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Black Friday in Germany
Date: 2017-12-01 18:12:49
According to the calculations of the German Retail Federation, the Black Friday and the Cyber Monday that followed resulted in EUR 1.7 billion worth of extra sales....
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Lidl is developing the fastest in the British market
Date: 2017-12-01 18:10:36
Lidl has been the fastest developing retailer in the United Kingdom for five consecutive quarters. Lidl’s sales increased by 15.1 percent last year. The discount supermarket chain now has a...
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The poultry industry is booming again
Date: 2017-12-01 17:57:15
Dr Attila Csorbai, president and managing director of the Hungarian Poultry Product Board informed that because of the bird flu more than 3 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese had...
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Croatian giant
Date: 2017-12-01 17:39:07
Croatian consortium Agrokor performed better in every segment (food, agriculture, retail and wholesale) in the first three quarters of 2017. Sales revenue in retail and wholesale reached EUR 1.52 billion....
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Italian wines in Russia
Date: 2017-12-01 17:35:31
Demand for Italian wines is growing rapidly in Russia. In the first eight months of 2017 sales soared by 45.6 percent. This year Russia became the sixth biggest market for...
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The state of play in the meat industry
Date: 2017-12-01 17:29:48
Edit Menczel, secretary of the Livestock and Meat Interprofessional Organisation and Marketing Board (VHT) revealed that production prices in the pig sector grew in 2017, because of which processing companies...
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Cuban flavours from Nestlé
Date: 2017-12-01 17:28:04
Nestlé has announced a new investment in Cuba: the company is going to build a factory 45km from Havana until 2019. Nescafé, Nestlé fitness snacks, Nesquik instant drinks and Maggi...
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Less for more
Date: 2017-12-01 17:24:05
In the first nine months of the year Parmalat’s sales grew by 5.5 percent and the company closed the first three quarters with USD 4.839 billion revenue. However, volume sales...
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Premium beers sell well
Date: 2017-12-01 17:20:03
Although total sales of Carlsberg decreased by 4 percent in the 3rd quarter, the category of premium beers did very well. Volume sales of Tuborg were up 5 percent, Carlsberg’s...
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Southern expansion
Date: 2017-12-01 17:17:57
In 2017 SPAR invested approximately EUR 50 million in Croatia. The CEO of Spar Hrvatska stressed that the investments would continue in 2018. At the moment the retail chain has...
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Programmes at Sirha Budapest
Date: 2017-12-01 17:09:03
Bocuse d’Or Hungarian final The international chef competition’s Hungarian final will take place on 8 February. In the prestigious competition the following chefs will compete to decide who will represent Hungary...
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They got used to success
Date: 2017-12-01 16:59:08
Tibor Bial director Czech Trade Tibor Bial, director of CzechTrade’s Budapest office informed our magazine that they are present at 3-4 of Hungexpo’s trade exhibitions every year. These presences are always very...
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Tesco to sell nearly 8,500 tons of apples this year
Date: 2017-12-01 16:54:43
This year Tesco is expected to sell 8,500 tons from 14 types of apple. Almost 90 percent of the apples sold in Tesco stores are supplied by growers from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and...
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Growth strategy transforms Invitech Solutions
Date: 2017-12-01 16:53:32
Invitech Solutions – a member of the Invitel Group – wishes to increase its share in the domestic ICT market. To this end the company has created a single sales...
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Coupons on mobile
Date: 2017-12-01 16:50:39
Mastercard launched the Priceless Specials programme in June 2015. It is now also available in the form of a mobile app. The app makes it possible to check it in...
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Southern Italy in focus
Date: 2017-12-01 16:50:26
Marco Bulf director of the ITA office in Budapest ITA (Italian Trade Agency) is a network of trade offices ran by the Italian state. Its task is to promote products ‘Made...
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Kométa appoints new domestic meat product sales director
Date: 2017-12-01 16:48:18
Due to the increase in sales turnover, Kométa will divide meat and meat product sales into two areas, which will be managed by two different directors. Newcomer Gábor Zab will...
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Automation at eMAG
Date: 2017-12-01 16:46:29
The logistics centre of eMAG in Üllő, which was built 2 years ago and already operates on 21,000m², is waiting for this year’s Black Friday and Christmas periods with 600,000...
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Tobacco retailers ask for delaying the introduction of standardised packaging
Date: 2017-12-01 16:44:03
On 7 November a conference was organised for National Tobacco Shop operators and their partners. It turned out that about 40-50 percent of tobacco shops are in a difficult situation, while...
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New version of NAK’s smartphone app launched
Date: 2017-12-01 16:41:44
As a result of the first phase of the NAK APP 2.0 project, the services which were formerly only available on the NAK website can now also be used on...
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METRO gives car to happy winner
Date: 2017-12-01 16:40:28
On 27 November László Török from Dunakeszi received the main prize of the METRO Winning Weeks prize game, a brand new TOYOTA Yaris Hybrid. Those METRO customers could participate in the...
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Magosz wins chamber elections
Date: 2017-12-01 16:32:39
At the end of November the members of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) were voting: from the approximately 360,000 NAK members 47,696 turned up. No less than 88.3 percent...
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Auchan offers discounts to families with small children
Date: 2017-12-01 16:23:01
Auchan Hungary launches a new loyalty programme for pregnant women and families with children under the age of 6, called Auchan Bébé Program. The programme runs under the retailer’s Bizalomkártya loyalty...
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Soproni Démon becomes an Óvatos Duhaj
Date: 2017-12-01 16:19:57
Soproni Óvatos Duhaj is to turn into a product range: after the huge success of Soproni Óvatos Duhaj IPA that debuted this summer, dark beer Soproni Démon also bears the...
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Szentkirályi Talent winners announced
Date: 2017-12-01 16:15:53
The Szentkirályi Talent Programme is realised in cooperation with the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB). A six-member board of trustees has selected the programme’s three winners: kayaker Ádám Varga, swimmer Nándor Németh and sailor Máté Benyó. They...
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Joint Henkel-SPAR campaign for ill children
Date: 2017-12-01 16:10:03
From November the children in Szent Borbála Hospital in Tatabánya can regularly meet the Red Nose Clown Doctors. The programme has been organised for the seventh time: every shopper who bought...
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ALDI starts selling discount motor fuels in Hungary
Date: 2017-12-01 16:07:15
In January 2018 ALDI is going to open filling stations in the parking lots of several stores. OMV Hungária will partner with ALDI to sell high quality, MSZ EN 590 and...
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Isomalt factory inaugurated in Tiszapüspöki
Date: 2017-12-01 16:02:14
On 30 October Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga and Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas ceremonially opened the isomalt factory of KALL Ingredients Kft. The new factory...
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Praktiker: the online shop develops the fastest
Date: 2017-12-01 15:59:44
Although Praktiker operates 20 DIY stores in Hungary, it is the ‘21st’ unit, the online shop that develops the fastest. The online shop had been launched in 2009 but it went...
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Strong third quarter for Henkel
Date: 2017-12-01 15:57:14
In the 3rd quarter of 2017 Henkel’s sales revenue augmented by 4.9 percent to EUR 4,981 million. Organic growth was 3 percent, while adjusted operating profit (EBIT) rose by 7.1...
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