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This year, the donut festival in Nagykanizsa will take place online, but with the possibility to buy

In line with the coronavirus pandemic, the 13th Carnival Donut Festival programs will be held online. The donut baking competition will be held and those interested will be able to...

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Kőröstej recalls cheeses

As a precaution, Kőröstej Kft. withdraws some of its products called Kőrösi cheese discs from distribution, because there may be pieces of glass in them – the company called attention...

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IMF Improved this year’s world economic growth forecast

World economic growth could pick up in the second half of the year, thanks to stimulus fiscal and central bank monetary measures and the launch of mass vaccinations, according to...

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Business sentiment in Germany deteriorated in January

As a result of the severe situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, business sentiment in Germany deteriorated more than expected in January, according to a survey by the ifo economic...

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Apple is the most valuable brand in the world, according to Brand Finance

After three years, Apple is once again the most valuable brand in the world according to the 2021 Global 500 rankings of the British Brand Finance market research and business...

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Walmart positions itself as key COVID-19 vaccine provider for rural America

Walmart expects to be able to administer between 10 million and 13 million COVID-19 shots per month at its more than 5,000 in-store pharmacies in the United States and Puerto...

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Soft drink made of Christmas trees to come

An Estonian company makes a pine-flavored tonic from discarded Christmas trees. The minced needles of the pines are flavored with cardamom and lemon peel, so this is a sweet-bitter drink...

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A new record in freight transport

A special freight train has departed from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong to Russia, origo wrote. The cargo arrives in Moscow in just 15 days, reducing delivery time by...

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Carrefour Suspends Sales Of Strawberries Until Mid-February

French retailer Carrefour has suspended the sales of strawberries in its stores until mid-February. Through the initiative, the retailer is aiming to educate customers about seasonality and offer better tasting strawberries. The...

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Spar Austria, REWE Offer Free FFP2 Masks As Governments Tighten Rules

Spar Austria is offering free medical-grade FFP2 masks to shoppers as the government has made it mandatory on public transport, shops and businesses, pharmacies, hospitals and medical practices. It has...

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Meet Tengai, the World’s First Job Interview Robot – VIDEO

Tengai is a very smart robot. It can speak up to 40 languages, can express emotions, but what is really interesting about it is that it is able to decide...

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PepsiCo plans to become a zero emission company by 2040

PepsiCo Inc seeks to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its supply chain by 2040. The makers of Doritos chips and Tropicana juice said: first they will cut greenhouse gas...

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CSR Hungary Summit: COVID has created the opportunity for a new beginning

The 2-day CSR Hungary Summit was organised online at the end of last year. On the first day participants discussed many COVID-related issues. Júlia Takács, founder and managing director of...

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Metro AG is the new owner of Davigel Spain

Metro AG has announced the takeover of food service distribution company Davigel Spain – for an undisclosed fee. Davigel Spain supplies more than 4,000 partners in Spain, mainly on the Balearic and...

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Asda is testing a vegan butcher counter

Asda has teamed up with vegan concept creator Kbox Global, to test a supermarket vegan butcher counter for this year’s ‘Veganuary’. In Asda’s Watford store a counter named Veelicious was built,...

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SPAR Austria continues to reduce sugar content of products

SPAR Austria’s sugar reduction scheme – which was launched in 2019 – will continue in 2021. Since 2020 11,454 tons of sugar has been removed by SPAR’s partners in the initiative. SPAR Austria has cut...

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Waitrose: Seaweed will be the superfood of 2021

Waitrose & Partners believes that seaweed is the must-have ingredient of 2021, as sales of the product grew by 23 percent last year if compared to 2019; sales were 71 percent...

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Carrefour’s expansion in Thailand

Carrefour has strengthened its presence in the proximity channel in Taiwan, with the acquisition of 224 former Dairy Farm stores. The line of stores includes 199 Wellcome shops with an average sales...

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Aldi to open 25 new stores in Portugal this year

Aldi Portugal has opened the first of 25 new stores it plans to open in 2021 and now already operates 84 stores in the country. One of the company’s main...

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Seville will be the home of Coca-Cola’s biggest European plant

Coca-Cola European Partners plans to invest EUR 48 million in the expansion of its production facility in Seville, by this transforming it into its largest plant in Europe. This expansion will increase...

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Nomad Foods buys Findus Switzerland

Nomad Foods has bought Findus Switzerland from Froneri International Ltd, together with certain intellectual property from an affiliate of Nestlé S.A., for a price of approximately EUR 110 million. Findus...

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Hungarian bank card acceptance is among the fastest developing in Europe

According to the latest data from Mastercard, the number of card payment terminals increased by 20 percent in Hungary in 2020. Mastercard launched its Doppio infrastructure development programme in the...

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Barilla acquires British fresh pasta maker Pasta Evangelists

Via its BLU1877 business Barilla has acquired a majority share in Britain’s Pasta Evangelists, reentering the fresh pasta market and boosting its digital offering. The two companies did not disclose...

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The future of the supply chain: Cobots, drones and artificial intelligence cameras

The Deloitte Technology Trends 2021 study has revealed: in the near future members of the supply chain will focus on sharing data, and the whole product chain will become visible...

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Digitalisation: Hesitant companies

According to a global survey conducted by EY with the participation of 1,001decision-makers, 62 percent of executives think they should completely transform the way their company works within 2 years,...

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Visa innovations for improving smart payment solutions

Visa Inc. has announced the launch of new artificial intelligence (AI) based services, called VisaNet+AI. This service offers a solution for banks, retailers and consumers to manage certain types of...

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Príma campaign with #buyhungarian face masks

In January Príma implemented a special promotion campaign: they gave Príma face masks to those shoppers who purchased three products with the Hungarian Product trademark at the same time online....

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Hungarian workers calculate with lasting changes

As the global job market is transforming because of the pandemic, job safety has become more important than ever before. According to the Randstad Workmonitor – a report prepared in...

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PLMA News in brief

Aldi UK is adding 12 ready-to-cook meals to its low-calorie Slimwell range. Lidl is trialling a new store format in Belgium. The arrangement and the premium decoration differentiate the 1,500m²...

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In focus: the United Kingdom

Young British consumers like to shop in discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl make up for 67 percent of the UK’s discounter market and they represent 13 percent of British FMCG...

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