Company and Personal News
New owner at Naturland
Date: 2010-03-23 00:02:15
The company previously was belonging to the interest of Szabó József, was acquired by the NV Holding Company. The company owned by Nyíri Viktor will buy the part of Naturland...
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Tesco may expect labour proceedings
Date: 2010-03-23 00:01:11
The Union of Independent Commercial Workers will turn to the labor affairs court in every affected counties. The union wants to achieve that Tesco have to pay equal wages to...
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SNICKERS® Team finished fourth at the 2010 Budapest-Bamako
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Members of the team, Kálmán Lukács Tóth and Norbert Lehotzky competed well and the charity truck managed to deliver the donations offered by Mars Magyarország to Mauritania and Mali. The...
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Non-food categories perform well at Henkel
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Henkel group’s washing-household cleaner and cosmetics branches did well last year: the former expanded by 2.9 percent, while the latter realised a 3.5-percent growth. Due to the economic crisis, the...
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A real treat from Milli Mia Piruet
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
The new year brought something new at Milli Mia: from January the Milli Mia Piruet cream pudding is also available in cappuccino flavour. Cappuccino-cocoa Piruet will also appear in shops...
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New trade fairs in Düsseldorf in 2010
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH will organise two brand new trade fairs this year: with the international glass production, processing and product fair Glasstec they will hold Solarpeq, a solar production equipment...
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New meat sales director at Kométa
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
From 1 January 2010, András Lengyel is the new sales director of KOMÉTA ’99 Zrt.’s meat branch. András Lengyel (40) started his career at Unilever Magyarország Kft. in 1994 and...
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SPAR’s further expansion in 2009
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Last year SPAR turned the 177 acquired Plus stores into SPAR shops. 2 INTERSPAR and 5 SPAR supermarkets were also built. The company’s consolidated turnover was HUF 397.3 billion –...
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Hungarian Product Grand Prix competition announced for 2010
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
The 13th Hungarian Product Grand Prix® competition was announced in 2010. Its main objective is to promote a quality-conscious approach, by which conscious consumer behaviour can be achieved. Applications are...
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RAUCH opted for new agency
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
RAUCH Hungária Kft. chose a new creative agency: Grey Advertising won the two-round invitational tender. Grey Budapest prepares and manages RAUCH’s complete ATL and BTL activities from February 2010. According...
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Environmentally friendly shopping bags in METRO stores
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
From February, as a result of cooperation with Friends of the Earth Hungary, environmentally friendly shopping bags are available in every Hungarian METRO store. The bags are made of canvas...
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This year’s FOODAPEST was both spectacular and professional
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
FOODAPEST trade exhibition was held on 21-24 February, together with the UKBA confectionery and bakery trade fair. Trade magazin was present as the official journal and as the organiser of...
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World Retail Congress in April
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
On 21-23 April, Berlin will host the World Retail Congress, where more than 1,000 executives from 50 countries will gather to listen to at least 100 presentations – the main...
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Unstained donation – the first laundry opened in the country
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
The second ‘Unstained donation’ programme ended on January 27, when the first laundry employing homeless people was inaugurated in Veszprém. Vanish supported the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service’s laundry with HUF...
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1 million-Forint main prize won
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Maspex Olympos Kft.’s 4-month prize game ‘Play for a million!’ ended – consumers had to send in 3 LaFesta, Brumi, Ekland or Coffeeta barcodes to participate. Besides the main prize,...
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Environmental, economic and moral issues in Berlin
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Besides the 400,000 visitors and 12,000 exhibitors, there was another record for the 75th Grüne Woche: agricultural politics was more important than ever before. The ministers of agriculture from 46...
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Future Store
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Trade magazin and Trade Marketing Club cooperated to build a 150-m² store where futuristic retail, technology and marketing communication solutions were introduced for the first time in Hungary. Magyar Telekom’s...
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Thermal water heats the MARS plant
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
In the Csongrád-Bokros plant of Mars Magyarország Kisállateledel Gyártó Kft. the heating system uses thermal water. With this modernisation, the plant substitutes the annual natural gas consumption of 30 family...
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Special shoppers’ forum in INTERSPAR
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
At the INTERSPAR in Allee shopping centre in Buda there was a special shoppers’ forum on 18 February for gluten- and lactose-sensitive people, who shared their opinion about the chain’s...
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A walk in the future
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Welcome to Future Store Innovations! With this initiative our objective was to present retail-use technological innovations at stand 211/C of Foodapest.. Please, follow me. As we approach the store’s entrance...
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Wine-tastings for the public
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
BORésPIAC set up its BOR-island for the first time at FOODAPEST. The constantly crowded wine island gave visitors a chance to familiarise themselves with nearly 60 types of different wine...
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Thank you, SIÓ! in 2010 too
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
This is the third year that the Thank you, SIÓ! Schoolbag Programme is launched: every year about 1,000 primary school pupils are given schoolbags. The programme aims to help 6-10...
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What can we learn from each other?
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Trade Marketing Club and POPAI Hungary organised their ‘Trade Marketing, My Love’ conference on 23 February at FOODAPEST. This time participants tried to find out what can Hungarian and foreign...
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SPAR shopping bags support charity
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
SPAR collected more than HUF 13 million for the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service by donating 1 Forint after each plastic shopping bag sold. On 27 January 2010, Péter Feiner, the...
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New flying record with support from Red Bull
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Red Bull supports a new world record attempt: Felix Baumgartner intends to break the sound barrier by jumping off from a hot-air balloon at a height of 36,500 metres, wearing...
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Ms Trade Marketing and the Team of the Year 2009 award
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
The ‘Trade Marketing Team 2009’ award went to the Coca-Cola Trade Channel team, while Andrea Gémes of Storck Hungária became ‘Ms. Trade Marketing 2009’. Trade marketing managers of Unilever, Friesland...
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Another petrol station chain in the portfolio of POS Media Hungary
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
POS Media Hungary signed an agreement with Shell Hungary Zrt., the operator of 250 petrol stations in Hungary. Now POS Media can reach 3 million customers per month at petrol...
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The law regulating the relationship of suppliers and retailers took off well
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Márkaklub had a special meeting at FOODAPEST: on 1 January, the Act on the prohibition of unfair market conduct by the suppliers of the food product life cycle entered into...
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