News and articles
177 million forint fraud in Booking.com system – this is how Hungarian travelers are being scammed
Over the course of three months, 177 million forints were stolen from Hungarian travelers in a well-organized fraud scheme on Booking.com. The criminals first obtained the accounts of the accommodation...
Read more
Samsung Unveils New 9100 PRO SSD with PCIe 5.0 Support
Samsung 9100 PRO is the latest addition to the company’s consumer SSD lineup. The 9100 PRO features PCIe 5.0 interface to deliver advanced performance, efficient multitasking, and broad compatibility, enhancing...
Read more
Sustainable travel: why not buy unnecessary souvenirs?
Humanity has never traveled as much as it does today, and this has serious environmental consequences. It is not only the emissions of airplanes and cars that are a problem,...
Read more
Ryanair’s airfares are getting more expensive, Wizz Air is preparing to return to Ukraine
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary announced in Warsaw on Tuesday that the airline’s flight prices could rise by 4-6 percent this summer. According to the company’s CEO, last summer there was...
Read more
Health and sustainability is the engine of this year’s F&B innovations
A sort of duality emerges from the predictions of food trends in 2025. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/2-3. With the easing of economic uncertainty following...
Read more
German GDP fell in the fourth quarter
Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.2 percent in the third quarter of 2024, adjusted for price, seasonal and calendar changes, compared to the third quarter, according to the...
Read more
A charity organization offsets the emissions of ten thousand cars in Hungary last year
In 2024, the Hungarian Food Bank Association saved a total of 10,359 tons of expired and defective food, helping 245,000 people in need. The donation of HUF 17.1 billion was...
Read more
Average earnings to increase by 13 percent in 2024
The government is constantly working to ensure that families can manage with more and more money – emphasized Sándor Czomba, State Secretary for Employment Policy at the Ministry of National...
Read more
It is worth checking your home insurance and asking for a professional in case of a problem
Household problems arise suddenly in the home: for example, a blockage is a problem that needs to be solved immediately, and an expert is needed to fix it. However, it...
Read more
CCC Group strengthens its market presence with a significant acquisition
CCC Group strengthens its market presence with a significant acquisition: the company has acquired a 75% stake in Szopex, an operator of premium sports footwear and sportswear brands in Poland,...
Read more
The state is experimenting with the wealthy on an untrodden path
The Hungarian state is embarking on an interesting experiment when the most popular savings, Premium Hungarian Government Bonds (PMÁP), do not offer a meaningful yield alternative to the owners –...
Read more
Sainsbury’s to wrap avocados in paper
In a trial that started in 77 stores in January, Sainsbury’s private label twin pack Ripe & Ready avocados are sold in fully recyclable packaging, made from paper and bamboo...
Read more
NFKH: Fifty expired foods and products with manipulated labels were found in a store
About fifty food items that had expired a year ago and manipulated labels were found by employees of the National Trade and Consumer Protection Authority in a store operated by...
Read more
Alibaba founder Jack Ma makes comeback with AI
Alibaba is planning to invest fifty billion euros in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, as the Chinese e-commerce giant says it wants to give a major boost to digital innovations...
Read more
Planet A Foods’ cocoa alternative enters UK
The Munich-based group developed the peanut butter mini eggs with Germany-based Wawi-Schokolade. Germany-based cocoa-free supplier Planet A Foods has entered the UK market with the launch of a chocolate-alternative product...
Read more
Artificial intelligence is also transforming education
Challenge or help? According to a recent British survey, although teachers are aware of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many do not use it at all and lack training to learn...
Read more
Consum Plans To Open 35 Charter Stores In 2025
Spanish consumer cooperative Consum saw significant growth in its Charter franchise in 2024, with sales to franchisees increasing by 12.7% to €781.6 million. The network expanded by 6.7%, adding 43...
Read more
JUST washing gel 4 l – active, color
Premium quality JUST washing gels for washing coloured and white clothes even at low temperatures. Active: also effective at a low temperature, so it is really a cost and energy...
Read more
The Latest Issue of Trade Magazine Has Arrived!
We are pleased to announce that the newest issue of Trade Magazine (2025/2-3) is now available! As always, the digital edition arrives a bit earlier and in an extended format—this...
Read more
MBH Bank: improving economic prospects, expanding investments, but temporarily rising inflation expected in 2025
Real wage growth, stabilizing investments and further recovery in consumption are expected in 2025, thanks to which the outlook for economic performance is more favorable compared to 2024, it was...
Read more
Eurozone inflation rises to six-month high in January
Eurozone inflation rose to a six-month high of 2.5 percent in January, mainly due to rising energy prices, Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, said in a report on Monday....
Read more
Hair care 2025: new directions and market trends
This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/2-3. Mariann Karsai, senior brand manager of Henkel Magyarország Kft. cites NIQ data to tell our magazine: in November 2024 the...
Read more
SPAR’s innovative packaging solution that uses less plastic has been recognized with prestigious awards
SPAR Hungary’s innovative packaging technology has been honored with two prestigious awards. The company’s Regnum meat plant’s flow-pack machine is used to package the meat plant’s most popular product using...
Read more
Qatari-Hungarian business forum organized for the first time in Doha
The Hungarian Food Business Program, the food export development branch of the Agrármarketing Centrum, organized its first business meeting in Doha. Although Qatar is one of the richest countries in...
Read more
The Chairman and CEO of Szerencsejáték Zrt. is leaving
The Chairman and CEO of Szerencsejáték Zrt. will leave his position on March 5, the company announced to MTI on Monday. Andrea Mager is leaving by mutual agreement, according to...
Read more
Tourism results reach new heights
Among the results, he listed the low level of the unemployment rate and the development of employment, adding that 4.7 million people are currently working. The minimum wage is under...
Read more
NGM: pensioners will be able to use VAT refunds extremely easily
Malicious comments and criticisms regarding the VAT refund of pensioners, without information on the exact regulations, are nothing more than simple, old-fashioned political sentiment-raising – this is how the Ministry...
Read more
The Hungarian Pavilion is already being prepared for the Osaka World Expo
The Osaka World Expo is one of the world’s most significant cultural, touristic and economically influential events, therefore Hungary’s participation in the Expo is in the national economic interest –...
Read more
Hungexpo: more than 23 thousand visitors visited the Travel+ Exhibition and the Budapest Boat Show
More than 23 thousand visitors visited the 47th Travel+ International Tourism Exhibition and Experience Festival, as well as the Budapest Boat Show organized at the same time between February 20-23,...
Read more
A Hungarian research group has developed a gene editing process for producing new grain varieties
The cereal grain research working group of the National Laboratory for Agricultural Biotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security has developed a gene editing process for producing economically useful grain...
Read more