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Seven Hungarian companies have debuted at the Russian food fair
Date: 2013-11-15 11:00:43
Seven Hungarian production companies have debuted at the largest food trade show of North-East Russia – the National Foreign Trade Agency (HITA ) told MTI on Friday . According to...
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Two European 3PL Awards for Raben Group
Date: 2013-11-15 10:51:43
The winners of this year's eyefortransport European 3PL Awards were announced and celebrated at a reception during the eyefortransport's 11th Annual 3PL Summit held at the Steigenberger Airport Hotel Amsterdam...
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Chocolate makes you smarter
Date: 2013-11-15 10:03:21
Chocolate isn't usually on the diet for snails, but when Lee Fruson and Ken Lukowiak from the University of Calgary, became curious about the effects of diet on memory, they...
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Calorie labels fitted to staircases
Date: 2013-11-15 09:56:52
Stairwells in public buildings will be labelled as exercise apparatus under a government-backed scheme to make office workers and commuters across Britain fitter. Trials at three large office buildings found...
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2% of Chinese people consume 1/3 of world's luxury items
Date: 2013-11-15 09:04:04
Some 27 million Chinese people, or two percent of the country's total population, are reportedly consuming one third of the world's luxury items, including cosmetic products, private jets, jewellery, timepieces...
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KSH: GDP grew by 1.7 percent in the third quarter
Date: 2013-11-14 12:50:58
Hungary's gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 1.7 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period of the last year, while compared to the second quarter the economy’s...
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Analysts expect a further acceleration of GDP growth in the fourth quarter
Date: 2013-11-14 12:32:42
Banking analysts expect a further acceleration of economic growth in the fourth quarter of the year, after the positive GDP datas of the third quarter. According to the Ministry of...
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The animal breeder will loose on VAT reduction
Date: 2013-11-14 12:22:42
The VAT reduction on living and half-pigs to 5 percent – despite the intentions and declarations – will not provide a meaningful solution against the black economy and will not...
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VM: 60 percent of the tested foods met the requirements of the Hungarian product regulation
Date: 2013-11-14 12:11:05
The control of food products using the Hungarian product labeling is underway since September after a grace period of one year – Kardeván Endre, Minister of State of the Ministry...
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Feldman: VAT reduction on pigs is an integral part of government program, that aims to recover the sector
Date: 2013-11-14 12:10:05
The VAT reduction on living and half-pigs is organically integrated into the government program, that aims to recover the pig sector – Feldman Zsolt, Deputy Minister of State of the...
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New applications will open for the development of animal husbandry and food processing technologies
Date: 2013-11-14 12:00:54
New applications will be announced for the introduction of animal husbandry and food processing technologies, from the sources of the Rural Development Funds. Búsi Lajos, Minister of State of the...
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GDP – Growth-prognosis is helped my LOndon analysists
Date: 2013-11-14 11:30:52
According to JP Morgan, it had significantly upgraded its forecast for Hungary’s GDP growth on the back of a robust auto sector and the simultaneous fiscal and monetary easing. London's...
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European Economic Forum: the wineries of the Danube Wine Region were introduced in Poland
Date: 2013-11-14 11:15:50
Eight Bács-Kiskun and Csongrád County wineries of the Danube Wine Region debuted jointly at the 6th European Economic Forum, held in Lodz, Poland. The wineries brought mainly traditional Hungarian wine...
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Wal-Mart's profit has increased
Date: 2013-11-14 11:10:16
Wal-Mart reported a profit growth for the third quarter, that was ended in October. The world's largest retailer has increased its profits on an annual comparision by 2.8 percent, to...
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HITA: Hungarian companies at the Hong Kong International Wine&Spirits Fair
Date: 2013-11-14 11:09:09
This year, six wineries and four trading company represented Hungary at Hongkong’s largest wine and spirits trade fair at the Hong Kong International Wine&Spirits Fair event – the National Foreign...
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The Cake and Wine Tasting Festival in Budapest is up to break a record
Date: 2013-11-14 11:08:07
The Cake and Wine Tasting Festival of Budapest aims to break a Hungarian record by eating more than ten thousand cake bites. The festival is organized on the basis of...
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Food Avalanche helped 10 thousand people
Date: 2013-11-14 10:27:17
In the scope of the program, 27 local governments and non-governmental organizations have received support. Under the program, the participants grow vegetables locally from the seeds offered by the Syngenta,...
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Strawberry in the warm weather
Date: 2013-11-14 09:16:54
The warm and sunny autumn-time has led to an early… or late strawberry growth at certain frms in mid-November…...
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Fourteen winners at the POPAI Awards Competition
Date: 2013-11-13 12:50:21
The results of the 4th Hungarian POPAI Awards POP Competition were announced on 7 November 2013, in the scope of Trade Marketing Klub’s year closing event. Nearly 100 people gathered...
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Charge-free cash withdrawal enacted
Date: 2013-11-13 12:39:56
Over the past one year, the costs of banking services have increased significantly and in order to decrease them the National Assembly today adopted an amendment which stipulates the free...
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European Trade Day: traders are in focus
Date: 2013-11-13 12:31:20
Improving consumer confidence is expected, but no more dealine modifications are expected, in connection with the installment of online cash registers – Varga Mihály Minister of National Economy told at...
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The first PC-based online cash register was installed
Date: 2013-11-13 12:30:28
The first PC-based online cash register, developed by the Laurel Group was installed at a national tobacco shop in Székesfehérvár. The first PC-based cash register system is approved by the...
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KSH: agricultural producer prices decreased in September
Date: 2013-11-13 12:29:32
The agricultural producer prices fell by 13.7 percent in September, compared with a year earlier – the Central Statistics Office (KSH) published on Wednesday. In particular, prices of crop products...
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Consumer Protection Authority: not all checked lactose-free products are lactose-free
Date: 2013-11-13 11:12:39
Most of the products sold as lactose-free products, tested by the National Consumer Protection Authority (NFH) met the requirements, but in two cases almost double the amount of lactose was...
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The government launches a food industrial working capital loan program
Date: 2013-11-13 11:08:47
The MFB Hungarian Development Bank announces a food industrial working capital loan program. The food industrial working capital loan program of the MFB Hungarian Development Bank has a budget of...
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The wine of Budapest to be elected
Date: 2013-11-13 11:05:58
A white and red wine can win the Wine of Budapest title every year, on which the capital announced a tender for the first time. Tarlós István mayor, announced the...
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The Hungarian Trading House was opened in Beijing
Date: 2013-11-13 11:04:28
Szijjártó Péter, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations informed MTI on Wednesday that the Hungarian Trading House was opened in Beijing. Szijjártó Péter explained at the press...
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The Haribo develops its Nemesvámos-based factory from 3.5 billion HUF
Date: 2013-11-13 11:03:47
Haribo closed a three and a half billion HUF investment in its Nemesvámos-based factory. The company received 800 million HUF non-repayable fundings in the scope of the New Széchenyi Plan...
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The harvest in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region soon to be finished
Date: 2013-11-13 11:00:26
The harvest soon to be finished in the Tokaj-Hegyalja historic wine region. This year, the quality of the grapes and the Aszú is outstamding. The region's largest grape purchaser and...
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KonzervBár received a marketing award
Date: 2013-11-13 10:26:59
Szatmári Könzervgyárt Ltd. has received a marketing award at OMÉK. Members of the committee for the Hungarian Marketing Association have empasized that the company's tender has proved to be a...
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