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Sirha Budapest 2020: The biggest Hungarian celebration of everything food
Date: 2019-11-18 15:19:16

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...

Birthday-celebrating prize game’s winners were cooking with the stars
Date: 2019-11-18 12:27:33

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...

283 tons of long shelf life food for people in need
Date: 2019-11-18 11:39:15

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...

Magazine: Anuga 2019: The place where worldwide supply and demand met
Date: 2019-11-18 07:08:04

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...

Magazine: The Trade Parliament was in session (Part 1)
Date: 2019-11-11 07:29:32

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...

The Czech EPGC group acquired a 30 percent stake in Metro AG in Germany
Date: 2019-10-31 11:08:26

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,...

Magazine: Tesco: Big box-type hypermarkets are about to disappear in Poland
Date: 2019-10-28 07:54:23

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...

Schwarz Group is the No.1 grocery retailer in the Czech Republic
Date: 2019-10-23 09:46:12

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...

A car found a new owner on the occasion of METRO’s 25th birthday
Date: 2019-10-21 11:20:37

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...

A wide range of programmes at Sirha Budapest
Date: 2019-10-11 10:21:59

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...

Magazine: Shaping the market, shaping consumer taste
Date: 2019-10-11 07:53:28

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...

Magazine: Generation Y is coming – and they want everything at once
Date: 2019-09-30 07:56:58

As the purchasing power of Generation Y – consumers born between 1980 and 1995 – is growing, various aspects of sustainability are becoming more and more important. So that FMCG companies...

Magazin: A fenntarthatósági törekvésekben mindenkinek részt kell vennie
Date: 2019-09-24 07:49:31

Ma már a csapból is a fenntarthatóság folyik, ám nagyon fontos, hogy időnként benézzünk a hangzatos, zöld mondatok mögé. Vajon létezik-e valódi fenntarthatóság, vagy egyelőre csak a felszínt kapargatjuk? A...

METRO urges partners to operate sustainably
Date: 2019-09-19 10:57:04

According to a forecast by the UN’s Economic and Social Affairs Department, the Earth’s population will be 9.7 billion by 2050 and it will go above 11 billion by the...

Magazine: Simple mechanisms, useful prizes
Date: 2019-09-11 07:10:31

As part of the ‘Most successful promotion of the year’ competition, Kantar-Hoffmann and Trade magazin do a consumer survey every year, getting 32 direct consumer feedbacks on the entries and...

Three Metro Cash & Carry properties in Hungary and eight more in the region have been sold
Date: 2019-09-09 11:07:00

A total of 11 Cash & Carry stores have been sold in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic by Metro Properties, a real estate company of Metro AG – portfolio.hu...

The price was not enough for Metro’s shareholders
Date: 2019-08-22 11:01:47

Daniel Kretinsky Czech billionaire failed in his attempt to acquire majority ownership in the Metro group – piacesprofit.hu wrote. Kretinsky’s investment firm, EPGC, said on the Internet: “We assume that...

X5 vs. Magnit: 1:0
Date: 2019-08-20 20:29:10

Russian fruit and vegetable retailer Magnit keeps losing ground against rival company X5 Retail Group. The price of the company’s shares has reached an all-time low and CEO Olga Naumova...

Magazine: Where promotions are hunting for shoppers
Date: 2019-08-15 07:28:50

In Slovakia the top grocery retailers are Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland, Billa and Metro. This was one of the many interesting things that we could learn at the Slovakian retail congress –...

Shoppers want the personal contact
Date: 2019-08-09 07:56:49

In May JLL published a study about the future of retail. From this we learned that 65.2 percent of ‘veteran’ consumers need a professional’s help when shopping, for Baby Boomers entertainment...

Improved sales performance from wholesalers too
Date: 2019-08-02 09:15:51

This year is the second when we asked wholesalers supplying the retail and HoReCa sectors about the market and their own performance. Approximately 20-25 wholesalers talked about their results; their combined...

Another offer for METRO
Date: 2019-06-25 11:17:24

Another turn occured in the acquisition of the Metro cash & carry on chain store, which has been going on for a year. Two Eastern European billionaire investors want to...

Reliability is the keyword at METRO
Date: 2019-06-24 22:08:47

METRO has been assisting the successful operations of partners – mainly Hungarian HoReCa units – for 25 years. 2018 was the year of private label products at METRO: METRO Chef top-quality...

Do it yourself smoothie!
Date: 2019-05-15 09:20:40

Last summer ARDO Hungary Kft. rolled out a Smoothie Mix product – frozen smoothie ingredients in standard portions. Managing director Mirtill Németh told that they creatively mix fruits with vegetables and spices. Three...

Metro’s online shop in Moscow
Date: 2019-05-02 11:30:04

As part of a pilot project, the Metro chain and delivery service Instamart have launched an online store for Moscow. Customers from Moscow and several districts of the Moscow region...

Metro grocery stores to permit reusable containers in effort to cut waste
Date: 2019-04-17 11:30:19

Metro grocery chain will allow customers across Quebec to bring reusable containers for the purchase of fresh products, facing increasing consumer concern about single-use plastics. The grocery and drug store company announced Monday that beginning April 22, customers will be...

Pilot online shop from Metro in Moscow
Date: 2019-03-17 14:20:22

Retail chain Metro and delivery service Instamart have launched a pilot online store for Moscow and the Moscow region. From 26 February customers from Moscow and several districts of the...

Metro technologies win prize
Date: 2019-03-17 13:19:44

Metro has won two prizes at the 12th at EHI Retail Institute’s Retail Technology Awards Europe in Düsseldorf in Germany. The Metro Companion app got the ‘best customer experience’ award,...

METRO raised its starting salary by nearly twenty percent above the professional minimum wage
Date: 2019-03-13 11:24:12

At the beginning of 2018, the METRO Nagykereskedelmi Kft. (METRO Wholesale Ltd.) developed and launched its Corporate Wage Development Program, which is based on the principles of transparency, planning and...

Magazine: A quality relationship
Date: 2019-01-16 10:38:33

METRO was one of the main sponsors of the end-of-year gala dinner of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI). Our magazine interviewed Ákos Bősze, the company’s target group manager who...

Sirha Budapest 2020: The biggest Hungarian celebration of everything food Date: 2019-11-18 15:19:16

Birthday-celebrating prize game’s winners were cooking with the stars Date: 2019-11-18 12:27:33

283 tons of long shelf life food for people in need Date: 2019-11-18 11:39:15

Magazine: Anuga 2019: The place where worldwide supply and demand met Date: 2019-11-18 07:08:04

Magazine: The Trade Parliament was in session (Part 1) Date: 2019-11-11 07:29:32

The Czech EPGC group acquired a 30 percent stake in Metro AG in Germany Date: 2019-10-31 11:08:26

Magazine: Tesco: Big box-type hypermarkets are about to disappear in Poland Date: 2019-10-28 07:54:23

Schwarz Group is the No.1 grocery retailer in the Czech Republic Date: 2019-10-23 09:46:12

A car found a new owner on the occasion of METRO’s 25th birthday Date: 2019-10-21 11:20:37

A wide range of programmes at Sirha Budapest Date: 2019-10-11 10:21:59

Magazine: Shaping the market, shaping consumer taste Date: 2019-10-11 07:53:28

Magazine: Generation Y is coming – and they want everything at once Date: 2019-09-30 07:56:58

Magazin: A fenntarthatósági törekvésekben mindenkinek részt kell vennie Date: 2019-09-24 07:49:31

METRO urges partners to operate sustainably Date: 2019-09-19 10:57:04

Magazine: Simple mechanisms, useful prizes Date: 2019-09-11 07:10:31

Three Metro Cash & Carry properties in Hungary and eight more in the region have been sold Date: 2019-09-09 11:07:00

The price was not enough for Metro’s shareholders Date: 2019-08-22 11:01:47

X5 vs. Magnit: 1:0 Date: 2019-08-20 20:29:10

Magazine: Where promotions are hunting for shoppers Date: 2019-08-15 07:28:50

Shoppers want the personal contact Date: 2019-08-09 07:56:49

Improved sales performance from wholesalers too Date: 2019-08-02 09:15:51

Another offer for METRO Date: 2019-06-25 11:17:24

Reliability is the keyword at METRO Date: 2019-06-24 22:08:47

Do it yourself smoothie! Date: 2019-05-15 09:20:40

Metro’s online shop in Moscow Date: 2019-05-02 11:30:04

Metro grocery stores to permit reusable containers in effort to cut waste Date: 2019-04-17 11:30:19

Pilot online shop from Metro in Moscow Date: 2019-03-17 14:20:22

Metro technologies win prize Date: 2019-03-17 13:19:44

METRO raised its starting salary by nearly twenty percent above the professional minimum wage Date: 2019-03-13 11:24:12

Magazine: A quality relationship Date: 2019-01-16 10:38:33