News and articles
Excellent wines in Auchan stores
Date: 2014-11-21 10:44:33
In October Minister of Agriculture Dr Sándor Fazekas opened the Auchan wine fair. During the fair outstanding Hungarian wines featured in the ministry’s Book of Excellent Wines were sold with...
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Cofidis: we plan to spend an average of 33 thousand HUF for Christmas gifts
Date: 2014-11-20 12:00:15
The Black Friday will be held this year on 21November. This is traditionally the start of the Christmas shopping season. The Hungarians plan to spend an average of 33 thousand...
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Tobacconists expect a positive turn from the amendment of tobacco trade law
Date: 2014-11-20 11:35:57
The Association of the Hungarian Tobacco Retailers (MDKE) evaluate the proposed amendment as a favorable turn. The law regulating the tobacco trade law optimizes the operating conditions, at the same...
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The Tesco has opened its 222nd store in Törökbálint
Date: 2014-11-20 11:30:11
The Tesco expands its retail network further with a new store. With the latest Tesco in Törökbálint the number of Tesco stores in Hungary will increase to 222. The store...
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The Tokaj Trading House is filling its cellars with Premium Aszú
Date: 2014-11-20 11:28:40
The Tokaj Trading House closed this year's harvest season with the purchse of 260 tonnes of aszú grapes surpassing the preliminary expectations. Thanks to the successful harvest, the wine company...
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This year’s Food avalanche brought a record crop
Date: 2014-11-20 11:24:35
The Food avalanche programme of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta helped more than 13 thousand needy people. On the fields of the 37 participating local governments and non-governmental...
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The Unilever won the Business Ethics Award
Date: 2014-11-20 11:23:32
The Business Ethics Awards were handed over on 19 November. This year, the Unilever Magyarország (Unilever Hungary) won the multinational company category. With the award, the jury recognized the company's...
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Coca-Cola CUP: high school girls love to play football more and more
Date: 2014-11-20 11:22:22
The amateur high school football championships, the Coca-Cola CUP began its third season. The Tournament taking place under the professional supervision of the Hungarian Football Association. This year more than...
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The tobacco industry representatives oppose the nationalization of tobacco wholesale
Date: 2014-11-20 11:21:38
The tobacco industry representatives considered the latest government bill it unacceptable which would nationalized the wholesale trade of tobacco products without prior professional consultation – the Hungarian Association of Tobacco...
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Unilever's European Food Business Reaches 100% Traceable, Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
Date: 2014-11-20 11:20:46
Unilever has published its sustainable palm oil progress report, highlighting significant steps forward in the traceability of palm oil from known sources. 58% of global volume is now traceable to...
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New York has the world's most expensive shopping street
Date: 2014-11-20 11:12:06
The upper section of New York's Fifth Avenue overtook Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay area, and become the world's most expensive shopping area on the basis of rents – Cushman &...
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Obesity imposes almost as much costs to the world as smoking
Date: 2014-11-20 11:10:09
Obesity imposes almost as much costs to the world as smoking and armed conflict. It has higher costs than either alcoholism or climate change – a US research revealed, which...
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No offers arrived to the assets of the Kapuvári meat factory
Date: 2014-11-20 11:05:14
No offers arrived to the assets of the Kapuvári meat factory, until the application deadline ended on of Thursday – Kovács Csaba the Managing Director of the National Reorganization Nonprofit...
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Government subsidises interest rates to help producers’ organisations
Date: 2014-11-20 10:47:00
The government decided to grant interest rate subsidies to Producers’ Sales Organisations (TÉSZ) via the New Hungary TÉSZ Current Asset Loan Programme. MFB Bank implements the programme, in which TÉSZ...
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A shopping center was opened in Szeged using the technological innovations of the Szintézis ZRt.
Date: 2014-11-19 12:20:20
The CBA supermarket chain always considered the shopping convenience and satisfaction of customers important. The shop opened in Szeged on 12 November is an excellent example of this, as the...
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The Hungarian Advertising still calls for the elimination of the tax on advertising
Date: 2014-11-19 12:10:25
The Hungarian Advertising Association (MRSZ) and the associates of the communications industry ask for the elimination of the tax on advertising again and draw attention to the expected adverse effects...
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The Christmas shopping fever has started
Date: 2014-11-19 11:22:59
While in October only one in ten Hungarians hits the stores for Christmas presents, in November, the third of the population starts to looking for Christmas presents. In Budapset every...
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The tobacco industry’s operators and the tax authorities launched a campaign against the black market
Date: 2014-11-19 11:21:03
The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) as well as the domestic tobacco industry players have launched a nationwide campaign against the black market sales of tobacco – was announced...
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The Hungarian National Trading House has signed a strategic agreement
Date: 2014-11-19 11:20:56
The Hungarian National Trading House has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Association on Tuesday. The purpose of the agreement is to jointly explore...
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The product range of the zobacco shops may expand
Date: 2014-11-19 11:19:10
In the future, tobacco shops can sell chewing gums, mints, public transport tickets, and the buyers can upload their mobile phones as well in the tobacco shops – according to...
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The Adecco’s new research will help in job market entry
Date: 2014-11-19 11:18:04
Adecco’s first global study reveales the most important research results related to job search, digital reputation, manpower search in the era of the social media. Adecco Group, the world's leading...
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Can nice people find jobs easier?
Date: 2014-11-19 11:17:06
Nine out of ten jobseekers would be satisfied with less imaginary salary, while slightly more than half of the submitted applications contain statements that do not correspond to reality. The...
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An Energy-saving solution for a large part of the bakeries
Date: 2014-11-19 11:16:12
A world novelty innovative technology is operated in a bakery in Tiszakécske. First in the country a WP Rototherm oven was installed, which can consume 20-30 percent less energy than...
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Debrecen will have its own wine
Date: 2014-11-19 11:14:28
Debrecen will have an own wine again: the red and white wines that can bear the Wine of the City title will be presented at wine muster that will be...
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Google rented the world's largest billboard
Date: 2014-11-19 11:12:33
In an era when digital screens large and small proliferate but attention is increasingly scarce, some marketers are making a huge bet that one of the biggest displays in the...
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Only consumption growth can save apple farmers
Date: 2014-11-19 09:20:23
Hungary’s Interprofessional Organisation for Fruit and Vegetable (FruitVeB) suggested several solutions how to increase apple sales. These could raise the currently 15kg per capita annual apple consumption level by 10kg....
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Winemakers want higher alcohol content
Date: 2014-11-19 09:08:37
The National Council of Wine Communities would like the European Commission to authorise Hungarian winemakers to increase the natural alcohol content of wines with sugar, by 0.5 percent abv in...
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The CBA, Coop and the Reál are supporting the Sunday shop closure
Date: 2014-11-18 12:20:21
The CBA, Coop and the Reál have the highest turnover (combined revenues of 1,441.4 billion HUF in 2013, 77,000 employees) among the chains in Hungary. Now these three Hungarian owned...
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The SPAR stays in Hungary
Date: 2014-11-18 12:15:18
SPAR’s press conference was held in front of a full house of journalists on 18 November 2014. After the Parliamentary adoption of the tax package that will seriously affect the...
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The sales of daily consumer goods would be prohibited for the large loss making companies
Date: 2014-11-18 12:12:50
From January 2018, the government would prohibit the sales of daily consumer goods for the big companies that have zero or negative net income in two business years in a...
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