Market News
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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The whole grain and high fibre food market will reach €15bn by 2010
Date: 2007-07-27 00:00:00
According to a new report by Global Industry Analysts the baked whole-grain snacks market has the most potential for growth, the report said, and sales of foods such as oven...
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Dangerous import vegetables in Germany
Date: 2007-07-26 00:00:00
With plant-protection material tainted pepper from Turkey and Spain were found in Germany. The 2/3 of the turkish pepper and 1/3 of spanish pepper contained dangerous material. In winter the...
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Less company on National Public Health and Medical Officer Service (NPHMOS)'s blacklist
Date: 2007-07-26 00:00:00
Next week NPHMOS will refresh its blacklist about entertainer places, where food poisoning happened. Only that food industry companies or entertainer places will be on the list, where since 1....
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Beijing promises greater efforts to ensure food safety
Date: 2007-07-26 00:00:00
The Beijing food safety authority has pledged to make greater efforts in inspecting catering businesses and food processing facilities across the city to ensure food safety. Beijing lawmakers are considering...
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Consumers happy to own fakes
Date: 2007-07-26 00:00:00
The feak LV bags make USD 1 million damage for the french luxury maker Luis Vuitton. For the fight against forgers LV company organised an anti feak commando, a department...
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Growth in every type of tax
Date: 2007-07-26 00:00:00
Hungarian tax authority collects 19% more revenues in H1 than a year earlier.Some two thirds of the HUF 635 billion increase came from traditionally key tax revenues, APEH President János...
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(HU) Folytatódott az élelmiszeripari kiskereskedelmi forgalom visszaesése
Date: 2007-07-25 00:00:00
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(HU) Több mint félezernyi ellenőrzés, egyharmaduk bírsággal végződik
Date: 2007-07-25 00:00:00
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Larvae found on pizzas
Date: 2007-07-23 00:00:00
Czech authorities ordered the withdrawal of tens of thousands of frozen pizzas made by local manufacturer Guseppe after they were found to contain insect larvae. "Our inspectors found 9,990 rotting...
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Food safety problems in Germany
Date: 2007-07-23 00:00:00
Every fourth food company make illeguratories, according the German Food Safety Institute. The most problem is registered at carcase meat, poultry and salamis. One sixth of checked food samples were...
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Botulism taint prompts canned-food recall at Connors Brothers' U.S. unit
Date: 2007-07-23 00:00:00
U.S. federal regulators expanded their warnings against tainted tins of food that have been produced at a U.S. production facility owned by a Canadian income trust. Castleberry Food Co.,...
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Governors step up push for children's health funding
Date: 2007-07-23 00:00:00
The american nation's governors stepped up pressure on the Bush administration Sunday to boost federal spending on a health insurance program serving low-income children. During its annual meeting, the National...
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Mineral water market develop well
Date: 2007-07-20 00:00:00
In quality 22% more, in value 19% more mineral water was sold between last and this years June. It was a record increase is mineral waters's retail – according to...
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New rules limit junk food ads aimed at children
Date: 2007-07-19 00:00:00
Eleven of the USA's biggest food and drink companies will adopt new rules to limit advertising to children under the age of 12. The companies, including Campbell Soup Co.,...
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Sweden to face EU Court over alcohol tax
Date: 2007-07-19 00:00:00
Sweden should not be allowed to have higher tax on wine than on beer quoting a top EU judge. Paolo Mengozzi, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice,...
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Stop for czekish poultry
Date: 2007-07-18 00:00:00
Auchan stoped buying and selling poultry from Czech Republik for interim time. Altough its supplier guaranteed, that the transported products are bird flu free, the supermarket chain decided not to...
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