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Spar Austria concentrates on regeneration and vitality
This year the Austrian retail chain focuses on serving customers with products that can help them regenerate and become more vital. The 165-product range sold in Interspar hypermarkets includes vitamins,...
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Mondelēz International opens hypermodern sweets factory in Bahrein
In April Mondelēz International opened a new, state-of-the-art, 250,000m², 45,000-ton production capacity sweets and biscuit manufacturing plant in Bahrein. The company invested USD 90 million in the factory that produces...
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PL products with a seal in Lidl Italia stores
Lidl Italia’s new FDAI product line is the result of cooperation with Filiera Agricola Italiana, a company that supports and promotes Italian agricultural entrepreneurs. The range, which bears the brand...
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L’Oreal to acquire beauty tech company ModiFace
ModiFace was established 11 years ago in Toronto and offers 3D virtual makeups and skin diagnostic services. L’Oréal’s chief digital officer Lubomira Rochet told: with its world-class team, technologies and sustained...
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Spar to expand further in Sri Lanka
Spar International opened its first supermarket in the country’s capital city, Colombo. The 1,000m² store also sells the chain’s private label products, which are made from ingredients sourced locally. Spar...
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Italian products in Italian Penny stores
Penny Market Italia sells the products which are made in Italy from domestic ingredients under the Fior di Pasta brand name. The brand now also has a new logo and...
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Coca-Cola to launch an alcoholic drink in Japan
Jorge Garduno, president of Coca-Cola’s Japanese division has revealed that they plan to enter the market with Chu-Hi alcopops. Chu-Hi is a canned alcoholic drink traditionally made from a distilled...
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Amazon Key to revolutionise home delivery
Amazon has announced that they will extend the Amazon Key service to all US customers. Amazon Key is an in-home offering that allows delivery people to drop off packages inside...
Read moreThe IMF has improved the Hungarian GDP growth forecast
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has improved the Hungarian GDP growth forecast for this and the next year in its spring forecast for the world economy. According to the World...
Read moreAgricultural Chamber: autumn sowings are in good condition
Autumn sowings are in good condition due to this year’s mild winter, without snowfall. According to the survey of the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), 90 percent of the 1.6...
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The SPAR won the Superbrands Award for the tenth time
In addition to the professionals, customers also vote to SPAR Hungary again. The company won the most important brand evaluation award for the tenth time. The recognition is a clear...
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The ÖRT checks the industry commitments
The Self-regulatory Advertising Board (ÖRT) does the industry-by-industry monitoring of the implementation of pledges made. For instance the examination of the EU Pledge commitments –voluntary limiting advertising to children – showed...
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Another significant wage increase at Fornetti
Salaries on average will increase significantly, by 10-15 percent from 1 May at the Fornetti Kft. Within two years the company is already implementing the fourth wage increase, which, with...
Read moreTiffán Ede received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Wine Academy
Tiffán Ede Villányi winemaker received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Wine Academy (MBA), in recognition of his outstanding national performance in the field of winemaking. Kövér László Chairman...
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Education of conscious consumers in Schools
The purpose of the National Chamber of Agriculture is to strengthen the trust in domestic products at quite a young age. Local producers and products were introduced in schools and...
Read moreThe number of Hungarian SMEs that are able to export has increased multiple over four years
The number of Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are able to export has increased several times between 2014 and 2018, Magyar Levente, Minister of State Secretary of the...
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Hungarian students can take part at L’Oréal Brandstorm’s international finals in Paris
The regional round of the L’Oréal Brandstorm Innovation Competition was organized on 10 April, where Hungarian, Czech and Slovak students of higher education presented their ideas to the jury. Participants...
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LG’s smartphone with Artificial Intelligence debuts in New York and Seoul
LG Electronics (LG) announced that the LG G7ThinQ high-end smartphone’s presentation will be officially held on 2 May at the Metropolitan West Event Center in New York, and at the...
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More than 50,000 visitors at this year’s Anuga FoodTec
Cologne hosted the Anuga FoodTec trade exhibition for the eighth time. There were a record number of visitors at the event which is organised every three years. This year 13 percent more...
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Branded content campaign from Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola released a series of videos for the millennial generation, titled ‘SEEN’. The episodes are about the everyday life of teenagers, from the perspectives of four protagonists, Alex, Ella, Jake and...
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The vegetable sector calls for price reductions
The VAT on fruits and vegetables is only 3 percent in Spain and 6 percent in the Netherlands. However, the domestic producers have to face a 27 percent VAT in...
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New Marketing Manager at the Coca-Cola Magyarország
Czigler Katalin has become the new marketing manager of the Coca-Cola Magyarország Kft. She is working for the company for three years. Before her appointment in March she was working...
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Hungary produces soy well below the demand
Hungary produces soy well below the demand – Gyuricza Csaba, Director-General of the National Center for Agricultural Research and Innovation told M1 news channel on Monday. He said that the...
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Million-dollar developments at the Tokaj-Hegyalja World Heritage Sites
Castles, monuments, religious sites and historic streets are also being renewed in the framework of the “Development of the World Heritage Sites of Tokaj-Hegyalja Historical Wine Region” project. With its...
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ÁSZ: labor market indicators improved between 2006 and 2016
Labor market indicators improved significantly between 2006 and 2016 in Hungary: the number of employed increased by 10.7 percent, while the number of unemployed decreased by 26.3 percent, and the...
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Vodafone: significant progress is expected in the digitalisation of SMEs
Although the telecommunications development in Hungary started in the 1990s, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) started to integrate digital technologies only slowly in the sector, but the process can be...
Read moreHungarian wines at the Vinitaly Italian trade fair
The Hungarian wines will be presented at an own stand again at the Vinitaly International Wine Festival and Exhibition, which opened in Verona, Italy on Sunday. After a long period...
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The EU would allow higher import duties to be imposed on dumped goods
EU foreign ministers have adopted a position on the modernization of EU trade defense instruments, which would allow higher import duties to be imposed on dumped goods – the Council...
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The country’s largest clothing collection action was launched
The charity action called “Give-and-get-days” is the biggest g cloth collection of the country, whereby the organizers are waiting for the unnecessary, but good-quality clothes until 6 May at the...
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