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Professional awards for the COOP staff again
Prestigious professional awards were presented last Thursday on the occasion of European Trade Day. The outstanding work of several employees of the COOP Economic Group was also awarded. The professional...
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Lidl continues its salt and sugar optimization program
In 2019, Lidl Hungary announced that it would reduce the added salt and sugar content of its own-brand products by an average of 20 percent by 2025. As a responsible...
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A 7 pm close could affect 30,000 stores out of 120,000
Grocery stores, malls, hypermarkets and large specialty stores need to close sooner than usual, – blokkk.com wrote. Webshops can no longer handle much more, the receiving point also needs to...
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What a vaccine could mean for retail
There’s finally hope of an end to a pandemic that has destroyed lives and livelihoods, and upended consumer behavior. For now, uncertainty still rules. The Monday report that pharmaceutical giant...
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Tesco has taken 454 tons of hard-to-recycle plastic out of use
In February 2019, Tesco undertook to remove all hard-to-recycle materials from its own-brand products by the end of 2020. One and a half years after the commitment, the department store...
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HELL’s sales could increase by a fifth this year
HELL ENERGY, which now has an export market on 5 continents and covers more than 50 countries, was launched as a family business in 2006 and is the market leader...
Read moreChinese pork prices have fallen for the first time in a year and a half
After more than a year, for the first time in China, the price of pork fell, as in the country as production increased, began to alleviate the previously very severe...
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Investor sentiment deteriorated in November in Germany and in the euro area
In November, for the second consecutive month, the German economic research institute ZEW in Germany and the euro area deteriorated significantly, as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and...
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Liver paté: A small but strengthening category
Liver paté is a small processed meat product category where sales are growing: 9,700 tons of liver paté is sold in a year – volume sales were up 3.4 percent...
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Greener Common Agricultural Policy
More than half of agricultural revenues in Hungary come from European Union funding, in which the financial resources of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) play a key role. István Tresó,...
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Most people are satisfied with their workplaces in the coronavirus situation
According to an 1,100-respondent nationwide representative survey by Opinio, 64 percent of Hungarians want their workplace to inform them about the COVID-19 situation. 34 percent said the most important is...
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We spend more than 50 thousand on Christmas gifts this year
For the 6th year in a row, Árukereső.hu and GKI Digital have been conducting joint Christmas research, which asks the adult population of the Internet about preparing for the festive...
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Trademark use granted to 19 SPAR Regnum products
Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. has granted trademark usage rights to 19 fresh meat products made by SPAR. The certificate guarantees that all of the pigs were bred, slaughtered and processed...
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PLMA – The latest news from Europe
Retailers keep announcing cooperation related decisions. Carrefour and Tesco took a step back in their collective private label product sourcing, because the French competition authority had problems with it. In...
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(HU) Megingathatja a kkv-kat a járvány második hulláma
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Online and health are top trends in the world of private label too
In the PLMALive.eu monthly online video news programme the main topic was the PLMA online ‘World of Private Label’ trade show, which takes place between 1 and 4 December; the...
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GVH gives green light to NAGISZ’s ownership change
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has given its approval to the owners of private equity firm PortfoLion Green Fund (a member of the OTP Group) buying a 97.91-percent share in...
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3D People Countee by Wanzl
More and more merchants are reopening their stores after the forced rest, but the order of entry in the stores and keeping a distance will remain a part of our...
Read moreMagazine: The Trade Has Changed – E-commerce in the time of the pandemic
Right before the outset of the second wave, the Visegrád conference of this year’s Ecommerce Summit took place with an abundance of issues discussed by over 50 experts. No wonder,...
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Protecting egg-laying chickens is an investment that returns
Our magazine asked Dr Tamás Kertész, the owner of Farm Tojás Kft. – Hungary’s biggest egg company – whether battery or free range chicken farming is more environmental and better...
Read moreSerious restrictions have been announced by the Prime Minister
The number of coronavirus diseases must be reduced, because if the number of infected people continues to grow at this rate, hospitals will not be able to cope with the...
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Intrum: solvency improved in the third quarter and then began to deteriorate again
The financial situation of households continued to stabilize at the beginning of the third quarter, but by the end of the period Intrum’s solvency ratio had fallen slightly again, the...
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Dreher 24 helps to keep the non-alcoholic November with chatbots and ambassadors
Dreher 24 has launched an autumn campaign to actively support non-alcoholic November consumers. Dreher’s 24 campaign now underway emphasizes that you don’t have to give up the taste of good...
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The One Drop Health Festival begins today
On the occasion of the upcoming World Diabetes Day, the One Drop Attention Foundation, established by Erős Antónia, is organizing a unique series of online events from today to November...
Read moreWho opens a webshop in rush might risks a million HUF fines
As a result of the pandemic situation, internet retailing also exploded in Hungary. Many companies have opened webshops and more and more people are placing more emphasis on online sales....
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Waberer’s loss declined
In the third quarter of this year, the sales revenue of Waberer’s International Plc. Decreased by 19.3 percent to 137 million euros compared to the same period of the previous...
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The Catone Kft. is building a freezer warehouse in Budaörs.
The Italian-owned Catone Kft. plans to build a new freezer warehouse in Budaörs for seven billion forints – the company, which mainly deals with the transport and storage of frozen...
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MVM handed over ten high-value smart furniture nationwide this autumn
This time, the schoolchildren were able to win smart furniture with their knowledge in the MVM online prize draw. In the competition, ten students won high-value smart furniture for their...
Read moreA woman in Esztergom hid a consignment of twenty million cigarettes
The Esztergom District Prosecutor’s Office has indicted a woman for concealing smuggled cigarettes worth twenty million forints in herapartment – the Komárom-Esztergom County Attorney General told MTI on Monday. According...
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