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GKI: a 2.3 percent growth is expected this year
Date: 2016-03-31 11:06:27
The GKI Economic Research Co. expects a 2.3 percent economic growth and a 0.8 percent inflation this year – Vértes András, CEO of the GKI Economic Research Company announced on...
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Mangalica festival to be held in Debrecen
Date: 2016-03-31 11:04:45
The mangalica has become the big hit of home cuts – Tóth Péter, president of the National Association of Mangalica Breeders said this weekend in Debrecen at the press conference...
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Merlot has become the best 2012 vintage red wine in Szekszárd
Date: 2016-03-31 11:02:41
The Takler Winery’s 2012 vintage Merlot was elected as the best red wine of the Szekszárd wine region’s competition on Thursday. The wine called Primarius was grown from grapes of...
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Visa Europe has increased above the market average in Hungary
Date: 2016-03-31 11:02:15
Visa Europe closed a very good year in 2015 both in Hungary and in Europe. Since the beginning of 2014, when the interchange rules were introduced and the neutral competition...
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Slight increase in retail sales in Slovakia last year
Date: 2016-03-31 11:00:41
Retail sales in Slovakia increased by 1.4 percent on an annual basis – the analysis of the Poštová Banka reveals. Retail sales in Slovakia in 2015 amounted to 19.139 billion...
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dm helps 400 kindergartens with sunscreen lotions
Date: 2016-03-31 10:54:22
This year dm organises its sixth Children of the Sun programme for Hungarian kindergartens. The first 400 kindergartens to enter the competition are guaranteed to win sunscreen lotions. All they...
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Fevita recruits new marketing director
Date: 2016-03-31 10:51:28
As of 1 April 2016 György Somogyi is the new domestic trade and marketing director of Fevita Hungary Zrt. Mr Somogyi used to be Chio Magyarország Kft.’s managing director from1991...
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Huggies and Kleenex return
Date: 2016-03-31 10:48:30
After a 3-year absence Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies and Kleenex brands return to the Hungarian market, with DunaPro as their distributor. Kimberley-Clark and DunaPro signed a contract in December 2015. Huggies makes...
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Mondelēz helps farmers through its Cocoa Life programme
Date: 2016-03-31 10:08:12
Mondelēz International started its Cocoa Life programme with a USD 400 million budget in 2012 to make cocoa production – the heat and soul of chocolate making – sustainable. Until...
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Tesco offers many products to customers on a special diet
Date: 2016-03-31 10:01:12
Tesco added more than 300 new products to its special food selection, so customers can now choose from more than 1,000 organic, reduced lactose, gluten-free, no added sugar and healthy...
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NÉBIH inspections in the dairy market
Date: 2016-03-31 09:59:14
The National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) examined unfair market practices by retailers against suppliers in selling 1.5-percent fat UHT milk. NÉBIH performed 41 inspections and in more than 30...
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Campari products from Coca-Cola
Date: 2016-03-31 09:56:53
From 1 June 2016 Coca-Cola Hungary will be the exclusive distributor of the Campari group’s key products – Campari, Cinzano, Carolans and Aperol – in Hungary. This year the parent...
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Magazine: Skin care and freshness when standing in the shower
Date: 2016-03-31 08:30:31
After the stagnation of recent years 2015 brought a sales explosion in the shower gel market. This very positive trend was the result of the hot weather and the increased...
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The best from the best
Date: 2016-03-30 23:57:21
The 10th CBA National Wine Competition – one of the main elements in the retail chain’s Vinotéka programme – was held early March. Chief winemaker Árpád Vincze and his team...
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Wine import halved
Date: 2016-03-30 23:49:59
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) revealed that domestic sales of wines without geographical indication and wines with protected geographical indication...
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(HU) Üzletnyitás – A jövő technológiái megkerülhetetlenek
Date: 2016-03-30 13:00:46
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Agricultural trade surplus was over three thousand million euros
Date: 2016-03-30 11:40:01
Horticulture is a strong, stable branch of the Hungarian agriculture. Horticulture gave about one-sixth of the annual agricultural output last year – Fazekas Sándor, Minister of Agriculture said at the...
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FM: the national economy can also produce a reduction in VAT for other food industries
Date: 2016-03-30 11:28:16
The Ministry of Agriculture (FM) hopes that the national economy will produce a reduction in VAT for the products of other food industries. Feldman Zsolt Minister of State of the...
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Further support for the grape growers
Date: 2016-03-30 11:25:45
The Agriculture and Rural Development Office awaits the support claims for vineyard restructuring and transformation from April. According to the 142/2012. (27 Dec) Ministry of Rural Development (VM) decree, support...
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The National Pálinka Council was transformed into a public body
Date: 2016-03-30 11:22:15
The National Pálinka Council (PNT) was transformed into a public body – the Minister of Agriculture announced at the inaugural meeting in Budapest on Wednesday. Fazekas Sándor reminded that the...
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New CEO at Heineken Hungária
Date: 2016-03-30 11:20:42
The Dutch-born José Matthijssen is leading the Heineken's Hungarian subsidiary from 15 March. The new leader is willing to continue the initiatives that help domestic suppliers, and she is also...
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Declining economic sentiment in Europe
Date: 2016-03-30 11:14:00
Economic sentiment declined in the euro zone and in the European Union in March for the third consecutive month. According to the report issued by the European Union’s Economic and...
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Romania is also struggling with the Chinese honey
Date: 2016-03-30 11:12:28
Honey falsification occurs in Romania at an industrial pace, so the local beekeepesr suffer serious loses, however, the health of consumers is at risk as well – the Magyar Nemzet...
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The success of Tokaji and Szekszárdi wines at the wine muster of the MTA
Date: 2016-03-30 11:10:49
This year's best wines of the competition of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) were selected from 116 wines of 13 Hungarian and a cross-border wine regions. The majority of...
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Metro to be split
Date: 2016-03-30 11:02:49
The European retail and wholesale group Metro AG says it aims to split in two, separating its food and wholesale activities from its consumer electronics business. Metro, based in Duesseldorf,...
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Strategic agreement was reached on raising up the countryside
Date: 2016-03-30 11:00:46
The Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi), the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH), and the National Association of Agricultural Economics (NAK) signed a strategic cooperation agreement to strengthen agriculture and...
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MLSZKSZ: strong logistics industry is the basis of the economic development
Date: 2016-03-30 11:00:02
The competitive and strong logistics industry is the basis of Hungarian economy’s development, without it there is no industrial development – the Association of the Hungarian Logistics Service Centers (MLSZKSZ)...
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Shops are closed on Sundays for a year now
Date: 2016-03-30 10:23:10
It was in March 2015 that the regulation, according to which stores must stay closed on Sundays, entered into force. Today the majority of shoppers would still like to go...
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Prologis to Deliver Two New Facilities at Prologis Park Prague D1
Date: 2016-03-30 10:22:57
Prologis, Inc., the global leader in industrial real estate, today announced that it will expand Prologis Park Prague D1 East by developing two additional buildings, DC8 and DC9, totalling 10,360...
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New CEO at Borsodi Brewery
Date: 2016-03-30 10:03:36
Petr Kovarik will be named the new CEO of Borsodi Brewery from 1st April 2016. Mr Kovarik joined Borsodi Brewery in November 2011 as a key account executive. Mr Kovarik...
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