Company and Personal News
Henkel Award for the tenth time
Date: 2011-03-24 13:14:54
The Henkel Art.Award, which is the art competition of Henkel Central Eastern Europe (Henkel CEE) celebrates its tenth anniversary. This year, Henkel expects the applications in painting, graphics, photo, video...
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Advent International to acquire Provimi Pet Food
Date: 2011-03-24 11:46:43
Advent International, the global private equity firm, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Provimi Pet Food (“PPF”), a leading European manufacturer of pet food from Provimi Group, a...
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Pick Szeged wants to increase wages in spite of difficult economic situation
Date: 2011-03-24 11:42:49
The leadership of Pick Szeged Ltd. have voiced their definite intention to increase wages, in spite of the demanding economic situations. Therefore, the management finds it deplorable that that the...
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Tesco is getting more and more greener
Date: 2011-03-23 13:12:57
Environmental awareness is growing at Tesco. The major aim of the British retail chain is; that until 2050 the company will have zero carbon dioxide emission. In particular, they will...
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Gyulai pálinka was awarded with several medals
Date: 2011-03-23 13:10:30
Two gold and seven silver medals were awarded to the products of Gyulai Pálinka Manufaktúra at one of the world's most prestigious culinary conference, at the World Spirits Award 2011....
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Japanese may drain the raw materials of Eastern foods out of Europe
Date: 2011-03-23 12:58:08
The Fukushima disaster has no direct effect on the turnover of the Japanese restaurants and shops, that are operating in Hungary, because they supply range is produced far from Japan...
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Spar Verde spring water – a more environment-friendly solution launched
Date: 2011-03-23 11:14:06
SPAR Magyarország Ltd. is a responsible company when it comes to environmentally friendly solutions, therefore they launched another sustainable solution in the past few years. A new environment-friendly product is...
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Environmental consciousness program ran by Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt
Date: 2011-03-23 10:09:01
22nd March was the International Day Of Water, and 14 thousand primary school students celebrated it with Nestlé Waters and Wet Projekt. Kékkúti Ásványvíz Ltd. organized an interactive educational day,...
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Mosonmagyaróvár-based sausage plant closed
Date: 2011-03-22 16:21:17
The new owner of the Mosonmagyaróvár-based cured salami factory, Debreceni Csoport Kft, will close the plant this May, only one and a half year later after buying it from Kaiser...
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Budapest will be the culinary capital of the region
Date: 2011-03-22 14:12:50
Between the 3rd and 5th of June 2011, the region’s largest gastrocultural festival the Dining Guide Food Show and the Budai Gourmet Festival will be held in one time and...
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Corvin shopping center: 36 thousand people greeted the spring on the Night of Discounts
Date: 2011-03-22 14:00:00
Beside the discounts of countless shops, spectacular benefit programs also attracted the visitors. The Night of Discounts of the Corvin Shopping Centre attracted lots of visitors. Programs were the Rádió1...
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METRO plans to open 110 stores in 2011
Date: 2011-03-22 13:58:48
After last year’s profit increase and and dividends increase Metro plans to open 110 stores in 2011. The company expects a 10 percent operating outcome increase in 2011, if the...
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The top managers would like to work for Unilever
Date: 2011-03-22 13:54:06
According to the recent global survey of Hay Group; the best workplaces for managers are banks, the companies of the FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) sector, as well as large...
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Tesco considering further investments in Debrecen
Date: 2011-03-22 13:52:04
According to local news informations; an entrepreneur sold 70 thousand square meters of area near the highway 47 in Debrecen, where investors plan to build two commercial units. According to...
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New CEO at Tesco Hungary
Date: 2011-03-22 13:34:25
Gerry Gray is the new CEO of Tesco Hungary. The expert is going to arrive to Hungary within the next few weeks, and start working in mid-April. Gerry Gray has...
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Lidl may withdraw from the Swedish and Danish market
Date: 2011-03-21 13:57:01
According to the latest news, the Lidl discount chains withdraws from the Swedish and Danish markets: According to newspapers; the German discount chain wants to sell its Swedish and Danish...
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Hotel room rates on their 2004 level
Date: 2011-03-21 13:51:51
Last year, despite the 2 percent increase hotel room rates only reached their 2004 levels worldwide. In Europe, room rates stabilized on their 2009 in 2010. The hotel price index...
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One billion HUF seems to be too much for Egervin Winery
Date: 2011-03-21 13:50:46
None of the interested has offered at least net one billion HUF for Egervin Winery, that is under liquidation. The liquidator, writes out a new tender, and wants to close...
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New positions Kékkúti
Date: 2011-03-21 11:35:50
Starting from the beginning of the year, the new commercial director of Kékkúti Ásványvíz Ltd is Noémi Csete: the expert used to be the leader of the marketing division previously....
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Henkel's sustainability report is more positive than expected
Date: 2011-03-21 11:09:23
In 1992, we published our first Environment Report, which we have consistently developed and refined into today’s Sustainability Report. It has now been published annually for 20 years. Together with...
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The World's Second Best Job is taken
Date: 2011-03-21 10:49:56
Travel Agency Tensi Ltd’s campaign was inspired by the World’s Best Job campaign by the well-known Australian success story: the winner gets to test various luxury trips all over the...
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The sugar-free Coca-Cola overtakes Pepsi
Date: 2011-03-18 14:43:12
The Anglo-Saxon press called the recent success of Coca-Cola as historic. According to the fresh datas; more was consumed from sugar-free Coca-Cola (Diet Coke or Coca-Cola Light) last year, than...
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Online tour organizers will join
Date: 2011-03-18 14:37:20
The Federation of Online Tour Operators will form, in order to protect the interests of Hungarian travelers among changing travel habits as the initative of the Start Travel Agency, before...
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Liszt Ferenc Airport: new name and new terminal
Date: 2011-03-18 14:10:30
The new passenger terminal, the SkyCourt opened at the Liszt Ferenc Airport airport on Friday in Budapest. The new hall of the airport can be found between terminal 2 A...
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GfK and Szinapszis: population is happy about smoking ban and hamburger-tax
Date: 2011-03-18 11:06:40
According to general practitioners, a positive trend seems to be up in health care, and thus a longer-lasting negative trend has been reversed in this quarter. However, the specialists and...
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Ipsos: Weekend evenings: going out or staying at home?
Date: 2011-03-18 10:54:52
Four-tenth of the population tends to spend Friday evenings at home, and the same applies to weekend nights and none of these people opt for public places to go out....
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Goodman notes successful IIF Unitholder
Date: 2011-03-17 15:47:35
Goodman notes successful IIF Unitholder Meeting Date Release 17 March 2011 Immediate Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) is pleased to note that the Goodmanled Consortiums proposal to acquire all of...
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Official open of new printers at STI Petőfi Printing House
Date: 2011-03-17 14:58:21
The opening of the new KBA-type printer's machine was officially launched on 9th March, at Kecskemét-based Petőfi Printer1s House Ltd. The leading manufacturer of packaging material begin its service last...
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German Competition Authority fined due to cartelling
Date: 2011-03-17 13:49:48
A total of 38 million euros fine was imposed by the German Competition Authority to the German subsidiaries of three big international food producers, because of price cartelling. According to...
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The long weekend was good for the rural hotels
Date: 2011-03-17 13:41:07
The four-day holiday was good for for the rural hotels, but the tourism service providers are increasingly feeling that domestic visitors have a thinner wallet. Rural hotels reported about 30-35...
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