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Jelly feast in Miskolc twice within two weeks
Date: 2014-02-25 11:00:57
A jelly feast will be held in Miskolc twice within two weeks: the 14th traditional jelly feast begins on 7 March. The guests of honor this year will be Szikszó...
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The Czech farmers demand Czech food to the public institutions
Date: 2014-02-25 10:54:48
The Czech farmers demand Czech food products to be served into the institutions of the Czech state. The organization of the Czech farmers sent an open letter to Marian Jurecka...
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The quarter of the cigarette sales has disappeared
Date: 2014-02-24 12:20:01
Only 9.3 billion cigarettes were sold in Hungary in 2013, after the 13 billion cigarettes of 2011 and 12.5 billion cigarettes of 2012. The increase in the price of tobacco...
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The nine-month rise of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index stopped in February
Date: 2014-02-24 11:53:53
The almost continuous nine-month rise of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects stopped in February According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI with the support of...
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The new slaughterhouse will cope with even one million pigs
Date: 2014-02-24 11:28:19
If the new slaughterhouse starts to operate in Bóly, the Bonafarm Group will make slaughtering stop at the Pick Szeged Zrt.. The salami and preparation plant will continue to operate....
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The Pálinka Country tasting to be launched
Date: 2014-02-24 11:25:15
The pálinka houses can enter to the Pálinka Ország kóstoló (Pálinka Country tasting) competition until 7 March. As the result of the challenge, the Book of Pálinka Excellences can be...
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VinCE Budapest Wine Show: dessert, wine and champagne at the Oscar Awards ceremony
Date: 2014-02-24 11:25:04
A film will be debuted about the preparations of Széll Tamás, the most successful domestic Bocuse d'Or finalists on 2 March at the VinCE Budapest Wine Show. On the lectures...
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The Immerse Yourself In! program continues this year
Date: 2014-02-24 11:22:36
This year, more than 13 thousand students of 204 elementary schools can get acquainted with the basics of gardening, thanks to the Immerse Yourself In! program, organized by the Hungarian...
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The Diószegi bakery is expanding in England
Date: 2014-02-24 11:21:43
Diószegi László, bakerman of Sepsiszentgyörgy opened a bakery in Luton, Great Britain – the Romanian Mediafax news agency wrote on Monday. The bakery produces about 300-400 Székely potato breads daily....
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Szik Mátyás has become Hungary’s sommelier champion this year
Date: 2014-02-24 11:02:49
Szik Mátyás won the Hungarian Sommelier Championship in 2014. The competition was held in Budapest, within the framework of the Coffee Bar Bazaar. The Hungarian Sommelier Association (Masosz) provides professional...
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Millions HUF worth cigarette catches on the highway
Date: 2014-02-24 11:02:25
The Finance guards of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) seized 16 million HUF worth cigarettes without tax stamps on the M1 motorway in Komárom-Esztergom county in recent days...
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Google knowledge base in Budapest
Date: 2014-02-24 11:00:23
The Google has established a training center to train advertising professionals in Budapest as the first in the Central and Eastern European region. The Google Ground is equipped with the...
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The future looks rosy
Date: 2014-02-22 00:17:41
The year didn’t start well as until the middle of January it was practically spring instead of winter. However, if we don’t consider the weather, we can be hopeful about...
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New regulations for the customers of the cash machines with revoked permission
Date: 2014-02-21 12:00:27
The support and the deposit can not be reclaimed twice, after the online cash machines with revoked permissions. The National Tax and Customs Autority (NAV) became aware that the former...
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54 percent of the foreign trade surplus is provided by the agriculture
Date: 2014-02-21 11:55:46
The agricultural export revenue is 10 percent of the national exports. The agricultural sector provides more than half (54 percent) of the entire foreign trade surplus – Czerván György Minister...
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The Szentesi pepper became a protected geographical indication
Date: 2014-02-21 11:52:01
The European Commission declared the Szentesi pepper as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) on Friday. In the Food Quality Indicator System of the European Union – the protected designation of...
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The Nébih seized about a thousand bags of fake cocoa
Date: 2014-02-21 11:51:57
The Special Affairs Directorate of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) ordered the confiscation of about one thousand bags of fake cocoa – the agency told MTI on Thursday....
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The HEINEKEN Hungária cooperates with the National Foreign Trade Office
Date: 2014-02-21 11:50:57
The HEINEKEN Hungária Sörgyárak Zrt. (HEINEKEN Hungária) and the National Foreign Trade Agency (HITA) signed a memorandum of cooperation today in Sopron city hall. According to the statement, the National...
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The Bora-Ital builds a modern logistics hall in Békéscsaba
Date: 2014-02-21 11:50:44
The Bora-Ital family business, that is dealing with beverage wholesale and retail is buliding a five thousand square meters of hall in the scope of a greenfield investment in the...
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Prinzhorn Holding signs strategic partnership agreement with the Hungarian government
Date: 2014-02-21 11:34:15
Prinzhorn Holding is the first environmental industry company to enter into a strategic partnership agreement with the Hungarian government that reinforces Prinzhorn Group’s long term commitment to Hungary. The partnership...
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Iranian Ambassador: Hungary could deliver agricultural products to Iran instead of Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-21 11:14:33
Due to the Ukrainian events Hungary could replace the foregone agricultural shipments to Iran – Iran's ambassador said in Debrecen. Morshedzadeh Mohammad Reza, after his meeting with the local chamber...
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Investigations for fake drinks and food products in thirty-three countries
Date: 2014-02-21 11:10:46
The Interpol and Europol seized more than 1,200 tons of false or inadequate standards of food products and almost 430,000 liters of adulterated liquor in an action involving 33 countries...
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Six hundred and fifty kilogrammes of meet will be processed at the I. Pápai Böjtelő festival
Date: 2014-02-21 10:58:18
Six hundred and fifty kilogrammes of meet will be processed at the I. Böjtelő festival in Pápa. where thousands of visitors are expected. The country's best known meat processors will...
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Henkel delivers on 2013 financial targets
Date: 2014-02-21 10:29:21
Solid organic sales growth of 3.5% Sales impacted by foreign exchange effects: 16,355 million euros (-0.9%) Adjusted operating profit: +7.8% to 2,516 million euros Adjusted EBIT margin: +1.3 percentage points...
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Household chemicals and cosmetics were sold for 310 billion HUF last year
Date: 2014-02-20 12:50:09
The food retail sold about 310 billion HUF worth household chemicals and cosmetics in 2013, 1 percent more than in a year earlier. The Nielsen consumer information and knowledge services...
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Imports decreased by 43 percent on the dairy market
Date: 2014-02-20 12:30:53
Dairy imports decreased by 43 percent on the internal market, Hungarian products were managed to incease their share ratio – the Minister of Rural Development said in a press conference...
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Magazine: Innovation centre to be built for the full recycling of PET bottles
Date: 2014-02-20 12:11:39
By next autumn Recy-Pet Kft. (new member of the BUSZESZ-Aquarius group) will finish building a net 4,638m² innovation centre in the Karcag Industrial Park. The foundation stone of the centre...
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The government's zero tolerance concerns all GMO products
Date: 2014-02-20 12:10:38
The government's zero tolerance concerns all GMO products and on this basis the Rural Development Department (VM) will continue to do everything they can to maintain Hungary’s GM-free status –...
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Compensation due to the withdrawn cash registers can be three billion HUF
Date: 2014-02-20 12:05:43
The taking over of the claims of the entrepreneurs for the withdrawn cash registers may cost three billion HUF to the State, but a portion of the amount, or even...
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Euroshop: Let there be light
Date: 2014-02-20 12:02:00
The lighting sector at EuroShop 2014, The World’s Leading Retail Trade Fair, is booming. From February 16 – 20, 2014, the lighting segment occupied the entire Hall 11 with 178,680...
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