Company and Personal News
Tesco health checks in UK
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
The supermarket chain introduced a new medical service at price of £10, what will rising to £20 at the end of January. A pharmacist will measure weight, blood pressure and...
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Eismann the new owner of Family Frost
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
Included in the deal is a Nestlé factory in Törökbálint, where Family Frost products already account for 75% of total output. Nestlé has signed an agreement to sell its Family...
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Waitrose focus on overseas
Date: 2008-01-02 00:00:00
The company licens the Waitrose brand to Dubai-based retailer Spinneys, and is in contact with potential partners in South Africa, and in the USA. Spinneys has been selling a wide...
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CBA Online Service from the Center
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
Next year the logistic works from the central premise. The online activity finish with CBA Internet Aruhaz Kft, in the future the owner CBA Kereskedelmi Kft. will carry on the...
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Danone and Wahaha Agree to End Lawsuits
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
Both company want to return to peace talks,” the companies said in a joint statement. French dairy products producer Groupe Danone SA and China's Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. said...
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Heineken Acquires Syabar Brewing Company
Date: 2007-12-28 00:00:00
The portfolio consists of the national mainstream beer brand Bobrov, which holds the number two position in the market and the recently introduced premium brand Syabar. Heineken will acquire...
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Alcoa sells packaging/consumer unit
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
Alcoa has agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses to New Zealand's Rank Group Limited for $2.7 billion. Alcoa's packaging / consumer unit generated about $3.2 billion in revenue...
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Aldi, Lidl outstrips
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
The discounter Lidl has a study that Aldi first competitor in the number of transactions in Europe obsolete. In terms of product prices had both merchants also diverge. In the...
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BAUHAUS Opened its Second Hungarian Store
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
The biggest, 20,000 sqm Hungarian „do-it- yourself” store offers 120,000 products. The new store opened on 27. December in Szigetszentmiklos, near to Budapest, it made 111 new workplaces. With its customer-centric...
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2008 – Slowly Quicken in Hungarian Economy
Date: 2007-12-27 00:00:00
Next year Hungary's internal and external balances to improve, while real wages may begin to increase. A report jointly published by economic research institute GKI and Erste Bank is projecting...
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Minor burns because of Starbucks mugs
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
Starbucks is voluntarily recalling an estimated 167,000 of its Fusion Coffee Mugs because they may pose a minor hazard to users. According to Starbucks and the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...
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MasterCard Faces Fines
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
EU Commission accused MasterCard of applying illegal fees and threatened it with a massive fine. MasterCard uses a complex mechanism to determine a minimum price merchants must pay for...
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Fruit growers at Zwack Palinka Manufaktura in Kecskemet
Date: 2007-12-20 00:00:00
For invitation of Sandor Zwack more than 30 fruit grower arrived at Kecskemét. The guests could see the way of their fruits from coming into the plant trough the destillation...
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Two new SPAR supermarket open on the same day
Date: 2007-12-18 00:00:00
From 18th December customers from Ocsa and Halasztelek enjoy the leisured shopping at SPAR supermarkets. Both stores are almost 1,000 sqm and offer 10,000 kind of products. Because of Christmas...
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Borsodi Beer Academy is open
Date: 2007-12-18 00:00:00
The goal of the school is the popular the highbrow beer consumption and to teach people how to draught the beer and let them know more about the types of...
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Salami of Szeged a product of protected origin
Date: 2007-12-17 00:00:00
The European Commission qualified the winter salami of Szeged as a product with protected designation of origin (PDO) on Friday. The famous flavourful salami was the first Hungarian product put...
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(HU) SPAR Együttműködés a Magyar Máltai Szeretetszolgálattal
Date: 2007-12-14 00:00:00
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Karstadt deploys item-level RFID in Stock System
Date: 2007-12-13 00:00:00
German department store chain Karstadt is now piloting item-level RFID in stock system. Karstadt avoided the higher cost and complexity of conventional item-level RFID configurations by using ADT Security Services'...
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New Aldi Stores in US
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
Supermarket chain Aldi is planning to increase its US store numbers by up to 100 during 2008. The aggressive expansion proposals could see the German discount chain enlarge its volume...
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Vouchers for HUF 4 million at Bauhaus
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
The new store in Szigetszentmiklos opens its doors on 27. December 2007. Every people who come with a barrow on the first day's morning can get a lottery ticket, 200...
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Greek Coke Bottler is looking for buyout
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
Greek Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling is looking for small- to medium-sized buyout opportunities in central Europe and Russia. The world's second-largest bottler of Coca Cola drinks, is looking to boost...
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Coca-Cola to double water bottling capacity with EU support
Date: 2007-12-11 00:00:00
The technological upgrade would help improve region's competitiveness and would also create new work possibilities. The Hungarian unit of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, plans to pump HUF 2.5 billion...
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