Tag "Metro"

Metro AG is the new owner of Davigel Spain

Metro AG has announced the takeover of food service distribution company Davigel Spain – for an undisclosed fee. Davigel Spain supplies more than 4,000 partners in Spain, mainly on the Balearic and...

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The year 2021 started well for the happy winner of the METRO promotion

The main prize of METRO’s “Refuel with winning products and win a car!” prize draw, a Škoda SCALA Ambition 1.0 TSI vehicle, was awarded to the lucky winner. Bottlik József...

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Hungarian Product is planning a busy next year

Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft.’s top activity was the #buyhungarian campaign this year, which will continue in 2021. Managing director Eszter Benedek told our magazine: the campaign that started in March...

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METRO encourages everyone worldwide to support gastronomy

METRO has embarked on an extensive global campaign on television and social media that will be featured in 18 countries. The campaign draws consumers ’attention to how COVID-19 overshadows the...

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Give your kitchen a break! – Video ott he day

The goal of the campaign: to encourage as many people as possible to order their festive meal from restaurateurs in order to escape from the difficult lockdown – Large-scale international...

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PLMA – The latest news from Europe

Retailers keep announcing cooperation related decisions. Carrefour and Tesco took a step back in their collective private label product sourcing, because the French competition authority had problems with it. In...

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Thierry Guillon-Verne is the new CEO of METRO Magyarország

From October 2020, the former CEO of METRO in Croatia, Thierry Guillon-Verne will take over the head of METRO Hungary. Horváth Imre, the CEO, who has held the Hungarian position...

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CBA, Metro and Auchan joined the #buyhungarian campaign

During the coronavirus pandemic the Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. launched its ‘Buy Hungarian! Protect domestic products!’ campaign, and several retailers decided to back the initiative. CBA was the first to...

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Sponsors to the Gundel Awards gala lunch

Quality ingredients are the key to success Our company supplies many top restaurants and hotels with high-quality products, so obviously supporting this event is very important for us. In the...

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Metro to build new fresh/frozen distribution center in $420 million project

In a $420 million, five-year project, Canadian food and drug retailer Metro Inc. plans to build an automated distribution center for fresh and frozen products and enlarge an existing produce...

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Time and experience are the new money

Our magazine interviewed Péter Mondovics, marketing manager of Mastercard about their role in METRO’s ‘Anniversary Winning Weeks’ promotion campaign. – Thanks to METRO’s network and constantly expanding HoReCa customer base,...

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Retail chains and their followers

 Ynsight Research and Silberstein & Partners set up a research team to study consumer opinion about FMCG retailers in social media and on the internet in general. They used the...

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Lecsó was cooked at the Catering Cook Competition

The Catering Cook Competition was held on 6 February within the Sirha the most prestigious food and hospitality trade show. The competition was won by the Hungast Pécs from twelve...

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(HU) A fejes káposzta lett a kötelező zöldséghozzávaló a Bocuse döntőn

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Magazine: Supermarkets can use private label products as a weapon

The Private Labels Manufacturers Association (PLMA) has a monthly news programme at PLMALive.eu, called Newsdesk, and our magazine now presents to you the highlights of the October edition. In the...

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Bocuse marketing and digital workshop at Sirha’s METRO stand

In a week’s time, the year’s most outstanding food and HoReCA trade show will begin. Day one, the Bocuse d’Or domestic finalists will select fresh raw materials for their competition...

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The happy winner of the METRO “Birthday Winning Weeks” promotion could took over her car

The Dacia DusterEssential SCE 115 vehicle which is the main prize for the METRO “Birthday Winning Weeks” promotion was handed over to the lucky winner Haskó Ferencné on 19 December....

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METRO encourages its employees to do charity work

This year METRO provides huge donations to those in need. Every year the company puts great emphasis on charity, which not only covers the end of the year, but also...

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This year the Hungarian Food Bank organizes Christmas collection in more than 200 stores

For three days, from Friday to Sunday, the Hungarian Food Bank Association awaits the food donations of the population in about 120 settlements and more than 200 stores nationwide. The...

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Sirha Budapest 2020: The biggest Hungarian celebration of everything food

Our magazine asked Klára Tihanyi, exhibition director of Sirha Budapest 2020 about the food, baking and confectionery, HoReCa, packaging and gastronomy trade fair. ‘In 2018 about 300 exhibitors from 17...

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Birthday-celebrating prize game’s winners were cooking with the stars

Between 25 September and 22 October METRO implemented its ‘Birthday Winning Weeks’ promotion campaign. The campaign ended with a spectacular cooking contest on 15 November, where the eight winners formed...

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283 tons of long shelf life food for people in need

Between 22 and 24 November the Hungarian Food Bank Association’s 5,400 volunteers collected 283 tons of long shelf life food at 200 locations – Aldi, Auchan, Metro and Tesco stores...

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Magazine: Anuga 2019: The place where worldwide supply and demand met

Early October 7,500 exhibitors (72 from Hungary) from 106 countries presented their products and services to more than 170,000 visitors for 5 days at Anuga, the world’s biggest food-themed trade...

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Magazine: The Trade Parliament was in session (Part 1)

This year our magazine organised the Business Days conference in Tapolca under the name Trade Parliament, between 16 and 20 September. A record-breaking 750 FMCG experts and decision-makers came to learn...

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The Czech EPGC group acquired a 30 percent stake in Metro AG in Germany

The Czech EP Global Commerce (EPGC) investor group has acquired about thirty percent of Metro AG’s German retail chain. Owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky and Slovak billionaire Patrick Tkac,...

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Magazine: Tesco: Big box-type hypermarkets are about to disappear in Poland

Tesco is decreasing the size of 60 its large floor space hypermarkets in Poland, but other retailers are also changing the size of stores. Since 2014 Tesco has closed almost...

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Schwarz Group is the No.1 grocery retailer in the Czech Republic

Schwarz Group is the leading retailer in the Czech Republic – and in Europe – as sales of the group soared by nearly 36 percent last year. Lidl and Kaufland...

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A car found a new owner on the occasion of METRO’s 25th birthday

The METRO winning weeks, running from May 22 to July 16, promised tremendous excitement for the buyers of the store chain, with participants signing up for valuable prizes and the...

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A wide range of programmes at Sirha Budapest

Sirha Budapest, the most important food and HoReCa trade fair in the region, will take place on 4-6 February 2020. Food, drink, confectionery and baking companies will be present on...

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Magazine: Shaping the market, shaping consumer taste

Norbert Vass, wine category specialist of Metro told our magazine that Metro stores are waiting for shoppers with 900 different wines and sparkling wines, mainly sourced from Hungarian winemakers. The...

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