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Get zoo-tickets for selectively collected cartons

Selectively collected beverage cartons are worth free children's ticket to the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden on September 10th and 11th. Now everybody who brings at least 10 empty milk-...

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New product by Henkel

Pattex Fix is the most powerful adhesive range with an easy & convenient application for all domestic bonding, assembling & repairing jobs through professional quality....

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Retail area will increase by six million square meters until 2013 in the Central European countries

The countries of the region will increase retail space to its one and a halffold by 2013. Romania and Bulgaria, rumbles, while Hungary is progressing very slowly. The Bulgarian and...

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New EU rules about tobacco production

On 16 June 2011, the Commission launched a new campaign, Ex-smokers are Unstoppable, to encourage young adults in the 25 to 34 age group to stop smoking. The campaign shifts...

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35 new Hungarian products added to the Hungarian Traditions – Tastes – Regions collection

35 products were added to the traditional Hungarian Traditions – Tastes – Regions collection, bringing the total number of products bearing the trademark to 83. Typical Hungarian and special regional...

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The strong Swiss franc affects the chocolate and emmental export badly

The best-selling daily consumer goods manufacturers the chocolate and emmental cheese manufacturer Swiss-firms feel mostly the effect of the strong Swiss franc. Due to the decline in their exports, their...

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The Árukereső.hu will give hands to the Turkish e-commerce

Hungary's leading price comparison site, the Árukereső.hu's team built its similar site also in Turkey, called the Ucuzu.com, which became the fastest growing local e-commerce site, tripling the number of...

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Extensive collaboration against tobacco smuggling and counterfeiting

The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) signed an agreement with the member companies of the Hungarian Tobacco Industry (MDSZ) and with the Philip Morris Hungary Ltd. to prevent the...

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We can mix our own Coke on Facebook

Coke has an application on Facebook where the users can set up their own soft drink recipes. We can choose among 125 Coke beverages, that we can prepare our own...

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Wine replaces beer in the Castle of Buda

The 1st Beer Festival in the Castle of Buda opened yesterday and stays open to the visitors until Sunday evening. The visitors can taste more than one hundred types of...

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Magazine: private label products are unstoppable

PLMA’s World of Private Label, the biggest annual private label product trade show in Europe was held in Amsterdam on 24-25 May 2011, with 3,600 exhibitor stands from 70 countries...

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New superglue: Locite Power Easy

Loctite® Super Glue Power Easy Gel Control™ is a user-friendly formulation that allows more time to align and reposition pieces to ensure precision bonding with no accidental bonding of pieces...

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NGM: fixing the exchange rate may prevent a dramatic fall in consumption

The Hungarian government did not anticipate that as a result of the dramatically strengthened Swiss franc, consumption would fall – said the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) to MTI. The...

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Chips-tax can be avoided with new recipes

Where it is possible, the manufacturers are developing new recipes to avoid the chips-tax. The salt grains ncan win, energy drinks may fall – reports Index, after Figyelő. Perhaps the...

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The payment deadline reduces at the domestic firms

The survey results among the domestic businesses show that in the last quarter, the deadline for payment of customer bills towards small and medium-sized enterprises decreased. The expectations are appear...

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The retail property market remained stable

Hungary's retail real estate market continues to show signs of stability in the first half of 2011, after having reached this state last year. “The market participants have adapted to...

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The number of chip bankcards increased by almost two-thirds

The spread of the EMV chip bank cards accelerated in Hungary: at the end of the first half their number reached 4.65 million this is the 53 percent of ther...

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The Spanish-owned company builds a new canning factory in Tatabánya

The Spanish-owned Mivisa Hungary Kft. willé build build its new plant in the Tatabánya-Környei Industrial Park, where the cans will be produced. The project will give jobs to forty people....

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Huge price drops may come in Swiss shops

The retail chains of Switzerland foreseen a significant food price reduction: due to the very strong franc, many customers spend money in Germany and France. According to the informations of...

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National Chocolate Festival in Szerencs for the fourth time

The National Chocolate Festival awaits the guests from inland and abroad on the last weekend of August in Szerencs for the fourth time. After the success of the past three...

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Magazine: An increase in prices and more promotions characterised the wet condiment market

What is new on the wet condiment market? Well, premium brands managed to evade a significant decline in sales and private labels were getting stronger – only the medium category...

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Food safety in extreme heat

Health inspectors want to be certain hood and ventilation systems are working properly and ensuring coolers and freezers are maintaining proper temperatures. Equipment not working properly can be cited and...

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New leader at Danone

From August 2011, the new procurement director of Danone Dairy Producer Ltd. is Zsuzsanna Kasza. The economist started her carreer in the consumer electronics industry, and in 1999 moved on...

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Praktiker builds a community

Praktiker has a new, imroved home on Facebook, where 3.4 million Hungarian users are present. In the focus of their online activity, users can find a good number of tips...

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Actimel has a new member now

Actimel product family has a new member now, called Actimel Powerfruit, containing L. casei Defensis, natural vitamin C deriving from Acerola, additional vitamins B6 and D, helping our immune-system work...

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Dance camp for kids with Camping cheese

Camping cheese is an integral part of summer camps, so no wonder that the company behind the product has sponsored a summer dance camp for kids, where the celebrity instructor...

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Retail sales fall again

The volume of retail sales – on the basis of the calendar-adjusted datas – in June 2011 declined by 0.5% and essentially stagnant in the first half of the year,...

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The heat wave brought massive mineral water and beer sales

The beer and mineral water are consumed more often in the heat. In the stores surveyed by MTI 20-30 percent more was consumed of these drinks in recent days, and...

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Domestic melon consumption accelerated

50 percent of the about 180 thousand tons of the produced watermelons were consumed by the Hungarians this year. Thanks to the successwful watermelon promotion, the domestic consumption increased significantly....

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Milk consumption can increase in long-term, in short term the sector's survival is at stake

Although according to the projections; domestic milk consumption can increase in long-term, it is unlikely to reassure the farmers of Somogy county – writes sonline.hu. Expensive feed, surging purchase prices...

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