News and articles
                    Innovation and value creation with paint
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 23:41:01
												                    
				
                The last 20 years of paint and plaster manufacturing company Poli-Farbe is characterised by quality and innovation awards. Managing director Antal Szabó told our magazine that the firm started out...
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                    Newspaper – for free
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 23:36:39
												                    
				
                Economic recession reshaped the newspaper market: fewer people buy newspapers but the popularity of free ones is growing. A good example of the latter is Metropol, a nationwide daily newspaper...
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                    Jana Green Tea is the new member of the Jana iced tea product family
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 23:31:05
												                    
				
                Jana Green Tea is the new member of the Jana iced tea product family. It contains 30 percent less calories, thanks to natural sweetener stevia. Jana iced tea, made from...
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                    Femina forms a media group
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 23:21:02
												                    
				
                Femina.hu has been a well-known women’s website for years in Hungary and now Femina Media also appears on the scene. Mariann Szabó, Femina.hu’s online advertising executive told our magazine that...
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                    Electronic shelf label at a MOL petrol station
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 23:14:09
												                    
				
                In Hungary electronic shelf labels are already used in many places, especially in food and DIY stores. Petrol stations have long been targeted by electronic shelf labels because of their...
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                    Before the customer decides to buy a product and puts it into the basket
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-30 00:04:16
												                    
				
                Nielsen’s Europe-wide experience is that market players need to concentrate on the following if they wish to increase sales in the current economic environment: new products, pricing, promotions, POS activities...
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                    The price of corn falls: food price explosion may not occur
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 12:50:21
												                    
				
                Despite the drought the price of corn is falling, if the trend continues, the price of food and ethanol may reduce. In the last two weeks the price of corn...
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                    The forecast of GKI Economic Research Co. for 2012-2013
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 12:22:45
												                    
				
                In the first half of 2012 the Hungarian economy got into recession. It further deepened in the second half of this year due to the drought. Consumption, investments and lending...
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                    Harvest panorama – we can expect less grapes, but high quality wine
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 12:00:49
												                    
				
                Less grapes but high quality wine is expected in the historical wine growing regions – shows the harvest panorama of MTI. 24 to 25 thousand hectares falls to the Danube...
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                    Meat Factory of Kapuvár – Crisis Plan is being prepared for next week
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 11:38:38
												                    
				
                Foltányi Árpád minority shareholder prepares a crisis plan for next week. Foltányi Árpád informed MTI, after the company’s suspended general meeting on Thursday. He says that at the meeting that...
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                    Nébih: the botulism in Békés county did not affect the food chain
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 11:35:13
												                    
				
                The examination on botulism disease in Békés county has completed. It was found that the botulism did not affect the food chain – said the National Food Chain Safety Office...
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                    Electric charging station at the mall
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 11:32:32
												                    
				
                The first electric charging station at a shopping mall was handed over in Hungary. Dr. Vígh Gábor, CEO of the Mammut shopping mall and Nagy Zoltán Sales Director of ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ...
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                    The last Cora was transformed to Auchan
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 11:30:30
												                    
				
                Auchan inaugurated its last former Cora store, so the company is present on the Hungarian market with a total of nineteen units. Photo: MTI, Soós Lajos Auchan opened its nineteenth...
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                    Increased household food expenditure in Slovakia
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 11:25:32
												                    
				
                The Slovak household food expenditure rose by 5 percent in the first half of 2012, compared to last year – the Postová banka told MTI on Friday. The analysis is...
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                    Mangalitsa Festival in Székesfehérvár for the first time
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-28 10:28:46
												                    
				
                The Mangalitsa Festival will take place in Székesfehérvár for the first time: farmers, vendors will introduce themselves and offer their products at the festiva lasts from Friday until Sunday. Veégh...
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                    The snack market is shrinking
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 12:46:26
												                    
				
                The domestic consumption of products hit by the public health product tax is decreasing. “The market has shrunk with 15 to 20 percent” – Intersnack Magyarország Kft. told Világgazdaság Online....
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                    More than 430 Hungarian webstores at the Shop of the Country competition
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 11:30:52
												                    
				
                The sales of the Hungarian web stores increase year on year, while traditional shops are often difficult to stand the competition. The webstores are standing still despite the general recession...
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                    Europe drinks Szerencsi coffee
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 11:30:22
												                    
				
                This year, 33 thousand tons of coffee and cocoa leaves Nestlé’s Szerencs-based plant. Beside Hungary, the products are marketet in 28 countries. NESCAFÉ® products are produced in the Szerencs-based plant...
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                    Free pálinka distillation is two years old
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 11:25:54
												                    
				
                The free pálinka distillation called attention to the importance of fruit landraces, however, the number of competitions have shown that private distilerries can produce high-quality distillates – V. Németh Zsolt,...
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                    Hungary's largest solar panel on the top of a Tesco store
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 11:06:46
												                    
				
                Tesco is committed to environmental protection, energy saving so the company installed Hungary's largest solar panel to its Dunakeszi-Fót store. The solar panels are operating since May and generate electricity,...
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                    New Plant Manager at the Unilever factory in Röszke
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 11:00:56
												                    
				
                From September 2012 Kocsis Zoltán fills in the director’s position at Unilever's Röszke-based factory. He has several years of professional experience in the FMCG sector. In the future he will...
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                    DHL Express favours small- and medium-sized businesses
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 10:58:48
												                    
				
                DHL's focus on selected industry sectors means customers benefit from working with specialists – not just in logistics, but also in their particular marketplace. Our aim is to build long-term...
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                    The Salami Store opened in the center of Budapest
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 10:25:59
												                    
				
                On the 1st of September, the Szalámibolt (Salami Store) opened in the center of Budapest. It is also available on Facebook. (www.facebook.com/szalamibolt). The business can be the city's newest tourist...
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                    Praktiker heats up the market of fireplaces
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 10:24:19
												                    
				
                Praktiker wants to reinvigorate the domestic fireplace and stove market with the expansion of heating equipments and with price promotions. The demand gradually shifts towards the lower-priced units. This year's...
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                    Two hundred kinds of foods at the Demecser cabbage days
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-27 10:22:34
												                    
				
                About two hundred kinds of food delicacies are waiting the guests at the eighth Demecser cabbage days, which is one of the biggest culinary festival of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. Gyula Kiss,...
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                    GKI: GDP decreases by 1.5 percent this year and increases by 0.8 percent next year
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-26 13:50:26
												                    
				
                The gross domestic product (GDP) decreases by 1.5 percent this year and increases by 0.8 percent next year – shows the forecast of the GKI Economic Research Company. Vértes András,...
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                    Egg festival of Siófok cancelled
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-26 13:07:55
												                    
				
                The egg festival of Siófok on 12th to 14th October is cancelled, as the organizers are not pleased with the new venue the town's local government has offered. Main organizer...
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                    A courier takes Fórum’s VAT-proposal to the Prime Minister
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-26 12:10:43
												                    
				
                The Fórum “Board for the reduction of basic foods” trade bloc, propose on the basis of the study of Ernst & Young (E&Y), to reduce the VAT of basic foods...
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                    Hungary's largest FMCG distributor was established
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-26 12:00:47
												                    
				
                Hungary's largest FMCG distributor was established. The Zagreb-based Orbico Group purchased the majority of the shares in the Rafinanz Service Kft. in Hungary – Rafinanz Service Kft. announced on Wednesday....
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                    Billions could be saved with the production of domestic cultivar potatoes
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-26 11:55:22
												                    
				
                According to the leader of the Keszthely-based potato cultivar working group, if the domestic potatoe producers would turn to the breeding of domestic cultivated potatoes, the sector could save billions...
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