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Spar cuts sugar content of private label products in Croatia
Spar Croatia has modified the recipes of around 65 private label products to reduce their sugar content. In 2017 Spar launched a programme to cut sugar content in its private label...
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Online shopping is likely to beat physical stores this Christmas in Germany
For the first time, the majority of German consumers plan to buy presents online this Christmas – reveals a new survey conducted by Deloitte. According to the study, 67 percent...
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M&S: Private label wine selection to go vegan by 2022
M&S has announced plans to offer an entirely vegan-friendly private label wine range by the end of 2022. They are the first major retailer to make this pledge. M&S’s food...
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Spar Belarus opens new supermarket in Minsk
Spar Belarus has opened a new supermarket in the capital city of Minsk. The 500m² store is situated on the ground floor of a large apartment complex. In the new...
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Carrefour enters the market of Uzbekistan in 2020
French retail giant Carrefour plans to enter the market of Uzbekistan in 2020 in partnership with the Majid Al Futtaim Group. Over the next 2 years, Carrefour aims to open...
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Lidl: Charging points at 300 UK stores
Lidl has made a commitment to install rapid charging points for electric vehicles at more than 300 stores over the next 3 years. The project means a total investment of more than...
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Consumer protection authorities give good marks to online FMCG
On 31 October the consumer protection state secretariat of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology organised the latest event in the ‘Consumer Protection Friday’ programme series. This time the topic...
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Amazon opens pop-up store on China’s latest e-commerce platform
In December Amazon opened a pop-up store on Pinduoduo, the latest Chinese e-commerce platform. Then pop-up store was open until the end of December and offered about 1,000 different products...
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Revolut: Already 250,000 users in Hungary
Revolut has announced that they already have 250,000 users in Hungary. The London-based fintech company’s app can be used for shopping abroad with good exchange rates and for transferring money...
Read moreSmall regions and digitalisation
On 20 November the Retail College of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry invited Minister for Innovation and Technology Péter Cseresnyés to its meeting. The minister and college members...
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Growth management on a digital basis
At the end of November the year’s last Ecommerce Meetup was organised and the topic was growth management. Fruzsina Donáth from SmartCommerce Consulting gave a brief overview of building an...
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New European marketplace association established
Four major e-commerce enterprises – Romania’s eMag, France’s Cdiscount, Germany’s Real.de and Italy’s ePrice – have announced that they established the International Marketplace Network (IMN). The new platform reaches more...
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Once again two campaigns from Hungarian Product next year
This autumn Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. came out with two new trademarks, Product of Excellence and the ECOlogical Product label. Managing director Eszter Bendedek reckons their most important task in...
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Pécsi Prémium Lager wins the Great Lager Test!
In the summer of 2019 the blog Maradok a Pénzemnél tested 14 lagers and Pécsi Prémium Lager turned out to be the best. A team of 11 experts did blind...
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Cheese Festival of Nations
Those who visited the 2nd SZEGA Cheese Festival of Nations in October had the opportunity to taste nearly 400 kinds of cheese made in 25 European countries and the USA....
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Clown Doctors supported by Henkel and Spar
Since the beginning of November the doctors of the Red Nose Clown Doctors Foundation have been regularly visiting the children’s ward in the Balassa János Hospital in Tolna County, to...
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V4 agri-chambers act together
At the end of November the chambers of agriculture of the V4 countries – Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary – met again. The V4 agri-chambers expressed their opinion...
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We still have quite a distance to cover
Hungaricool is the name of the food product innovation competition that Spar organised in partnership with the Agricultural Marketing Centre (AMC). Our magazine asked AMC’s deputy managing director Gergely Giczi...
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E-number free wiener from Sága
Sága Foods is the first major Hungarian food producer to come out with an E-number free wiener. Füstli Natural contains no food additives marked with an E-number. The product is...
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Seven Spar stores modernised from more than 3 billion forints
Spar has modernised four supermarkets in Újpest, Salgótarján, Makó and Cegléd, spending HUF 467 million, 652 million, 445 million and 244 million on them, respectively. Another three Spar supermarkets –...
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Sales by dm up more than 8 percent
In the current financial year dm’s sales surpassed HUF 112 billion, having increased by more than 8 percent if compared with last year. dm employs nearly 3,000 people in Hungary...
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New working groups at the National Food Tracking Platform
In October the Ministry of Agriculture and GS1 Magyarország Nonprofit Zrt. organised this year’s opening conference of the National Food Tracking Platform, where two new working groups were launched: one...
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The professional organizations prepared a strategy for the development of the poultry sector between 2020 and 2025
The professional organizations prepared a strategy for the development of the poultry sector between 2020 and 2025, and the plan was presented to Világgazdaságnak by Minister of Agriculture Nagy István....
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283 tons of long shelf life food for people in need
Between 22 and 24 November the Hungarian Food Bank Association’s 5,400 volunteers collected 283 tons of long shelf life food at 200 locations – Aldi, Auchan, Metro and Tesco stores...
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AM: the position of the dairy sector is stable
The situation in the dairy sector is stable, there is no surplus on the international dairy market, and the six-month average price of milk is also very high – Bognár...
Read moreEuropean beekeeping is in crisis
European beekeeping is in crisis, so the European Commission must investigate the reasons for the decline in bee colonies and make a proposals to treat the crisis – Nagy István,...
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The smart bread market has continued to expand
From November, more than two thousand franchise-based domestic bakery companies have been supplying smart foods – the CEO of the Hajdúsági Sütödés Zrt. told MTI. According to Szakács Tamás, foods...
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Honey consumption is promoted with honey breakfast in over 1000 schools and kindergartens nationwide
More than 1000 schools and kindergartens have joined the European Honey Breakfast program launched by the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Hungarian Beekeeping Association (OMME), the Agricultural Marketing Center and...
Read moreGenerational change entails many tasks In agriculture
Thirty years later, agriculture has come to generational change, giving many young farmers and legislators a lot of responsibilities, as the Minister of Agriculture said in his presentation at the...
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