Company and Personal News
Hungarian food-innovation among the best products of the world
Date: 2011-02-22 10:38:38
Biatorbágy-based Biogreen Ltd. and Unikornis GmbH in Germany worked hard in co-operation to introduce a Hungarian product of international quality at the Biofact 2011 tradeshow in Nürnberg. A Hungarian invention...
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Hungarian wines had great success at the gastronomic festival In Washington
Date: 2011-02-21 12:31:52
The prominent representatives of the Hungarian wineries had huge success with their excellent wines. The guests waited patiently in lines to taste the famous Hungarian wines. The main motivation of...
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Royalsekt Zrt. increased its champagne production to sixfold
Date: 2011-02-21 12:28:22
The Izsák-based Royalsekt Zrt. multipliered its champagne production. The Hungarian-owned company took part at an international tournament and returned home with a silver medal, and also set up a special...
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Carlsberg’s after-tax profit dropped to its one-fifth
Date: 2011-02-21 12:20:59
The turnover and profit of the Danish brewery group declined in the fourth quarter, mainly due to stagnation of sales in Eastern Europe. In volume, sales fell by 5 percent,...
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Henkel is waiting for the packaging design applications
Date: 2011-02-21 12:20:36
Henkel is waiting the applications for its packaging design competition, that began in February and lasts until the 18th of March. Everyone can show their talent at the Adhesives for...
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No real problem with Hungarian honey
Date: 2011-02-21 11:42:22
Hungary's Ministry of Rural Development fined honey maker Pannon Honig HUF 1.05 million for conducting business without authorization and distributing honey of unspecified origin, the daily Nepszabadsag reported. Pannon Honig...
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Mineral water by Auchan officially arsenic
Date: 2011-02-21 10:41:32
The Interpress Magazin (IPM) made a criminal denouncement at the Budapest Police Headquarters, due to the Auchan branded mineral waters exceeding the limit of arsenic-content – told the editorial of...
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International Paris Agricultural Show opened with Hungarian exhibitors
Date: 2011-02-21 10:04:56
The Paris Agriculture show has opened at the Porte de Versailles exhibition hall – but French President Nicolas Sarkozy has risked the wrath of France’s powerful farming lobby by failing...
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Financial lessons for primary school student
Date: 2011-02-21 07:17:57
The forst turn of K&H' latest competition titled Vigyázz, Kész, Pénz! is over now: more than 150 entries have arrived from all over the country, and over 600 students tested...
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Pick bought the handball team of Szeged
Date: 2011-02-18 12:38:20
The Pick Kézilabda Kft. of Pick Szeged Zrt.will operate the Pick Szeged handball team in the future. The Municipality of Szeged and the Tisza Volán SC. both pleased to hear...
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ProWein 2011: International Experts gear up for the Summit Meeting of the Industry
Date: 2011-02-18 11:02:44
All signs are pointing to success. The current state of registrations for ProWein, the trade fair that brings together the international wine and spirits sector from 27 to 29 March...
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727 000 Huf collected to train guide dogs
Date: 2011-02-18 09:23:59
Currently, 12 guide dogs are being trained every year in Hungary by the Association of Hungarian Blinds and Guide Dog School – wheareas 77 people are in need of a...
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Nestlé tripled its profits last year
Date: 2011-02-17 12:12:27
Nestlé tripled its profits in 2010 compared to a year earlier. According to the world's largest food company; 2011 will also be a very good year, despite the fact that...
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Tesco will compensate its drivers
Date: 2011-02-17 12:10:08
Tesco will compensate all of its 220 drivers, after the announcements of the past few days. However, the company's communication indicates that the monthly allowances of truck drivers employed by...
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Magyar Cukor Zrt. becomes self-sufficient from gas
Date: 2011-02-17 12:05:57
The Magyar Cukor Zrt. (Hungarian Sugar Co.) would provide energy to its Kaposvár-based factory with their three biogas producing equipment. The goal is to reach self-sufficiency by 2013. In Hungary’s...
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The best retail landlord
Date: 2011-02-17 11:58:04
Jones Lang LaSalle has won the best retail landlord of the Central and Eastern Europe region award, at the Europaproperty CEE Retail Real Estate Awards ceremony, that took part in...
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2000 companies on the list of those owe of the state hundreds of millions
Date: 2011-02-17 10:58:22
Since 2007, the Hungarian tax authority is required to publish the list companies that owe more than 100 million HUF to the tax authority for more than 180 days. In...
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New international Head of Communication at Etarget
Date: 2011-02-17 09:44:53
Pavol Magic has joined the team of Etarget in SEptember 2010, as the marketing and communication manager in charge of the Czech, Romanian, and Bulgarian market. He was appointed to...
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Three-storey shopping center will be opened on the Blaha Lujza Square
Date: 2011-02-16 12:10:46
The Europeum Shopping center with a 5300 square meters of rentable area opens in mid-April – said Lovro Adrienn, Hungarian Executive of the developer Ablon Group at a Wednesday press...
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Heineken performed well, the but not on the Hungarian Market
Date: 2011-02-16 12:05:32
The world's third-largest brewing group the Dutch Heineken, reported a 1.436 billion euros after-tax profit for the last year, 37 percent more than the 1.018 billion of 2009. The company’s...
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The recipe of Coca-Cola has been found?
Date: 2011-02-16 12:01:27
The editors of the ”This American Life” American radio program claim that they found the recipe of Coca-Cola, referring to a newspaper article, that was published in Atlanta in 1979...
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SIÓ works with Cluso
Date: 2011-02-16 11:14:45
After having closed last year's strategic section in the autumn, SIÓ-ECKES has launched a creative tender. THe competition had two turns with four agencies competing, and in the end, Cluso...
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New position at SIÓ-ECKES
Date: 2011-02-16 06:48:15
PR-consultant of Sió-Eckes György Nagy received new tasks starting from 1st February 2011, within the compass of a central, international project, directly assigned by Eckes-Granini Group. Besides being in charge...
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Győr Spring Festival launched again
Date: 2011-02-16 06:39:32
Every spring, there is a huge festival in Győr, called the Spring Festival of Győr. This event has been open to guests for 15 years. This year, the festival will...
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New CEO at Unilever Hungary
Date: 2011-02-15 13:13:49
Starting from the beginning of 2011, the new CEO of Unilever's Central-European group is Moti Keren. The new leader follows Herman Verstraeten in the velvet chair of the Budapest region....
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IT development goes on at Coop
Date: 2011-02-15 13:10:57
A new, reconstructed and improved Coop opened its gates to customers in Vatta, Hungary. The Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county based outlet is the 800. to join Coop's integrated IT-system. The process of...
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Increasing Danone profits rising prices
Date: 2011-02-15 12:26:31
Danone expects raw material price increases this year. The world's largest yogurt producer would like to offset the effect, with the reducing of costs and with the raising of consumer...
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FMCG round table discussion about up-to date legal issues
Date: 2011-02-15 12:05:55
PwC and Réti, Antall és Társai Ügyvédi Iroda Pricewaterhouse Coopers Legal is doing a round-table discussion for participants of the FMCG-sector on 22nd February 2011. The title of the event...
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McDonald's may pay an enormous compensation
Date: 2011-02-15 11:59:25
A Chicago woman has filed a 600 thousand USD lawsuit against McDonald's because she suffered painful and permanent injuries, after she bit into a McChicken, that contained broken glasses. Vjolla...
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Fifteen thousand visitors at the Craft Hungarian Taste Fair
Date: 2011-02-14 12:15:05
Fifteen thousand people visited the Craft Hungarian Taste Fair (Kézműves Magyar Ízek Vására) at the Budapest Millenáris. During the three days, around 100 million HUF worth masterpieces of the Hungarian...
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