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Last year, the stores in Pozsony gave half of the retail sales in Slovakia

Last year, the stores in Pozsony gave 47 percent of the retail sales in Slovakia – the analysis of the Poštová Banka shows, which was sent to MTI on Wednesday....

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The NAV seized more than 37 thousand packs of cigarettes near Tiszabecs

More than 37 thousand packs of Ukrainian cigarettes were seized by the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) in the region of Tiszabecs – was writen on the organization's Facebook...

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Mountain Mania with Garfield, SPAR Everest Expedition with Dávid Klein

So far nearly 5,000 people have climbed 8848m high Mount Everest but hardly 200 managed to do it without using supplementary oxygen. The SPAR Everest Expedition set off on 6...

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4th GfK Day: e-consumers in focus

On 20 February GfK Day was organised for the fourth time, this time giving an insight into the most typical e-consumption habits, with the participation of more than 60 Hungarian...

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Investing in the medicinal herb sector

The Ministry of Rural Development signed a strategic agreement with the representatives of the medicinal herb sector. In Hungary about 5,000 people collect 110-120 medicinal herb varieties. 25 companies grow...

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2.5 billion forints for farmhouse development

Nearly 1,000 applications were sent in for funding from the farmhouse development programme and from these 778 were eligible for support. 529 plans won various sums: HUF 1.5 billon was...

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Action plan to popularise organic farming

The Minister of Rural Development approved the action plan to develop organic farming in Hungary on government level. By 2020 the new plan wishes to increase the size of land...

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GfK: mainly women and young people are visiting the malls

On the basis of GfK’s analysis the visitors of the domestic shopping centers can be characterized well, considering the fact that most of them return. The guests of the plazas...

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The system of the shelf money remains in larger retail stores

The system of the shelf money remains in larger retail stores but it will be called differently – the National Food Chain Safety Office announced. In addition the ratio of...

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The mounting of the Hungarian-developed online cash registers has started in Budaörs

The mounting of the Hungarian-developed CashCube online cash register family has started in the new Budaörs-based production hall of the Tekinvest Holding Kft. and the LA Pénztárgép Kft.. Temesfői Zsolt,...

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SPAR meat plant: another guarantee of quality

The REGNUM meat processing plant of the SPAR Magyarország Kft. has always had the highest level of quality assurance certificates. The SPAR as the first and still the only of...

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The food banks are saving the food surplus for thirty years in Europe

“I'm hungry” was the title of the newspaper article, which appeared in the French La Croix newspaper on 13 March 1984. The article discussed the sad fact that the number...

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A Hungarian wine became a champion at the international Portugieser competition

Hungarian, Slovak and Austrian wines received awards at the international Portugieser competition held in Pécs – the organizers told MTI on Tuesday. The 2012 vintage Régimódi (Old Fashioned) cuvée wine...

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Lego builds its first Asian factory in China

Lego builds its first Asian factory in the eastern Chinese city of Csiahszing. The Asian region is a growing market for the Lego. The 320 thousand square meters plant will...

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Biogas plant to be built in Balassagyarmat

The Sinergy Kft. builds a biogas plant in Balassagyarmat in the scope of a nearly one and a half billion HUF investment. The biogas plant will ensure the cheap heating...

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GKI: Optimism in the real estate market

GKI conducts real estate surveys twice a year in order to assess plans, intentions and prospects of market players (realtors, developers, operators, households and companies) for the next one year....

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NGM : The 30 April deadline will not be extended

So far tens of thousands of traders have not installed the online cash registers, even though the final deadline expires on Wednesday. The National Retail Federation would like to achive...

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So far, nearly 85 thousand online cash registers were installed

So far, the traders have installed nearly 85 thousand online cash registers – the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) told MTI. According to the current rules, the customers of the...

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Hungarian premier: Red Bull introduces three new tastes in Hungary

Red Bull expands its product range in Hungary from two to five products! From 1 May in addition to the already available classic and sugar-free versions, three new products of...

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Professional recognition to Kőbányai beer

The Kőbányai beer received a new award at the Monde Selection competition featuring the world's best food products: the international jury awarded a gold medal to the pilsner-type beer product...

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Each ticket contains 2 shots of free pálinkas at the Budapest Pálinka Festival

The 2014 edition of the Budapest Pálinka Festival opens its gates with a record number of exhibitors and real pálinka specialties on 15 May in the City Hall Park. The...

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Fifty types of Egri wines can be tasted at the Stars of Eger Festival during the weekend

This year, 25 wineries will represent themselves with Star of Eger and Bull's Blood of Eger wines at the 3rd Stars of Eger Festival, which will take place in the...

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The Hungarian computer market’s annual revenue was close to 100 billion HUF

Last year, the computer sales overall rose by a third, compared to 2012. The turnover was close to 100 billion HUF – the Notebook.hu, one of the largest computer distributor...

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Media Hungary 2014: Who will survive the digital storm?

The 19th edition of the Media Hungary 2014 coference, that will be held in Siófok on 13-14 May 2014 will analyze pressing questions about the present and future of the...

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Japanese bought everything before the VAT increase

Japanese retail sales in March grew at a rate has not seen in 17 years, because the customers stormed the store befaore the 1 April increase of the VAT. Japanese...

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Pizza ice cream, Coke jam and romantic rice (Part 4)

Research institute Innova Market Insight gave a presentation at Anuga about major trends: 1. Increasingly critical consumer – simple communication becomes important in order to avoid misunderstandings, and manufacturers try...

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Trends in packaging design

A survey conducted by prestigious packaging design website thedieline.com collected what they think the major trends in packaging design would be in 2014. Some of them might be debated, but...

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OKSZ: many traders cannot install their online cash registers until 30 April

The deadline for those traders, who claimed state support to change their cash registers will be expired next Wednesday on 30 April. Despite the close deadline, the number of those...

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Lidl has a Facebook community of ten million users

Lidl’s social network has reached a milestone. The number of Lidl’s fans on February 27, 2014 crossed ten million – according to the “Lidl Now # 1 European Food Retailer...

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OMSZ: more drought summers and wetter winters to come

In Hungary, we can expect more droughts in the summer and wetter winters in the future and the intensity of extreme weather events could be higher – Radics Kornélia the...

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