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At the end of August Tetra Pak appointed a new CEO for its Duna Region (Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia). Eric Schmid will fill the position at the market leading food processing system and packaging material manufacturer. The Swiss executive has been with Tetra Pak for 22 years.

As part of the Supebrands programme, Koronás Cukor received the Superbrands qualification and Magyar Cukor became one of the Business Superbrands. The independent jury honoured the hard work the company did to win the confidence and satisfaction of consumers.

Scarab Research of Budapest announced that FreshDirect, the biggest online retailer in New York State would launch a personalised product offering service that uses the Scarab Enterprise system. FreshDirect’s turnover is bigger than that of the ten biggest Hungarian online retailers altogether.

On 2 September 2010 the PRICER conference was organised in Paris, with the participation of partners from all over the world. Strategic development director Dávid Szabó represented Szintézis Group – he is responsible for electronic shelf label (ESL) projects in Hungary. Szintézis Informatikai Zrt. came home from the conference with...

METRO Customer Academy will create an opportunity for those in the Horeca sector to study. We discussed the topic with Piroska Balestra, METRO’s head of the customer academy department. • Today it is not enough if a progressive Cash & Carry-type chain expands its assortment – it has to anticipate...

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 300 such products have been described. To raise awareness of the programme, HÍR’s Flavour Days will be organised on 28-29...

CERBONA kókuszos

Healthy ingredients and indulging, harmonic flavours.

According to data from the latest report by KSH (Central Statistical Office), published on 30 July, Hungary’s agricultural export was EUR 2,143.6 million in the first five months of 2010. In contrast with the 4.3-percent shortfall in the previous month, this export level was only 2.1 percent behind the first...

Turnover of the 60 household chemical and cosmetics products measured by Nielsen went above HUF 145 billion in the first six months. Toilet paper, soap, face and anti-wrinkle cream, insecticide and razor sales were up in terms of both value and volume. Drugstores significantly bettered their position: turnover was up...

Inflation pressure eased a bit in July, as KSH reported a monthly consumer price increase of 0.1 percent. The price of cooking oil fell by 8.3 percent, but pork prices grew by 5.8 percent. Prices were up 4 percent if compared with July 2009. Looking back on the last twelve...