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FAO Food Price Index falls to 17-month low
Global commodity food prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in May, as supplies appear strong and demand weakens due to economic contractions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Food...
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Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened...
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Online grocery delivery service Buymie raises funds to expand amid Covid-19
Dublin online grocery delivery company Buymie has raised €2.2 million from investors to scale up and add a second city to its service in response to demand during the coronavirus...
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New Online Supermarket 360hyper Opens In Portugal
A new online supermarket 360hyper has launched in Portugal that is offering deliveries between three hours and three days in the Greater Lisbon area. The online store offers more than 5,000 grocery,...
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Morrisons Rolls Out Seafood And ‘Restaurant-Style’ Steaks At Half Price
UK retailer Morrisons has introduced restaurant-quality steaks, fish and shellfish for half price in its new summer steak and seafood bars. The move aims to help British farmers and fishermen...
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(HU) Ugrásra készen, a Család, az Anyák Napja jegyében
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The “Most Successful Promotion of the Year 2019” awards were presented at the online professional day
The “Most Successful Promotion of the Year 2019” awards were presented at the online professional day. Exciting presentations, great entries, valuable awards, proud winners, and nearly 100 people attended...
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Trade magazine is an Excellent Product trademark
We are proud to inform our dear Readers that from May 2020, Trade magazine has become entitled to use not only the Hungarian Product, but also the Excellent Product trademark....
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Italian hospitaliy needs to wait until June
According to the largest Italian daily, the Corriere della Sera, Italy is trying to restart after weeks of strict lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic, which began on February 20th....
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About job searching during crisis
How does the epidemiological situation and the related economic environment affect senior management expectations? What are the leadership qualities that are now gaining in value and can best help you...
Read moreThis is how life in Hungary will change from May 4
Orbán Viktor announced on Wednesday that they would gradually start easing the restrictions. The relevant decree was published in the Magyar Közlöny on Thursday night, according to which the curfew...
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Nagy István: The government helps agricultural and food businesses with 25 billion HUF
The government will provide 25 billion HUF to help the agricultural and food businesses to overcome the economic difficulties caused by the coronavirus, the Minister of Agriculture told MTI on...
Read moreCan the supply chain in the food industry be shorter
Nutrition, food safety, ecological footprint and reduction of food loss: all arguments would be in favor of locally produced food. Hungary is still lucky in this respect, but in much...
Read moreNébih is launching quarantine research
How have our food buying and eating habits changed as a result of the epidemiological situation? What foods have we accumulated? What do we do with reserves? Among other things,...
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Csányi Sándor: This is how the Hungarian companies overcome the epidemic
Csányi Sándor, owner of the Bonafarm Group, president and CEO of OTP Bank, and president of MLSZ was the guest in the latest part of the Brain Bar live video...
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KSH: earnings increased by 9.1 percent in February
In February, average gross earnings were 377,300 HUF, 9.1 percent higher than a year earlier. The economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have not yet affected the first two months...
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NAV: SMEs can receive VAT back faster
With a significant redeployment of workers, the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) will meet the shorter VAT payment deadlines for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Economic Protection...
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Avian influenza has also appeared in Nébih Békés county
Avian influenza has also appeared in Békés County. The experts have started to liquidate almost 10,000 flocks of geese in Nagykamarás, while in Battonya, the flocks of young fattening turkeys,...
Read moreThere could have been hundreds of billions of forints losses in the ornamental horticulture sector
Without government intervention, there could have been hundreds of billions HUF losses in the ornamental horticultural sector – Orlóci László, president of the Organization of Hungarian Ornamental Gardeners told M1...
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Unilever expands Domestos’ Hungarian production base with an investment of 15 billion HUF
Unilever Magyarország Kft. is expanding the floor area of its household chemical plant in Nyírbátor by almost a third within the framework of an investment of about 15 billion HUF....
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The next generation can be dismissed
As a result of the economic shock caused by the coronavirus pandemic, many people could lose their livelihoods even during the summer, according to a recent survey by the Pénzcentrum....
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Five things we didn’t know about margarines
Is margarine hydrogenated and full of trans fatty acids? Maybe plastic, so it has no nutritional value at all? Although margarines are a popular food in Hungary, many urban legends...
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ECB: economic performance in the euro area could reach pre-crisis levels by 2022
According to the most likely scenario, the economic performance of the euro area after the downturn due to the viral outbreak could reach pre-crisis levels by the end of 2022,...
Read moreFurther easenings in Austria
All stores can open at our western neighbor on May 2nd. From May 4, education will also gradually resume, and from the middle of the month, restaurants and bars will...
Read moreThe state of emergency will be extended until 24 July in France
The French government has decided to extend the state of health declared due to the coronavirus pandemic until July 24, the health minister has announced. The lifting of the two-month...
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The era of handshakes is over?
Handshakes have been put on pause amid the coronavirus pandemic — and they may never come back if some Americans get their way. More than half of Americans surveyed in...
Read moreLidl prefers domestic products
Lidl Hungary was one of the first to join the NAK Marketplace platform of the National Chamber of Agriculture, the aim of which is to connect Hungarian small producers and...
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Irrigation’s cooling effect on crops
In a recent U.S.-based study, a research team led by University of Illinois scientists discovered 16% of the yield increase from irrigation is attributable to cooling alone. “This study highlights...
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Spar Slovenia Launches Online Shopping Service For Essential Items
Spar Slovenia has rolled out a new online shopping service that allows customers to choose from 250 essential food items. The Spar ‘Online Basic’ service aims to ease the grocery...
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Coronavirus To Accelerate UK Grocery’s Digital Shift, Says Sainsbury’s Boss
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a digital shift in UK grocery shopping as Britons embrace home delivery, click and collect and technologies such as in-store scanning, the boss of Sainsbury’s...
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