Company and Personal News
McDonald's and Ikea is expanding in China
Date: 2010-12-17 12:18:04
McDonald's and the Ikea Swedish furniture chain announced that in the next few years they will increase the number of their stores in the Asian country. McDonald's plans the opening...
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The Mars Hungary is “Really a Responsible Company”
Date: 2010-12-17 12:13:53
MARS Magyarország was the only major company that received the Hungarian Public Relations Association’s “Really Responsible Company” prize. The diploma was handed over on the 16th of December 2010 at...
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Wine-events at this year's SIAL in Paris
Date: 2010-12-17 10:30:38
Since its inception, SIAL, the global reference in food innovation, has attached importance to bringing together people who create innovative wines that are open to the world at large. In...
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Porsche Hungária expects sales of new cars to rise in Hungary 2011
Date: 2010-12-17 10:26:42
Porsche Hungária expects the number of new cars sold in Hungary to rise from 53,000 in 2010 to 55-60,000 in 2011, PH managing director János Eppel informed MTI. Eppel said...
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BikeMania by McDonald's at Arena Pláza
Date: 2010-12-17 09:59:04
From 18th to 30th November 2010, McDonald's BikeMania arena is waiting for children and their parents on the first floor of Arena PLáza, right next to Hervis and Electro World....
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Tisza, Senior and Méta will co-operate
Date: 2010-12-17 08:28:33
Ater their relaunch in November, iconic traning-clothing brands of the eighties, Senior® and Méta® and the company behind them SeMe Original Ltd. decided to co-operate with Clash Ltd, the company...
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Goodman wins tender to develop a 500.000 sqm industrial and logistics centre
Date: 2010-12-17 07:12:46
Goodman Group (Goodman) has been awarded the tender for the exclusive investment in, and development of, the 500.000 sqm Pomeranian Logistics Centre adjacent to the newly built Deepwater Container Terminal...
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Magazine: Famine, malnutrition and solvent demand
Date: 2010-12-16 23:31:47
Throughout the course of history, numerous experts have examined the relationship between food production and population growth. Last time it was at the OECD Conference for Agriculture Ministers that the...
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New world brand in Hungary: Hard Rock Cafe arrives next autumn
Date: 2010-12-16 15:12:47
The first Hard Rock Café in Hungary will be opened in the VÁCI1 business center next autumn, at the Ferenciek square – was announced on Thursday. The American restaurant chain...
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Tesco helps with the Christmas preparations
Date: 2010-12-16 15:00:54
The Christmas preparations soon to be started in the kitchens. In recent weeks, more than twenty tons of poppy, nearly five tons of nuts and over 350 thousand walnut had...
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A pleasure to give: charity action by SPAR and Maltese Charity Service is on
Date: 2010-12-16 09:18:19
The charity action “It's a pleasure to give” is on now: it basically means that volunteers of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service are going to gather perishable food for those...
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Food Avalanche: 10 thousand food packages to those in need
Date: 2010-12-16 07:20:25
Perishable food of more than 25 million HUF has been gathered within the compass of three-year-old Food Avalance charity action. The program was organized by Hungarian Food Bank Association and...
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Competition Authority celebrated the 15th anniversary of Hungarian Association of Brands
Date: 2010-12-15 15:48:41
The Competition Authority plans to strengthen its customer-friendly, predictable attitude, however finds it important to have reliable, law-abiding and ethical domestic enterprises – Dr. Miklós Juhász president of Competition Authority...
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New leadership for Henkel's Adhesives Business
Date: 2010-12-15 15:32:42
Thomas Geitner (55), Executive Vice President Adhesive Technologies and member of the Management Board, will resign from office effective December 31, 2010 for personal reasons. Jan-Dirk Auris (42), currently Senior...
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The Hungarian Rural Academy promotes the local products
Date: 2010-12-15 12:59:15
The second series of the Hungarian Rural Academy (Magyar Vidékakadémia) organized by the Hungarian National Rural Network has been launched on the 10th of December 2010 in Budapest. The academy...
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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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