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The Tetra Pak® has won the prestigious WorldStar Award
Date: 2013-12-12 11:04:41
Tetra Pak’s innovation the Tetra Brik® Aseptic 1000 Edge cardboard packaging has won the prestigious WorldStar Award. Consumers in Hungary could met with the novelty for the first time in...
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Christmas jewelry and chocolate saloon will await the guests during the weekend
Date: 2013-12-12 11:00:33
The 10th Hungoro Jewelry and Chocolate Saloon awaits the kids and adults in addition to jewelry and chocolate with Christmas saloon music, arts and crafts, music and dance acts from...
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New look for DS Smith as it unifies under a single brand
Date: 2013-12-12 10:59:57
The launch will see the pan-European group join up the ‘packaging’, ‘recycling’, ‘plastics’ and ‘paper’ tags in the names of its various divisions and marks the culmination of more than...
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Hungarian ecomomy is expanding faster than Germany
Date: 2013-12-12 10:49:49
Economic activity in Germany grew by 0.3%, a slowdown from the prior quarter, and in France it fell by 0.1%, indicating that the euro zone’s nascent recovery faltered in the...
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Supports in order to preserve genetic stocks
Date: 2013-12-12 10:40:46
The payment of grants in order to preserve the conservation and protection of the genetic stocks of endangered farm animals has started – the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) informed...
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Barely increased food prices, however, much more expensive alcoholic drinks and tobacco
Date: 2013-12-11 12:45:18
Consumer prices were 0.9 percent higher in November, than a year ago. Compared to October, consumer prices decreased by 0.1 percent – the Central Statistics Office (KSH) announced on Wednesday....
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The Ministry of Rural Development would increase pork consumption with three kgs in one year
Date: 2013-12-11 12:42:09
Pork consumption should have been increased by three kilogrammes in one year in Hungary. In oredr to reach this goal a campaign will be launched to encourage consumption – Fazekas...
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A new decree will regulate the kindergarten, and school milk programmes
Date: 2013-12-11 12:01:35
Educational institutions can require support to finance the kindergarten, and school milk programmes – the new decree contains. The decree was published in the Tuesday issue of the Magyar Közlöny...
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NAV will punish without a confirmed cash register order
Date: 2013-12-11 12:01:33
Those traders can accept completely different perception, who are waiting do nothing, from those traders who are unable to meet the requirements of the regulation involuntarily – Aszalós Andrea, spokesperson...
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We do not care if the food is expired
Date: 2013-12-11 12:00:51
The latest online survey of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) reveals how consumers behave in Hungary, when they find expired food products in the stores. The end result...
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KSH : The performance of crop farming had a positive impact on agriculture
Date: 2013-12-11 11:52:24
The volume of crop output in 2013 exceeded last year's figure by 22 percent, while the performance of animal husbandry fell by 3 percent – the preliminary datas of the...
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Magazine: First-price products are pushing forward in flour sales
Date: 2013-12-11 11:17:16
Wheat prices in the world market keep fluctuating and because of this the price of flour also changes. According to Boglárka Horváth-Blázsik, marketing manager at Sikér Zrt., this spring prices...
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Dr. Oetker’s “Support the family” program launched again
Date: 2013-12-11 11:11:39
Dr. Oetker has announced the “Support the family” drawing competition this year also, after the 2011 and 2012 school years. In the scope of Dr. Oetker’s “Support the family” drawing...
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After Tesco Aldi launches its own low-cost tablet
Date: 2013-12-11 11:10:06
Aldi markets the tablet together with Medion – Világggazdaság Online writes after pcworld.hu. The Lifetab E7316 7 inch tablet is specifically cheap. It has a quad-core 1.6 GHz processor and...
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Szatmár Region also sees Improvement of Hungarian-Romanian Economic Cooperation in Agriculture
Date: 2013-12-11 11:00:20
Cooperation between the Ministries of Rural Development and National Economy and the Carpathian Region Business Network are expanding further with the opening of the Network's new office in Szatmárbereg. Thanks...
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Christmas gift from the bag of granny
Date: 2013-12-11 10:29:01
The Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Tourism is organizing a creative program for kids on 14th December 2013. The progtam requires a museum entry ticket. Registration is needed: Miszné Korenchy...
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The forecast of GKI Economic Research Co. for 2014
Date: 2013-12-11 09:38:57
Although Hungary came out of recession this year, its economy did not follow into a trajectory ensuring sustained fast and healthy growth. This year’s recovery is based almost only on...
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Nielsen: the sales of toothpastes and toothbrushes have increased
Date: 2013-12-10 12:40:52
Nearly two million liters of toothpaste and about nine and a half million pieces of toothbrushes were bought by the Hungarian consumers between January and October this year. In the...
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Survey: we spend 10 thousand HUF more on Christmas presents than two years ago
Date: 2013-12-10 12:32:46
According to the recent survey of Budapest Bank, sent to MTI on Tuesday, the Hungarian population spends 10 thousand HUF more an average of 54 thousand HUF on Christmas presents...
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Reform nutrition and taking medicine: the most popular applications of Ipsos
Date: 2013-12-10 12:30:48
According to the international survey of Ipsos, eight out of nine applications mean an important aid in everyday life for the vast majority of those who are using health and...
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Three more PC-based cash registers received permission
Date: 2013-12-10 12:28:38
The Hungarian Trade Licensing Office (MKEH) gave marketing authorizations to three new PC-based cash registers. Laurel has authorized its second computer-based cash register system already, while Synergon’s and Spar’s solutions...
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Magazine: The Viennese classics are already tuning
Date: 2013-12-10 12:11:51
Zoltán Szántó, product manager with Pick Szeged Zrt. informed Trade magazin that according to their market surveys, the wiener category is growing in terms of both value and volume, and...
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The agricultural sector will receive an about 20 percent more EU funding
Date: 2013-12-10 12:10:50
The Hungarian agricultural sector will receive an about 20 percent more EU fundings in the 2014-202 budgetary period of the European Union – Fazekas Sándor, Minister for Rural Development told...
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Petrol stations do not have to close if they ordered cash registers
Date: 2013-12-10 12:00:38
According to the National Economy Misnistry (NGM), there is no need to extend the deadline of the online cash register replacement, because the law-abiding cash-register operators will not be penalized....
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GfK: turnover of the telecom market grew by 30 percent
Date: 2013-12-10 11:59:41
In the third quarter of this year, the turnover of the telecommunications market grew by 30 percent, compared to the same period of the last year – the GfK Hungária...
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reaffirmed the safety of aspartame
Date: 2013-12-10 11:57:36
The International Sweeteners Association ( ISA) welcomes the opinion of the EFSA which again confirmed that the consumption of aspartame is safe. EFSA's scientific experts thoroughly re- examined all available...
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Technological developments at the Cola Trans Kft.
Date: 2013-12-10 11:00:54
In the scope of the Economic Development Operational Programme of the New Széchenyi Plan, the Cola Trans Kft. won 20 million HUF non-refundable aid. The project’s total cost is 58.253.790...
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Sales were stable in value but dropped in volume
Date: 2013-12-10 10:21:15
In November-December 2012 wiener volume sales were up 25 percent from the base period of September-October 2012. This your there has been smaller demand for wiener: 18,000 tons were sold...
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Fish consumption increased by one fifth
Date: 2013-12-09 12:30:38
As the result of the ministry’s marketing campaign, fish consumption has increased considerably this year with about 20 percent in Hungary – Fazekas Sándor Minister for Rural Development told on...
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Cash registers are needed in 1000 tobacco shops as well
Date: 2013-12-09 12:25:06
The Minister for National Development wrote a tender out for the concession of 992 tobacco shops on 18 December. These concessions were freed because the owner has not started sales...
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