Company and Personal News
UPS: Christmas peak in delivery
Date: 2010-12-15 12:50:30
The staff of UPS are ready to deliver 430 million packages in December. The 22nd of December is expected to be the busiest day of UPS. According to the expectations...
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Rézangyal selected a PR-agency
Date: 2010-12-15 11:51:09
Starting from December 2010, all pr-tasks linked to one of Hungary's greatest premium spiririts distributor Rézangyal will be carried out by Red Lemon Media PR Agency. The two companies have...
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Market-leader domestic mineralwater brands sponsors Hungarian movie
Date: 2010-12-15 11:27:14
The Hungarian movie Üvegtigris 3 has been supported by Szentkirályi Mineral Water Ltd.: the movie is going to be in the cinemas in December 2010. Levente Balogh, owner and CEO...
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Corrugated products will see a major price-increase
Date: 2010-12-15 11:15:55
Due to the higher costs of basic materials, it is likely that the prices of corrugated pruducts will see a major increase in the near future. According to the Association...
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Tesco collects PET bottles
Date: 2010-12-15 10:27:40
Tesco encourages its customers to collect the PET bottles and aluminum cans-back, between the 24th of September 2010 and the 11th of February 2011 in more than 110 hypermarkets across...
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Magazine: SIAL 2010 – more exhibitors, fewer visitors
Date: 2010-12-14 21:35:02
At this year’s SIAL in Paris 5,700 exhibitors were present from 106 countries – 200 more than in 2008. Although the Agricultural Marketing Centre did not support Hungarian companies’ participation,...
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Declining turnover, but positive results for Pick Szeged
Date: 2010-12-14 15:21:51
After last year's 64 billion HUF, PICK Szeged Ltd. expects a 58 billion HUF turnover – László Kovács, CEO of PICK Szeged Ltd. pointed out within the compass of a...
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Unilever: award for sustainable attitude
Date: 2010-12-14 14:46:05
The Ethics in Business Award is an annual prize conferred by the World Forum for Ethics in Business to honor individuals and companies that have demonstrated the importance of human...
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Tetra Pak helps the large families
Date: 2010-12-14 12:19:19
The Tetra Pak Hungária gave 12 thousand liters of milk as gift for Christmas to the National Association of Large Families (NOE), giving a support for a total of one...
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Tesco would buy the Romanian Real-shops
Date: 2010-12-14 12:15:40
According to the informations of Ziarul Financiar; Tesco would acquire the Real food stores in Romania. With the acquisition Tesco as a new entrant would be the third largest players...
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Tetra Pak is helping those in need with milk
Date: 2010-12-14 10:41:31
Tetra Pak Hungária Ltd. has decided to offer a rather significant amount of milk, 12 thousand litres to the Foundation of Big Families. This way, the company can support 1000...
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Strock Hungária launches a high cocoa-content dark chocolate for the holidays
Date: 2010-12-14 05:11:40
For the first time, Merci appears on the market with a dark chocolate collection with extra high cocoa content. In the Extra Dark selection we even find dark chocolate with...
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Tobacco company rare settlement over chewing tobacco
Date: 2010-12-13 12:52:06
Tbacco producer Altria Group agreed to pay $5 million in a rare settlement over the death of a chewing tobacco customer. The case was brought by the family of Bobby...
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Béres Foundation's 100 million HUF charity for those in need
Date: 2010-12-13 10:32:53
Béres Foundation, this year again, offers a charity of 100 thousands bottles of Béres Csepp for those in need. President Klára Béres listed the ten charity organizations the company will...
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Amazon websites outage was not due to WikiLeaks
Date: 2010-12-13 10:08:59
Amazon.com's websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center...
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Magazine: Bombs, clocks, masters – Business Days (Part 2)
Date: 2010-12-11 21:50:01
On the afternoon of the second day of the Business Days conference, held in Tapolca at the end of September, participants could choose from two sections: Section A dealt with...
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IKEA opens new stores in Serbia, also considering expansion in Hungary
Date: 2010-12-11 12:19:44
The Swedish IKEA chain plans to open four shopping centers in Serbia – announced Dimitrije Ivanoviæ leader of the commercial division of the Swedish Embassy in Serbia. According to magyarszo.com;...
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Match pays half-million compensation to the blind man
Date: 2010-12-11 11:20:55
The blind man, who tried to enter into one of the store of the Csemege-Match Zrt. with his guide dog in October 2009 finally won a lawsuit against the company....
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Scandal! Founder of global food company sentenced to 18 years in jail
Date: 2010-12-11 10:50:03
Calisto Tanzi, founder of the Parmalat global food conglomerate has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in a €14bn collapse that was dubbed “Europe's Enron”. Calisto...
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Pedigree Adoption Program proved to be successful in 2010, too
Date: 2010-12-11 08:03:50
In less than two years, more than 4000 homeless dogs have managed to find a new home, thanks to Pedigree's Pet Adoption Program. The basis of the foundation was the...
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A book published on the red-mud catastrophe of Ajka
Date: 2010-12-11 06:20:48
ost World – Captured by Red-mud is the title of a new book published by Pannon Lapok Társasága, spiced up with never-before-seen photos on one of the greatest ecological catastrophes...
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The Royal Tokaji wine in the top 100 again
Date: 2010-12-10 12:42:13
The determinative wine magazine of the United States, the Wine Spectator has published its top 100 list of the best wines of 2010. The Royal Tokaji wine of Mád ended...
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The loyalty program reveals our customer habits
Date: 2010-12-10 12:32:16
The club card loyalty program is already operating for 15 years in Western Europe. It was introduced to Hungary in August this year. After a few months, several hundred thousand...
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New Jar on the shelves
Date: 2010-12-10 10:54:24
A new sweet pomegranate and blood orange scented detergent Jar has arrived to the shelves of Hungarian stores. The new Jar is denser than before, so it can remove difer...
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Pepsi used the recipes of its Chinese partner illegally
Date: 2010-12-09 12:40:55
According to the he Chinese state media; PepsiCo. China Investment Co. illegally used the recipes of the Tianfu Cola. In other words, this time a Chinese company proved that a...
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1500 exhibitors, 33 thousand visitors: one of the world's greatest FMCG tradeshows
Date: 2010-12-09 11:52:51
After a successful 10th anniversary, SIAL China is ready to raise the bar even higher for 2011! The event will take place from 18th to 20 May 2011. While Chinese...
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The supplier of Mogyi develops from hundreds of millions
Date: 2010-12-09 11:38:44
The Medgyesegyháza based Medgyes Kft. has been made a 221 million HUF development. The sixteen-year old company built new warehouses, and the roads of the site was given a new...
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Customers of Tesco collected more than 33 tons of food for those in need
Date: 2010-12-09 11:24:19
In less than two days, Tesco customers have collected more than 33 tons of perishable food to families in need. The event was organized by Hungarian Red Cross and Hungarian...
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New leading members in Hungarian Marketing Association
Date: 2010-12-09 10:43:06
Hungarian Marketing Association (MMSZ) has chosen three new members for the presidency of the organization. According to votes by the general meeting, Marianne Langsteiner, Ágnes Sütő and Nóra Termes got...
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Health Ambassador Program was launched
Date: 2010-12-09 10:11:57
Réka Rubint was the hostess of the Health Ambassador Program campaign which aims to call attention to the importance of prevention when it comes to cardiovascular diseases. The event was...
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