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Retail trade in Germany: Vacancies and few applicants
No less than 50,000 jobs are unfilled at Germany’s 50 biggest retail companies. In order to help them recruit new workers more successfully, Cologne-based EHI Retail Institute surveyed the human...
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Which way is the labour market going?
Seemingly the situation didn’t change: 1. In Hungary 50,000 more people retire per year than the number of workers entering the labour market. 2. Western Europe is also increasing salaries...
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Online vagy? Védd magad! – Információbiztonsági programot indított a K&H
A digitalizáció kényelmesebbé, egyszerűbbé, gyorsabbá teszi számtalan mindennapi tevékenységünket, azonban az online tér számos veszélyt is rejthet, ha nem vagyunk elég elővigyázatosak, elég csak az adathalász kísérletekre vagy hackertámadásokra gondolnunk....
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Colgate to buy US vegan toothpaste company
Colgate-Palmolive Co would like to buy Hello Products LLC, a company that makes eco-friendly and animal cruelty-free toothpastes – some of which are infused with hemp seed oil. This step...
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Nestlé launches plant-based sausages
Nestlé will launch plant-based sausages that look, taste, and cook like their meat-based counterparts in Europe and the United States. In Europe the food giant will introduce the soy-based Garden Gourmet...
Read moreTesco removes plastic from canned food multipacks
Tesco has announced: they will remove plastic packaging from tinned multipacks from 2 March. Plastic packaging will be banned across Tesco’s multipack private label and branded products such as Heinz and Beanz....
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Aldi opens 6 new stores in Scotland in 2020
Aldi has announced plans to open 6 stores in Scotland this year, as it continues its expansion across the UK. The discount supermarket’s new GBP 25 million storage and chill...
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Coca-Cola to spend 1 billion euros in 5 years on French operations
Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) are to invest up to a EUR 1 billion over the next 5 years in its French operations. The investment will include the introduction...
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Amazon considers opening stores in Germany
Amazon.com is considering opening stores in Germany, its second biggest market after the United States. Amazon already operates stores in the USA and the UK, including the Whole Foods grocery...
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Spar Italy opens renovated distribution centre
Spar Italy’s partner Aspiag Service has recently invested EUR 1.6 million into renovating the logistics centre in Udine – this caters to Emilia-Romagna, the North East and the westernmost regions of...
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Walmart trials new technology to beat Amazon and Kroger
Walmart has been piloting a new technology called Alphabot. It is designed to enable quicker picking of online grocery orders at store level. The Alphabot system operates inside a 1,860m²...
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Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France until 2022
Discounter Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France by 2022, following its busiest year for new store openings in the country. Since 2012 Lidl has invested...
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Mastercard opens European Cyber Resilience Centre
Mastercard has announced that it is developing its first European Cyber Resilience Centre, a state-of-the-art cyber and security centre in Europe. The new centre will drive collaboration between the public...
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NAV doesn’t slow down with digital development
At a conference organised by EY Szabolcs Czöndör, head of department of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) told: They have started preparing for the introduction of the standard...
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Last year’s online shopping trends in Hungary
The high season for online shops have remained Black Friday and the period before Christmas, but Valentine’s Day and Halloween are also occasions when Hungarians do a bit of online...
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Ingenico integrates the Apple Pay support of loyalty programmes
Ingenico Group has announced that they started to integrate the Apple Pay support of loyalty and coupon programmes into payment terminals in the USA and in Canada. The popularity of...
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Hungarian Product gets the year going with momentum in retail chains
Managing director Eszter Benedek told that Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. is implementing a wobbler campaign in Auchan stores this February and October, calling shoppers’ attention to products bearing the trademark....
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Coca-Cola urges consumers for recycling with soft drink caps
Coca-Cola Magyarország is about to start a nationwide campaign for popularising selective waste collection. As part of this, there will be a graphic design urging for recycling on the caps...
Read moreSwine fever is an advantage for domestic livestock farmers
In some of our neighbors, African swine fever has caused significant economic damage, but domestic farmers have faced unprecedented opportunities thanks to the preservation of their herds. The rise in...
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New leader for Henkel’s Beauty Care division in Hungary
As of 1 February 2020, Zsuzsanna Szak took over the leadership of Henkel Hungary’s Beauty Care division from Ottó Németh. Ms Szak earned a degree in economics at the Budapest...
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Tesco trains and retrains thousands of people a year
Last year more than 3,400 workers were trained or retrained at the Tesco Academy – the retail chain announced in a press release on 24 January. The biggest part of...
Read moreAM: many measures will continue to support the farmers
The Secretary of State of the Ministry of Agriculture responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development spoke about the experiences of supports at an agricultural conference in Hévíz. Concerning direct aids,...
Read moreSzentkirályi Talent Programme relaunched
This year is the third that the Szentkirályi Talent Programme is organised: 14-18 year old kayak-canoe, fencing and pentathlon athletes can have their preparations sponsored from a budget of HUF...
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Bonduelle puts a smile on children’s face
The Hungarian Food Bank Association implemented a special campaign before Christmas in 2019. Within the framework of this, nearly 13,000 children in need received a gift box full of sweets,...
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Feldman: precision farming is essential for competitive agriculture
On Monday, the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Agriculture spoke in Veresegyháza about the importance of switching to digital precision farming. Feldman Zsolt responsible for Agriculture highlighted at...
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AMC: eight Hungarian food companies to debut at the PRODEXPO in Russia
Eight Hungarian companies will be exhibiting at the PRODEXPO International Food, Beverage and Raw Materials Trade Fair in Moscow, Russia’s most prestigious event of its kind – the Agricultural Marketing...
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McHale Hungária developed from almost one billion forints with its partners
The McHale Hungária Agricultural Machinery Manufacture and Service Ltd. (McHale Hungária Kft.) developed agricultural machinery production from almost 1 billion HUF of with 50 percent came from EU support –...
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New mozzarella variant from Karaván
Karaván is putting a special new product on the cheese market: exciting beechwood-smoked Karaván Mozzarella. The new product is available in practical sliced format, so it is very convenient for...
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The KITKAT Gold is first available in Hungary in Europe.
We have become accustomed to the fact that every year Nestlé surprises Hungarian consumers with new premium chocolate variants. So two years ago, KITKAT made from a special Ruby cocoa...
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Coca-Cola wishes you a happy Valentine’s Day with special posters
Finding the one who beats our hearts is one of the most extraordinary experiences. Valentine’s Day celebrates this feeling. On this occasion, Coca-Cola also came up with special posters with...
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