News and articles
                    Meet the best Hungarian vodka mixer
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-30 10:48:15
												                    
				
                The best Hungarian vodka mixer was selected now how can take part in the XIV. International Finlandia Vodka Cup. Máté Csatlós, the winner of the Hungariam finals, used to work...
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                    A competition for recycled packages
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-30 09:31:43
												                    
				
                Every year, hundred tons of Christmas gift-papers are being used by Hungarian customers to present their gifts to their loved ones. However, even though these packages are aesthetically pleasing, they...
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                    Rural Ministry: mall-stop helps micro-businesses
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 16:36:38
												                    
				
                As we have informed our readers before, the National Assembly has banned the construction of stores, that have an area of more than three hundred square meters, from the 1st...
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                    The National Assembly has approved the mall stop
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:50:25
												                    
				
                The National Assembly has banned the construction of stores, that have an area of more than three hundred square meters, from the 1st of January. The law contains that the...
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                    The new environmental protection product fee compels the company to raise prices
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:37:39
												                    
				
                The new environmental protection product fee compels the company to raise prices; at the same time, it is not clear for Krajcár Packaging Industry Kft. how many new obligations the...
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                    Magazine: Beer, wine, praline and electronic device packagings were the winners
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:26:53
												                    
				
                This year the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) organised the 28th HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition. There were 61 entries from 38 companies, from which 53 were consumer...
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                    Henkel is committed to sustainability
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:25:03
												                    
				
                The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has ranked Henkel in the top category of its global Palm Oil Buyers’ Scorecard 2011, awarding the company the maximum score of nine...
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                    The national product basket strengthens quality-conscious consumption
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:10:41
												                    
				
                The national product basket initative strengthens quality-conscious consumption, which is becoming more and more frequent among the buyers – said Pintér István, Director-General of the National Authority for Consumer Protection...
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                    More than one billion HUF fine for unfair distribution behavior in one and a half year
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 13:00:07
												                    
				
                In the past one and a half year more than billion HUF fines were imposed because of unfair distribution practices – was told at Monday's meeting of the Consumer Food...
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                    The Hungarian-Romanian project aims to develop the SME sector ended
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 12:30:21
												                    
				
                One hundred Romanian and Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises took part in the specific a total value of 50 thousand euros program that aims to develop the SME sector. The...
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                    Succesful Black Friday in the U.S.A.
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 12:25:57
												                    
				
                The U.S.A. survived the Black Friday again. On the Friday after Thanksgiving stores provides often 50, 70 or even 80 percent discounts to attract the masses of costumers to start...
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                    Corn and sunflower yields in Vas county are better than the annual average
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 12:15:17
												                    
				
                The average yield of corn per hectare is higher with 30 percent, while sunflower yields exceeds the average yields of the last 15 years by 40 percent in Vas county...
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                    New risk management system in Hungarian agriculture
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 12:14:35
												                    
				
                A jelenleginél stabilabb, átláthatóbb, az önfenntartásra és az öngondoskodásra ösztönző új kockázatkezelési rendszer kezdi meg működését a jövő év elejétől a magyar mezőgazdaságban. Mindezt az tette lehetővé, hogy az országgyűlési...
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                    The issuer of the Erzsébet-voucher negotiating with the Magyar Posta
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 12:00:56
												                    
				
                The Hungarian National Holiday Foundation (MNÜA), the issuer of the Erzsébet-voucher and the Posta Paletta Zrt., may enter into a strategic agreement. Intensive negotiations are in way over the details...
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                    Heineken Hungary Wins CSR Hungary Award 2011
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-29 11:28:11
												                    
				
                Budapest, November 29th, 2011. – Heineken set upon the task of becoming the greenest beer brewer in the world. In order to achieve its goal, in April 2010, Heineken Hungary...
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                    Growth will be slower than expected in the world, recession will deepen in Hungary
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 14:55:48
												                    
				
                The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revised downward its forecast for global growth, referring to the uncertainty in the global economy. According to the forecast; the global economy...
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                    NGM: employment rate is nearly on three-year peak
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 14:20:43
												                    
				
                Employment rate is almost on its three-year peak – published the National Economy Ministry (NGM), on the basis of the Monday published statistics of the Central Statistical Office (KSH). The...
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                    We prefer recyclable packaging
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 14:12:42
												                    
				
                The proportion of customers who take environmental considerations into account when purchasing goods and products increased to 50 percent by 2011, from the30 percent, measured in 2005. According to Tetra...
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                    The wholesale markets of Szeged and Temesvár to develop with EU support
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 14:10:26
												                    
				
                The wholesale markets in Szeged and Temesvár are being developed with more than one million euros EU support. Thanks to the investment, dealers and producers can follow the other city's...
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                    (HU) A KAP jövőjéről tanácskoznak az agrárkamarai vezetők Budapesten
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 13:36:32
												                    
				
                The leaders of a number of the recently joined EU countries discuss over the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) between 2014-2020 in Budapest, at the 43rd Agricultural Chamber meeting...
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                    State monopoly on tobacco sales?
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 13:35:32
												                    
				
                A Fidesz representative's motion would considerably tighten tobacco retailing from 2013, inter alia, a state monopoly would be undertaken. According to the proposal; the retail trade in tobacco products would...
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                    The Kecskeméti Konzerv Kft. would repeat this year's results
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 13:32:42
												                    
				
                The main goal of the Kecskeméti Konzerv Kft. is to repeat this year's output results among stagnant consumption and price increase of cost elements. Kovács János, Managing Director told to...
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                    Consumer confidence improved in Europe's largest economy
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 12:36:47
												                    
				
                Consumer confidence improved in Germany. The forward-looking, sentiment index for December became 5.6 points after the 5.4 points of November. (It was 5.5 points in October). Analysts expected a 5.2...
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                    One third of customers have no spare cash
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 12:10:57
												                    
				
                The confidence of Britain’s consumers rose last quarter but the increase may prove short lived with consumers’ intentions to spend stuck at an all-time low, according to the latest Consumer...
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                    New dm store in KÖKI Terminál
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 11:26:00
												                    
				
                The 24th November 2011 has seen the opening of a brand new dm store in KÖKI terminál which is going to be open from Monday to Saturday from 9 am...
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                    New Schauma Cotton Fresh
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-28 07:18:08
												                    
				
                The new Schauma Cotton Fresh shampoo by Henkel was launched in the autumn of 2011, was specially created for oily hair and is available for a low price....
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                    GKI-Erste economic sentiment index stopped deteriorating in November
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-25 15:26:40
												                    
				
                In November the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects stopped to deteriorate after more than half a year long decline. Both business and consumer expectations improved slightly, within...
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                    Magazine: Average prices are likely to keep increasing on the biscuit market
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-25 13:09:39
												                    
				
                There has been a drastic increase in flour prices recently, making the life of biscuit distributors harder. Retail was very unwilling to accept increased prices. Now flour prices are decreasing...
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                    Twenty Hungarian exhibitors participating at the world's leading wine fair
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-25 12:45:47
												                    
				
                With the support of the Agricultural Marketing Centre, twenty Hungarian exhibitors are taking part at the world's leading wine fair, the ProWein exhibition in Düsseldorf, between the 4th and 6th...
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                    Slovakia may lose the Tokaj denotation of origin
                    
                        
																								Date: 2011-11-25 12:30:09
												                    
				
                There is a growing probability that Slovakia will lose the Tokaj protected designation of origin. As it is known, Hungary sued the European Commission at the European Court of Justice...
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