Company and Personal News
Subway develops despite of closures
Date: 2009-09-10 00:01:00
Subway closed five units this year in Hungary. The American restaurant chain mainly offering sandwiches, now operating with 16 units, as the propery of independent franchise partners. Turnover moderated as...
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Keineken vs. Heineken
Date: 2009-09-10 00:00:30
Keineken brand means: Not Heineken. Keineken beer was launched by a Swiss brewery because they fed up that the local shops were flooded with the Dutch alcohol. Heineken is now...
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Hungarian mangalica pig is counterfeited in the Japanese market
Date: 2009-09-09 00:04:00
Kovács László, CEO of Pick Szeged Zrt reported told to agrarhaszon.hu that Japanese wholesalers are selling Hungarian mangalica meat at the Japanese market, at very low prices. The fake ’Hungarian’...
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Csányi Sándor and Slovakian Penta are also interested in Herz
Date: 2009-09-09 00:03:00
Both Csányi Sándor and Slovakian Penta would enter in the tender for the asset items of the Herz salami. Beside them, a group of German investors also appeared on the...
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One billion worth bottling plant in Badacsony
Date: 2009-09-09 00:02:15
Bazaltbor Badacsony Ltd. is building a wine bottling plant, with a capacity of 300 thousand bottles. Beside the new bottling plant, a new winery and a wine-hotel will be built,...
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Alaszka Ltd. bought Éléskert
Date: 2009-09-09 00:01:00
The ownership concentration between the member companies of Real Food Hungaria Ltd. continues. The Debrecen based Alaszka Ltd. recently acquired 100 percent ownership in the Éléskert Ltd. of Gyula. The...
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The SPAR on the 18th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Fest
Date: 2009-09-09 00:00:55
The SPAR Hungary Ltd. will be the main sponsor – just like the previous years – of the 18th Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival, which became one of the...
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Decreasing occupancy rate in hotels, all over the world
Date: 2009-09-08 00:03:00
According to the datas published by STRGlobal; with an average, nearly 12 percent decline occured at the world's hotel occupancy rate in the first half of the year. London had...
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Stagnating fast-food restaurants
Date: 2009-09-08 00:02:50
The turnover of the largest fast-food restaurants stagnating, compared to the previous year in Hungary. McDonald's, and Burger King do not expect significant changes, so the companies are forecasting similar...
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Cadbury would not let to be purchased
Date: 2009-09-08 00:02:30
The U.S. food group Kraft Foods, made a 16.7 billion USD bid for the purchase of the British Cadbury confectionery industry company. The proposed deal would allow annual savings of...
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Raiker joined to Real Hungária Drink
Date: 2009-09-08 00:02:00
New participant joined to the Real Drink Hungária Ltd. Budapest. One of the biggest wholesale beverage business of the Central Hungary region, the Raiker Ltd joined to the Real Drink...
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The sugar factory in Kaposvár was renovated from half billion
Date: 2009-09-08 00:01:20
Nearly one-third of the annual domestic needs of sugar is produced in Kaposvár. Five hundred million HUF was spent on the renewal of the sugar factory of Kaposvár. Hájos László,...
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Karstadt bankruptcy can cause a wave of store closures
Date: 2009-09-08 00:01:00
Store closures wave can hit Germany in the forthcoming years, because of the bankruptcy of Germany's Karstadt chain of stores and its parent company; Arcandor. According to experts, about two-thirds...
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Artistic creativity and modern technology in the new Nestlé Chocolate Center
Date: 2009-09-08 00:00:45
Nestlé Development Center has opened today in Broc Switzerland. In the new center built from 25 million Swiss francs investment will take place the development centre of Nestlé premium and...
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Szabó Edit became the new BTL division leader at POP – Rafinanz
Date: 2009-09-08 00:00:30
From 7th September Szabó Edit is the BTL director of Rafinanz Service Agency who was the event director of VAM Design Center previously. Szabó Edit started her professional career in...
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Hungarians chose Balaton as domestic and Greece as foreign destination
Date: 2009-09-07 00:04:00
The C-Travel.hu travel portal made a comprehensive analysis about the tarvel experiences of this summer, processing 14,000 requests, that the users launched through the site to hotels and travel agents...
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Next year world economy will increase and perhaps domestic economy also
Date: 2009-09-07 00:03:25
According to IMF's updated forecast for this year; the performance of the whole world economy will be below 1.3 percent compared to last year, but next year global GDP will...
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Nyírbátor became one of the European production centre of Unilever
Date: 2009-09-07 00:02:55
On 4th September a 9.7 million euros investment officially completed in Nyírbátor, which increased the capacity of the local Unilever factory by 60 percent. The one year-long development and conversions...
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The greenest Tesco has opened in Dunakeszi
Date: 2009-09-07 00:02:30
Tesco hypermarket chain’s newest unit which became the greenest Tesco, with its environmentally friendly design and construction with a unique energy-saving indicators, in Central Europe is waiting its customers in...
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Spa development for three billions
Date: 2009-09-07 00:02:00
With the building of an indoor spa and with the transformation of summer swimming pools 3 billion HUF investment was achieved in Sárvár. European Union assumes the 30 percent of...
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Gyulai Meet Factory: perhaps there is a buyer perhaps there is not
Date: 2009-09-07 00:01:55
Speculations are continueing about the future of the Gyulai Meet Factory. The hvg.hu was informed from a person – from the circle of ownership, requesting anonymity – that talks are...
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Tesco supermarket opened in Szolnok
Date: 2009-09-07 00:01:30
Tesco's new energy-efficient store in Szolnok was built with a wooden structure and wood cover outside. The environmentally friendly design and construction, further enrich the range of Tesco's energy stores....
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Tokaj Trading House will came up with novelties
Date: 2009-09-07 00:01:00
On the wine presentation of Tokaj Trading House, Kiss István, CEO of the company, reported about the last year results and this year's plans of the company. This year, due...
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Bodri Winery started serious development
Date: 2009-09-07 00:00:50
Szekszárd based Bodri Winery is building new bottlers, ripening and wine storage with a net investment of 730 million HUF. The investment has won 50 percent support of the European...
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Electro World – only for one euro
Date: 2009-09-07 00:00:30
According to the Warsaw Business Journal; The British DSG International sold its loss-making Electro World chain in Poland. The network of eight businesses was bought by IDMSA at a nominal...
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SPAR: Customer loyalty program and SuperShop card
Date: 2009-09-04 00:01:00
SPAR Hungary Ltd. introduces the SuperShop program from 3rd September 2009 in all SPAR and Interspar supermarkets of the country. The country's largest customer loyalty program will be available in...
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McDonald's choose communication adviser on tender
Date: 2009-09-04 00:00:30
The Avantgarde Group has won the tender of McDonald's Hungarian Restaurant Network Ltd. on public relations consultancy tasks. The private invitation tender was issued at the same time, (1st July)...
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The turnover of the turkey processing plant increases
Date: 2009-09-03 00:05:00
According to Gallicoop Turkey Processor Zrt.; the week forint and the increase for domestic demand – especially for fresh goods – created favorable conditions, for an increase in the company’s...
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Gianni is the new face of Lidl
Date: 2009-09-03 00:02:20
Discover a new world every week in Lidl! – This is the concept of the new Lidl series of commercials. The chain's 2009-2010's campaign starring Gianni Annoni well-known from cooking...
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New Managing Director at FrieslandCampina
Date: 2009-09-03 00:01:00
After the successful FrieslandCampina merger taking place at the end of last year, Johan Priem assumed the position of Managing Director of FrieslandCampina Hungária ZRt., carrying out this role at...
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