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Tesco and Aldi are getting ready for Brexit
According to Tesco CEO Dave Lewis, opportunities to stockpile food in order to prepare for a no-deal Brexit are ‘very, very limited’. He also said that ensuring supplies of food...
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Lidl opens 16 stores in Serbia
On 11 October 2018 Lidl opened 16 stores in different parts of Serbia. More will follow in the months to come. The discount supermarkets sell 1,500 carefully selected products, including...
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Bio-Planet to introduce ‘food compass’
Organic food specialist Bio-Planet is about to introduce a ‘Food Compass’: a unique platform that provides customers with free personalised nutritional advice – all they need to do is register....
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Amazon wants to open stores in the United Kingdom
Amazon plans to open cashierless grocery stores in the UK. Amazon is looking to buy 370-465m² shops which they would convert into Amazon Go stores. Amazon Go digitally monitors what...
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Tesco ditches best before dates
In order to reduce food waste, Tesco removes the best before date from more than 100 fruits and vegetables. According to a recent survey, 69 percent of shoppers agree with...
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Changes make life exciting
Péter Ondré was appointed managing director of the Agricultural Marketing Centre (AMC) in July. He told our magazine that AMC’s Chinese debut in November was a great success. Hungary was...
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This is why SPAR won the award of excellence and the Birdy
At the Agóra conference Gabriella Heiszler, managing director of SPAR Magyarország Kft. told that about 90 percent of the products they sell come from Hungarian suppliers. In her presentation Ms...
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Coca-Cola buys French fruit juice brand
Coca-Cola has acquired the French brand Tropico from Alizé. Tropico fruit juices are available in drink cartons and PET bottles in France and Belgium, and their annual sales amounted to...
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Auchan to start urban farming
Auchan France has decided to make its ‘good, healthy, local’ slogan a reality by buying several hundred hectares of land, which Auchan hopes to turn into urban farms. The land...
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New store concept from Delhaize
Delhaize launched a new concept supermarket: there is a so-called ‘quick route’ and in the Fresh Atelier fresh ready-to-eat meals are available. The new store is the outcome of a...
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Spar plans to enter the Serbian market
Spar is planning to enter the Serbian market by acquiring local retail grocery group Mercator S. The plan was supposedly first proposed last year, amidst the challenges at Agrokor, but...
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No more queuing at Marks&Spencer
Marks & Spencer has launched a new ‘Mobile, Pay, Go’ service, enabling customers to pick up lunch in under 40 seconds. Since the rollout in Waterside more than 20 percent...
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S Group informs shoppers about their buying habits
S Group, Finland’s largest retailer, gave customers access to their shopping history. S Group has been collecting detailed shopping data for years through its popular loyalty card, which is owned...
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Lidl: home delivery by bicycle in Ghent
Lidl Belgium has launched Lidl Simpl a pop-up webshop that allows users to order from about 400 fresh products online for minimum EUR 25 and have them delivered to their...
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Albert Heijn: Appie Fly to returning passengers
Netherlands-based Albert Heijn has introduced a new service called Appie Fly: the service aims to help travellers returning home to Rotterdam The Hague Airport to restock their fridges. As they...
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Amazon lockers installed in E.Leclerc hypermarkets
E.Leclerc and Amazon have partnered and will install Amazon lockers (parcel vending machines) across the grocery retailer’s hypermarket network in Spain. The lockers are already installed in many stores, and...
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Tesco extends its vegan range
Tesco has announced that it is extending its Wicked Kitchen plant-based food range to include pies, ‘sausage’ rolls, sourdough pizzas, chilled desserts, and deli foods. This year Tesco saw that...
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Syngenta for sustainable agriculture
This August crop protection and seed specialist Syngenta announced: the company will start a worldwide consultation about the future of agriculture. At one of these forums Matthew Pickard, managing director...
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Essity wins awards
Essity has won two awards at the European Cleaning and Hygiene Awards ceremony: Tork EasyCube® walked away with the prizes for ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ and ‘Best Practice –...
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Nutricia won the Best Workplace award again
The Aon Best Jobs Awards were awarded for the 18th time this year. The Aon Best Jobs Awards award the best workplaces on the basis of Hungary’s largest employee survey....
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New Executive Director at Coca-Cola Magyarország
From November 1, Kerekes Péter is the Executive Director of Coca-Cola’s Hungarian subsidiary, the company told MTI on Tuesday. According to the information, the expert has more than 20 years...
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The MediaMark is expanding its storage capacity
MediaMarkt, which operates household and entertainment electronics stores, has signed a lease agreement with the BILK Logistics Plc. for 18,800 m2 of warehouse capacity. With the new warehouse, MediaMark has...
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Ördög Nóri, Opitz Barbi, Wolfie and the children living in the in Ronald Houses await the supporters in the McDonald’s restaurants
On Saturday, the 4-year-old Dorottya, the 11-year-old Zolika and the 14-year-old Katrin greeted the supporters Ronald Houses and Rooms in the McDonald’s restaurant at the Nyugati Square, with their families...
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Del Pierre Central Europe: financial support to Oncoradiology Centre
Del Pierre C. E. Kft. has teamed up with the Foundation for Curing Breast Cancer: from the price of every limited edition, Twist Pink 4×80g tuna in olive oil product...
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Former Laurel director returns
György Ortutay, who used to be Laurel Számítástechnikai Kft.’s managing director between 2006 and 2007, returned to the retail and wholesale software company as sales and marketing director. From 1...
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There is a Health Island in every Penny Market store now
On 21 November Penny Market announced at a press conference that Health Corners had been created in all 216 stores. The discount store chain’s goal with these is to popularise...
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Sales above 100 billion for dm Magyarország
In the fiscal year ending in October 2018 sales by dm Magyarország exceeded HUF 100 billion, growing by more than 10 percent from the base period level – the company...
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FUZETEA – winter edition
Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország Kft. is putting a new limited edition iced tea on the market: FUZETEA Winter Plum is available in 0.5- and 1.5-litre variants. The new FUZETEA product can...
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New Reál Alfa opens in the 11th district
Minister of Agriculture István Nagy was present at the opening of a new Reál Alfa supermarket in Budapest on 29 November. Approximately 15,000 different products are available in the new...
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dmStart launhced!
Drugstore chain dm would like to add special Hungarian products to its assortment, so in November they launched the dmStart! competition. The aim of this is to find small Hungarian-owned...
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