Company and Personal News
International confectionery trade fair in Cologne
Date: 2010-01-28 00:04:59
Five Hungarian companies will also offer their supply, at the Cologne International confectionery trade fair (ISM) opening on Sunday, with 1503 exhibitors from 66 countries. Eighty-two percent of the exhibitors...
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Visa is satisfied with its 2009 results
Date: 2010-01-28 00:02:38
According to the results of Visa Europe; Visa debit cards performed well last year. Total card spending increased by 6.3, while the number of POS transactions increased by 10 percent....
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The “Together for the nurseries” program ended with great success
Date: 2010-01-28 00:01:22
The Executive Director of Tchibo Budapest Ltd. and Csisztu Zsuzsa, the ambassador of the campaign, handed over the 600 thosand HUF support to the representatives of the six winning nurseries....
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New sales manager at XAPT
Date: 2010-01-28 00:00:35
Kovács János was appointed as the Hungarian head of sales at XAPT, from the 13th of January. The newly appointed leader will be responsible for the sales operations management and...
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Penny Market: a fine for trappista cheese
Date: 2010-01-28 00:00:15
The Economic Competition Authority fined Penny Market Ltd. to 33 million HUF, because the company made unfair practices against consumers in connection with its “13 years of action”, took place...
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2010 can be an effective year for the Tóalmás meat plant
Date: 2010-01-27 00:03:00
The Tóalmás meat plant achieved a significant, approximately 20 percent revenue growth in spite of the crisis. Although they could not enforced increase production costs in their prices last year,...
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Johnson & Johnson's report brought positive surprises
Date: 2010-01-27 00:01:33
Johnson & Johnson published better than expected results in its fourth quarter report. The company earnings per share was 1.02 USD, by eliminating the effects of the single items, while...
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Univer’s “Kitchen Devils” action was highly successful
Date: 2010-01-27 00:01:25
The main prize of Univer’s “Kitchen Devils” game campaign was lotteried. The lucky winner won a 1 million HUF value purchase order. During the game, more than 340,000 SMS messages...
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Octavian Dascalescu is the new CEO at BAT Hungary and BAT Austria
Date: 2010-01-27 00:00:15
A new CEO was appointed as the leader of the British American Tobacco Hungary (BAT). The Romanian-born expert, who can speak Hungarian replaces Emil Moskofiant, who was the CEO for...
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Hungarian success at the Green Week
Date: 2010-01-26 00:09:29
Hungary was the main guest and stood in the focus for ten days, on the world's leading agricultural and food trade fair, the Berlin Grüne Woche, ended on Sunday. The...
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Three exhibitions at one place
Date: 2010-01-26 00:09:11
Hungary’s one and only exhibition of viticulture and winery technology offers an ideal opportunity for introduction in the rest period for the sector, before the beginning of the seasonal works....
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2010 will be the year of kékfrankos
Date: 2010-01-26 00:03:14
2010 will be the year of kékfrankos in Szekszárd, where an international kékfrankos wine competition will be held, on the 24th and 25th of May. Beside the domestic wines, Slovakian,...
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Whiskas.hu became the best site of the year
Date: 2010-01-26 00:01:26
The Hungarian Whiskas web site became the best site of the year, in the best brand sites category, on the voting of the Internet Marketing Club (member of the Hungarian...
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Tesco joins the movie industry
Date: 2010-01-26 00:00:19
British Tesco is trying to enter to a new market; this time trying to enter to the movie business. According to the plans, the chain would participate in the filming...
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Buszesz: energy drinks increased the revenue
Date: 2010-01-25 00:07:45
Despite the recession Buszesz Ltd.’s 2009 turnover is expected to grow, by about 10 percent and may reach 6 billion HUF, compared to the previous year. Although the price of...
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Fornetti is the franchise network of the year
Date: 2010-01-25 00:02:19
The Hungarian Franchise Association also gave its professional awards this year. Fornetti deserved the ”Franchise network of the year” recognition. The dynamic evolving young franchise network of the Year award...
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Stratos Red Bull: a space mission
Date: 2010-01-25 00:00:45
Colonel Joseph Kittinger, the legendary figure of Aviation, presents the Red Bull Stratos research program, aimed to collect data in connection with free fall, over the speed of sound. Felix...
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New sales manager at SCA Hygiene Products
Date: 2010-01-25 00:00:28
From December 2010 Földesi György will be the new sales director at SCA Hygiene Products Ltd. The expert has nearly 18 years of managing experience at multinational and at domestic...
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Starbucks produced triple profits
Date: 2010-01-22 00:02:51
The American coffe chain, the Starbucks has successfully passed throught the difficulties, achieving a 241.5 million USD net profit, in the last quarter of the past year. A year earlier,...
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Permission for the Chinese Túró Rudi
Date: 2010-01-22 00:02:11
The Chinese version of the well-known Túró Rudi will be manufactured soon. The Kiittyy plant of Túró is ready to produce, but only one single license is missing. Last summer,...
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Good Christmas season for eBay
Date: 2010-01-22 00:01:02
EBay Internet auction and trading house, had a good Christmas season. The succes of the PayPal online payment system and the sale of Skype’s telephone service provider, had a positive...
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SPAR’s Bicske based meat plant produces also to the Czech market
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:39
SPAR Hungary Ltd. supplies 15 Czech Interspars from its Bicske based meat plant, since the 15th of January. The last quarter’s transport tests were succesful, so despite the decrease in...
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McDonald's rewarded its loyal workers
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:19
McDonald's rewarded 93 of its loyal employees at the end of 2009. The fast food chain rewarded loyal employees, working for 10, 15 and 20 years with a total sum...
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Schlecker closes 500 stores
Date: 2010-01-22 00:00:12
According to the owner of the largest German drugstore network; their turnover has been declining on the domestic market, since 2004 so they are planning the conversion of the whole...
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The world's largest beer producer completely stopped
Date: 2010-01-21 00:03:07
As the result of a labor dispute, the world's leading brewery, the Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (AB) was forced to completely stop the production of beer, in its Belgium plants on...
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Fitch rated Kraft BBB minus
Date: 2010-01-21 00:01:55
The Fitch credit rating, changed the rating of U.S. confectionery group the Kraft Foods ratings from BBB to BBB minus, after the purchasing of Cadbury. Fitch explained that Kraft’s Pro...
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Signature collection for the re-launch of Sciennet
Date: 2010-01-21 00:01:02
Sciennet’s loyalty community want to restart the system, with a pleading signed by the members. After difficult two months of waiting, the time has come to help the work of...
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Margitszigeti Crystal Water disappears
Date: 2010-01-21 00:00:45
The Margitszigeti Crystal Water disappears from the shelves of shops, because Pepsi’s Fővárosi Ásványvíz és Üdítőipari Ltd. will bottle the crystal water from Albertirsa. The company retains the "Kristályvíz brand...
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Half a million HUF worth ham in London
Date: 2010-01-21 00:00:10
The World’s most expensive Ibérico ham costs 1800 pounds (547 thousand HUF). The ham can be found in one of the most popular London store, the Selfridges. The more than...
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Kraft Foods has won the struggle for Cadbury
Date: 2010-01-20 00:02:55
Cadbury has adopted by the U.S. confectionery giant for a 18.9 billion USD bid, despite the fact that the company had fought for weeks against Kraft’s hostile manoeuvres. The 186...
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