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Gyopáros: many successful applicants prove the success of the Hungarian Village Program

Many applicants and many winners prove the success of the Hungarian Village Program and the fact that applications tailored to real needs have emerged – the government commissioner responsible for...

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Magyar Posta upgrades package delivery

Magyar Posta will modernize package delivery from tens of billions of forints in three years – penzcentrum.hu wrote. Hungarian Post (Magyar Posta) increases the processing and delivering of packages from...

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The rate of increase in consumer prices in the euro area slowed down in July

The rate of increase in consumer prices in the euro area slowed to one percent in July. The European Union Bureau of Statistics (Eurostat) announced on Monday that consumer prices...

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British convenience foods are the healthiest

According to a global survey of more than four hundred thousand convenience foods surveyed in 12 countries around the world, prepared, semi-finished and finished products made in the UK contain...

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Self-driving small cars ship goods purchased online in East China

Self-driving fifth-generation (5G) technology cars have been deployed in eastern China to streamline online orders, according to an article published on Monday in the China Daily website. Nearly half a...

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Alibaba postpones its share issue

China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, is postponing its planned issuance of shares to Hong Kong amid rising political tensions over the Asian financial center – insiders told Reuters news...

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(HU) A fenntartható Sziget

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Palastic sushi attracts guests in Japan

Most of the restaurants in Japan have plastic food models of many of their dishes outside the restaurant or in their windows. There are some incredible models which look convincing...

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The irrigated area in Hungary should be fivefolded

To keep competitiveness of Hungarian plant production, the irrigated area in Hungary should be increased fivefold. Currently there is 100 thousand hectares of irrigated area in Hungary. According to Ligetvári...

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Co-op teams up with Newcastle Uni to open 1st franchise in north east

Co-op has teamed up with Newcastle University Student Union to launch its first franchise store in the north east later this year. The agreement will see the existing students’ union store...

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Penny To Introduce Traceable Pineapples And Organic Bananas

German discounter Penny has announced that it is to add QR codes to pineapples and organic bananas to provide additional supply chain information to shoppers. The QR codes will lead...

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Carrefour Polska Ceases Sales Of Private-Label ‘Caged’ Eggs

Carrefour Polska has announced that it has ceased the sales of eggs sourced from caged hens in its private-label assortment. The move is a part of Carrefour’s food transformation strategy...

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Magazine: Familiar flavours, new looks

Both sausage and salami sales increased in 2018: 1.4 percent more sausage and 1.5 percent more salami were sold than in 2017. Value-wise sausage sales were up 6.5 percent and...

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ULINK: 12 times make up a dozen

ULINK members met for the 12th time on 5 June. The new Unilever office is very stylish and participants started gathering 1 hour before the programme’s start. We had a superb dinner,...

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Austria: Sales stagnation for discounters

In 2019 the combined market share of discount supermarket chains Aldi (called Hofer in Austria) and Lidl dropped to 26.1 percent – in 2018 their share was 26.6 percent. At the...

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Private labels keep growing this year

In April 2019 the sales growth of private label products was 0.7 percent in France, which was bigger than the 0.4-percent strengthening of manufacturer brands – reported the Private Label...

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Felismerni a fontos és győztes kategóriákat

„Az eladáshelyi marketing forradalma” című nemzetközi sikert aratott könyv társszerzője, Toby Desforges angol kereskedelmi szakértő Közép-Európában először tartott előadást a szlovák kereskedelmi kongresszuson néhány hete, amelyről előző számunkban tudósítottunk. A...

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Mercadona enters Portugal

Spanish retailer Mercadona might be bigger than the four retail chains that follow it in the ranking, but it must invest in new channels and markets to keep its position...

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X5 vs. Magnit: 1:0

Russian fruit and vegetable retailer Magnit keeps losing ground against rival company X5 Retail Group. The price of the company’s shares has reached an all-time low and CEO Olga Naumova...

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Spar Austria is now ahead of its Germans competitors

Spar Austria has a stable second position in the top 5 ranking of grocery retailers. LZ Retailytics forecasts that Spar will continue the dynamic growth....

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International food prices are slowly decreasing

On 1 August the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations reported that in July the price index of the most important produce sold in international trade had...

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Diageo buys majority share in Seedlip

Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company has acquired a majority share in distilled non-alcoholic spirits brand Seedlip, as it seeks to serve a growing population of teetotallers in the UK....

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Campari in talks to buy French  company Rhumantille

Italian drinks group Campari has started exclusive negotiations to acquire French firm Rhumantilles SAS, in an effort to strengthen its rum business and grow its market in France. Rhumantilles makes...

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Nestlé rolls out vegan coffee mixes

In the UK and Ireland food giant Nestlé has launched a new range of dairy-free Nescafé Gold lattes, developed from plant-based ingredients. The coffee mix range is available in three variants....

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Optimistic statistics, pessimistic expectations

Data from April and May indicates that a slowdown occurred in the Hungarian economy in the second quarter, in comparison with the first quarter of 2019. However, the loss of...

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There will be more wheat in the world market

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the British government has reported that data provided by egg packaging companies reveal that egg production was up 3 percent...

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Tesco to lay off 4,500 workers with Metro’s restructuring

British supermarket chain Tesco is cutting about 4,500 jobs from its Metro stores, in order to improve the efficiency of a format that is increasingly used by customers daily –...

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Lidl: reusable bags for fruits and vegetables

Lidl has announced that it has introduced reusable net bags for fruits and vegetables in all its 119 stores across Denmark. The initiative is expected to cut the consumption of...

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JusteBio products sold in Auchan stores in Portugal

French organic retailer JusteBio has announced that its products will be available in Auchan hypermarkets in Portugal. JusteBio entered Portugal in 2018, operating its own flagship store in Lisbon, where...

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FrieslandCampina to increase the number of GMO-free milk suppliers

FrieslandCampina has announced plans to increase the number of dairy farms supplying VLOG milk from 400 to more than 600. The decision follows a surge in demand in the German...

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