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Focus on conscious nutrition: Health Island is available in all Penny Market stores
Penny Market is celebrating an important milestone: Health Islands are promoting conscious nutrition, are available in all of the businesses of Penny Market. The chain of stores has always promoted...
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Lifetime Achievement Award 2018
A the gala dinner of the Business Days conference Trade magazin and Chain Bridge Club presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Olga Pavlova, owner and managing director of Detki Keksz....
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The Chain Bridge Foundation gave a helping hand again
On 27 September, the third day of the Business Days conference, chairperson of the Chain Bridge Foundation’s board of trustees Zsuzsanna Hermann spoke to conference participants about the work of...
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Digital payment in Italian Lidl and Auchan stores
Lidl Italia shoppers who own an Android device can now pay for their FMCG purchases through Google Pay. Google Pay contactless enables users to pay for their shopping quickly and...
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New food safety programme from Walmart
Walmart launched its new, blockchain technology food safety programme, which had been developed by IBM and was tested in cooperation with several suppliers in the last 18 months. Walmart Food...
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Casino Group: new concept store in Paris
Casino Group opened a new concept store on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, called ‘Le4Casino’. Casino’s own brands, organic and vegan products are waiting for shoppers. Visitors to the store will...
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Sainsbury’s plans push into UK beauty market
Taking on Boots, Superdrug and Debenhams, Sainsbury’s is testing department store-style beauty aisles staffed with specialist assistants in 11 stores. The UK beauty market is worth GBP 2.8 billion and...
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In-home delivery from Waitrose
As part of Waitrose’s latest service, in-home delivery, the products purchased are unpacked by the driver while the flat’s owner is away. The ‘While You’re Away’ service is already a...
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Kantar: Mercadona is the Spanish market leader
Data from Kantar Worldpanel show that the biggest Spanish grocery retailer, Mercadona already has a nearly 25-percent market share in the country. The fastest developing chain is Lidl (with a...
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Coca-Cola acquires stake in Made Group
Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Amatil have acquired a 45-percent share in Australian beverage company Made Group. Founded in 2005, Made Group now has five brands in its portfolio: Cocobella, Rokeby Farms,...
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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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