Company and Personal News
Lidl opened its 153rd store in Hungary
Date: 2012-08-16 10:44:37
Lidl opened its 153rd store in Hungary on August 16, Monday in Gödölő Hungary, under Ottó Ferenc street 2-4. The store awaits its customers on 1,286 square meters with a...
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The chefs did everything for the French menu – Video of the day
Date: 2012-08-16 10:34:09
That is how the the kitchen crew prepared for the opening of Grant Ahatz’s restaurant, the Next. The Paris 1906 menu was followed by new menus every quarter year. This...
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Gloomy outlook: Hungarian hospitality in 2012
Date: 2012-08-16 10:30:54
We can be glad that Hungary has restaurants, that are considered as competitive by international restaurant guides. Hungarian gourmets can find specialties in several hundred domestic restaurants. But in many...
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IKEA opens cheap hotels
Date: 2012-08-16 10:06:13
The company famous for its cheap DIY furnitures has decided to break into the property market with cheap hotels. About a hundred hotels is planned to open across Europe –...
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Nestlé’s former CEO expects a further rise in global food prices
Date: 2012-08-15 13:00:49
Food prices are expected to increase further all over the world – told Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nestle chairman of the supervisory board, to an Austrian newspaper. After the food crisis of...
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POPAI POP competition is on again!
Date: 2012-08-15 10:54:43
It is the third time that the POPAI Awards POP competition takes place, juried within the compass Business Days 3 days conference: any POP-dice creator can compete for the prize....
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Magazine: Magic spot?
Date: 2012-08-15 10:48:02
The ‘world of drinks’ keeps rediscovering soapstone from time to time, as every fifth year an enterprise appears on the market with ‘ice cubes’ made from this material. Now it...
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New Bock Bistro in Buda
Date: 2012-08-15 10:23:14
A new Bock bistro has oppened in Buda at the place of the Cascade restaurant, within the compass of the best Hungarian franchise....
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More than four million people were watching the live broadcast of the Sziget Festival on YouTube
Date: 2012-08-15 10:20:33
The 20th anniversary Sziget Festival’s live coverage was watched by 4 million people on YouTube. Outside of Hungary the live broadcast was the most popular in Belgium and in the...
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The Danubius Hotels is profitable again
Date: 2012-08-15 10:18:07
The pre-tax profit of the Danubius Hotels Nyrt. in the first half of the year was 406 million HUF, compared to the 706 million HUF loss of a year earlier;...
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Sausage out of space – Video of the day
Date: 2012-08-15 09:36:55
You're probably thinking: “Big deal, so someone tied a big old balloon to a hot dog and a video camera and sent them into space. That's been done before except...
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Magazine: Bustaurant
Date: 2012-08-14 11:51:57
Restaurants in urban transport vehicles – there is nothing new about this! Moreover, their moving version seemed to go out fashion a couple of years ago. But in the US...
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A chef the whole world knows II.
Date: 2012-08-14 11:37:09
For a man so meticulous he famously transports his fish packed in the same direction as the river current flowed and peels his fava beans before blanching, Chef Keller seems...
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Tesco launches a café chain in the UK
Date: 2012-08-14 11:25:22
Tesco has teamed up with an upmarket London-based coffee shop to launch an ‘artisan’ café chain in the UK. The new chain, Harris and Hoole, is majority owned by a...
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Back-to-school offers in Tesco
Date: 2012-08-14 10:58:34
Starting from 1st August 2012, a special set of special offer back-to-school programs have been launched by retail-giant Tesco in Hungary. Since most schools have different lists of needs, this...
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This year's Sziget Festival received the six millionth visitor
Date: 2012-08-14 10:34:50
The 20th Sziget Festival has ended. 379 thousand people participated at he anniversary event, the organizers welcomed the six millionth visitor as well. This year's Sziget Festival had 379 thousand...
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Famous Grouse aims to set record for world's largest whisky bottle
Date: 2012-08-14 09:58:31
The Famous Grouse is making the record attempt to celebrate its 107th birthday. The 200-litre bottle, which will hold the equivalent of 8,000 drams, is expected to set a new...
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Magazine: Stone age
Date: 2012-08-13 11:38:12
Stone age. The ‘world of drinks’ keeps rediscovering soapstone from time to time, as every fifth year an enterprise appears on the market with ‘ice cubes’ made from this material....
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A chef the whole world knows I.
Date: 2012-08-13 11:28:01
For a man so meticulous he famously transports his fish packed in the same direction as the river current flowed and peels his fava beans before blanching, Chef Keller seems...
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Financial institutions issued more than 700 thousand Széchenyi Rest Cards
Date: 2012-08-13 10:30:25
The three issuers, the OTP, the K&H and MKB banks have issued more than 700 thousand Széchenyi Rest Cards until now. The card holders have paid in a value of...
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Rihanna “too sexy” for Nivea
Date: 2012-08-13 10:15:13
So it comes as little surprise that Rihanna's advert for Nivea has been deemed too sexy to front campaigns for the skincare brand. The star appeared in a series of...
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Tokaji is also included to the auctioned wines of El Bulli
Date: 2012-08-13 10:10:20
The wines of the World-famous three-Michelin-star restaurant the El Bulli – which closed its doors last July – can be bought at the wines auction of Sotheby's. The restaurant was...
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The world's oldest restaurant can be found in Ferrara
Date: 2012-08-13 10:05:43
The world's oldest restaurant was founded in 1435 in Ferrara, Italy and it is still operating. The al Brindisi restaurant, once known as Chiuchiolino (Drunken) nearly six hundred years ago...
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Magazin: Appearing-disappearing
Date: 2012-08-10 10:53:20
Pop-up restaurants are a typical 21st century-phenomenon, a metropolitan restaurant concept that is as much about cuisine as about marketing. They only work for a very short time and disappear...
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Jenson Button’s restaurant clsoed after a year
Date: 2012-08-10 10:10:06
The Victus Restaurant opened in Harrogate on September 11, last year, with a ceremony attended by the Formula World Cahmpion of 2009. The Formula One star, who is estimated to...
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9 m3 PET-bottles recycled at Sziget by Coca-Cola
Date: 2012-08-10 09:46:32
Selective trash cans were introduced to the audience of Sziget festival quite a few years ago, with the help of the nonprofit organization called Zöldövezet. However, Coca-Cola is the first...
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Some like… Kate Upton hot – Video of the day
Date: 2012-08-10 09:01:49
A spicy twist on a classic burger, the new Southwest Patty Melt features a charbroiled beef patty, with sliced jalapeños, grilled onions, pepper-Jack cheese and spicy Santa Fe sauce, all...
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Nestlé: steady momentum, full-year outlook confirmed
Date: 2012-08-09 12:00:38
Sales of CHF 44.1 billion, 6.6% organic growth, 2.9% real internal growth Trading operating profit of CHF 6.6 billion (+ 6.3%), margin 15.0% (- 10 bps) 12.9% organic growth in...
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SPAR is getting ready for school with new products
Date: 2012-08-09 11:30:27
SPAR Hungary has launched a wide range of high quality “back to school”-products with favourable prices in order to prepare for September. The school catalogue of SPAR is available from...
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Pumpkin seed oil mill built in Nemesvámos
Date: 2012-08-09 11:00:30
With a nearly two hundred million HUF investment, a new pumpkin seed oil mill was built by Peiba Ltd. in Nemesvámos, in order to produce shell-less pumpkin seeds. The project...
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