organized by the OPERA (Milan's Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore independent European research institute) and the National Food Chain Safety Office....
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Final sale at hiper.hu
Date: 2013-05-15 11:29:41
E-commerce activity is not influenced by the changes. The owner of Hiper.hu is reconsidering the concept of the offline store. Zsolt Urbán, the CEO of Full Market Hungary has pointed...
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The Biopont Kft. opened a new plant in Dunaújváros – Pálhalma
Date: 2013-05-15 11:16:26
After about six months of preparatory work the Biopont Kft. carried out a new plant investment in Dunaújváros – Pálhalma. The engine behind the idea of creating the plant is...
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Open Cellars await visitors at the Balaton-Uplands
Date: 2013-05-15 11:10:27
The Zánka-Nivegy-Valley Wine Route Association awaits the guest with open cellars, entertainment shows during Pentecost. At the Balaton-Uplands Wine Route, similar events are held in the past five – six...
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Wines of one hundred and fifty wineries at the Wine Festival of Szeged
Date: 2013-05-15 11:02:57
The 19th Wine Festival of Szeged and the series of events celebrating the Day of Szeged begins with the procession of wine orders. The festival starts on Friday and lasts...
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Can we buy the secret Coca-Cola recipe for fifteen million USD on eBay?
Date: 2013-05-15 11:00:10
A Georgia man claims he has found an original top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old box of papers he purchased from an estate. Now, Cliff Kluge trying to sell...
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The rearrangement of the tobacco market may bring tax losses
Date: 2013-05-14 12:42:18
If the Parliament accepts the latest amendment of the ten percent price margin in case of the tobacconists, it can bring an up to 130 HUF average price increase. Due...
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The Zalai Poultry Processing Ltd. will be liquidated
Date: 2013-05-14 12:10:46
The liquidator of the Zalai Baromfifeldolgozó Kft. (Zalai Poultry Processing Ltd.) submitted a liquidation application. The close to 100 workers of the company operated for less than a year were...
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Entries are awaited from all over the country for the sixth Siller Wine Festival in Paks
Date: 2013-05-14 11:12:24
The the Sixth National Siller Festival will be organized with an entirely new concept, connected to the German minority day. The event takes place in Paks at the Sárgödör square....
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The Pálinkafestival of Budapest is opening on Thursday
Date: 2013-05-14 09:09:16
2013 will be the year of cherry at the Budapesti Pálinkafesztivál (Budapest Pálinka Festival), where authentic Hungarian pálinkas and sour cherry fruit delicacies will play a special role. The culinary...
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Self-service cashiers open-price products
Date: 2013-05-13 11:12:55
The introduction of the PC-based cash registers is well worth in stores operating only a few cash registers – Görög Erzsébet, representative of the Magyar Lapterjesztő Zrt. (Hungarian Newspaper Distributor...
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Package starts a new life as an artistic decoration
Date: 2013-05-13 11:12:06
Who wants to win the latest application of HEINEKEN and the Design Terminál should plan an artistic decoration created from from bottle crates, bottles or cans. The competition aims to...
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The wine town is under construction in the city centre of Szeged
Date: 2013-05-13 11:10:11
The region’s largest wine festival the 19th Wine Festival of Szeged is under preparation in the city centre of Szeged at Széchenyi Square. The festival begins on Friday. The best...
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Record number of entrants at the 15th Saving Cooperative Wine Competition
Date: 2013-05-13 11:00:31
A record number of entrants, 281 wines were entered to the 15th Saving Cooperative Wine Competition this year by wineries that are in connection with the credit institutions – the...
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Sales reps: in-house or as outsourced staff
Date: 2013-05-13 02:42:00
Demand for outsourced sales representatives keeps growing because many firms have been forced to lay off staff due to the difficult economic situation – says Ágnes Csiby, client service director...
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Every little helps!
Date: 2013-05-13 02:25:55
Tesco Hungary CEO Nigel Jones told our magazine that their turnover was HUF 709 billion in the 2012-2013 business year. Last year the company’s focus was more on innovation than...
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SPAR is on a growth track
Date: 2013-05-13 02:22:28
In 2012 SPAR Hungary realised a HUF 421.5-billion turnover, performing 8 percent better than in 2011. Last year the company continued to develop and refurbish its network of stores, and...
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Reál took a big step forward with its own warehouses
Date: 2013-05-13 02:19:25
Tibor Kujbus, managing director of Reál Hungária told us that 2012 was a busy year for the company. On 14 January the headquarters moved to a new office, located in...
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The Rossmann Baby Programme soon became popular
Date: 2013-05-13 02:16:28
Rossmann entered the Hungarian market in 1993. Today the drugstore chain consists of 181 units and employs 1,112 people in Hungary. The company’s turnover was HUF 43.6 billion in 2012,...
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Penny Market is soon to open its 200th store
Date: 2013-05-13 02:13:31
Penny Market’s first store in Hungary opened on 6 June 1996 and it currently operates 191 units. Penny Market has 60 popular private label products. According to market researchers, the...
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More Hungarian products in Lidl discount stores
Date: 2013-05-13 02:06:48
Lidl entered the Hungarian market in 2004 with 18 stores and in the last few years the company’s turnover has been growing by two-digit numbers. At the moment they operate...
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Products under the magnifying glass in dm stores
Date: 2013-05-13 02:03:43
Hungary’s first dm store opened on 8 July 1993 and today there are more than 260 units all over the country. In the last business year 7 new units opened...
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COOP’s market position strengthened
Date: 2013-05-13 01:59:47
Last year the COOP retail chain preserved its competitiveness and strengthened its market position by integrating almost 200 stores. CO-OP Hungary Zrt. CEO László Murányi told about 2012 that company...
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CBA and Cent stores performed well
Date: 2013-05-13 01:55:50
The CBA retail chain’s turnover was HUF 578.5 billion in 2012, surpassing the level of 2011 by 2.4 percent. Volume sales of CBA Príma and CBA Cent stores increased. Altogether...
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9030.png Last year was about expansion, this year Auchan will focus on consolidation
Date: 2013-05-13 01:51:45
Thanks to the acquisition of the seven Cora stores, Auchan’s turnover augmented by nearly 10 percent in 2012: the retail chain’s sales amounted to a gross HUF 299.5 billion. After...
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ALDI Housewives are popular – more successful campaigns from ALDI
Date: 2013-05-13 01:48:36
In 2012 ALDI Hungary decided that instead of famous people it would communicate about ALDI products via ordinary housewives: they selected a busy, a modern and a traditional one from...
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