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Opten: 28,305 companies were terminated last year

Last year, 28,305 companies were terminated in Hungary, around 4000 more than in 2011 – Opten Informatics Ltd. announced on Thursday. The firm founding mood was skyrocketing in the first...

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A newer food scandal in China: carcinogen materials in cooking oil

A recent food abuse have come to light in China: During a national inspection, ten percent of the products did not meet the standards – the sina.com news portal reports....

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Nestlé would expand in China

The world's largest food group would increase its market share in China, which soon can be the second largest market for Nestlé behind the United States. The breakthrough came in...

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An unlawful coffee shop and an invoice factory were closed by NAV

The tax authority closed an illegitimate coffee shop and an invoice factory. The finance officers seized cash, property and vehicles in a total value of 820 million HUF and 23...

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Praktiker opened a small store in Komárom, Hungary

Praktiker inagurated its twenty-first Hungarian store on Thursday in Komárom.  The store offering DIY tools and equipments was made with a 50 million HUF investment On 1000 square meters more...

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Still no final decision on food VAT

There is still no final decision on the reduction of the VAT on basic foodstuffs – the National Economy Ministry (NGM) informed Népszabadság. The government not yet answered to the...

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Fazekas Sándor: the agrarian economy this year can increase its positive export balance

According to the preliminary datas, the Hungarian agriculture can increase its positive export balance this year, which is expected to exceed 3 billion euros, ie 800-900 billion euros – said...

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The school milk program will receive more support in 2013

This year, the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) provides an about 1.5 billion HUF for the continuing school milk program, 300 million HUF more than in 2012 – the ministry...

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The BMI of December indicates a shrinkage

The purchasing managers' index (BMI), indicated the shrinkage of the manufacturing industry in December. The 48.9 percent value declined by 3.2 percentage points compared with the previous month – the...

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Kassa will be the guest of honor of the Meat Jelly Festival in 2013

Kassa will be the guest of honor of the Meat Jelly Festival in 2013 in Miskolc. In connection with the three-day-long European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2013 event, Kassa will...

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The Várda Drink Group is not making losses

The Kisvárda-based Várda-Drink Group, dealing with the production and distribution of alcohol reduced its annual more than 300 million HUF loss to zero at the end of last year –...

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Törley and the Magyar Bármixer Unió organized a Festive Cocktail Competition

The Törley Festive Cocktail Competition 2012 was held on 10 December, organized by the  Magyar Bármixer Unio and the Törley Pezsgőpincészet. The competitors had to use a minimum of 7...

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Russia banned beer sales at night

In order to fight against alcoholism beer cannot be distributed in Russia in street stores under 50 square meters from Tuesday. At night beer cannot be sold in any stores....

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Stella Artois campaign for Christmas

There are a lot of men who'd love to see Alice Eve gift wrapped under their tree on Christmas morning. And thanks to a new viral campaign by Stella Artois,...

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New year's resolution 2013: beautiful, healthy teeth

cientists have discovered a new molecule that will make your teeth cavityproof and may change dental care forever. They have appropriately named it Keep 32—for your 32 teeth—and it can...

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Magazine: Our cocktail!

Despite Hungary’s relatively poor cocktail culture our bartenders achieve good results in different competitions and at the annual Drinks International Boutiq’Bar (Budapest) was named one of the world’s 50 best...

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Nielsen: the Hungarian consumers would buy especially food products if they would have more money

If the Hungarian consumers could spend 10 percent more money each month, they would spend the most part of it (2.4 percent) for food and drinks, that can be consumed...

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The fisheries are entirely using EU supports

The 150 EU fishing projects’ support value excessed 7.8 billion HUF. Along with this the sector implements a total of 47 billion HUF investments, taking advantage of the full funding...

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GVH: consumer affairs in focus

The Competition Authority closed about 110 cases in 2012, and launched about the same number of legal proceedings. Consumer protection issues made up the majority of cases that were initiated...

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FrieslandCampina to close its factory in Debrecen

The FrieslandCampina dairy company will close its plant in Debrecen from September 2013 but signed a memorandum of understanding with a possible purchaser, so it is possible that the factory...

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More than one million bottles of champagne and hundreds of tons of sausage in the Tesco

More than a million bottles of champagne, kids champagne, sparkling wine, as well as 350 tons of bulk packs and 700,000 pre-packed sausages awaited the customers before New Year's Eve...

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The local government of Pápa increases the capital in the Pápai Hús 1913 Kft.

The local government increases its current eight percent ownership to fifty percent in the Pápai Hús 1913 Kft. – the mayor of Pépa announced, who did not disclose the exact...

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Family-owned venison meat processing plant began operation in Nógrád

A family-owned venison meat processing plant began operation in the village of Nógrád. The company is processing 15 to 20 wild animals per week – Villányi Péter, the owner of...

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The Balatoni Crown has lived up to the expectations

The Balatoni Crown (Balatoni Korona) can be be used in 200 places. The local currency was introduced end of March this year – Leitold László, President and Chief Executive Officer...

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Sales promotion in a cost-efficient way

Nowadays, one of the key tasks of each marketing and trade marketing expert is sales promotion. Experts need to think in terms of complex promoting strategies, ones which are commensurate...

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Slightly improving economic expectations

GKI-Erste economic confidence index adjusted for seasonal effects has been slightly improving since September. In December expectations have improved in the business sector for three consecutive months, whereas they have...

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MNB expects a 3.5 percent inflation and 0.5 percent economic growth for the next year

According to MNB’s new inflation forecast, this year’s average inflation rate will be 5.7 percent. Next year it will be 3.5 percent and for 2014 a 3.2 percent is forecasted....

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The price is the most important aspect at shoes and dress

When the Hungarian consumers choose to buy, most of them, (50 percent) considers price as the most important aspect at shoes and dress. 48 percent the Hungarian consumers considers the...

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The Arzenál Network joins Reál again

Under the recently concluded a strategic agreement, the Arzenál store network becomes part of the Reál network again from January 2013. After one year of independent operation, the entire Arzenál...

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In third of the test purchases problems were found during the Christmas shopping inspections

Inspectors found problems one in three cases, during this year's pre-Christmas test purchases, while last year this rate was 55 percent – Fülöp Zsuzsanna, spokesperson of the National Consumer Protection...

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