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Horsemeat scandal spreads as French retailers pull foods
Date: 2013-02-12 10:58:42
The Europe-wide scandal over horsemeat sold as beef spread Sunday as six French retailers pulled products from their shelves and France promised to have the results of an urgent inquiry...
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Valentine's Day: mainly the younger and higher-income households buy praline
Date: 2013-02-11 13:20:37
According to the datas of the GfK Hungária’s Household Panel survey, the demand for chocolate bars and pralines can be increased with even 70 percent during the Valentine’s Day period...
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The Hungarian Association of Shopping Centers protests against the new interpretation of tobacco stores
Date: 2013-02-11 13:19:49
The Hungarian Association of Shopping Centers does not agree with the changing of the tobacco retail concession tender. They say that it would eliminate tobacco shops from the shopping centers...
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Growing pigs stoks
Date: 2013-02-11 12:40:13
After three years of decline, the number of Hungarian pigs increased slightly in the past six months – the Central Statistical Office’s recent analysis shows. On 1 December 2012, 2...
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Praktiker withdraws from Turkey
Date: 2013-02-11 12:15:53
11 February 2013. Praktiker AG is withdrawing from business in Turkey and, in view of the persistently loss-making operations in this country, suspends payments to the local subsidiary. As a...
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Nébih: Hungary does not affected by the horse meat scandal
Date: 2013-02-11 11:58:34
According to current informations, Hungary did not receive horse meat shipments – the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih). The National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) continues to monitor the...
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POPAI 2003-13: one decade of in-store marketing in Hungary
Date: 2013-02-11 11:54:06
POPAI, the Chicago-seated global association for Marketing at Retail was founded 77 years ago. Its Hungarian branch, the POPAI Hungary Association is 10 years old. Founder-president Miklós Bonyár informed members...
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MVH: the payment of separate sugar support has started
Date: 2013-02-11 11:20:23
The Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) started to pay out the separate sugar supports – the agency told MTI on Monday. According to the communication, the MVH allocates 10...
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METRO: 74 million HUF worth food to the people in need
Date: 2013-02-11 11:17:06
Bakery and dairy products, vegetables and fruit, cold cuts, meat, fish and other non-perishable food products were sent to the needy in a value of 74,025,426 million HUF in the...
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Brush instead of coffee, creative paper instead of canvas
Date: 2013-02-11 11:15:40
The creative application of NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® and the Papyrus Hungária Zrt. successfully ended. The best applications were chosen by a renowned jury with the lead of Agatha Ruiz de...
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The “We Support the Family” Program’s annual drawing competition was completed
Date: 2013-02-11 11:12:03
The program ended with a result of 16 million online votes, more than 6,600 children's drawings, about 130 kindergarten and primary schools with a valid tender and the participation of...
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The Ministry of Rural Deverlopment will save the poultry processing plant in Kálmánháza
Date: 2013-02-11 11:00:04
The poultry processing plant in Kálmánháza, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County will receive ministerial help to survive. The stake is to save two hundred and fifty jobs and to maintain the market. Kálmánházi...
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Coface: The crisis in Europe is far from over for corporates
Date: 2013-02-08 13:05:20
Based on its day-to-day contact with companies worldwide, Coface has issued a cautious scenario for the global economy in 2013. The recovery of advanced countries is still in hostage to...
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OKSZ: The proposed amendment of the tobacco law is hazardous for small businesses
Date: 2013-02-08 12:59:36
The National Trade Association (OKSZ) has no objection to the modest extension in the offer of the new tobacco stores. But the submitted new amendment endangers the existence of many...
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The United States has authorized the import of Hungarian Mangalica
Date: 2013-02-08 12:52:53
The United States has authorized the importation of Hungarian bred Mangalica – Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, Ambassador of the United States announced on Friday, at the press conference held at the...
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Ministerial Commissioner supervises the implementation of the pig program
Date: 2013-02-08 12:52:37
Ministerial Commissioner will supervise the implementation of the pig program – Fazekas Sándor, Minister of Rural Development announced at the opening of the 6th Mangalica Festival on Saturday in Budapest’s...
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Tobacco shop can be opened in malls if it is accessible on holidays without restrictions
Date: 2013-02-08 12:25:34
Tobacco shop can be opened in malls and shopping centers, if it is accessible on holidays without limitations – Légrádi Petra, Communications Officer of the National Tobbacco Trading Nonprofit Co....
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Fruit Logistica is closing with a success in spite of the recession
Date: 2013-02-08 11:37:35
Thirteen Hungarian exhibitors have given a wide picture of the groceries- and fruit production within the compass of the Fruit Logistica tradeshow in Berlin from 6th to 8th February. The...
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The local government of Pápa helps the Pápai Hús 1913 Kft. through its own company
Date: 2013-02-08 11:10:27
As the local government cannot directly give loan to the company, as a shareholder it can give a support of 650 million HUF through its own company to the Pápai...
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Britain would suspend the importation of meat products from the EU
Date: 2013-02-08 11:00:04
Anne McIntosh, president of the House of Food and Rural Affairs Committee told BBC radio on Sunday, that a moratorium should be introduced on all meat products of the EU...
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A decline occured in retail sales in Slovakia
Date: 2013-02-08 10:59:14
Retail sales in Slovakia declined by 4 percent in last December on an annual basis – shows the analysis of UniCredit Bank, which was sent to MTI on Tuesday Retail...
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The thirteenth meat jelly festival of Miskolc is promoted in Budapest
Date: 2013-02-08 10:52:56
The thirteenth Meat Jelly Festival of Miskolc promotes its program in Budapest at the City Park Ice Rink. The festival will be held on Saturday. The festival's guest of honor...
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Strong brands, strong Hungary
Date: 2013-02-07 23:53:23
On 10 January the Hungarian Brand Association held an extraordinary general assembly in the building of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (SZTNH), in order to introduce the results of the...
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Intelligent companies
Date: 2013-02-07 23:46:36
According to Ernő Ferenc Jancsich, an expert with Xapt Kft. the food industry creates a great challenge for business management software in the fields of base material supply and production....
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Receipts and invoices
Date: 2013-02-07 23:38:02
When we talk about cash register systems, we have to make an important distinction between cash registers and receipt printing systems – says Imre Mészöly, regional head of Citizen Systems....
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IT-audit: hardly known in Hungary, almost an obligatory routine abroad
Date: 2013-02-07 23:34:17
Firms that have their IT systems audited from time to time can save significant amounts of money from their IT budget. Still, in Hungary one quarter of companies doesn’t use...
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Frozen barcodes
Date: 2013-02-07 23:25:01
Barcodes and barcode-based identification, storage, transportation and logistics are all very important at Kedvenc JM Kft., a retailer and wholesaler of frozen meat and meat products. Informatics director Julianna Szauter...
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Soft drink and fruit juice consumption fell by 10 percent last year
Date: 2013-02-07 13:00:22
Hungarian soft drink and fruit juice consumption decreased by 10 percent last year – the Association of Hungarian Soft Drinks, Juices and Mineral Water Manufacturers told MTI on Thursday. According...
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FruitVeB: the development of the fruit and vegetable sector can bring hundreds of thousands of new jobs
Date: 2013-02-07 12:58:36
Hundreds of thousands of new jobs would be created through the development in the fruit and vegetable sector in the Hungarian agriculture Mártonffy Béla, chairman of the Hungarian Fruit and...
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Who will pay the ferryman?
Date: 2013-02-07 12:55:24
The participants of the food chain put up this question literally in connection with the new toll payment system, planned from July. The broadening of the road toll system will...
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