Events

Wine Filter St. Michael’s Feast in Ópusztaszer

Honey-sweet Hungarian grapes, freshly pressed musts, cultural programs and presentations of traditional crafts await those who visit the Wine Filter St. Michael’s Feast on Saturday at the Ópusztaszer National Historical...

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China’s JD.com adds more bricks-and-mortar stores to supply chain to speed up deliveries

Online shopping giant JD.com is targeting delivery times of as little as 30 minutes across China by using various offline retail outlets, including Walmart, to directly get products to customers....

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Coca-Cola To Introduce Cardboard Packaging For Multipack Cans

Coca-Cola has announced that it is to replace plastic shrink-wrap from multipack beverage cans in Great Britain with cardboard packaging in the next 18 months. The new packaging will be...

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Tesco Launches New Plant-Based Food Range

Tesco has announced that it has launched a new range of affordable, plant-based food items. Branded as Tesco Plant Chef, the range includes butternut cauliflower macaroni pasta, breaded soya goujons,...

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Male singers from four nations will perform at the 23rd European Wine Song Festival

Vintage parade, concerts, fair, wine show and male singers from four countries will await the guests of the 23rd European Wine Song Festival in Pécs and in the villages of...

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The Perfume Shop opens new concept store in Sheffield

The Perfume Shop has opened its first experiential concept store within Meadowhall shopping centre, Sheffield. The new concept store showcases interactive areas such as a central play table for perfume...

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Coles cuts prices for hundreds of products

Jumbo-sized tomato sauce bottles, private label vegan meat alternatives and bundle deals on baby food are all on the menu for supermarket giant Coles as the retailer embarks on its...

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Students Invent Bacteria That Eat Plastic From The Oceans And Turn It Into Water

The high pollution in the oceans is a big problem on the planet. According to recent research, it is likely that in the year 2050 we will find more plastic...

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Preventing the global water crisis is a priority topic at the Budapest Water Summit

The 2019 Budapest Water Summit three-day conference focusing on preventing global water crises, including water scarcity, high water and polluted water issues – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (KKM) told....

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Stop & Shop pilots bread-making robot

Stop & Shop has deployed a bread-making robot that enables customers to buy a warm loaf baked virtually on the spot. The Stop & Shop store in Milford, Mass., now...

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Walgreens will be first retailer in U.S. to test on-demand drone delivery

Walgreens is set to lift off and make history with a drone pilot in Virginia. Beginning in October, the drugstore giant and Wing Aviation, a subsidiary of Google parent company...

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Main IKEA retailer expects to exceed renewable energy goal by year’s end

Ingka Group, which owns most IKEA stores, will by year’s end exceed its 2020 target to produce as much renewable energy as the energy it consumes, Ingka Chief Executive Jesper...

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National togetherness is the theme of Hungary’s Food 2020 Cooking Contest, which will be open until 5 January

Each of these dishes must consist of up to five elements and must contain three ingredients (red peppers, cottage cheese, green vegetables or green spice) which give the colors of...

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Cabbage festival in Vecsés

The nineteenth Vecsés Cabbage Festival to be held this weekend. According to the organizers, at the event the visitors can see the largest cabbage in the country, take part in...

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Albert Heijn Adds New Payment Service For Home Deliveries

Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has announced that it has added a new smartphone-based payment service for home deliveries. The service, which the retailer claims is a first of its kind...

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Plus Introduces Climate-Neutral, Traceable Bananas

Dutch retailer Plus has announced that it has introduced fully traceable, climate-neutral bananas. The retailer partnered with supplier Fyffes and technology company, SIM to implement blockchain mapping on its banana...

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Lidl Belgium Launches ‘Super Fair’ Private-Label Chocolates

Lidl Belgium has launched ‘Way to Go’, a new range of ‘super fair’, private-label chocolate SKUs that offer Ghanaian cocoa farmers an extra premium above the Fairtrade price. Priced at...

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A professional meeting to promote co-operation in the food industry started in Budapest

An international technical meeting to promote food industry cooperation will be held in Budapest. At the two-day event, which started on Thursday, 105 professionals from 14 countries are taking part...

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The food remaining at OMÉK is used for charitable purposes

The food, which remains at the end of the 79th National Exhibition and Fair for Agricultural and Food Industry (OMÉK), will be used for charitable purposes – the organizers told...

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The 79th OMÉK presents modern Hungarian agriculture

The 79th National Agricultural and Food Exhibition and Fair (OMÉK), the largest agricultural event in Hungary, will begin in just over a week. The event will take place between 26-29...

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Nagy István: Pepper growers can count on the help of the Hungarian government

The paprika producers in Kalocsa can count on the help of the Hungarian government in processing, marketing and improving and increasing the role of paprika on the markets – the...

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Literary wine adventure in the Castle Garden Literature series

The Castle Garden Literature’s (Várkert Irodalom) reading theater series continues under the name Aposztróf (Apostrophe) that focuses on the fall, the harvest season and wine during the opening of the...

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In the service of value and quality – for the second time

The Value and Quality Awards were presented to those products, companies and services that want to be ‘the best among the good ones’. Currently the Value and Quality Award is...

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Sixty applicants won the Value and Quality Award in 2019

On 10 September the award ceremony of the Value and Quality Award took place in the building of the Hungarian Parliament for the second time. This year 67 entries by...

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Coop Rally visited food companies in East Hungary this year

This year the Coop Rally’s more than 300 participants visited 8 destinations (meat and dairy plants, a soft drink company, a winery, COOP stores and a fresh product logistics centre)...

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A community food stand opens on thousand square meters

The Agricultural Marketing Center has been promoting Hungarian food in the form of community appearance at countless foreign exhibitions for decades. As this year’s OMÉK focuses on the food industry...

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Thirty-five wineries and 50 programs at the Villányi Red Wine Festival

Thirty-five wineries and nearly fifty gastronomic, cultural and pop music programs await the visitors to the Villányi Red Wine Festival, which will be organized for the 32nd time between October...

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A record number of Hungarian companies presented themselves at the Agromalim trade show in Arad

The CED Central European Economic Development Network Nonprofit Ltd. has presented a record number debuting opportunities of its twenty-two Hungarian partners at the Agromalim Agro-Food Trade Fair in Arad, held...

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Wine Festival 2019

Budapest Wine Festival opened its gates to wine lovers for the 28th time in September. Visitors got the chance to taste several thousand wines of more than 160 Hungarian and...

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Hungary’s biggest wine exporter

Lidl Hungary has organised the Lidl Wine Expo Hungary for the sixth time. The event’s goal is to promote Hungarian wines in Europe and facilitate their market entry. In 2018...

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