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Europe's earliest new wine is already bottled in Badacsony
Date: 2011-08-24 12:47:33
The bottling of Europe's earliest new wine, the Csabagyöngye started in Badacsony. The harvest ended in early August and two hundred thousand bottles are available – said Varga Péter, managing...
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GFK: Schoolbags and notebooks sell well
Date: 2011-08-24 12:29:09
In the current economic situation, a successful season is particularly appreciated, and the start of school is one of these times. The beginning of the school year opens up new...
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More than half of the population would not spend more than 10 000 HUF on school supplies
Date: 2011-08-24 12:26:47
53 percent of the population is not willing to spend more on school supplies than 10 000 HUF, and 50 percent of those asked are waiting for a state support...
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Hungarian Weeks at Tesco
Date: 2011-08-24 12:21:54
Following the anniversary of the state-foundation, Tesco opens a special offer of Hungarian products: customers get to purchase several domestic products with a 40 percent discount. These Hungarian products wiill...
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Tesco can appear with an own mobile brand
Date: 2011-08-24 12:02:18
A new mobile brand will soon appear in Hungary, as the Tesco supermarket chain is in advanced talks with one of the domestic mobile operator in connection with own branded...
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Nestle expands its Russian pet food factory
Date: 2011-08-24 12:02:16
The Nestle group spends more than 38 million Swiss francs for the further expansion of its Russian pet food factory, in order to double its local production capacity within three...
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Increase in the sales of the Swiss chocolate manufacturer
Date: 2011-08-24 12:01:00
The premium chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli Group's revenues in Swiss francs weakened to close to a billion by 4.7 percent in this year's first half, but calculated in local...
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Metro and the ECE to form a joint venture
Date: 2011-08-24 12:00:09
The shopping center specialist ECE created a joint venture for the take over operation of the Metro department stores. The ECE and the Metro Properties, dealing with Metro's real estate...
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The Agricultural Days near the Rába will debut next weekend
Date: 2011-08-24 11:55:49
The Agricultural Days near the Rába will be held for the first time next weekend – that was announced at the event's press conference in Győr. About sixty exhibitors will...
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Sales are distributed evenly
Date: 2011-08-24 11:47:38
Spice retail sales grew by 1 percent in April 2010-March 2011, from the previous comparable period. Volume sales were down 1 percent on the HUF 13-billion market. In 2009 manufacturer...
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VAT on food will not reduce next year
Date: 2011-08-23 13:20:45
In medium terms VAT on food, will not be reduced, the case was removed from the agenda of the government – reports Népszabadság. In the spring, the rural development ministry...
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Looking for the cheap, canned beers
Date: 2011-08-23 13:10:07
The big losers of last year were the glass packed, and alcohol-free beers were, but overall, the total domestic beer market was shrinking in 2010, as in previous years. Within...
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Ministry of Rural Development: goose liver at the Anuga is a success for the Hungarian agricultural diplomacy
Date: 2011-08-23 12:50:16
Diplomats in charge for the Hungarian agricultural information gathering and lobbying achieved to remove the ban on goose liver at the Cologne Fair trade – told the Ministry of Rural...
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ZEW-index: German economic sentiment fell
Date: 2011-08-23 12:49:39
In August, a significant deterioration occurred in the economic sentiment in Germany – shows the survey of ZEW. The main index decreased from -15.1 points to -37.6 points (a level...
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More and more fast-food restaurants in Russia
Date: 2011-08-23 12:49:36
The American fast-food restaurants have become a global phenomenon several years ago. China and India continue to be a rapidly developing market, but the industry finds a growing demand also...
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11 percent of the British retail spaces are empty
Date: 2011-08-23 12:45:58
More than 10 percent of the retail spaces were empty at the end of May – told the British Retailers Consortium (BRC) on Monday. The organization's research found that an...
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Cheap Ukrainian wheat can break down the prices
Date: 2011-08-23 12:41:41
The cheap Ukrainian wheat also occured in Hungary, after the traders of the EU applied for permits for the imports of more than 1.6 million tons of grain in July...
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Vegetarian Festival in the Weekend
Date: 2011-08-23 12:30:53
Macrobiotic and vegetarian tasting sessions, organic and organic-based product presentations, nutrition specialist lectures, relax and dance lessons and many interesting programs are awaiting the participants of this year's Vegetarian Festival...
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Important state award to Coop-collegues
Date: 2011-08-23 11:15:48
Three collegues of Coop Ltd have received the most important state award on 20th August, namely the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Republic. Dr. József Tóth, president-CEO of Coop Tisztaföldvár,...
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Magazine: margarine plays an important role in shopping frequency
Date: 2011-08-23 10:58:51
Margarine retail sales declined by 3 percent in both value and volume in the April 2010-March 2011 period, compared with the same period a year before. The annual market was...
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PICK sees an increase
Date: 2011-08-23 10:36:42
PICK has kept is market-leading position, and even saw a 0.5 percent increase in spite of difficult market situation. Among many other things, this is linked to the great marketing...
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(HU) A Rauch bemutatja a Happy Day Spritzer-t, a frissítők új kategóriáját
Date: 2011-08-23 09:59:43
Happy Day Spritzer is pleasantly carbonated and fruity, but at the same time it is a tender combination of flavours that makes a real novelty on the fruit drinks market,...
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Sió-Eckes helping with school-start
Date: 2011-08-23 09:03:32
Sió-Eckes Co. is going on with their four-year old charity program, called Thank you, Sió!. This year, the program has supported more than a thousand primary schhol children in need,...
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Red Bull sports programs are on
Date: 2011-08-23 08:49:06
Moments before the final, a massive thunderstorm was threatening to soak Red Bull Manny Mania, yet miraculously the clouds parted and Joey Brezinski was able to skate his way back...
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Europe-wide srowth slowdown
Date: 2011-08-22 13:40:17
As noted in our Eurozone Outlook update, forward-looking PMI indicators clearly signal a sharp slowdown ahead, including in core economies, as shown by the new-orders-to-inventory ratios in the manufacturing sector,...
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Private pension fund real-returns are in banks
Date: 2011-08-22 13:30:44
A survey carried out on behalf of Budapest Bank and Budapest Alapkezelő found that Hungarian do spend their the real return of their private pension funds, but prefer to place...
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Compensation to Pécs-companies
Date: 2011-08-22 13:15:23
The municipiality of Pécs is willing to pay compensation fee of 45 million HUF to 38 Pécs-based companies which needed to be closed temporarily due to investments of European Capital...
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(HU) A német versenyképesség fenntartásához évi 400 ezer bevándorló szükséges
Date: 2011-08-22 12:35:09
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Farmer Expo attracted 30 thousand visitors
Date: 2011-08-22 12:30:32
Over 30000 visitors and 300 exhibitors were present at this year's Farmer Expo at UD's Centre for Agriculture. The 20th Farmer Expo was organized this August on the campus of...
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Magazine: Consumers spread less margarine on their slice of bread
Date: 2011-08-22 11:26:40
– Base material prices have grown like never before and as a result product prices augmented, so a difficult year awaits distributors – says Ágota Puskás, category operations assistant manager...
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