Company and Personal News
Spar won the 1st Football Tournament for FMCG Retailers
Date: 2011-11-07 02:00:33
On 24 September the first football tournament for FMCG retailers took place in Angyalföldi Sports and Leisure Centre, organised by PromoSport Kft. 12 prestigious companies decided to participate: Auchan, CBA,...
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Global Party
Date: 2011-11-07 01:56:58
On 15 September more than 80,000 business executives and other very important people took part in the Global Party, at the world’s 80 most exclusive places – in 72 cities...
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Old/new payment solution for better sales results
Date: 2011-11-07 00:47:28
In the retail units of North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa it was popular in the 1990s to pay a 10-20 percent deposit on a product which was...
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International display design contest for students
Date: 2011-11-07 00:44:51
On 15 September 2011 Pepsi and POPAI announced their international display design contest for the first time. Participants have to register until 30 November and works have to be sent...
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Kométa 99 concluded business deals
Date: 2011-11-06 23:01:04
Kométa 99 was the biggest Hungarian exhibitor and their export director, Larisza Barakka told that in five days they met all of their buyers and suppliers. There were many prospective...
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AgroSprint: their history is about persistent development
Date: 2011-11-06 22:57:20
AgroSprint Kft. of the Fülöp family from Karcag exhibited in hall No.4, where managing director Gáborné Fülöp told that the history of the 20-year-old company was all about persistent development....
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Mar-Ne-Váll: capacity expansion and even better quality
Date: 2011-11-06 22:54:36
– Our mid-term goal is to become one of the most important frozen product manufacturers in Eastern Europe – says László Markovits, managing director of the Törökszentmiklós-seated company. The company...
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The resurrection of the MIRELITE brand
Date: 2011-11-06 22:51:15
A 66-year-old Hungarian brand, MIRELITE has returned. József Losó, owner-CEO of MIRELITE MIRSA Zrt. from Albertirsa told our magazine that nearly 200 partners and interested businesspersons visited their stand. Many...
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ERU Hungária: Camping, Mackó, Margaréta…
Date: 2011-11-06 22:47:39
ERU Hungária Cheese Manufacturing company was exhibiting at the stand of its Dutch parent company. Director Miklós Ostermayer told that their Camping, Mackó, Margaréta and other well-known brands are available...
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World Retail Congress in Berlin, part 1
Date: 2011-11-06 22:19:10
Consumer confidence is low all over the world and it will no improve until the situation on the job market gets better – participants and more than 100 presenters agreed...
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FMCG world congress in Barcelona (part 3)
Date: 2011-11-06 22:12:36
It is Friday afternoon and after lunch we are at the panel discussion about shaping the future of the FMCG sector. Dr. Tom Haggai, president of the Independent Grocers Alliance...
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Happy box days
Date: 2011-11-06 20:30:11
In two days nearly 320,000 beverage carton boxes were collected at the third Happy Box Days in the Budapest Zoo, an event organised by Beverage Carton Environmental Union, in the...
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Tesco Mobile: the first virtual mobile service provider will be launched soon
Date: 2011-11-06 16:43:10
Tesco Hungary and Vodafone Hungary established Tesco Mobile, their joint – 50-50% ownership – independent mobile service provider. The company will offer its services in Tesco stores, using the technology...
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Several acknowledgements and prizes for Dunapack in 2011
Date: 2011-11-06 15:39:58
In the last few years significant changes occurred in the operation of the Dunapack Group. On the one hand, the company shifted its focus to corrugated product manufacturing, while on...
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Magazine: Heroes and survivors (part 1)
Date: 2011-11-04 19:50:02
Trade magazin and Lánchíd Club organised their 5th Business Days conference in Tapolca on 21-23 September. More than 400 participants convened at the event, where on the first day Trade...
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International Sausage Stuffing Festival on St. Martin's day
Date: 2011-11-04 12:10:16
Martin-day series of programs willl be organized in Tápiószentmárton in honor of the denominator of the village between November 6 and 12. As mayor, Tóth János told to MTI, this...
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Tesco-campaign: more than a thousand products' prices stays low
Date: 2011-11-04 11:48:25
Tesco puts a halt to prices by launching a new campaign called “Cutting the prices”. From 4th November to 31st December, Tesco is keeping the prices of more than a...
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Palmolive taking active part in global handwashing day
Date: 2011-11-04 09:05:53
This is something totally different than what you are used to, but as a stephmom it is something I find very important. October 15th is the global handwashing day, a...
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Wine Wednesday next week
Date: 2011-11-03 12:22:53
More than two hundred restaurants registered for the Wine Wednesday that will be held on the 9th of November, where the guests can become acquainted with quality Hungarian red wines...
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Two and a half billion HUF development at the Kisalföldi Mezőgazdasági Zrt.
Date: 2011-11-03 12:21:33
In three years, – two 500 kW biogas plant was built from 2.5 billion forints, half of the amount was funded by source applications. Also nine stables were converted into...
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Great quarter at Adidas
Date: 2011-11-03 12:20:07
The German Adidas sports equipment and apparel group increased its annual profit forecast again after its last quarterly profit record. In the July-September third quarter, Adidas has a 3.7 billion...
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Fast, contactless paying system with PayPass at SPAR stores
Date: 2011-11-03 11:35:46
From 3rd November 2011, SPAR-group has made contactless payment system available in 400 SPAR, Kaiser1s and INTERSPAR stores, supported by MasterCard® and Maestro® bankcards. SPAR is the first retail chain...
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New promotion by Tesco and Tefal
Date: 2011-11-03 11:20:52
Tesco's most successful point-collecting special offer is being closed now, which helped more than 1 million customers obtain a Fila-bag. However, Tesco is not leaving loyal customers without a special...
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The development of Kométa enables to process an annual 800 thousand pigs
Date: 2011-11-02 12:30:09
The Kométa ’99 Zrt. modernized its cutting line from two billion forints and this week also installed it. Through the development, an annual 800 thousand pigs can be processed from...
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Groupon compares itself to Amazon.com
Date: 2011-11-02 12:02:49
Groupon offering community shopping services compares itself to Amazon.com during its investor roadshows, but analysts and potential investors are quite skeptical about this type of analogy. The Amazon was in...
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Sodexo is expanding its range of services
Date: 2011-11-02 12:01:30
Sodexo is planning long-term investments in Hungary: one proof for that is the fact that they are launching a number of new services this autumn. Among these is the electronic,...
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59 Hungarian products added to the menu Tesco
Date: 2011-11-02 11:43:15
New Hungarian specialities have been added to the shelves of Tesco-stores in HUngary. The company held an open forum with the small- and medium-sized businesses of Fejér, – Komárom-Esztergom and...
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The Soproni beer is the favorite on Facebook
Date: 2011-10-28 12:16:32
At least, among the Hungarian-users: most users like in the relationship with a beer brand, among the beverages. The Fészbuker.hu has compiled a list – which among other things inspected...
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MOL, OTP and Richter are still reliable
Date: 2011-10-28 11:30:17
Budapest Stock Exchange's main BUX index started the session Friday stronger but fell with other European indices in the afternoon to finish down 2.37% at 17,600. OTP Bank lost 2.99%...
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Procter&Gamble, Colgate warns of bigger hit to gross margin
Date: 2011-10-27 12:51:40
Procter & Gamble’s quarterly profit dipped 2% from a year ago, the consumer products company reported Thursday, as it struggled to accelerate volume growth and lost market share in North...
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