Company and Personal News
New loans in the Széchenyi Card Programme
Date: 2010-11-02 19:17:44
The economic crisis changed the Hungarian financing market; increasing risks forced financial institutions to survey the financial conditions of debtors more thoroughly. Enterprises with a weaker creditworthiness were steered to...
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Expansion during the recession
Date: 2010-11-02 19:15:40
The factoring market did not escape the crisis either, but despite this negative environment Erste Faktor Zrt. became the most dynamically developing actor on the market. We asked CEO István...
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Innovative products
Date: 2010-11-02 19:11:35
Erste Bank traditionally pays great attention to developing financial services for the SME sector. We asked Krisztián Vitéz, Erste Bank Hungary Nyrt.’s small enterprise sales director • – Erste Bank...
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Companies are still waiting
Date: 2010-11-02 19:06:28
According to a survey by Coface Hungary, from the companies asked nearly 40 percent saw their sales revenues decline by more than 10 percent in 2009. Another 10 percent of...
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A complex approach
Date: 2010-11-02 18:59:46
The last 12 months were characterised by contracting business lending and less active commercial banks. We asked Zoltán Boldis, the product and process development director of Budapest Bank’s corporate sector...
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Vatera and TeszVesz officially merged
Date: 2010-11-02 17:55:53
Acccording to the statement of the company; The two companies will continue their activities under the name: allegroup.hu Ltd. and also issues invoices under this name. We did not have...
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The Dutch babies love the Univer
Date: 2010-11-02 16:34:49
The Univer Product Zrt. tripled its baby food exports with exports to the Netherlands – reports Világgazdaság. The Hungarian company transports five million pieces of baby food to the Netherlands...
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Better than expected results from Metro
Date: 2010-11-02 16:32:15
The operating profit of the food chain can reach 2.3 billion euros this year. The third quarterly report shows, that net earnings increased to 149 million euros with the 67...
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New Managing Director at METRO Kereskedelmi Ltd.
Date: 2010-11-02 15:39:26
New Managing Director at METRO Kereskedelmi Ltd. will take over the position as Managing Director at Metro Cash & Carry Hungary. Roland Ruffing joined Metro Cash & Carry as Finance...
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Compensation for free lunch
Date: 2010-11-02 13:46:28
McDonald's has to pay 3.7 million HUF to a former employee. The case occurred in Brazil. A former employee sued the company because he fattened 30 kilograms, while working for...
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Twining mobile teahouses are on their way again
Date: 2010-11-02 12:32:24
Two well-known and highly appreciated personalities – Katalin Kovács kayak champion and actor Iván Fenyő – will do their best at three venues to make Twining tea even more popular...
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SPAR is a disability-friendly workplace
Date: 2010-11-02 09:19:12
Over the past two decades, increasing attention is paid to people with disabilities. Beside accessibility, the most important tasks are; education and the workplace – stressed Soltész Miklós, State Secretary...
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Hadik Café
Date: 2010-11-01 14:43:39
The legendary café, which was a favourite meeting place of the intelligentsia before the Second World War, recently reopened. Literary programmes revoke the past, while the menu is 21st-century: twelve...
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Hadik Café
Date: 2010-11-01 14:43:39
The legendary café, which was a favourite meeting place of the intelligentsia before the Second World War, recently reopened. Literary programmes revoke the past, while the menu is 21st-century: twelve...
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Delikátesz
Date: 2010-11-01 14:38:16
This Buadaörs shop opened in October. Their selection of products has been compiled with great care – three quarters of them are not available at ‘multinationals’. Curious owners from nearby...
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Delikátesz
Date: 2010-11-01 14:38:16
This Buadaörs shop opened in October. Their selection of products has been compiled with great care – three quarters of them are not available at ‘multinationals’. Curious owners from nearby...
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A few pretzels and the trend will reach us
Date: 2010-11-01 13:05:01
At the end of spring a National Pretzel Day was organised in the United States and in the following months gastroblogs and culinary magazines started writing about this ‘cake’, imported...
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Watermelon for individualists
Date: 2010-11-01 13:03:24
In the United States seedless watermelons today only 20 percent of watermelons consumed in the US contain seeds. The next big challenge is growing watermelons smaller than 3 kg, which...
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The by-products of whisky production
Date: 2010-11-01 13:01:30
One of the most important by-products of whisky production is the barrel in which the beverage is aged. Other distillates are also aged in whisky barrels and even a new...
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Restaurant manna
Date: 2010-11-01 12:59:20
Many things are called manna today: trehala manna is the sweet-tasting beetle cocoon from Turkey, while in Sicily manna is obtained by making incisions with a knife in the trunks...
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Shall we laugh or cry?
Date: 2010-11-01 12:57:38
A French MP would like to ban fast food joints in the 200-metre zone of schools, just like it is done with places that sell alcohol. Nutritionists are of the...
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Facing the challenge in New York – part 13
Date: 2010-11-01 12:51:36
From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: ‘One day my phone rang: it was Arik...
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Health-friendly restaurants
Date: 2010-11-01 12:41:19
The objective of the Health-friendly programme is to promote healthy eating. Member restaurants forbid smoking, indicate the calorie content of meals on the menu and serve guests a jug of...
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Hungaricum dinner!
Date: 2010-11-01 12:36:55
Pálinka dinners go just like wine dinners do: participants taste the dishes several times and afterwards pálinka makers or the representatives of the restaurant speak about the distillates to guests....
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To teach on a high level
Date: 2010-11-01 12:27:07
After two years of preparatory work, the CulinArtist Academy Non-profit Foundation was established. László Báthori is the chairman of the Board of Trustees. The organisation’s goal is to help and...
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Ready to be served
Date: 2010-11-01 12:25:38
Time proved that Péter Buday’s concept was right – it is the famous chef who has made an attempt at reforming school catering. After the test run in four schools...
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Rabbit sitting in the…
Date: 2010-11-01 12:22:51
While exporting to Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, Tetrabbit Kft. recently decided the time has come to conquer domestic top gastronomy. The company that uses the Relaxrabbit breeding technology presented...
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House of Hungarian Wines reopened
Date: 2010-11-01 12:21:29
…and it is exactly where it used to be, at the headquarters of the Hungarian Culture Foundation. Its full name is House of Hungarian Wines – Buda Castle and at...
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