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Soaring slaughter pig prices
Data from the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) reveals: 585,000 tonnes (live weight) of poultry was slaughtered in Hungary in the first eleven months of 2022. This quantity was...
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Carrefour France Opens New Format Focusing On Fruit And Vegetables
Carrefour France has opened its first two Potager City stores in Paris, which it claims focuses on ‘high quality’ fruit and vegetables at ‘fair prices’. The stores offer as many...
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Czech online grocers look east and west beyond their home market
Two Czech online grocers – one a start-up “unicorn”, the other backed by a billionaire businessman – are taking on Europe’s biggest supermarkets to feed growing appetite for home grocery...
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Last year, fewer animals were slaughtered in slaughterhouses than the year before
Hungarian slaughterhouses slaughtered 97.9 thousand cattle in 2022, 10.4 percent less than the previous year, 4 million 532 thousand pigs, which is a 6.9 percent decrease, and 207.8 million poultry,...
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Matterhorn No More For Chocolate Brand Toblerone
Mondelēz International’s famous Toblerone bar will no longer be permitted to use an image of the Matterhorn mountain, in Switzerland, on its packaging, as it no longer meets Swiss regulations...
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Bird flu has reached Békés county again
The Nébih laboratory confirmed the presence of the bird flu virus in a goose farm in Békés County and in captive birds in Komárom-Esztergom. The animal health authority has designated...
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The American WhatsApp is developing its consumer information practices under European pressure
The Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPC), which brings together the European Union’s consumer protection authorities, including the Economic Competition Authority (GVH), has achieved that WhatsApp informs its users more transparently...
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Finnish and Hungarian women in the labor market – What is the key to success?
On April 4, 2023, FinnAgora will organize the Finnovation event for the fourth time, this time focusing on women, namely on the topic of labor market equality. The purpose of...
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The glass ceiling is thicker in Hungary than in neighboring countries
The glass ceiling in Hungary is the thickest in the Central European region, i.e. at the regional level, Hungary has the smallest proportion of women employed in top management, boards...
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HelloParks continues to expand at the southern gate of the capital
HelloParks, founded just over two years ago, continues to expand, launching its latest industrial real estate investment in Alsónémedi. The company plans to build a 60,000 square meter hall on...
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KPMG: growing shopper consciousness
KPMG’s “Me, my life, my wallet” study classified consumers into six categories, based on how important sustainability values are to them, and how this is reflected in their behaviour. Moderates...
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Kalinka in pocket-sized bottle 0,1 l
The latest product in the Kalinka portfolio is now available in shops! Kalinka is the purest premium vodka, which we make according to the classic vodka distilling traditions, and it...
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Seven trends shaping grocery retail in 2023
1. Alcohol manufacturers turn towards ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails:since those consumers who drink alcohol show growing demand for RTD cocktails, manufacturers will satisfy this need in 2023. Beverage companies believe that a...
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Offering a seamless hybrid shopping experience can be essential in 2023
Communicating values Krishnakumar Davey, president of client engagement at IRI has told Grocery Drive that retailers know: prices have become so high that shoppers can’t spend more, thus retailers are...
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Gen Z at Shop! Ideation
At the end of 2022 Colombus (Ohio, USA) was the host of the annual Shop! Ideation conference. There were presentations about retail and point of sale marketing, a “Retail Challenge”...
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Takarék AgrárTrend Index decreases further
On a 48-point scale, the Takarék AgrárTrend Index dropped to 29.5 points in the last quarter of 2022. Compared with the previous quarter, the decline was 0.1 points, and the...
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Facebook is the top marketing tool for SMEs
According to a recent survey by Marketing Commando, the No.1 marketing tool for Hungarian SMEs is still Facebook – 84% of them use this platform. Second most popular is the...
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New smart device payment for K&H customers
K&H customers can choose from more smart payment solutions: Google Pay now runs on certain types of FitBit smartwatches. Last year Google acquired smart fitness and sports watch company FitBot,...
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NAV grants access to online cash register data
As of 6 February the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) makes it possible for taxpaying enterprises to get access to the data transmitted by their online cash registers. Péter...
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Greener cola production facility with Siemens solutions
The Coca-Cola factory in Austria had partnered with Siemens to install an energy management system, called Simatic Energy Manager Pro, which greatly contributed to the reduction of the factory’s energy...
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Danone: less methane in the supply chain
Danone has announced that it will reduce methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 30% by 2030. By emitting less methane, the dairy company aims to reduce the...
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Ecologist Mátyás Hunyadi at the Chain Bridge Club – Sustainable retreat instead of sustainable development?
At the January club meeting human ecologist Mátyás Hunyadi was the speaker, and the topic was sustainability. By 2019 the level of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reached 421 parts per...
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K&H Sustainability Index: the intention is there
K&H first published its sustainability index in the first half of 2022. The results of a second survey, which was done half a year later, reveal that sustainability is a...
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Deliveroo breaks even
With a strong second half of 2022, British delivery service Deliveroo reached break-even in all regions. Last year the delivery service saw transaction volume increase by 7 %, while its market...
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Mastercard says shoppers buy less but shop more often
According to a forecast for 2023 by the Mastercard Economics Institute, shoppers will have to change the contents of their shopping baskets if they wish to keep up with the...
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KSH: The turnover of retail stores decreased by 4.5 percent
In January 2023, according to the raw data, the turnover volume of retail trade decreased by 3.9 percent, adjusted for the calendar effect, by 4.5 percent compared to the same...
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Walmart develops e-commerce website for SMEs
Walmart Business is the name of the e-commerce website that Walmart has developed especially for SMEs. The website offers a selection of more than 100,000 items, and is meant to...
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Colruyt opens another autonomous container store in Belgium
Colruyt Group member Okay Direct has opened a second autonomous convenience store. The unmanned container store was set up in the car park of Okay Lennik, and its floor space...
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The works of the Hungarian Bocuse teams are also published in a book
The recipes of the dishes of the Hungarian teams competing in the Bocuse d’Or international cooking competition, as well as their revisions, will be published in a book under the...
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The expectations of tourism companies improved significantly in February
The expectations of tourism companies improved significantly in February – the National Association of Tourist and Hospitality Employers (VIMOSZ) and GKI Gazdaságkutátó told MTI on Monday based on the latest...
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