Events

Carpathian Basin Honey Festival is held in Zalaegerszeg

With the march of Honey Knights, the 16th Carpathian Basin Honey Festival begins in Zalaegerszeg on Saturday. The two-day event awaits the visitors with honey programs, including a honey beauty...

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The 16th Transylvanian Santa Claus tour starts this year with a donation of 19 tons

The 16th Transylvanian Santa Claus tour starts on Friday from Dunaföldvár. 19 tons of donations will be distributed to the seventy-two settlements in Transylvania in the first week of December...

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Selfridges removes single-use beauty wipes in latest sustainability pledge

The latest move reinforces Selfridges’ commitment to tackle the issue of ocean plastics since the launch of its Project Ocean campaign almost a decade ago. Selfridges has removed all single-use...

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Amazon scraps popular free sample scheme

Amazon is scrapping its experimental free sample campaign which saw it deliver free items to consumers it thinks they would like to buy. In January, Amazon announced a free sampling...

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IKEA to invest 200 million euros in race to turn ‘climate positive’

IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture group, said on Wednesday it would spend around 100 million euros (£86 million) to support direct suppliers as they switch over to renewable energy use....

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Szalóky Tóth Judit at Business Days

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Eurocash Group’s Abc Stores To Introduce Parcel Service

Polish retailer Eurocash has announced plans to introduce parcel delivery service – My Package – for online purchases in its abc grocery stores. The service will allow abc customers to...

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Amazon Lauches Medication Management Features for Alexa

As Amazon moves further into the healthcare market, the company today is rolling out a medication management feature for Alexa owners. The feature will allow customers to set up their...

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Amazon launches a Dash Smart Shelf for businesses that automatically restocks supplies

Amazon is launching its new Amazon Dash Smart Shelf today. The Dash Smart Shelf is also even more automated than the Dash buttons, as it uses a built-in scale to...

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JAMES MCQUILLAN at Business Days

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Weekday is using robotics to create “custom-made” jeans unique to your body shape

Weekday is using robotics to create custom-made jeans for its customers, scanning shoppers’ bodies to determine the perfect fit. H&M’s subsidiary Weekday invited 100 customers to take part in its...

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Morrisons launches scheme to sell £10 worth of food past its best before date in £3 food box

Morrisons is to start using the food waste app Too Good to Go, which will help customers purchase products as part of a new discount box scheme. The supermarket will...

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Walmart China to open 500 new stores

US retailer Walmart is planning to launch 500 new outlets in China within five to seven years. The expansion will more than double the firm’s presence in the territory in...

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Dorogi János at Business Days

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GoVolcanic – World Meeting of Volcanic Wines in Budapest

The wines of more than forty Hungarian and international wine cellars operating on volcanic sites, as well as lectures and masterclasses by several domestic and foreign wine experts await the...

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Amazon opens pop-up store on China’s Pinduoduo until year-end

Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it will open a pop-up store on Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo Inc that will run until the end of December and carry a selection of...

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Boots Introduces Compostable Pharmacy Bags

British health and beauty retailer Boots has started to replace plastic pharmacy bags with compostable bags, the Retail Gazette reports. By March 2020, the retailer aims to replace around 10...

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Smurfit Kappa Unveils Sustainable Packaging For Multipack Beverages

Smurfit Kappa has introduced a range of sustainable packaging alternatives to replace single-use plastics in bundling beverage cans and bottles. The new corrugated packaging options offered by the company are...

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Noszek Péter at Business Days

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The Christmas Market was opened in Bratislava

The Christmas Market was opened in Bratislava was opened early Friday evening by turning on the decorative lighting on the common Christmas tree of Bratislava. The fair, which has been...

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Coop Sweden To Introduce Paper Bags For Fruit And Vegetables

Coop Sweden has announced plans to replace single-use plastic bags for fruit and vegetables with paper bags by the spring of next year. The initiative will help the retailer to reduce the...

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Billa Launches Own-Brand Festive Food Range

Austrian supermarket chain Billa has launched a new range of own-brand food items for the festive season. Some of the products in Billa’s Christmas range include almond brittle gingerbread, cinnamon almonds, and...

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Coca-Cola to replace plastic shrink wrap with paper packaging across Europe

Coca-Cola and its European bottling partners will remove shrink wrap from its can multipacks, to be replaced with a €15m (£12.8m) investment into a paper-based packaging solution by the end...

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Kozák Ákos at Business Days

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Analytics Experience 2019: making analytics real

There is a lot of hype and jargon surrounding analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet put simply data holds the key: when used properly, your data can set your organisation...

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Rewe Introduces Own-Brand Shower Gel, Soaps In Recycled Packaging

Germany’s Rewe Group has announced that its private-label soap and shower gel brand Today is now available in packaging made of 100% recycled materials. The products will be available in...

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Kroger Partners With Europe’s Infarm For In-Store Fresh Produce

US retailer Kroger has partnered with Europe’s vertical farming company, Infarm, to offer a range of store-grown fresh produce in its outlets across North America. In total, the retailer plans...

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Coop Netherlands Introduces ‘Beter Leven’ Certified Chicken Products

Coop Netherlands has announced that all its own-brand chicken meat products have acquired the ‘Beter Leven’ quality mark. All private-label chicken meat products sold in Coop outlets now have at...

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POPAI winners in 2019

At the POP Awards ceremony of the Hungarian POPAI Awards, 12 entries received prestigious awards in four categories. The results were announced on 14 November 2019 as part of the...

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Intermarché Portugal Introduces PorSi Private Label Brand

Intermarché Portugal has launched PorSi, a new, exclusive private label brand. The hypermarket chain is investing €6 million in the new brand, comprising more than 1,000 SKUs, with both food...

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