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Wildlife has been growing for decades in Hungary
Date: 2013-11-18 09:40:36
The National Agricultural Chamber organized a game management conference on Friday in Bugyi, Pest county. The National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) has called the meeting with the participation of 250 professionals,...
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National sweeteners growing more popular
Date: 2013-11-18 09:31:29
Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood...
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More and more applications yet for the hungarikums
Date: 2013-11-18 09:00:09
Nearly one hundred applications arrived to the Hungarikum Commission until Thursday: to support the collection, research and promotion of Hungary’s national values, the hungaricums. Horváth Zsolt, the depository coordinator commissioner...
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650 tons of sweets for two and a half billion HUF for Santa Claus and Christmas
Date: 2013-11-15 13:10:21
In recent years, the food retail sector reached an about two and a half billion HUF revenues from the seasonal sweets of the December holiday season. In 2012, 1 percent...
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GfK continues international expansion
Date: 2013-11-15 13:01:23
Continuing its strategy of international expansion, GfK, an international market leader in market research, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with four of the country’s leading television broadcasters, Band TV,...
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NGM: New cash machine regulation to ensure the smooth transition
Date: 2013-11-15 12:20:18
In order to easen the online cash register replacement, the Minister of National Economy introduced three new regulations. The services will have eight days after the regulation will come into...
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KSH: industrial production grew by 5.5 percent in September
Date: 2013-11-15 12:10:52
In September, industrial production was 5.5 percent higher than in the previous year. The automotive industry and the related supplier industries were the main driving force behind the growth of...
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The crackling scone was registered as a Hungarian specialty in the European Union
Date: 2013-11-15 12:09:54
The Hungarian crackling scone was included to the list of “traditional special products” – the European Commission announced on Thursday. MTI Photo: Soós Lajos According to the product description; the...
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Czerván : annual 4.7 million euros support to the Hungarian apiaries
Date: 2013-11-15 12:09:48
The Hungarian apiaries will receive an annual funding of 4.7 million euros with the 50-50 percent withholding provision of the European Union and the Hungarian government – Czerván György, Minister...
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Auchan launches a backyard pig breeding program in the viccinity of Karcag
Date: 2013-11-15 12:08:22
Backyard pig breeding may revive in Karcag and its surroundings – Fazekas Sándor, Minister for Rural Development told on Friday in Karcag, at the event, describing the backyard pig-breeding program...
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Nestlé’s initiative helps young people to find jobs
Date: 2013-11-15 11:13:39
Nestlé with its initiative would help to improve the labor market situation of 20 thousand young people in Europe – Mike Nixon, managing director of Hungária Kft. told at a...
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Seven Hungarian companies have debuted at the Russian food fair
Date: 2013-11-15 11:00:43
Seven Hungarian production companies have debuted at the largest food trade show of North-East Russia – the National Foreign Trade Agency (HITA ) told MTI on Friday . According to...
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Two European 3PL Awards for Raben Group
Date: 2013-11-15 10:51:43
The winners of this year's eyefortransport European 3PL Awards were announced and celebrated at a reception during the eyefortransport's 11th Annual 3PL Summit held at the Steigenberger Airport Hotel Amsterdam...
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Chocolate makes you smarter
Date: 2013-11-15 10:03:21
Chocolate isn't usually on the diet for snails, but when Lee Fruson and Ken Lukowiak from the University of Calgary, became curious about the effects of diet on memory, they...
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Calorie labels fitted to staircases
Date: 2013-11-15 09:56:52
Stairwells in public buildings will be labelled as exercise apparatus under a government-backed scheme to make office workers and commuters across Britain fitter. Trials at three large office buildings found...
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2% of Chinese people consume 1/3 of world's luxury items
Date: 2013-11-15 09:04:04
Some 27 million Chinese people, or two percent of the country's total population, are reportedly consuming one third of the world's luxury items, including cosmetic products, private jets, jewellery, timepieces...
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KSH: GDP grew by 1.7 percent in the third quarter
Date: 2013-11-14 12:50:58
Hungary's gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 1.7 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period of the last year, while compared to the second quarter the economy’s...
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Analysts expect a further acceleration of GDP growth in the fourth quarter
Date: 2013-11-14 12:32:42
Banking analysts expect a further acceleration of economic growth in the fourth quarter of the year, after the positive GDP datas of the third quarter. According to the Ministry of...
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The animal breeder will loose on VAT reduction
Date: 2013-11-14 12:22:42
The VAT reduction on living and half-pigs to 5 percent – despite the intentions and declarations – will not provide a meaningful solution against the black economy and will not...
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VM: 60 percent of the tested foods met the requirements of the Hungarian product regulation
Date: 2013-11-14 12:11:05
The control of food products using the Hungarian product labeling is underway since September after a grace period of one year – Kardeván Endre, Minister of State of the Ministry...
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Feldman: VAT reduction on pigs is an integral part of government program, that aims to recover the sector
Date: 2013-11-14 12:10:05
The VAT reduction on living and half-pigs is organically integrated into the government program, that aims to recover the pig sector – Feldman Zsolt, Deputy Minister of State of the...
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New applications will open for the development of animal husbandry and food processing technologies
Date: 2013-11-14 12:00:54
New applications will be announced for the introduction of animal husbandry and food processing technologies, from the sources of the Rural Development Funds. Búsi Lajos, Minister of State of the...
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GDP – Growth-prognosis is helped my LOndon analysists
Date: 2013-11-14 11:30:52
According to JP Morgan, it had significantly upgraded its forecast for Hungary’s GDP growth on the back of a robust auto sector and the simultaneous fiscal and monetary easing. London's...
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European Economic Forum: the wineries of the Danube Wine Region were introduced in Poland
Date: 2013-11-14 11:15:50
Eight Bács-Kiskun and Csongrád County wineries of the Danube Wine Region debuted jointly at the 6th European Economic Forum, held in Lodz, Poland. The wineries brought mainly traditional Hungarian wine...
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Wal-Mart's profit has increased
Date: 2013-11-14 11:10:16
Wal-Mart reported a profit growth for the third quarter, that was ended in October. The world's largest retailer has increased its profits on an annual comparision by 2.8 percent, to...
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HITA: Hungarian companies at the Hong Kong International Wine&Spirits Fair
Date: 2013-11-14 11:09:09
This year, six wineries and four trading company represented Hungary at Hongkong’s largest wine and spirits trade fair at the Hong Kong International Wine&Spirits Fair event – the National Foreign...
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The Cake and Wine Tasting Festival in Budapest is up to break a record
Date: 2013-11-14 11:08:07
The Cake and Wine Tasting Festival of Budapest aims to break a Hungarian record by eating more than ten thousand cake bites. The festival is organized on the basis of...
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Food Avalanche helped 10 thousand people
Date: 2013-11-14 10:27:17
In the scope of the program, 27 local governments and non-governmental organizations have received support. Under the program, the participants grow vegetables locally from the seeds offered by the Syngenta,...
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Strawberry in the warm weather
Date: 2013-11-14 09:16:54
The warm and sunny autumn-time has led to an early… or late strawberry growth at certain frms in mid-November…...
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Fourteen winners at the POPAI Awards Competition
Date: 2013-11-13 12:50:21
The results of the 4th Hungarian POPAI Awards POP Competition were announced on 7 November 2013, in the scope of Trade Marketing Klub’s year closing event. Nearly 100 people gathered...
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