Market News
Decreased food prices
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
Hungary's agricultural producer prices rose by 7.9% year on year in April, falling from a growth of 8.9% in March, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) has reported. Excluding fruits and...
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Modus to build largest retail scheme in Bucharest
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
UK developer Modus Properties, in partnership with Nova Imobiliare, are on course to build the largest retail and leisure destination in Bucharest, Romania. Phase one of the €450 million scheme,...
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EU to invest €4m into harmonizing Russian, European sanitary standards
Date: 2007-06-14 00:00:00
The 30-month project, to be conducted in cooperation with Russian authorities, will be launched June 20. This is expected to help establish stronger economic ties between the European Union and...
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New online ad possibility for SMEs
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
According to Google from now the hungarian users can get the AdWords Business Pages. Intended for businesses without their own websites, AdWords Business Pages are informational webpages that advertisers can...
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Biofuels jack up food prices
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
The rapid increase in global biofuel production will push global corn prices up by 20 percent by 2010 and 41 percent by 2020. Thanks to high oil prices and hefty...
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EU unifies rules for organic food labelling
Date: 2007-06-13 00:00:00
Mass catering operations are excluded from the new rules although countries can choose to apply national rules if they wish. EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling over new rules...
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The poultry price will be HUF 30-40 more expensive
Date: 2007-06-12 00:00:00
The recent rise in price has several motives: rising of energy and feed costs, and a scarcity of goods, because the cheap products of South-America illuminated. The stop of...
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Honey control finished
Date: 2007-06-11 00:00:00
In food safety case the hungarian honey is okay, but 10% of them contend added sugar. According to Laszlo Buza, ceo of MGSZH the control shows, there are no food...
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Poultry export to Russia starts soon
Date: 2007-06-11 00:00:00
Moscow stopped the import in January, after birdinflu alert. This week may come the russian veterinarians. Russia will dissolve the hungarian poultry import stop – according to József Graf, minister...
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The hungarian ministry of Agricultur steps up in interest of domestic flesh industry
Date: 2007-06-11 00:00:00
The polish-russian flesh saga makes big problems on hungarian fleshmarket. The ministry suggests for industry not to buy foreign meat. Hungary and Polen initiate EU – support for their flesh...
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Just Married Center in Biatorbágy
Date: 2007-06-11 00:00:00
In the store opens 2009 the couple can buy clothes, decoration, flowers etc. for the wedding. In four grounds centre built near Budapest, in Biatorbágy. The store is unique in...
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Survey: Climate change concerns increasing
Date: 2007-06-08 00:00:00
A survey by the Nielsen Co. and Britain's Oxford University suggests global concern about climate change has dramatically increased this year. The survey showed 2-in-5 (42 percent) of global online...
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(HU) Csökken a biotermékek ára Ausztriában és lassan itthon is
Date: 2007-06-08 00:00:00
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Counterfeit Trade Is Growing Worldwide
Date: 2007-06-08 00:00:00
Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods across national borders totaled at least $200 billion in 2005. „Trade in counterfeit goods is a big problem and getting bigger," says John Dryden,...
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Hungarian drunk more beers in 2006
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
68 % of the sold 7,152 hectoliter was traditional beer. Although the tax costs, the energie- and raw material prices growth, the hungarian beer industries has a positive balance for...
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Stronger food and drug safety controlls in China
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
China has released food and drug safety goals for the next five years, promising stronger surveillance and export controls that officials say will help improve China's international image and relations....
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The Hungarian shop more often, but give the same money as last year
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
Trade brands growth, first of all in discountstores – according to Nielsen newest research. The number of fmcg stores decreased last year from 23086 to 21959, their income was 3-4%...
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Irish soft drinks pass safety tests
Date: 2007-06-06 00:00:00
Irish soft drinks manufacturers have responded to a new health scare by having their products tested by Irish and EU food safety authorities. The Beverage Council of Ireland (BCI)...
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EU overturns Sweden alcohol import ban
Date: 2007-06-06 00:00:00
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled Sweden's ban on private consumers importing alcoholic beverages is an “unjustified quantitative restriction on the free movement of goods” under European Union...
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The british organic foods market is attractive enough for american bio companies
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
Whole Foods Market Inc., America's most successful organic supermarket chain, opens its massive flagship London store next week. Whole Foods — founded 30 years ago by Texan John Mackey, a...
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Hungarian trade deficit decrease
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
Hungary's revised Q1 trade deficit came in at €280,4 million, €377,6 million less than a year earlier, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said. Exports in Jan-March rose 18% to €16...
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Chinese organic food on the European borders
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
An ever increasing assortment of organic produce from China finds its way onto supermarket shelves in Europe. Organic produce still accounts for only a tiny fraction of China's food consumption....
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Subsequent chinese poison for America – this time in toothpaste
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China, because some toothpaste containing the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol (DEG). ...
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Frozen vegetarian food from Bohemia
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The israelien Tivall group, controlled by Nestle, built a new $30 million in in the Czech Republic, in the Krupka industries park. Tivall's frozen foods are sold in West- Europe,...
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Allergy-safe bakery produces from Ok Foods
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The UK's 'free-from' bakery market is benefiting from continuing innovation with the launch of new snacking options from leading niche producer. Ok Foods manufacturers snacks for consumers unable to eat...
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Carbon points on british food
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The Government has taken the first step towards introducing carbon labelling for all products sold in shops. Plans have been unveiled to design a "carbon calculator" that could work out...
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There is demand for milkproduct in the world
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
After the first quarter dates of hungarian milk section, the subsidence can be stop – according to Miklos Istvanfalvi, president of Hungarian Milk Marketing Board. Last year the milk output...
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More informed consumer, faster decisions
Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:00
Consumer decision-making patterns, according to new consumer research released today by global public relations firm Weber Shandwick. Decision-making among global consumers has accelerated in recent years. Nearly two-thirds (63...
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Obesity white paper from European Commission
Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:00
The European Commission yesterday adopted a white paper setting out a European strategy on nutrition, overweight and obesity, including plans to review progress in three years. In the majority of...
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