News and articles
Magazine: Canned fish: swimming upstream
Date: 2013-01-04 16:15:35
Although fish consumption in Hungary is still way below the European average, the slow conquest of health trends had a favourable effect on fish and canned fish sales in the...
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Global survey about how FMCG-customers get information about certain products
Date: 2013-01-04 15:30:50
Twenty-nine percent of Hungarian customers get information of food and beverages at the venue of the purchase, while another 21 percent finds out useful stuff about sales via friends, family...
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Troubled meat plants would be saved from billions of forints
Date: 2013-01-04 14:10:03
According to the informations of Magyar Nemzet, approximately five and a half billion forints would be spent by the affected municipalities to the recapitalization of the meat plants of Kaposvár,...
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Matolcsy: the deadline for the introduction of new type cash registers may be extended
Date: 2013-01-04 14:00:18
It is possible that the 1 April deadline for the introduction of new type cash registers may be extended and the introduction will take place later. Matolcsy announced the introduction...
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Price increases and closures may come to the meat market
Date: 2013-01-04 13:05:41
In case of pork and poultry products, a further price increases can be expected – writes Világgazdaság. The producers of the sector – especially those who are dealing with chicken...
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The first positive results of the Coop acquisition
Date: 2013-01-04 13:02:52
As a result of Coop leaving the French chain Delhaize, the company has purchased 62 Match and Profi stores in the past few weeks. Gödöllő Coop Co. has inmegrated the...
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KSH: Unemployment rate unchanged
Date: 2013-01-04 12:29:22
In September–November 2012, the number of unemployed people was 468 thousand resulting in an unemployment rate of 10.6%. The number of unemployed people was 468 thousand, 8 thousand (1.6%) more...
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VM: disease detected in case of only one ruminating animal in Hungary
Date: 2013-01-04 12:23:41
Disease detected in case of only one ruminating animal in Hungary – the press office of the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) responded to the Saturday news that Belarus introduced...
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Goverment cuts utilities prices further
Date: 2013-01-04 12:23:10
The government could reduce retail gas, electricity and district heating prices again this year after cutting them by 10% from 1st January, a new annoucment on kormany.hu tells us. The...
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Last year one and a half percent more beer was brewed in the Czech Republic
Date: 2013-01-04 12:22:02
One and a half percent more beer was brewed in the Czech Republic last year, the preliminary datas show – Jan Vesely, president of the Czech brewers association said on...
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NFH: still a lot of offenses at product presentations
Date: 2013-01-04 12:14:49
There are still many infringements occur at product demonstrations, although some improvement can be detected compared to the previous years – shows the report of the National Consumer Protection Authority...
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Agreements with the Catholic Church restrict the opening hours in a few stores in Slovakia
Date: 2013-01-04 12:11:21
Two business networks in Slovakia restricted its Sunday opening hours of a few of its stores, due to an agreement signed with the Catholic Church – the Sme Slovak daily...
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Polaroid opens Fotobar stores in the United States
Date: 2013-01-04 12:00:38
Polaroid opens ten “Fotobar” stores in the United States where digital photos can saved, edited and printed from by using community services such as Instagram, Facebook or Picasa – the...
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Europe's richest businessman is the owner of the Zara fashion brand
Date: 2013-01-04 11:42:02
According to a recent summary, published on Thursday, Amancio Ortega, Spainish businessmen became the richest in Europe. The assets of the owner of the Inditex textile group including the Zara...
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Rural Adventure Chosen as Europe's Best Communications Programme
Date: 2013-01-03 16:53:15
The Vidék Kaland (“Rural Adventure”) Programme has won the competition for communications programmes related to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) launched by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural...
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Frozen pancakes from Mosonszolnok
Date: 2013-01-03 16:50:33
The Cool Foods Kft. created a food plant in Mosonszolnok with a 80 million HUF investment. The plant that specialized for manufacturing pastas will soon give work to twelve employees....
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New Waste Management Regulations
Date: 2013-01-03 16:47:22
Some of the implementation regulations of the new Waste Management Act that came into force on January 1 have been issued. Among others, the new regulations concern the distribution of...
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Opten: 28,305 companies were terminated last year
Date: 2013-01-03 16:45:47
Last year, 28,305 companies were terminated in Hungary, around 4000 more than in 2011 – Opten Informatics Ltd. announced on Thursday. The firm founding mood was skyrocketing in the first...
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A newer food scandal in China: carcinogen materials in cooking oil
Date: 2013-01-03 16:42:38
A recent food abuse have come to light in China: During a national inspection, ten percent of the products did not meet the standards – the sina.com news portal reports....
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Nestlé would expand in China
Date: 2013-01-03 16:35:53
The world's largest food group would increase its market share in China, which soon can be the second largest market for Nestlé behind the United States. The breakthrough came in...
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An unlawful coffee shop and an invoice factory were closed by NAV
Date: 2013-01-03 16:32:00
The tax authority closed an illegitimate coffee shop and an invoice factory. The finance officers seized cash, property and vehicles in a total value of 820 million HUF and 23...
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Praktiker opened a small store in Komárom, Hungary
Date: 2013-01-03 16:18:15
Praktiker inagurated its twenty-first Hungarian store on Thursday in Komárom. The store offering DIY tools and equipments was made with a 50 million HUF investment On 1000 square meters more...
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Still no final decision on food VAT
Date: 2013-01-02 12:59:27
There is still no final decision on the reduction of the VAT on basic foodstuffs – the National Economy Ministry (NGM) informed Népszabadság. The government not yet answered to the...
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Fazekas Sándor: the agrarian economy this year can increase its positive export balance
Date: 2013-01-02 12:58:21
According to the preliminary datas, the Hungarian agriculture can increase its positive export balance this year, which is expected to exceed 3 billion euros, ie 800-900 billion euros – said...
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The school milk program will receive more support in 2013
Date: 2013-01-02 12:55:01
This year, the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) provides an about 1.5 billion HUF for the continuing school milk program, 300 million HUF more than in 2012 – the ministry...
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The BMI of December indicates a shrinkage
Date: 2013-01-02 12:25:42
The purchasing managers' index (BMI), indicated the shrinkage of the manufacturing industry in December. The 48.9 percent value declined by 3.2 percentage points compared with the previous month – the...
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Kassa will be the guest of honor of the Meat Jelly Festival in 2013
Date: 2013-01-02 12:15:07
Kassa will be the guest of honor of the Meat Jelly Festival in 2013 in Miskolc. In connection with the three-day-long European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2013 event, Kassa will...
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The Várda Drink Group is not making losses
Date: 2013-01-02 12:04:33
The Kisvárda-based Várda-Drink Group, dealing with the production and distribution of alcohol reduced its annual more than 300 million HUF loss to zero at the end of last year –...
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Törley and the Magyar Bármixer Unió organized a Festive Cocktail Competition
Date: 2013-01-02 12:02:20
The Törley Festive Cocktail Competition 2012 was held on 10 December, organized by the Magyar Bármixer Unio and the Törley Pezsgőpincészet. The competitors had to use a minimum of 7...
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Russia banned beer sales at night
Date: 2013-01-02 12:01:07
In order to fight against alcoholism beer cannot be distributed in Russia in street stores under 50 square meters from Tuesday. At night beer cannot be sold in any stores....
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