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The French farmers are protesting against the ban on the most popular herbicide
Approximately three hundred French farmers protested on Friday in Paris on the Champs-Elysées Boulevard against the planned ban on glyphosate herbicides. Emmanuel Macron head of state had promised in the...
Read more(HU) Szeptemberben újabb csúcsot döntött a GKI konjunktúraindexe
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Biopolymer-based packaging designs
DS Smith Packaging Hungary Kft, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Polifoam Plastic Processing Kft. have been granted HUF 552.21-million funding for developing a multifunctional biopolymer-based packaging system....
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Magazine: Changing attitude in the laundry detergent market
Liquid detergents and capsules are more and more popular in the laundry detergent market; at the same time the powder format is becoming less important. As for retail channels, sales are...
Read moreGfK: Seven out of ten people would buy more online in exchange for free home delivery
Every second online order is delivered by a courier service. The first five incentive factors for online shopping focus on the discounts. Among them, home delivery has an utmost importance,...
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Veganz: a new vegan product line in SPAR
The SPAR Magyarország enriches its range with the successful products of the German Veganz brand of plant-based foods. Among the more than 60 different products, there are delicacies in the...
Read moreTesco: What is measurable can be handled!
Tesco Europe has published its report on the amount of food surplus and waste generated during its operation for the financial year of 2016/2017. The chain of stores first published...
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A mother from Szeged won 5 million HUF with Pöttyös Túró Rudi packagings
A young mother from Szeged won the 5 million HUF grand prize of the summer prize game of Pöttyös Túró Rudi. The amount was received yesterday by the happy winner....
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Vincible distances with Cornexi
The autumn running season has started with the 32nd Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon. In September, Cornexi one of the country’s most popular food brands draws attention to the importance...
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Why are so many young people are struggling on the labor market?
While the domestic unemployment rate is the third most favorable in the European Union, youth unemployment is still twice as high as this. Today, most of the companies are struggling...
Read more5th. JUNIBOR and Gastro Feast with a new generation of winemakers
33 families, 40 winemakers and nearly all wine regions in the country. Fresh, young, energetic, world-traveled. They are the Junibor Association, who occupy the St. Stephen’s Square before the Basilica...
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A comprehensive disease control test to be launched at poultry holders
The National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) launches a comprehensive and unified disease control investigation as the initiative of the Poultry Product Council (BTT) at Hungarian poultry holders. The autumn...
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Sunflower production is good, but it is worth to store the crop, due to the low prices
In the second week of September, the harvesting of sunflower seeds has begun. According to the data so far, crops will not be outstanding because of drought, but due to...
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Pumpkin Festival in the Őrség during the weekend
The 14th Pumpkin Festival in the Őrség will be organized this weekend in Őriszentpéter, Szalafő, Nagyrákos and Magyarszombatfa, Vas county – the organizers told MTI. Őr Zoltán, Mayor of Őriszentpéter...
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Henkel reports strong performance in second quarter
ignificant nominal sales growth: +9.6% to 5,098 million euros, good organic growth +2.2% Double-digit increase in operating profit*: +11.0% to 909 million euros Further EBIT margin* improvement: +20 basis points...
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40 billion HUF for detergents, 20 billion HUF for fabric softener
The retail sales of detergents were below average, while the retail sales of fabric softeners showed an above the average growth in domestic retail trade between August 2016 and July...
Read moreAgrarian expert: new impetus for agricultural investments
Agricultural investments have been further boosted: in the first half of the year the value of agricultural investments grew by 30 percent – Fórián Zoltán, senior agricultural expert of the...
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KSH: gross gross earnings grew in July by 13.1 percent
In July, gross average earnings grew by 13.1 percent, compared to the same period of the previous year. The growth rate of earnings slowed a slight decrease after the 14.4...
Read moreThe large state company has started to buy grapes in Tokaj
This year’s grape purchasing was started at the state-owned Grand Tokaj Zrt, which is the largest recipient of the Tokaj wine region – agrarszektor.hu wrote. The company pays 100 HUF...
Read moreThe Takarékbank has raised its economic growth forecast this year
The Takarékbank (Savings Bank) is expecting a further boost in investment, raising this year’s GDP growth forecast from 3.9 percent to 4 percent, and next year forecasting 4.2 percent instead...
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Fazekas Sándor discussed about the further expansion of agricultural relations with his Japanese counterpart
The further enlargement of agricultural relations was discussed between Fazekas Sándor Minister of Agriculture and his Japanese counterpart Taniai Maszaaki, Minister of State of Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and...
Read moreNGM: 45 SMEs received 5 billion forints development support
In order to improve its competitiveness and research and development 4.5 billion HUF were given as research and development support to 15 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Pest county....
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The government is also helping the SMEs entering the stock market
The government supports the companies interested in entering the stock market with two initiatives – Rákossy Balázs, Minister of State of the Ministry of National Economy said at the meeting...
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Three thousand kilograms of Debrecen pair at this year’s Zamat festival
In three days, a total of three thousand kilograms of Debrecen pairs of sausages will be awaiting the visitors to the 7th Zamat Festival to the Grand Forest – the...
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Coca-Cola HBC Hungary is launching a new educational program
Coca-Cola HBC Hungary is launching a new course under the title #énjövőm, within the compass of which young people get to learn about self-knowledge and handling job-interview situations. The motivation...
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Magazine: The Netherlands is one of the driving forces of the world market
The Netherlands is the world’s 5th biggest product exporter and in 2016 the country exported goods in the value of nearly USD 668 billion – this sum represents 3.5 percent...
Read moreOutstanding quality wine yield is expected this year
About 2.8 million hectoliters wine yield is expected in Hungary this year, which is similar to last year’s harvest – Kiss Eliza, Ministerial Commissioner for special oenological tasks at the...
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MNB: Card payment transactions grew by 25 percent in the second quarter
Payment card purchase turnover increased by 25 percent in the second quarter of this year, exceeding all previous growth rates – the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) announced on Monday....
Read moreThe ULT Magyarország Zrt. has begun the acquisition of this year’s tobacco production
This year, the Nyíregyháza-based Universal Leaf Tobacco (ULT) Magyarország Zrt. plans to buy 4 thousand tons of tobacco, the agronomic director of the company told MTI on Monday. Fekete Tibor...
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MGYOSZ: lack of specialist means the biggest limit for growth of companies
According to the survey of MGYOSZ, 92 percent of the company executives indicated the lack of specialists as the biggest obstacle of growth. The National Association of Employers and Industrialists...
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