Company and Personal News
Törley and György-Villa wine auction successes
Date: 2010-09-23 00:03:04
Another record was set up on the charity wine auction of the 19th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival. The total amount of 3 million 300 thousand HUF was offered...
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Tesco does not launch a web store in Hungary yet
Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:25
While Tesco launches its online store in Poland and in the Czech Republic next year, in Hungary we should wait for Tesco’s webstore. According to Philip Clarke future CEO of...
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Kométa debuted with a new TV spot
Date: 2010-09-23 00:00:01
The Kométa ’99 ZRt. is working together with a new advertising agency. The Creative Partners won the company’s brand communication commission on a restricted tender, for about two months ago....
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Edible drinks
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
If there is a popularity ranking for cocktails in the United States, Bloody Mary probably has a place in the top 5. This drink was created in the 1920s and...
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Health-friendly restaurants
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The objective of the Health-friendly programme is to promote healthy eating. According to project manager Éva Péterfia, about 1,000 restaurants are interested in joining the initiative. Member restaurants forbid smoking,...
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Camping cheese was awarded the Superbrands prize
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The independent jury of 16 expert members awarded quality for the sixth time. They decided that the Camping brand, with its decades-long traditions, can bear the Superbrands 2010 marking for...
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Beer fountain on the main square of Bőcs
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
On 12 August a fountain was inaugurated on the mains square of Bőcs (the birthplace of Borsodi beer) from which beer can also be drawn. The idea came from the...
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Cold wonders of the summer
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The most disappointing thing a bar owner cans say to a guest in summer is ‘I do not have cold beer or Coke’. Blitz Chiller is the solution: a rapid...
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Sandwiches from Kométa salami for first-graders in Kaposvár
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
In the first days of the 2010/2011 school year Kométa ’99 Zrt. handed out delicious salami sandwiches to 700 first-graders in 17 primary schools. The company’s managing director Giacomo Pedranzini...
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A ‘thank you’ to customers
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
On 25 August the Tesco Clubcard loyalty programme commenced: after buying something in a Tesco store shoppers receive a point on their personal accounts after every HUF 200 spent. When...
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Wine and women
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
The ‘role’ of women in quality wine consumption does not cease to become more important. In the United States, 53 percent of those who drink wine at least once a...
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Cooks from the Web
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
11 September was the day when seven famous Hungarian gastrobloggers introduced themselves at an event on Tabáni Terrace called Blog Tasting. Our view is that it is restaurant owners’ interest...
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Nestlé radically reduced its offices’ energy usage
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Nestlé Hungária Kft. uses 1,000 litres less water per day in its Budapest headquarters. 300 employees work in the 3,700 m² complex and the company reduced the building’s energy usage...
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New marketing director at McDonald’s
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From 1 August Jörg Pizzera fills the position of marketing director of McDonald’s in Hungary. The Austrian executive started his career at Unilever and joined the McDonald’s team in 2006....
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The collectors of region-specific Hungarian flavours
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Agricultural Marketing Centre launched its HÍR (traditions, flavours, regions) programme in 1998, with the objective of establishing a collection of Hungary’s traditional and region-specific products and promoting them. So far...
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The design is already 21st-century…
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
A plastic injection moulding enterprise in Százhalombatta was facing difficulties, so they started looking for new partners. They found them in catering, so Creaform started manufacturing designer party accessories, plates,...
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Gallicoop’s five liver patés got top marking from consumers
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Gallicoop’s liver patés performed the best at the 10th Meat Hygiene and Meat Examination World Congress. The company entered the competition with five turkey liver patés: Grandmother’s, Natura, Premium, Crackling...
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Herz products resurface on the shelves
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Thanks to Bonafarm Group, Herz products find their way back to shops, less than six months after Bonafarm Zrt. brought the brand name. Nine products of the traditional high quality...
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The best Hungarian sommelier – 2010
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Gábor Cseke, who works in Hotel Great Fosters in England, won the 17th Sommelier Championship of Hungary. In November he will represent Hungary at the European Championship in Strasbourg. The...
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Facing the challenge in New York – part 12
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: ‘Now I work in the French bistro Martel,...
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Heineken Hungária’s new CEO
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
From SeptembervOladele Ajayi is the new CEO of Heineken Hungária. The first African manager in the Heineken Group to lead a Central European member company came from Nigeria. He studied...
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Nagel is the main sponsor
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Nagel Hungária Kft. is the main sponsor of POPAI Awards Hungary POP competition. The prestigious logistics company is connected to the field of ‘marketing at retail’ on many levels. They...
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They are training guests
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
András Réz’s Werk Academy will start a culinary programme: those participating in the nearly 100-hour course will learn the basics of domestic and international gastronomy, together with the latest trends...
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The by-product of whisky production
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
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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METRO helps children who suffer from hunger in the summer
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Children’s Catering Foundation and METRO Hungary organised an awareness raising and donation collecting campaign in 4 cities and in the capital from 11 until 31 August, to help children in...
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Péter Feiner ask Ákos Kozák
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Question: Retail turnover fell in the first half of 2010. What do you think the perspectives are for the second half of the year? What can retailers and manufacturers expect...
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HOVENTA 2010 – Food, accommodation and the 21st century
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
HOVENTA will be organised on 19-22 October and present the challenges and solutions of the present and the future, in the fields of food and accommodation. HUNGEXPO organises the event...
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Professional coffee at home
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
In the United States McDonald’s units sold an average of 53 coffees per day last June – this June this number plunged to 24. At the sae time 82 frappés...
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POS Média acquired majority ownership of Célcsoport Média
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Europe’s leading in-store media company, POS Media Europe bought a majority share in Célcsoport Média Kft. Célcsoport Média and POS Media Hungary have been operating in the same field in...
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Autumn foot marketing from Scholl
Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
Scholl will try to cheer up cloudy autumn days with launching a fashion advice website. The Internet site will help in finding the right shoes for different outfits, with guidance...
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