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The output of Hungary’s horticulture sector can be doubled
Hungary’s horticulture sector produces in the value of HUF 400 billion a year. This sum can be doubled with modernisation, simplifying rules and strengthening marketing work – it was said at the first...
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Objective: to strengthen fair trade practices
NAK has established the Agriculture and food trade department, with Dr Attila Csorbai as the head and NAK vice president Tamás Éder supervising the work. At the department’s first meeting the...
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Hungarian pork sector in the limelight
The Hungarian Meat Industry Federation (MHSZ) organised a press conference, where president Tamás Éder spoke about the meat industry’s last 12 months. He revealed that the number of pigs decreased by...
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Association of Hungarian Confectionery Manufacturers: new secretary
From 5 March Gábor Intődy has been the secretary of the Association of Hungarian Confectionery Manufacturers. Mr Intődy used to work for IBM, Vodafone and SABMiller in the past, as a...
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New INTERSPAR store to be built in Tata from 4.2 billion forints
SPAR has announced that they are going to build a 5,200m² new hypermarket in Tata, which will utilise green technologies. The new store – the 34th INTERSPAR in Hungary – will create...
Read moreCarbon neutral operations at ALDI in Hungary
ALDI is committed not only to its consumers but also towards sustainability, and is constantly working to reduce its emissions from its operation. One of the important goals of ALDI’s responsible...
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Analysts: the foreign trade surplus in January was higher than expected
The foreign trade surplus in January exceeded the expectations and the surplus will be lower than in the previous year, but the decline will be lower than last year –...
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The Urbán és Urbán Kft. is expanding
The Urbán és Urbán Kft. is expanding its capacity with a new manufacturing plant in Rétság, Nógrád County; the current 22-tonnes capacity will be expanded with a further ten tonnes...
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Many people visited the Hungarian Flavours Fair
In spite of the bad weather about 7,500 people visited the Hungarian Flavours Spring Fair at the second weekend of March. Visitors could choose from more than 1,000 typical Hungarian foods,...
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Another Hungarian food plants can export to Taiwan
Another 8 poultry slaughterhouses and 1 poultry and 2 pig processing plants have been granted the export license from Taiwan’s Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection and Quarantine Office (BAPHIQ) – the...
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Enter the world of GURUs!
The Pöttyös GURU is completely renewed in March. Not only does the packaging and the logo become cooler and dynamic, but in addition to the usual caramel flavor, two new...
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The EC has established an expert center to improve food quality
The European Commission has set up a knowledge center on fighting food fraud and dealing with food quality. It will begin to operate on Tuesday – the EU commission told...
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Innovation in cooperation with Hungarian suppliers
This spring Soproni Radler beer products – in both alcoholic and alcohol-free versions – will appear on store shelves in sour cherry-lemon and elder-lemon flavour combinations. HEINEKEN Hungária uses exclusively Hungarian...
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Szamos Marzipan visited Cologne
At the end of January Cologne was the host of international sweets and snacks trade fair ISM. Szamos Marzipan was present with its own stand – 1,647 exhibitors presented their products...
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NGM: the economic cooperation in the Carpathian Basin should be expanded further
The aim of the government is to develop an economic space in the Carpathian Basin by investing and strengthening business relations that will reach the level of economic integration of...
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Real earnings may rise above 6 percent this year
According to the calculations of the ministry, real earnings may rise above 6 percent this year – Cseresnyés Péter, Minister of State of the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) responsible...
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A new cooling hall was added to the venison processor
A new cooling hall was handed over on Wednesday in the Somogy county-based Öreglaki Vadfeldolgozó Kft., owned by the six state forestry companies. The company’s sales amounted to 1.76 billion...
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Novelties at the 20th Goose Festival in Kiskunfélegyháza
In addition to the usual programs, there will be several novelties, drama and drawing competitions and sightseeing tour connected to the Petőfi memorial year at the twentieth Kiskunfélegyháza Goose Festival,...
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The European Commission: most dangerous products reported in the EU come from China
Most of the dangerous products reported in the European Union are coming from so-called third countries, most of them, 53 percent from China, according to a report released on Monday...
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Nielsen chart of the month – Hungary’s retail sales growth was the second biggest in Europe
In Q4 2017 like-for-like retail sales growth was 8.2 percent (in value) in the Hungarian market of food and drug products. In the same period the European average was plus 4.4...
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Christmas in February with dm
It was before Christmas that dm and FIAT organised a prize game and the winner, Erika Keményné Nagy from Zala County, took home the brand new FIAT 500L in February. Roland...
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Running out of industrial and logistic space?
In 2017 617,000m² more industrial space was rented in Hungary, 44 percent more than in the previous year. This means that there is hardly any more industrial and logistic space that...
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Coca-Cola’s #énjövőm programme expands further
Until the end of last year 32 non-governmental organisations submitted their applications for funding to Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország, and from these 10 won the budget for organising 1-day trainings for...
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Riding with Kométa
At a press conference on 22 February 2018 Kométa announced that they have become a sponsor of professional cycling team Pannon Cycling Team. Managing director Giacomo Pedranzini informed that not only...
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Jack Daniels maker buys wind power
The company behind bourbon whiskey brand Jack Daniels has signed a 30MW power purchase agreement (PPA) in north-west Kansas. Sprits and wine producer Brown-Forman said the firm would buy power...
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Lidl’s wine export grew by 20 percent
Lidl Hungary sold 14.9 million bottles of Hungarian wine and from this quantity 7 million bottles were purchased in Lidl stores abroad. This was revealed at the Lidl Wine Expo Hungary,...
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The number of jobseekers dropped by 6.9 percent last year
The number of registered jobseekers decreased by 6.9 percent in Hungary in one year, while the National Employment Service (NFSZ) recorded 254 800 jobseekers at the end of 2017, more...
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The campaign to promote Hungarian wines was launched in the United States
The “Year of the Aszú” campaign was launched in the United States, where Hungarian wines, mainly aszú wines will be promoted for a year. The campaign started with a wine...
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‘Consumer protection manager of the year’ awards presented
In 2017 the Consumer Protection Manager Association (FORE) decided to reward the efforts of Hungary’s more than 2,000 consumer protection managers by organising the ‘Consumer protection manager of the year’...
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Ultra-fast e-vehicle charging from Reál Hungária
MVM Partner Zrt. and Reál Hungária Kft. built a station with ultra-fast and fast electric vehicle chargers – a so-called HUB – at the retailer’s premises on Kondorosi Road in Budapest. Zoltán Szilágyi,...
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