Company and Personal News
Alcoa bought a beverage can manufacturer
Date: 2012-07-18 11:00:36
The world's largest aluminum industrial company the U.S. Alcoa acquire total control in the world's largest aluminum drink can manufacturer the U.S. Evermore Recycling, by buying out the company’s previous...
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Investigation due to the bankruptcy of Shlecker
Date: 2012-07-18 10:59:18
The Stuttgart state prosecutor's office started an investigation against Anton Schlecker and thirteen other defendants, due to the bankruptcy of the Shlecker German drugstore chain. Proceeding has started against the...
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Budapest Airport is the best in gastronomy
Date: 2012-07-18 10:58:59
“The world's best food and drink offerings – among the airports with less than ten million passengers” – this prize was awarded to the Budapest Airport, by the most prestigious...
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Sopron organizes “Bike in the vineyard!” program
Date: 2012-07-18 10:55:11
The program links the presentation of cultural landscape with cycling tourism, which will be organized on Saturday in the Sopron wine region for the first time entitled “Bike in the...
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Budapest, Lake Balaton, Western Transdanubia – the most powerful tourist regions
Date: 2012-07-18 10:15:27
After Budapest and Balaton, the Western Transdanubian region is Hungary’s third strongest tourist destination with a 13 percent share – told the regional marketing director of the Hungarian National Tourist...
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Three million Unilever products helped big families
Date: 2012-07-18 09:04:57
Throughout the 1.5 month of their charity-project, Coop and Unilever have collected more than a total of 3 million HUF to the Associaton of Big Families. Within the compass of...
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Coca-Cola’s second quarter was better than expected
Date: 2012-07-17 12:08:29
Coca-Cola reported better than expected second quarter results, thanks to increasing domestic and foreign sales volume. The company's net profit at the same time, decreased from 2.80 billion USD to...
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Magazine: Pop-up ice cream parlour
Date: 2012-07-17 11:08:39
A simple but brilliant idea: opening a pop-up ice cream parlour in the summer. In this case we are not talking about simple ice cream but gelato, which is made...
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Collective agreement renewed at Spar
Date: 2012-07-17 11:01:03
The Spar Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft. has signed the renewed collective agreement with its own meat plant, the TANN Magyarország Kft., and with the Trade Union of the Commercial Employees (KSZ)....
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Holiday vouchers are getting increasingly popular
Date: 2012-07-17 10:55:15
The customer community sites are conquering more space for themselves. The Kupon Világ which is the most directly accessed coupon / bonus company, in one year saved 3.2 billion HUF...
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Warm beer – Video of the day
Date: 2012-07-17 09:58:33
Here's thehilarious SNL skit, “Schmitts Gay Beer” commercialwith Adam Sandler and Chris Farleyfrom 1991. The SaturdayNightLiveclipfeaturesmusicbyVan Halenwiththe song BeautifulGirls. Here is the video....
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Coca-Cola music for the Olympic Games
Date: 2012-07-17 09:17:10
Coca‑Cola and Grammy award-winning music producer Mark Ronson have travelled the world, capturing the sounds of five different Olympic sports and blending them into one song that brings the spirit...
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Tesco supports the paralympic team with 35 million HUF
Date: 2012-07-17 07:45:03
The CEO of Tesco has given a total of 35 million HUF support to the president of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee, within the compass of the official farewell-party of the...
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Tesco bought a hypermarket in Komárom
Date: 2012-07-16 11:25:41
The Tesco chain will will take over the Hypernova hypermarket and its petrol station on 17 September in Pozsonyi Road in Komárom – TASR Slovak state news agency informs. The...
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Lidl does not increase prices due to the telecommunications tax
Date: 2012-07-16 11:17:31
Similar to Tesco Mobile, Lidl’s Blue Mobile will not increase its minute fees and SMS tariffs, due to the telecommunications tax introduced from 1 July. Lidl launched its own branded...
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Four to six hundred festivals in Hungary
Date: 2012-07-16 10:51:13
According to datas of the Central Statistical Office, 4.2 percent of the foreigners comes to Hungary to attend a festival. Hungary is the country of festivals. On the list of...
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Human Telex is into glass
Date: 2012-07-16 08:25:19
Guardian, one of the world's greatest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products has signed a contract with Human Telex Creative Agency in order to carry out their new...
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Tesco undertakes home delivery in Poland
Date: 2012-07-13 12:00:03
In Poland, Tesco has launched an online sales system, through which customers can order for even 67 HUF worth home delivery fee. Tesco launched its webshop in Poland. The service...
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Only McDonald's can sell frenchfries at the Olympics
Date: 2012-07-12 11:06:15
The London Olympics athletic competitions haven’t started yet, but the corporate competition has already begun–and America is winning. McDonald’s is the only restaurant allowed to sell french fries at the...
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The cattle ranch was renewed from 300 million HUF
Date: 2012-07-12 11:00:46
The renewed cattle plant of the Tejtermelő Kft. was handed over on Wednesday in Lajoskomárom, Fejér County. At the technological development tender the company won 53 million HUF to the...
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Biogas plant is under construction in Solt
Date: 2012-07-12 10:55:00
The biogas plant recycling agricultural waste will be built from about one billion HUF in Solt – told the Solti Biogáz Kft. MTI on Thursday. According to the communication, the...
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Gallus Kft.: big losses at poultry farmers, due to the heat
Date: 2012-07-11 12:00:07
According to the estimations of the Gallus Kft. dealing with poulltry farming, the extreme heat has caused more than a billion HUF damage so far to the domestic poultry farmers....
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Hungarian melon campaign at the business network of Spar
Date: 2012-07-11 11:58:35
With the ripening of the Hungarian melon the sales have began at the same time in the Spar and Interspar stores. Since last week end, only Hungarian melon shipments have...
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KSH: foreign demand increased while domestic demand fell at commercial accommodations in May
Date: 2012-07-11 11:22:32
In May, 386 thousand foreign tourists spent 1.064 million guest nights in commercial accommodations, while 333 thousand domestic guests spent 710 thousand guest nights. In May, 8.8 percent more foreign...
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Bath development in Bükkszék
Date: 2012-07-11 11:20:43
The first phase of the about 1.25 billion HUF worth development was handed over on Wednesday in the spa and adventure bath of Bükkszék that is using Salvus water. Under...
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Wizz Air decreasing number of Spanish flights due to new taxes
Date: 2012-07-11 10:47:37
Wizz Air decided to drecrease the number of Spanish flights in the winter schedule, due to the new airport-taxes introduced by the Spanish government from 1st July. The Budapest-Barcelona, and...
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Magazine: The Far East is knocking on our doors too
Date: 2012-07-10 12:19:17
‘International cuisine’ or ethnic food is slowly but steadily making its mark on Hungarian cuisine. This group of products is increasingly important in retail too, with food specialties from the...
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Poultry Production: The Master Good Group expands the number of its employees by more than 20 percent
Date: 2012-07-10 11:53:34
The Kisvárda-Nyírkércs-based Master Good Group dealing with poultry integration performs a more than 20 percent headcount expansion in late October-early November – told Bárány László, owner of the group. Employment...
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Pepsi enters the yogurt market
Date: 2012-07-10 11:25:28
PepsiCo has picked Omnicom Group's Juniper Park as creative agency for a new U.S. yogurt venture it is launching with a European dairy company later this month. The creative campaign...
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Győr's tourism outpaced the tourism of Sopron
Date: 2012-07-10 10:51:03
The number of guest nights spent in Győr increased by 42 percent, while the number of guest nights declined by third in Sopron, during the first five months of the...
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