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Auchan offers discounts to families with small children
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
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...
Read moreSzentkirályi Talent winners announced
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
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
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
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...
Read morePraktiker: the online shop develops the fastest
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
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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The year of breaking records
From many points of view, this year was about breaking records in Hungary: the consumer confidence index reached the level where it had been before the recession – 76 points...
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Winners of the 2017 HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition
The Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) organised the first HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition in 1967. They celebrated the competition’s 50th birthday with the patronage of Minister of Agriculture...
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Nielsen: chocolate Santa Clauses brought the two-thirds of the turnover
Chocolates are the biggest favorites of the Christmas holiday season: over 400 million tonnes ie over eight million was sold in October-December 2016, according to the 90 food category of...
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ALDI Hungary’s green programme rewarded
ALDI Hungary’s 2017 complex energy project won the CSR Hungary award in the ‘Environment-Green Excellence’ category. As a responsible company, ALDI Hungary continuously develops and introduces environmentally friendly solutions that reduce...
Read moreKSH: foreign trade surplus was 937 million euros in September
In September, the value of exports increased by 5.6, while imports increased by 6.7 percent compared to a year before. Foreign trade sales amounted to 937 million euros, 28 million...
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L’Oréal recognised for leadership in environmental matters
L’Oréal is a global leader in corporate sustainability. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent organisation that issues environmental certificates, has recently announced that L’Oréal scored an ‘A’ for all three...
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Retail giants sign strategic agreement in China
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Auchan Retail S.A. and Ruentex Group have signed a strategic agreement: they decided to share the experience they have in traditional (offline) and digital (online) retail, in...
Read moreNearly 180 tons of food products were donated by Tesco customers
Tesco’s customers donated 178 tons, ie 445,000 servings of food, in the Christmas fundraising campaign of the Hungarian Food Bank Association. In addition to the donations of the buyers, Tesco...
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The happy winner of the METRO prize game could take his car home
Török László, the lucky winner of METRO’s “Play and travel with us!” prize-winning game, was handed over the main prize the TOYOTA Yaris Hybrid passenger car on 27 November. Török...
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Celebrating cheese
The 1st SZEGA Cheese Festival of Nations was a great success. It was a milestone event as the International Guild of Cheese Masters, which has 6,000 members from 40 countries, has...
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This year’s Lidl cookbook published
‘A Flavour Trip around Hungary’ is the title of Lidl Hungary’s third cookbook. Zsófi Mautner and Tamás Széll wrote the book, which introduces the traditional and modern sides of Hungarian gastronomy. Lidl...
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Henkel teams up with Plastic Bank
Henkel has entered into a partnership with social enterprise Plastic Bank. The organisation’s goals are to stop polluting oceans with plastic and to create opportunities for people living in poverty. New plastic...
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The Széchenyi Enterprise Award of the Year was awarded to Globserver and Crown Foods Kft. while the Széchenyi Bridge Award was given to Bitrise
Globserver, specializing in security technology and arms sales won the Széchenyi Enterprise Award of the Year in 2017 in the category of companies exceeding 500 million HUF annual turnover, while...
Read moreFM: winemakers no need to issue a stock report in December in the future
According to the new excise law that entered into force this year, winemakers do not have to prepare the December stock report – Gál Péter, deputy minister of state of...
Read moreExim expects to lend to half of Hungarian exporting companies by 2021
In its medium-term strategy, Eximbank has set itself the goal of achieving half of the Hungarian export companies with its products by 2021, Urbán Zoltán, Chief Financial Officer said on...
Read moreA growth in the November Purchasing Manager Index
The seasonally adjusted Purchasing Manager Index (BMI) for November was 58.6 points, slightly more than the 58.3 points of September. Compared with previous Novembers, this year’s value exceeds the long-term...
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VOSZ organized the Day of Entrepreneurs for the 19th time
Never a worse year – Varga Mihály evaluated year 2017 at the 19th Entrepreneurs Day this year. The Minister of National Economy recalled that next year the burdens on wages...
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Entries are now open for the Consumer Protection Manager of the Year competition
The Consumer Protection Manager Association (FORE) wishes to reward the efforts of Hungary’s more than 2,000 consumer protection managers with the ‘Consumer Protection Manager of the Year’ prize. Winners will be...
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This year, Nébih imposed more than 8 million HUF fish protection fines
This year, as compared to last year, the amount of fishery fines imposed by the State Fishery Service (ÁHSZ) on illegal fishing increased by 8 percent. The number of fines...
Read moreFM: The ornamental plant sector’s turnover exceeds 120 billion HUF annually
The ornamental plant sector’s revenue exceeds 120 billion forints annually and provides the livelihood of almost 25 thousand families – Nagy István, the Parliamentary Minister of State of the Ministry...
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VAT cut – reloaded
In the last 2 years the VAT on basic food products such as eggs, pork and poultry was reduced, but internet service’s VAT also became lower than the earlier flat rate of 27 percent....
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FM: Hungarian milk exports can start to China
Thanks to several years of discussions of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM), 13 Hungarian establishments have been allowed to deliver milk and dairy products to the People’s Republic of China...
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