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Less food safety problems with hungarian products

After overall control in June the Hungarian Food Safety Office phased 125 products out of circulation. First of all the products bought  in the summer (beer, eiscream, soft drinks) would...

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Marketplace control, the biggest problem is the date of expiry

The Consumer Protection Agency checked last Saturday 120 stores on hungarian market places. 89 were put in the wrong, the penalty sum is HUF 12 million.  Products in value HUF...

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Politicians against unfair entrepreneurs

Karoly Herenyi, floor leader of MDF ask the leader of Consumer Protection Agency to publish the Agency's black list. A short time ago, MDF asks the Agency to make a...

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Plaza building fiber in Romania

With 2 million square metres of retail space available until 2010 – four times more than the current level, the domestic market is attracting more and more European clothing and...

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Samcap: Hungarian innovation at drinkpackaging

Samcamp is a special storage container, wich offers a solution: to storage separately certain components of an otherwise unstabile mixture. The innovation made by Janos Samu and Maria Palfi-Ledniczky opens...

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Hungary jobless rate moderates further to 7.0%

Hungary's rate of unemployment dropped further to 7.0% year on year in the April-June period, from 7.3% in the previous three-month period and 7.5% in Feb-Apr, the Central Statistics Office...

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Hungarian like beer – retail sales growth

The can beer is more popular as the beer in bottle although it is more expensive – according to Nielsen's datas.  The sales value at can beers increased with 5%,...

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Plaza Centers would invest 115 million euros in a commercial center in Romania

The Israeli real estate company bought a 70,000 sm retail-office complex in Iasi.  The new commercial center will have 54,000 square meters of retail space, additional office space, in a...

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Calculable, composed growth at Zwack

The nett income increased with 3.6% on yr/yr, operating surplus growth with 3.8%, after tax profit with 3%.  The export income increased 10%, it was a big goal for managment....

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Less implugnable food products

Thanks for aligned food safety controls day after day decreased the number of unhealty raw material and food industry products. So the penalty is decreasing. From 90 slaughter house in...

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No more frosen meat

The EU rules are available in Hungary from 1 of August.  According a new food safety decree: retailer can't frozen the meat and it's prohibited to make meatproducts from frozen...

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The whole grain and high fibre food market will reach €15bn by 2010

According to a new report by Global Industry Analysts the baked whole-grain snacks market has the most potential for growth, the report said, and sales of foods such as oven...

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Growth in every type of tax

Hungarian tax authority collects 19% more revenues in H1 than a year earlier.Some two thirds of the HUF 635 billion increase came from traditionally key tax revenues, APEH President János...

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Dangerous import vegetables in Germany

With plant-protection material tainted pepper from Turkey and Spain were found in Germany. The 2/3 of the turkish pepper and 1/3 of spanish pepper contained dangerous material. In winter the...

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Dollar billions for healty products at PepsiCo

Pepsico may spend $5 million to $2 billion to buy products that would help its offerings more closely mirror the 'food pyramid' created by the US agriculture department. PepsiCo is...

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Less company on National Public Health and Medical Officer Service (NPHMOS)'s blacklist

Next week NPHMOS will refresh its blacklist about entertainer places, where food poisoning happened. Only that food industry companies or entertainer places will be on the list, where since 1....

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Beijing promises greater efforts to ensure food safety

The Beijing food safety authority has pledged to make greater efforts in inspecting catering businesses and food processing facilities across the city to ensure food safety. Beijing lawmakers are considering...

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Consumers happy to own fakes

The feak LV bags make USD 1 million damage for the french luxury maker Luis Vuitton.  For the fight against forgers LV company organised an anti feak commando, a department...

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(HU) Többé nem használható a RED 2G

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European sales make Whirpool stronger

The income from the old continent grew with 10%.  Whirlpool Corp. (WHR), a maker of household appliances, said second-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose 60% to $161 million, or $2...

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Bols- summer time – holiday- vodka flavored with bison grass

Since July Bols Hungary sales a new product, called vodka Zubrowka. It is promoted with BTL campaign. The polish vodka, Zubrowka is flavored with bison grass, on this fact is...

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Larvae found on pizzas

Czech authorities ordered the withdrawal of tens of thousands of frozen pizzas made by local manufacturer Guseppe after they were found to contain insect larvae.  "Our inspectors found 9,990 rotting...

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Food safety problems in Germany

Every fourth food company make illeguratories, according the German Food Safety Institute. The most problem is registered at carcase meat, poultry and salamis. One sixth of checked food samples were...

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Botulism taint prompts canned-food recall at Connors Brothers' U.S. unit

U.S. federal regulators expanded their warnings against tainted tins of food that have been produced at a U.S. production facility owned by a Canadian income trust.   Castleberry Food Co.,...

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Governors step up push for children's health funding

The american nation's governors stepped up pressure on the Bush administration Sunday to boost federal spending on a health insurance program serving low-income children.  During its annual meeting, the National...

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Gucci owner gets reins of Puma with $7.3b bid

The luxury goods maker has said it aims to step up opening of new Puma stores in developing markets and increase the brand's presence in the United States. PPR SA,...

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Mineral water market develop well

In quality 22% more, in value 19% more mineral water was sold between last and this years June. It was a record increase is mineral waters's retail – according to...

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