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Street of Hungarian Flavours during the national holiday
The Street of Hungarian Flavours opens this year again on August 20 and 21, on the occasion of the national holiday between Clark Ádám and Döbrentei squares in Budapest. The...
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The Festipay Prepaid cards can be used from 11 August
The Festipay Prepaid card debuts Today at the Sziget Festival. The card can be used after the festival at all MasterCard accepting points all over the world. A great interest...
Read moreThis year hail caused less damages than last year in agriculture
The number of hail-stricken farmlands and claims also fell slightly compared to last year, but compensation claims due to the hail were still announced for 44 703 hectares. This year,...
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The Esterházy Baroque Food Cooking Festival will be held in the weekend
The 17th-century kitchen comes alive on August 12 and 13 in Fertőd in the courtyard of the Esterházy- castle, where the Baroque Food Cooking Festival will be held for the...
Read moreOne can apply for a job in the new Ikea from September
The new store of the Swedish IKEA chain opens in Soroksár next spring. Recruitment will begin in September – Varga-Nagy Eszter, head of communication of the chain told MTI after...
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Exhibitions, interactive games in the Hungarikum village
The Hungarikum village awaits the festival goers with Hungaricums collection exhibition, interactive games, as well as short films and Hungarian culinary demonstration at the Sziget festival from Thursday. Festival goers...
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Hungarian cattle are allowed to enter Turkey again
Hungary can export live cattle to Turkey again. What is more, the conditions for transporting live cattle through Austria to Italy will also improve. More products of animal origin will...
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YuMi, the cooperating robot
Zoltán Paplógó, the director of ABB’s robotics business line told Trade magazin that in Hungary it is the automotive industry that shapes the development of robotics. The director is of...
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Henkel delivers strong second-quarter performance
Sales at 4,654 million euros: organic +3.2% (nominal: -0.9%)Emerging markets sales growth: organic +6.1%Operating profit*: +6.6% to 819 million eurosEarnings per preferred share* (EPS): +8.5% to 1.40 eurosVery strong EBIT...
Read moreFM: consumers are getting more conscious
The customers have become more conscious, paying more attention to where and what kind of service and food they buy – Zsigó Róbert, Minister of State of the Ministry of...
Read moreNGM: moderate inflation in Hungary
A moderate inflation environment can be found in Hungary for two and a half years. This helps in the conservation of wages and pensions values – the Deputy Minister of...
Read moreSunday store closure will not be restored
The fact that the regulation of retail work will be submitted during the autumn parliamentary session period, does not mean that the Sunday store closure will be restored – Fidesz...
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ALDI opened its first non-stop business in Hungary
The ALDI Magyarország Élelmiszer Bt. has opened its first 0-24 business unit for the first time in Hungary, thereby contributing to the carefree and relaxing pastime of the festival goers....
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Beer nuts reloaded
We can not speak about summer, gastronomic revolution without beer nuts. Vásárhelyi István gastronomer believes that beer nuts do not need to be greasy or difficult to prepare. The Association...
Read moreOpten: company establish mood reduced in July
In July, 1844 a new companies were established in Hungary, which is 13 percent less, compared to the same period of the previous year. Compared to June it represents a...
Read moreHNT: the vineyard farmers shall deliver the crop estimate by the end of August
The damage assessment of July’s hail has not yet completed at several wine regions, so the vineyard farmers shall deliver the crop estimate by 25 August, which will give a...
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Praktiker organized collection for the children's home in Gencsapáti
The fundraising held for the children of the Kelemen Child Care Home has ended successfully. The donations were collected by the employees of the Praktiker in Szombathely for three months....
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The VAT regulation on vouchers will change positively
The Council of the European Union brings the VAT regulation of single vouchers and voucher systems under control. Because of the impending changes, for the sellers it is worth to...
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Where a dozen eggs cost 42 thousand forints
Such high inflation as in Venezuela cannot be found in the world and the situation is getting worse – origo.hu wrote. Due to the depreciation of the exchange rates prices...
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Another two billion forints for the academy’s new agricultural innovation centre
The government gives another HUF 2 billion for building the new agricultural innovation centre in Martonvásár. With the new building of the Agricultural Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of...
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Romanian groceries in Romanian shops
The Romanian parliament’s lower house gave the green light to the proposal that in supermarkets and hypermarkets 51 percent of grocery products must be Romanian-made. According to the Romanian competition...
Read more16 million HUF fines in the summer food chain checks
Nearly 16 million HUF fines were imposed during the summer food chain controls in July, by the National Food Chain Safety Office’s (NÉBIH) staff – the Minister of State of...
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Experts: medium or poor apple crop is expected
After last year's 520 thousand tons of apple crop- mainly due to frost damages – medium or poor apple crop is expected – according to the survey of the North-East...
Read moreUncertainty in wine production
We do not know the amount of this year’s harvest, but so far it seems that the results of this year's vintage will be very diverse – Légli Ottó told...
Read moreKósa: the regulation of retail work will be submitted to the Parliament in the autumn
In the parliament’s autumn session period, the regulation of retail work will be submitted to the Parliament – Kósa Lajos, Fidesz faction leader told at a press conference on Monday....
Read moreThe peak office to be terminated
For the reorganization of the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) the enire staff of 1,800 people is needed – Gyuricza Csaba, president of MVH told agrárszektor.hu. According to the...
Read moreThe pálinka brand name may be used in Transylvania as well
The members of the Pálinka Knights of Transylvania hope that after discussions with the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, they can use the pálinka brand name in Transylvania soon...
Read moreAugust 8 is the new day of Earth overshoot
Earth Overshoot Day means the amount of nature we use from January 1 till August 8 is as much as the Earth can renew in the entire year. So it's...
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The Brits admit fewer calories than they actually consume
According to the report of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) people eat 3,000 calories in comparison to the 2,000 cited in official surveys – BBC reported on Monday. Director of...
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