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New co-chairperson for ECR Magyarország

Katalin Ránky, managing director of L’Oréal Magyarország Kft. was elected the new co-chairperson of ECR Magyarország at the members meeting held on 15. May....

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Eu’Vend Cologne: 300 exhibitors and 5,000 visitors expected

HUF 30 billion is spent by Hungarian consumers annually on food from vending machines and there are 35-40 000 machines in the country. The Eu’Vend exhibition is to be held...

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It is good to work for Wrigley Hungária

Wrigley Hungária Kft. finished in 7th place in the Best Employer to Work for survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal Europe in the CEE region in 2008–2009. The survey...

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Haribo Saure Pommes, Haribo Grapefruit

Continuous communication throughout the year targeted at the children, young adult and primary shopper groups. TV campaign supplemented by an indoor campaign in April-May and continuous online presence. Agency: MC...

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IX. Univer Business Golf Championship

The Univer Business Golf Championship celebrated its 9th birthday this year on 6. June. The event was held in the Bük Radisson Hotel and Birdland Golf Club. The majority of...

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New cameras presented by Axis at IFSEC

A number of new network cameras were presented by Axis Communications at the IFSEC exhibition held in Birmingham-in May, including the award winning P3301 model. Axis is celebrating its 25th...

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Milli Mia Piruet

Creating a spot to support the launch of a new product. Agency: BBDO Customer: FrieslandCampina Hungária Zrt. Product: Milli Mia Piruet Apperance: RTL Klub, Viasat3, Film+, Spektrum, AXN, Hallmark, storytv...

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II. TV2 cup Howard Draft Award in Tabajd

An exclusive polo cup was organized by TV2 for its leading clients for the second time this year, on 21. June in Tabajd. TV2. The patron of the event was...

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Invitel opening high tech data centre

A state of the art new 1,500 square meter server centre has been opened by Invitel. The biggest advantage of Datacenter is that it allows companies to reduce their costs...

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Mondi manufacturing its brand new bags in Békéscsaba

Mondi Consumer Flexibles opened its expanded production facility in Békéscsaba on 19. May. As a result of the expansion, production capacity has been doubled, with 2 500 square meters of...

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Tesco – Irish suppliers to worry

Tesco lost a small bit of its market share in the last 12 weeks ending on June 14 compared to its 30.9 percent market share of last year. According to...

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Tortellini Ltd. blocked due to contamination

Tortellini Ltd. blocked its tortellini, ravioli and lasagne products, which are eatable until September 2009, in order to protect the health of the consumers, due to the toxin contamination of...

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Tesco and Fortis UK to form new partnership

Tesco Personal Finance (TPF) and Fortis UK have announced that they are in exclusive discussions to form a new partnership to provide motor and household insurance. Jointly the companies will...

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The McCafé chain remains the market leader in Hungary

The McCafé chain increased its turnover by 24.5 per cent in 2008, and maintained its market-leading position on the a domestic café market. 2.6 million guests were served in the...

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Seven-hour technical break at Tesco stores

Because of the VAT change a technical transition will be required in the 24 hours open hypermarkets of Tesco. The stores will be closed between 23 pm on the 30th...

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Carrefour eliminates plastic bags in Spain

French owned hypermarket chain Carrefour has decided to eliminate all plastic bags from their Spanish stores, and becomes the first large company to do so in this country. The use...

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Szentkirályi helps the storm victims of Szabolcs County

Szentkirályi Mineral Water Ltd. joined the International Children's Safe Drinking Water program of Procter & Gamble and the to part of the donation, which aims to ensure the supply of...

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Woolworths' rebirth

Woolworths was the largest retailer victim of the crisis in Great Britain, but now it will reborn as an online store. The company closed 807 retail stores in January and...

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Alimentaria 2010 is set to be an exceptional international business centre and platform for brands

Alimentaria, the International Food and Beverages Exhibition, is once again preparing to make Barcelona the world’s food and beverage capital. The event will be held 22-26 March 2010 in a...

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Agricultural strategy, addressed to the government

The Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture adopted an agricultural strategy consist of 10 points on 25 June 2009. The recommendation is looking for a way out of the crisis situation of...

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The display resolution of STI won POPA prize in Poland

The STI Group's Island-shaped solution for placement and suitcase of Lübbe won the POPA award which is the Oscar of the sales promotion sector. The STI – which has a...

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STI Petőfi Printing House Ltd. won two awards in this year's Pro Typographia competition

STI Petőfi Printing House Ltd. enriched by two prizes on the tournament of high-quality printing products, the Pro Typographia professional competition. The packaging Szamos marzipan and Philips' static adhesive were...

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Budvar brewery – Increasing sales, decreasing profits

Last year was the second best year ever, in the history for Czech Budvar brewery in terms of sales. Its profit however decreased due to the increasing production prices. Revenue...

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Record turnover of the Tesco clothing brands

According to the datas of GfK Hungária,Tesco had the largest turnover on the clothing market in the first quarter of 2009. While the overall market showed a 13 percent decline,...

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Theodora Cosmetic Tour in the Káli Basin

Enthusiastic tourists arrived to Salföld on 26 June to enter the Theodora Cosmetic Tour. The volunteers painted tourist signs from Salföld to Kékkút to switch back the tourist route into...

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Meat-products under the brandname Globus are still available

The greatest Czech food group, Hamé is entitled to produce and distribute Globus-branded, meat-based tinned food – Globus announced. After Globus has decided to stop the production of meat-based tinned...

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City SPAR – new comfortable outlet in Szeged

A new, previously unknown outlet-form has been introduced to the Hungarian customers in 2006 by SPAR Hungary Ltd: City SPAR supermarkets. The company has now opened a new City SPAR...

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Hungarian Wine House Ltd under liquidation process

The liquidation process of Hungarian Wine House has started on 2nd June. The company has kept a busy business in the touristically signuificant Buda Castle. The interest in the wine...

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Herz trying to reach an agreement with creditors

The owners of Herz Salami Factory are trying to reach an agreement with creditors prior to the liquidation process. If the agreement is made, the company may survive – Világgazdaság...

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Danone Ltd. helping children program

The main purpose of the program initiated by Danone Ltd., running under the name „Help Children Together” is to support children living with tumour – the money gathered buy the...

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