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New director at Edenred
Tamás Szendrő will hold the position of Managing Director from April 2019 at the head of Edenred Magyarország Kft. Tamás Szendrő has more than 15 years of management experience both...
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Lidl Switzerland Partners With Empa For Sustainable Energy Project
Lidl Switzerland has announced that it has joined forces with Empa to develop a system that generates fossil-free fuel from excess renewable electricity. The project will see the development of...
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Spar Croatia Adds Locally Sourced Organic Eggs To Its Assortment
Spar Croatia has announced that organic eggs of local origin are now available in Spar and Interspar stores across the country. The move highlights the retailer’s aim to promote the...
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Aldi will install TRAFFIC LIGHT system on store doors which will keep them closed if there are too many customers inside with marshalls on patrol to maintain social distancing
Customers at Aldi will be told when they can safely enter one of its supermarkets by a new traffic light system installed on the doors. The German budget retailer said...
Read moreTarget: people buy more and more food online
Target, one of the U.S.’s major grocery retail chains, closed a good quarter. The company posted earnings per share of 59 cents during the quarter, beating analysts ’expectations by 19...
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Polish Watchdog Launches Investigation Into Mis-Labelling Of Fresh Produce
Poland’s retail watchdog has launched an investigation after supermarket chain Biedronka was reportedly found to be selling fresh products, including Belgian carrots and Ukrainian cucumbers as being home grown. The...
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PLMA President Brian Sharoff Passed Away
Brian Sharoff, President of the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) after a short illness, has passed away at the age of 77 on the 23. May. Strategist and leader He...
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Daikin opened its first store in Hungary
he Japanese Daikin brand in Hungary has opened a brand store in Budapest, from where it will serve the population directly in the future. The company provides complex building cooling...
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Aldi reaffirms its low-price commitment globally
Considering a potential recessionary environment in many countries in the medium term and economic uncertainty in the short term, the different Aldi operations are reinforcing their communication and marketing campaigns...
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Portuguese Retailers Announce Plastic Reduction Measures
A number of Portuguese retailers have unveiled plastic reduction measures, with Auchan Retail Portugal ceasing the sale of single-use plastic disposable items such as plates, bowls, glasses, cutlery and straws....
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Amazon taps into food delivery services in India
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out services to deliver food in India, pitting it against established players Swiggy and Zomato in a market that has seen explosive growth in the last...
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(HU) Húsmester – mindig friss hústermékek az ALDI-ban
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Manna ABC is celebrating 15 years in business
’We are pleased to announce that 25 May 2020 marks the 15th anniversary of the opening of our first round-the-clock Manna ABC store. On 25 May 2005 we opened the...
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Retail innovation from Geometry for time of the pandemic
Geometry has developed a sustainable hygiene solution for the retail sector. A device that disinfects the handles of shopping carts in a single motion can not only help protect against...
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Time is up for hobby horticulture – Zsendülés conference in Szeged, 5-6 March 2020
The 6th Zsendülés conference was organised in Hotel Forrás in Szeged. József Rácz, president of Kert-Ész Club Association welcomed participants, and his speech was followed by presentations about the state...
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Tencent and Honda to build in-car shopping system
Tech giant Tencent and Honda, the Japanese car maker, have teamed up to build an in-car infotainment system for the Chinese market which lets people shop online. According to Nikkei...
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Mercadona To Open New Store In Portugal In June
Mercadona has announced plans to resume expansion in Portugal with the launch of a new store in Aveiro on 16 June. The retailer had initially planned to open its eleventh...
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Perseida – Experts In Private Label Beauty
Established in 1994 as part of CL Grupo Industrial, Perseida is today a leading company in the manufacture of cosmetics. Its wide portfolio includes products for perfumery, beauty, personal hygiene,...
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The manufacturer of Pöttyös Túró Rudi gives 228 new tablets to schoolchildren
The manufacturer of Pöttyös Túró Rudi gives 228 new tablets to schoolchildren in need. FrieslandCampina Hungária wants to help disadvantaged families where children are left out of digital education due...
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Nearly 3.5 million HUF will be available to protect store employees
More than twice the value of the protective equipment originally offered was accumulated at the initiative of the Wonderduck-POP group of companies. The goal is to protect the employees and...
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Procter & Gamble: 24 pallets feminine hygiene product for UNICEF Hungary
Since the outbreak, Procter & Gamble has been helping the global, national, and local levels. During the week, 24 pallets, more than forty thousand packages of feminine hygiene products were...
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Lidl prepares to launch grocery ecommerce in Poland
Lidl Poland is planning to launch a new grocery ecommerce service. No launch date has been communicated yet, but it is expected to happen in 2020, with test phase start...
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LEGO, Samsung and Audi are the most attractive domestic employers
Unusually, the results of Randstad Employer Brand Research, the world’s largest independent employer brand research, were presented in an online presentation and the Hungarian winners of the Randstad Award were...
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From paramedics to orphanages – hundreds of testers helped across the country
In recent months, Tesco employees have not only been at the forefront, but have helped the elderly, those in need, and supported health care workers as well. Many stores in...
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Spring renewal, quality expansion continues
Dm awaits its customers with a renewed look in several stores. Some of the store openings planned for the spring have already been affected by the pandemic situation, and the...
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Smile Therapy
The mitigation measures are not yet having an impact everywhere, but easier communication is already spreading, for which consumers from Russia to Canada are equally grateful. The FMCG world looks...
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Coop Denmark Rolls Out Vertical Kitchen Gardens In Irma Stores
Coop Denmark has announced plans to introduce vertical kitchen gardens offering store-grown herbs in all 69 Irma stores. The facility will supply herbs to small Irma stores that do not have plants...
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Infusion pumps donated by SIÓ-Eckes to Siófok Hospital
Hungary’s leading fruit juice production company, Sió-Eckes, donated four drug dosing pumps to the Siófok Hospital, worth a total of nearly 2 million HUF. The special equipment will be used...
Read moreAldi is delivering in a new country
Aldi launches new food delivery service in the UK, the company is launching a trial service with Deliveroo, initially in onestore and later in seven additional stores – portfolio.hu ,...
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Henkel helps a number foundations during the crisis
Henkel is among 155 major global companies from 34 sectors, which have signed a statement urging governments around the world to align their COVID-19 economic aid and recovery efforts with...
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