Company and Personal News
The sugar factory of Kaposvár operates with biogas
Date: 2011-01-06 12:01:48
In the only sugar factory of the Magyar Cukor (MC), Inc. in Kaposvár such a post-fermenting department was built with EU support, that covers half of the energy demand of...
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New logo at Starbucks
Date: 2011-01-06 12:01:33
One of the world's largest coffee chain the Starbucks has changed its logo, however, the green color has remained. One of the world's largest and most famous coffee chain the...
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New marketing leader at Neckermann
Date: 2011-01-06 10:38:29
Personnel change at the marketing department of Neckermann travel agency: since Andrea Farkas is looking forward to welcome a new baby, the new marketing leader at the company is Péter...
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Price of Hunguest Hotels will be spent on agricultural investments
Date: 2011-01-06 10:19:42
With the uniting of SCD Group Zrt. and Hunguest Hotels Zrt. (HH) the largest Hungarian tourism company will be set up. Tamás Leisztinger wishes to increase his agrarian-revenues by selling...
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Red Bull conquered the sports world
Date: 2011-01-06 04:02:43
If someone spends nearly a billion dollars annually financing sporting events, and for the sponsorship of teams and athletes to promote its products can gain tremendous influence in the sport...
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Tesco was fined for 7.6 million due to cheap import milk
Date: 2011-01-05 13:10:01
The Agricultural Office (MgSzH) imposed a total of 7,609,383 HUF fine on Tesco-Global Stores Ltd., because the company marketed imported Mlieko (Lapte) and Almliesl branded milks under the purchase price....
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Swing mood in the wine salon
Date: 2011-01-05 12:40:29
The tenth – jubilee – wine salon was held in the main hall of the Hotel Eger-Park, in Eger, with the participation of many foreign and domestic tourists. The salon...
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Hungarian agency won Coca-Cola's regional tender
Date: 2011-01-05 12:12:18
Carnation, an internationally recognized online communication agency won the regional tender of Coca-Cola's Central- and Eastern European unit. 23 countries weere affected by the tender, and now Carnation gets to...
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Complete reorganization at the Gusta food chain
Date: 2011-01-05 12:11:20
The reorganization of the Gusta food chain affects eight stores and more than hundred employees. Zubor Sándor managing director of Csemege Plusz Kft. told that they had to decide in...
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New CEO at Praktiker
Date: 2011-01-05 11:01:53
Zoltán Schlemmer has been named to head the Hungarian unit of Praktiker, Praktiker Épitesi- es Barkácspiacok Magyarország informed MTI. The expert is known as the former sales director of the...
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Tibi's gameshow is over
Date: 2011-01-05 09:17:44
The autumn-game of tibi chocolate is over now, the main prize is 3x wellness weekend for two persons, 3x Cascada luxury massage-armchair, and a journey to Brazil worth 1 million...
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The districts of Budapest to increase tourism tax
Date: 2011-01-04 12:15:10
Several districts of Budapest announced to increase the tariffs of the tourism tax and will collect it by their own from the 1st of January – reports the Turizmus Panoráma...
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Europe's strictest smoking ban introduced in Spain
Date: 2011-01-04 10:52:43
The smoking ban in Spain introduced this week is one of the strictest in Europe: it outlaws smoking in all bars and restaurants. Smokers will also be prohibited on television...
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Rauch will keep working with OMD Hungary
Date: 2011-01-04 10:37:13
OMD Hungary will continue being in charge of Rauch's media-planning and -puchasing tasks in 2011, just like the company did in the past 12 years. Rauch launched its online and...
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Sió-Eckes targets 8-10% revenue rise in 2011
Date: 2011-01-03 14:32:27
Hungarian fruit juice company Sió-Eckes targets revenue of HUF 19.5 billion-20 billion in 2011, up 8-10% from 2010, managing director Endre Fazekas told MTI. In 2010, the company's revenue fell...
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Tesco continues expansion despite crisis tax
Date: 2011-01-03 13:32:51
Tesco considers the crisis tax unfair and deploys its foreign lobby power against it, but apart from this the company plans in long-terms and continues to expand in Hungary –...
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Shortage of customers at the Balaton hotels
Date: 2011-01-03 13:03:16
Several hotels at the Lake Balaton are for sale typically under price – said Klemm Balázs, the CEO of Service 4 You Kft. operating several local hotels. Klemm Balázs, however...
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Rice-candy caused the death of seven people!
Date: 2011-01-03 12:07:21
Seven people have choked to death and five others are in a serious condition after eating traditional glutinous “mochi” rice cakes to celebrate the New Year near Tokyo. The victims,...
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Tour organizers expect improvement in 2011
Date: 2011-01-01 10:50:37
Although traveling abroad has not changed significantly in 2010, in the case of incoming traffic, turnover of the offices depended on the profile of the tour offices. Molnár Gabriella, the...
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Luxury-trip tester campaign is successful
Date: 2010-12-31 10:21:27
Travel agency Tensi Ltd. has borrowed the idea of the game “The second job of the world” from the famous Queensland-based travel agency: the best candidate for the job of...
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Generali. less damage, more compensations paid
Date: 2010-12-29 14:18:05
Extreme weather-situations have led to an extreme compensations paid by insurance company Generali Providencia. This year, nearly 90 billion forints have been paid by the company, so far. The insurer...
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Hungarian Suzuki checking faulty Swifts
Date: 2010-12-29 13:18:47
Hungarian Suzuki was forced to call back Swifts for controll produced between 1997 and 2002. Due to the rusting of the first dampers, wheelkeeper stubs might fall off, therefore the...
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Aeroviva published the reasons behind the bankruptcy
Date: 2010-12-29 13:10:45
Aeroviva Ltd., the travel agency which announced bankruptcy last week, finally declared the reasons behind the decision. First of all, they pointed out that only half of the travlers they...
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Record fine imposed on fake wine
Date: 2010-12-29 12:11:50
The Food Safety and Animal Health Directorate (MGSZH) of Bács-Kiskun County’s Agricultural Office, imposed 1.4 billion HUF fine on the Akasztó- based plant of Kiskun-Vin Kft., where almost 5 thousand...
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This year was the best-ever season in the Croatian tourism
Date: 2010-12-29 12:10:28
In Croatia, this year an amount equivalent to 30 million euros spent on the promotion of tourism – said the country's tourism minister on Monday. According to Damir Bajs; the...
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The Hungarian Hotel Association sees no reason for optimism
Date: 2010-12-28 14:41:49
Hungary's hotel industry will not be the winner of the economic recovery. In Hungary the guest traffic is more modest, than in the most important European competitors of the country...
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Magazine: Cable channels are stagnating, TV2 is getting stronger
Date: 2010-12-27 23:59:26
Péter Kiss, TV2’s programme director is optimistic about the future as the expansion of cable channels was drawn to a halt and the biggest advertisers increased their spending, compared with...
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Multi-Pay Card from January
Date: 2010-12-27 12:10:23
The Multi-Pay Cards can be used from January, and from February 12 thousand electronic terminals will accept the Multi-Pay cards nationwide. The multi-function card was developed by Hungarian experts to...
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Festival winner created the image film about Hungary
Date: 2010-12-27 12:05:39
A seven minute long image film created recently, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preparation for the rotating EU presidency. The film created by Madarász Isti, who...
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Tesco expands in the Czech Republic
Date: 2010-12-27 12:01:06
Tesco expands its network in the Czech Republic with the purchasing of 128 smaller supermarkets if the company will receive the approval of the competition authority. The British supermarket chain...
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