Word: zalaegerszeg
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...Zalaegerszeg, Hungary Since the western Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg was founded in the 11th century, it has been besieged by Ottoman hordes, devastated by plague and occupied by both the Nazi and Soviet armies. Today, this city of 62,000 faces another catastrophe, all thanks to the woes of its meat factory. Employing 650 people directly and providing a livelihood to hundreds more - from local farmers to shopkeepers - the Zalabaromfi meat-processing plant has long been one of Zalaegerszeg's most important businesses. But the credit crisis has complicated a long-running dispute between Zalabaromfi and Hungary's second largest...
...strange situation," observes a 29 year-old shoe-store clerk and mother of one, who asks not to be named. "Zalaegerszeg is a factory town that may soon have no factories. Many people here will have to go to Austria or the U.K. for work." But despite the mounting anxiety, few blame the global forces that have exacerbated Zalabaromfi's predicament. As the IMF offers Hungary financial and technical assistance to stem the flow of millions of dollars in foreign investment out of the country, and to help steady the nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people...
...real beauty of the Guadalajara plant--and the Xbox facility in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary--is that they are not owned by Microsoft. The Xbox is being made by Flextronics, a company that few consumers have heard of but that computer and telecommunications-equipment makers are eager to do business with. Indeed, near Building 12 are 16 production lines for Cisco Systems digital network routers. Other buildings produce Palm Pilots and DirecTV set-top boxes...
...cost factories in Eastern Europe allow Flextronics to deliver products to wealthier consumers in Western Europe weeks faster than do factories in Asia or Latin America. "About 70% of world electronics are sold in the Christmas season," says Roger Moore, executive director at the Flextronics industrial park in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. "If you've launched a new product in August, you really don't know whether it will take off until the season gets moving around the end of October. If you discover it's a real hit, and it is being shipped from China, it won't reach you until...
...were stopped at four towns by the secret police. You have to have credentials from a town in order to live there, and when you leave, you have to give them up. When we reached Zalaegerszeg, a town fifty miles from the border, we were stopped again, and they made everybody clear out. Three of us were not stopped though. In the summer we had been working in Zalaegerszeg, and we had forgotten to turn in our credentials when we left, so we had documents with us which said we were residents of the town. That saved...