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GKI: a 2.3 percent growth is expected this year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Agricultural trade surplus was over three thousand million euros

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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