Company and Personal News
At first European can taste Coca-Cola's RTD coffees
Date: 2008-03-31 00:00:00
The Coca-Cola Co. is launching three premium coffee beverages in Europe under a partnership with Trieste, Italy's illycaffè first announced in October 2007. The sale beginns in April in 10...
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Carlsberg Discussing Sale Of Turkish Unit
Date: 2008-03-31 00:00:00
Carlsberg has revealed that it is in talks to sell its 95.65% stake in Turkish unit Turk Tuborg TBORG.IS to Israel-based Central Bottling Company Group (CBC). The Danish brewer said...
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Metro's Extra Disposal Cleared
Date: 2008-03-31 00:00:00
The German cartel office has unconditionally approved retail group Metro's disposal of its Extra supermarket chain to Rewe. The 245 Extra chain stores that generate E1.6bn in revenue will be...
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Nestle's New Chinese Factory to Triple Ice-Cream Output
Date: 2008-03-31 00:00:00
Nestle opened a new ice-cream factory in the Chinese city of Guangdong this week as part of its bid to increase its market share in the country. The 22,000-sq-m plant...
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Stockmann To Open First Department Store In Lithuania
Date: 2008-03-31 00:00:00
Finnish retailer Stockmann said it plans to open its first department store in Lithuania after signing a preliminary lease agreement for a unit in a new shopping centre in the...
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Schoolbags from SIÓ-Eckes
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
SIÓ-Eckes Kft intends to help children from low income families with the „Thank You, SIÓ!” program this year, which will provide schoolbags for at least 1,000 children in the 6-14...
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Stores opening
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Spar, Gyöngyös Open: 31 January Chain: Spar Store space: 835 m2 SKU: several thousand Tesco, Albertirsa Open: 8 February Chain: Tesco Store space: 1000 m2 SKU: 3–4000 Spar, Százhalombatta Open:...
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Dynamic NESPRESSO
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
The NESPRESSO division of Nestlé achieved over 40 per cent growth last year, producing the most dynamic expansion within the group. NESPRESSO is the international leader in the market of...
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Animated Fanta world
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Special visual effects and new characters have been developed for the new Fanta campaign. Coca-Cola is increasingly focusing on innovative advertising tools instead of traditional ATL. No text is used...
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One weekend, two competitions, six gold medals
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
The Nemes palinkas of Zwack Sándor received 6 gold medals in two competitions held at the same weekend, in the beginning of March. One was the World Spirits Award in...
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Measuring trade marketing?
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Trade marketing my love – was the title of the conference held by the Trade Marketing Klub on Valentine’s day. Participants of the first event organised jointly by TMK and...
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New owner for Mona Hungary
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
A change in ownership effecting four companies of the Mona group, including Mona Hungary Kft. has taken place. The new owner is NÖM AG (Niederöstereichische Molkerei Aktiengesellschaft). NÖM AG will...
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Chocolate festival with bon-bon book
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
A chocolate festival was held by Szamos Marcipán Kft. for the second time on 5. March, under the title “Wondeful Chocolate” with the aim of promoting quality and the culture...
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First hand account of EuroShop
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
POPAI Magyarország held its second meeting one week after the exhibition on 6. March, where EuroShop was the topic. Zsuzsanna Hermann, editor in chief of Trade magazin summed up what...
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Winning a Hyundai with Gliss Kur
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Prizes were handed over to the winners of the Schwarzkopf&Henkel Christmas prize game in February. The main prize was a Hyundai Accent....
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Pasta Wednesday
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Gyermelyi Pasta Wednesday is a promotion for restaurant guests. Pasta fans will be able to sample Gyermelyi specialities in 300 restaurants at half the normal prices on 16. April. This...
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EuroShop 2008 „Made by Wanzl”
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Wanzl presented its new shopping carts, displays and in-store design solutions developed in line with the „Made by Wanzl” philosophy at EuroShop 2008. Attention was focused on the “Future Shopping”...
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Promotions for Friesland officers
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Judit Sipos was appointed sales director of Friesland Hungária Zrt, while Péter Szautner became marketing and business development director on 1. March 2008....
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Heineken Hungária ending a good year
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Heineken Hungária achieved a 16 per cent increase in operating profit and 12 per cent rise in net revenues in 2007. Sales grew to 392,000 hectolitres, with net revenues reaching...
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Szentkirályi over 5 billion
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Total revenues of Szentkirályi Ásványvíz Kft. exceeded HUF 5 billion in 2007, with an increase of 16 per cent compared to 2006. They are planning to reach 6 billion this...
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Uninterrupted expansion by Kékkúti
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Total revenues of Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt. from sales of mineral water exceeded HUF 12 billion last year. The three Kék-kuti brands, Theodora, Nestlé Aquarel and Perrier held a combined market...
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Makes even dirty work tidier
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Creative designers of STI group have done their best to reproduce the shape of the new Vileda sponge product line in their blue displays. Several versions of the display have...
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Revenues of Henkel CEE over EUR 2 billion
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Revenues of Henkel Central Eastern Europe (Henkel CEE) grew by 17.7 percent to EUR 2,214 billion in 2007. Each division of the company produced double digit growth in 2007. A...
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Plus turning into Spar
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
Tengelmann has sold 174 Plus stores to Spar Magyarország, which brings the total number of Spar stores to 378. Peter Feiner, chairman of Spar Magyarország has told us about the...
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Slimmer Univer products
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
The packaging of mayonnaise and a number of other Univer flavourings have also been redesigned. Flasks have become slimmer, with a more curved and more feminine shape. Main design elements...
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Ladies, put on your sunglasses!
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
The cooking oil business seems to be a good one. This is why we have seen a flood of imported and private label products on store shelves in recent years,...
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Green world of Coca Cola
Date: 2008-03-28 08:00:00
The new World of Coca-Cola® complex located in Atlanta has officially been classified as “green” by the American Council of Green Architecture. 20 per cent of the materials used for...
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