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Alföldi Tej’s portfolio becomes complete

Alföldi Tej Kft. has been Hungary’s second biggest dairy company for years. Its Debrecen and Székesfehérvár production plants process 750,000 litres of Hungarian milk a day. Sales and marketing director...

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Packaging is more important than ever before

DS Smith, one of the world leaders in sustainable packaging solutions has published its 2021 Packaging Trends Guide, which reveals 3 exciting new trends. >> Storytelling is a new trend that...

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Amazon Workers Strike In Italy Over Pandemic-Driven Delivery Demands

Amazon workers took strike action in Italy on Monday in the first protest involving the US group’s entire logistics operations, including third-party delivery service providers. The Italian protest comes after...

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Gillette and Gillette Venus in cardboard

Procter & Gamble is introducing plastic-free and fully recyclable packaging for its Gillette and Gillette Venus system razors in April 2021. The switch is expected to save around 545 tons...

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Lidl Switzerland Completes 200,000 Refuels In Its E-Filling Stations

Lidl Switzerland has reached the milestone of completing 200,000 refuels in its e-charging stations. The discounter has been steadily expanding its network of e-charging stations since 2016, enabling customers to...

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Magazine: Consumer trust in online FMCG retail has increased

According to a presentation that Tünde Turcsán, FMCG director of GfK gave at the last GfK Insights Summit, Hungarian consumers haven’t stopped worrying ever since the breakout of the pandemic...

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In March, GKI’s economic sentiment index approached its highest level since the start of the pandemic measured in January

After a modest decline in February, GKI’s economic sentiment index rose to a lesser ex-tent in March. However, it approached its otherwise fairly low top level since the start of...

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More pigs, fewer cattle and chickens were slaughtered in slaughterhouses in Hungary last year

According to the analysis of the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI), 6 percent less cattle, 2 percent more pigs and 2 percent less poultry were slaughtered in slaughterhouses in Hungary...

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Businesses renting out shops in shopping malls are having serious problem

Fewer and fewer Hungarian fashion and other retail and catering businesses operating in shopping malls are able to pay rents – the Association of Tenants’ Interests (BBÉE) called attention in...

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The production value of the domestic food industry increased by eight percent

Despite the special ordeals caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the domestic food industry remained strong. Its production value increased by eight percent last year, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and...

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It matters in which store we buy in

It does matter in which store you shop in Hungary. You can grab 1,000 forints here and there, but if all this happens online, you will have to reckon with...

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The expectations of Hungarian consumers guide ALDI’s purchasing policy

Since entering the Hungarian market, ALDI has been striving to obtain as many products as possible from Hungary. Since the beginning, many vegetables and fruits, dairy products and cod have...

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Ördög Nóra’s vlog shows how they helped 130 families in need by working as a courier

910 durable food packages were delivered with the help of the Maltese Charity Service as part of the ‘Love on Four Wheels’ partnership, for which a vlog was also created....

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Extreme weather causes hundreds of millions of damage every year

The increasingly hectic weather in Hungarian agriculture has caused serious headaches in recent years. In addition, extreme natural phenomena no longer destroy not only from spring to autumn, but almost...

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Since the outbreak, 17 million disinfectants have been produced by the largest domestic manufacturer

During the year of the pandemic, 4 million liters of disinfectant were produced in Florin Zrt.’s factory in Szeged, and 17 million products were delivered to hospitals, public institutions, schools...

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BKIK will release half of the membership fee

The Chamber may reduce membership fees by 50 percent by submitting an application. They ask that those involved give this money together, which can help other businesses – hvg.hu, wrote....

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HR before a new future – it’s time to level up!

COVID-19 has created an unprecedented opportunity for human resource management to break out of its previous role as an “administrator” and take the initiative. The pandemic situation has increased the...

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Food-delivery by Taxi at Spar available again

In view of the ever-expanding demand, the taxi shopping amenities of the department store chain and the Main Taxi Group will be available again this year. During the coronavirus pandemic,...

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Mrthane emissions of cattle can be drastically reduced with seaweed-fortified feed

Eighty-two percent less methane was emitted by cattle that received small amounts of seaweed-enriched feed for five months, a new study found. The results, published in the journal Plos One,...

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New creative director at Walmart

Walmart is elevating its fashion reputation. The retailer announced that it named acclaimed fashion designer Brandon Maxwell as creative director for Free Assembly and Scoop. Maxwell, who founded his own luxury...

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A quarter of a billion forints worth of fake clothes and perfumes were seized by NAV

Two hundred and fifty million forints worth of counterfeit clothes and perfumes were seized by the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) in Budapes – a spokesman for the authority...

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The leading food companies called on the union

One of the important issues of today is that the agricultural and animal husbandry methods to be both environmentally and ethically sustainable. To this end, leading food companies have recently...

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Mars Wrigley Foundation Celebrates 2021 World Oral Health Day with more than $1.5 million in Grant Donations

To celebrate World Oral Health Day on March 20 and put Mars Wrigley’s Better Moments, More Smiles purpose in action, the Mars Wrigley Foundation announced $1.5 million in grant funding to provide oral care treatment and...

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(HU) Nestlé: cukor helyett újrafeldolgozott kakaógyümölcs

Sorry, this entry is only available in HU....

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Spar Teams Up With Gander To Combat Food Waste

Spar International has teamed up with digital platform Gander to step up food waste reduction measures. It is another milestone for both companies and will see the use of digital...

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Nomad Foods Teams Up With WWF To Promote Sustainable Agriculture

Frozen food giant Nomad Foods has entered into a partnership with WWF to find agricultural solutions to what it describes as the ‘triple challenge’ of feeding a growing global population...

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Magazine: Makeup or face mask?

According to Beatrix Palincsár, sales and marketing director of Dovex Kft., 2020 brought a decline in demand for decorative cosmetics due to the pandemic. Face mask wearing, working from home...

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A slight increase in disinfectant orders at retail chains

As a result of the epidemiological tightening announced two weeks ago, the order of disinfectants in retail chains increased slightly, but this amount is much lower than a year ago...

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In 2020, SPAR Magyarország supported important social issues with more than 186 million HUF

Throughout its thirty-year history in Hungary, active participation in Hungarian social life and selfless partnership have always been important to the company. SPAR is actively involved in making everyday life...

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PM: 800 million HUF food industry development was implemented in Komárom

A food industry development of 800 million HUF was implemented in Komárom, the Ministry of Finance (PM) told MTI on Thursday. The pandemic situation also pointed out that a strong...

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