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New director at the Association of Hungarian Brewers
Dr Sándor Kántor has been elected president of the Association of Hungarian Brewers. He told that beer drinking has already become part of traditional Hungarian gastronomy, and that he wants...
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Szerencsi chocolate’s trademark has a new owner
Nestlé Hungária Kft. has decided to renounce ownership of the ‘Szerencsi’ trademark for sweets, which in the future will be used exclusively by Szerencsi Bonbon Kft. – it was announced...
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The starting salary is now more than 300,000 forints at ALDI
From 1 January 2019 ALDI Magyarország Élelmiszer Bt. increases the pay of cashier and logistics workers by 10.88 percent, who will now earn a gross HUF 301,900 for a 40-hour...
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SPAR campaigns against food waste in hypermarkets
SPAR Hungary and Bay Zoltán Applied Research Public Benefit Nonprofit Kft. are calling shoppers’ attention to better planned and more economical food usage. SPAR’s head of communications Márk Maczelka told:...
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Co-op Star is 20 years old
Jászberény-based retailer Co-op Star Zrt. celebrated its 20th birthday on 29 January 2019. At the moment the company operates 131 shops in 102 towns and villages – from these 121...
Read moreIn 2018, Tesco supported more than 100,000 needy people with their daily food donations
Tesco has launched its food-saving program in 163 out of its 205 stores in Hungary. In 2018, the supermarket chain donated more than 7 500 tonnes of food to those...
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Gyermelyi has become a major producer of pasta in the Central and Eastern European region with the help of ABB technology
The Gyermely Group is one of Hungary’s leading producers of pastries, one of its most important food businesses. In 2018, Gyermelyi Zrt. built a new pastry factory with an investment...
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Personal changes in the leadership of Nestlé Hungária
Szilva Mónika is now leading the Maggi brand, ie the Nestlé Food business. Her main task will be to further develop the business, finding answers to the challenges of changing...
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Dreher Breweries strenghtens with new pr agencies
The Dreher Sörgyárak Zrt., a member of the Asahi Group, selected its new pr-partners by Tender. The team of Dreher searched pr-agency partners for more intensive communication than before. In...
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Tizenhat tonna csirkehúsból készült terméket hívott vissza a Tyson Foods
Mintegy 16 tonna szennyezett, csirkehúsból készült, elősütött terméket hív vissza a Tyson Foods, a világ legnagyobb húsfeldolgozó vállalata, írja az amerikai lapok, például a Huffington Post nyomán az origo. A...
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Walmart uses game app in training
From February Walmart uses a simulation game app called Spark City to train newly recruited store staff. Workers have to manage the dry goods section of the store in real...
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Amazon delivers with robots
In Snohomish (Washington) Amazon has started using robots to deliver products to customers’ homes. Six Scout robots do the job every day, from Monday to Friday. Shoppers can ask for...
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Tesco and Jamie Oliver teach community kitchen cooks
Tesco and Jamie Oliver have joined forces to teach more than 1,000 cooks at community kitchens to bring the most out of the food donations that they receive. In the...
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JD.com: drone delivery in Indonesia
JD.com has used a drone to deliver products outside of China: in January a box of books and backpacks were delivered to a distance bigger than 250km. JD.com has been...
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Lush Naked – no-plastic store
In 2018 Lush opened its first ‘Naked’ stores in Milan and Berlin: in these shops products are sold without a plastic packaging. As the next step Lush opened a similar...
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Brexit: Tesco finally in talks about storing more goods
Tesco has finally announced plans to stat storing more goods as the March deadline for Brexit is approaching. The UK’s biggest supermarket chain is currently in talks with suppliers about...
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Amazon for Teens
E-commerce giant Amazon has launched services that are directly available to 13-17 year old consumers. The teenagers can browse, read recommendations and place orders on the platform, but their purchases...
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REWE: no more organic cucumber in plastic shrink-wrap
At the Internationale Grüne Woche in Berlin REWE announced that they would stop selling organic cucumbers in plastic shrink-wrap in Rewe and Penny stores. Earlier the retailer already banned plastic...
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Pernod Ricard buys stake in African online retailer
French company Pernod Ricard has announced that they acquired a strategic share in Africa’s leading online retailer, Jumia. The two companies wish to develop an innovative distribution strategy in the...
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Glatz acquires Márker Distribution
Austrian company Glatz GmbH – the owner of Glatz Hungary Kft. – has bought Márker Distribution Kft. This means that in addition to Filippo Berio olive oils, Kronen corn germ...
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Lidl invests 1 million euros in solar energy in Ireland
Until the end of 2019 Lidl is investing EUR 1 million in the installation of solar panels at eight stores. The announcement came after the group’s store in Nenagh switched...
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New Nestlé coffee factory in Egypt
Nestlé opened a new 12,740m² Bonjorno coffee production plant in Egypt. There are 240 people working in the factory, which was built from CHF 13.9 million. It was in January...
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Colruyt Group tests smart lockers for parcel delivery
Belgian retailer Colruyt Group is testing smart lockers for parcel delivery in 6 stores, which are called Bringme Box. The lockers – developed by intelligent logistics solutions provider Bringme –...
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Amazon sends free samples
As part of Amazon Sampling, the online retailer sends free samples of new and established brands’ products to shoppers. It is Amazon that selects the customers who receive the free...
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Starbucks: 10 new cafés instead of the planned 1,000
Instead of the formerly planned 1,000 new units, Starbucks has decided to launch between just 6 and 10 new cafés. The decision comes as the competition for a cup of...
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Lidl: less salt, sugar and fat in private label products
Lidl had made a pledge already in January 2017 to optimise the composition of several private label products: they cut the sugar content of Crownfield breakfast cereals by 35 percent;...
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Taco Bell tests a vegetarian menu
Taco Bell is testing a vegetarian menu that combines the chain’s old and new vegetarian offerings. With this step Taco Bell is trying to reach out to younger consumers who...
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Zewa Project reloaded
In the Zewa Designer Competition 16 in-store display designs, created by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, were competing. The brand celebrated the winners with a press...
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Turkey: EBRD loan for developing Migros
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced granting an EUR 60-million loan for modernising Migros stores in Turkey. Not only stores will be revamped from this sum,...
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Lidl-Müller partnership in the United Kingdom
Lidl’s strategy heavily builds on British farmers, so two thirds of their products in UK stores come from local suppliers. Last year Lidl entered into a partnership with Müller Milk&Ingredients:...
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