Market News
Parfums in the British pubs
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
Artificial scents are set to be pumped into British pubs to mask the smell of stale beer, sweat and other odours previously camouflaged by cigarette smoke. Mitchells and Butlers, which...
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Swine fever outbreak hits Romania on Smithfield Foods' farms
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
The Romanian authorities have ordered the slaughter of 20,000 pigs after an outbreak of swine fever at a farm in the west of the country. The virus has already been...
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Guar gum affair keeps on twist
Date: 2007-08-06 00:00:00
Until Friday only 30 company denoted, that they used the Indian guar gum. Two weeks ago the European Commission informed member states of fears about dioxin levels in guar gum...
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Increased invoice control at stores
Date: 2007-08-03 00:00:00
According to finance minister Janos Veres the black economy could be decreased form nowadays 20% to 8-10%. He gave an interview for economic daily Napi Gazdasag, where he said the...
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A German brewery launched a kosher Jewish beer
Date: 2007-08-03 00:00:00
Simcha are sold primarily to kosher restaurants around Germany. The Hartmannsdorf beer's factory manufactures some 10,000 bottles a day, should "Simcha" become popular, its distributors plan to market it throughout...
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At 20 % food price increase the goverment will horn in
Date: 2007-08-03 00:00:00
Agriculture minister József Gráf said taxdecrease can come at several raw material as for example meat. The Hungarian government is ready to help the farmers with debit for buying feed...
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Red-yellow-green signs on german food
Date: 2007-08-03 00:00:00
On the new labels costumer can read the nutrion information for example calorie. More than half of shoppers surveyed are likely to read the food label before buying, but it...
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Tap water contra mineral water
Date: 2007-08-01 00:00:00
Pepsi's Aquafina and beverage industry leader Coca-Cola's Dasani are both made by purifying water that comes from public reservoirs. PepsiCo Incorporated has decided to be transparent about the fact that...
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(HU) Középtávon nőni fog az unió sertés- és baromfihús-termelése, illetve –fogyasztása
Date: 2007-08-01 00:00:00
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(HU) Tavaly 61 magyar riasztás történt az uniós Gyors Veszélyjelző Rendszerben
Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00
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(HU) Leginkább a tejtermékek áraiban várható emelkedés Németországban
Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00
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(HU) Mérséklődő optimizmus jellemzik a hazai nagyvállalatokat
Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00
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Weather and climate effects influence the price of agricultural products
Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00
Finance Ministry will raise its previous forecast in September. Finance Minister János Veres said market competition, trading channels and the impact of free trade in the EU (which helps even...
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UK man charged with Tesco bomb threats
Date: 2007-07-30 00:00:00
Europe's second biggest retail chain was several times blackmailed, but never payed. A 51-year-old man had been charged with making bomb threats against Tesco supermarkets which forced Britain's biggest retailer...
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Less food safety problems with hungarian products
Date: 2007-07-30 00:00:00
After overall control in June the Hungarian Food Safety Office phased 125 products out of circulation. First of all the products bought in the summer (beer, eiscream, soft drinks) would...
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Marketplace control, the biggest problem is the date of expiry
Date: 2007-07-30 00:00:00
The Consumer Protection Agency checked last Saturday 120 stores on hungarian market places. 89 were put in the wrong, the penalty sum is HUF 12 million. Products in value HUF...
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Politicians against unfair entrepreneurs
Date: 2007-07-30 00:00:00
Karoly Herenyi, floor leader of MDF ask the leader of Consumer Protection Agency to publish the Agency's black list. A short time ago, MDF asks the Agency to make a...
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Plaza building fiber in Romania
Date: 2007-07-30 00:00:00
With 2 million square metres of retail space available until 2010 – four times more than the current level, the domestic market is attracting more and more European clothing and...
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Hungary jobless rate moderates further to 7.0%
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
Hungary's rate of unemployment dropped further to 7.0% year on year in the April-June period, from 7.3% in the previous three-month period and 7.5% in Feb-Apr, the Central Statistics Office...
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Hungarian like beer – retail sales growth
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
The can beer is more popular as the beer in bottle although it is more expensive – according to Nielsen's datas. The sales value at can beers increased with 5%,...
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Plaza Centers would invest 115 million euros in a commercial center in Romania
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
The Israeli real estate company bought a 70,000 sm retail-office complex in Iasi. The new commercial center will have 54,000 square meters of retail space, additional office space, in a...
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Less implugnable food products
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
Thanks for aligned food safety controls day after day decreased the number of unhealty raw material and food industry products. So the penalty is decreasing. From 90 slaughter house in...
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No more frosen meat
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
The EU rules are available in Hungary from 1 of August. According a new food safety decree: retailer can't frozen the meat and it's prohibited to make meatproducts from frozen...
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