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Once again WMF cookware available in SPAR’s loyalty promotion
Top-quality WMF ProfiSelect cookware is available to shoppers in SPAR Hungary’s new loyalty point collecting campaign, which started on 5 October 2017 and lasts until 24 January 2018. For each HUF...
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ALDI supported the Go Pink initiative for the fifth time
ALDI Hungary took part in the international breast cancer awareness raising campaign, called Go Pink, for the fifth time this October. In October from the price of each pink-tray Bio-Fungi mushroom...
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A bit of magic from Medve
Cheese brand Medve came out with a 6-episode video series in early September, calling attention to the values of the product using simple magic tricks. From 9 October the campaign continues...
Read moreTesco reaches agreement with trade unions
On 13 October Tesco and the trade unions concluded an agreement on a plan that concerns both the interests of employees and long term, sustainable development. The draft contains the tasks...
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Gyümölcs Trade buys new vehicles
Gyümölcs Trade Kft. wishes to expand its export activity, therefore the company has decided to purchase 50 DAF trucks and 70 trailers until the end of the year, investing nearly HUF...
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SPAR room inaugurated at Szent István University
SPAR sponsored the building of a modern classroom with more than HUF 4.5 million at the Faculty of Food Science of Szent István University. The new room seats 24 students and...
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Banana skins and other fruit waste could be used as biogas in Nigeria
In 2013, the state government partnered with Midori Environmental Solutions (MES), a Lagos-based environmental company, to explore the possibilities of converting waste from the market into electricity using a biogas...
Read moreA long autumn for Tesco
The autumn strike of Tesco workers turned the spotlight on the dramatic transformation of the labour market: the former workforce surplus has turned into a shortage by now. At the moment...
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The agraricultural chamber would increase apple consumption
Apple consumption is decreasing since years. the per capita consumption is 12 kilograms per year, which should be increased to 20 to 25 kilograms, therefore a campaign was launched to...
Read more56 percent of the wine producers chose small-scale wine-growing status
By March this year, wine makers had to decide on the form in which they would continue their activities. 56 percent of them chose small-scale producer status – the Minister...
Read moreEU: the lack of digitization hinders precision farming
By 2020, the European Commission will cover the European Union with a high-speed broadband Internet network – agrarszektor.hu wrote. The biggest obstacle to agricultural implementation is that elderly farmers do...
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The Gödöllő Service Center of the Agricultural Chamber was opened
The third service center of the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), was handed over on Friday in Gödöllő. Győrffy Balázs, president of NAK, said in his speech that the chamber...
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The vote for the Fish of the Year begins
The balin, domolykó and kövicsík fishes have the chance to win the “Fish of the Year” competition in 2018. Photo: Sallai Zoltán The Hungarian Fish Society, in line with the...
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The number of jobseekers fell further in September
The number of registered jobseekers dropped by 4.8 percent in Hungary over a year, while the National Employment Service (NFSZ) recorded 268 400 jobseekers at the end of September, nearly...
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The national hail reduction system will be operated from May
The national hail reduction system will operate from May next year. With the system tens of billions of forints can be saved per year only in agriculture – Kis Miklós...
Read moreBulgaria will coordinate its EU agricultural policy with Hungary in the future
In the future, Hungary and Bulgaria will coordinate their position on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with the EU so that farmers can get the right resources – Fazekas Sándor...
Read moreFifty-five million forints of smuggled cigarettes were found in a van
Fifty-five million forint smuggled cigarettes were found by police in a van near Tiszavasvári – Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county police said. According to the information, police officers found the nearly 50,000 boxes...
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FM: campaign to encourage consumption and purchase of Hungarian apple has started
A nationwide promotional campaign encouraging the consumption and purchase of Hungarian apple was launched – the Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM) announced on Thursday at...
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The Prime Minister’s Office supported the poultry holders with nearly 23 billion HUF
Within the framework of the Rural Development Program, the Prime Minister’s Office supported the modernization of 207 poultry farms with 22.6 billion forints. The Prime Minister’s Office reported that there...
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Thirteen percent increase in earnings over a year
In August, gross average earnings were 13.2 percent higher than a year before, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Thursday. The rate of growth was slightly different from the...
Read moreKopint-Tárki expects faster growth
The Kopint-Tárki Research Institute improved this year’s and next year’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast. In 2017, instead of the 3.7 percent (predicted in July), gross domestic product growth...
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Analysts say wage growth may remain
Wage growth may continue in the coming months, according to analysts interviewed by MTI who report that wages will rise by 13 percent on average this year. The Central Statistical...
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There is a need for production-related subsidies, according to the agrarian chambers of the Visegrád countries
The enlarged meeting of the Agrarian Chambers of the Visegrad Four countries focused on the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). According to the organizations’ leaders, production-related subsidies are needed, which...
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These nations buy the most Hungarikums at Ferihegy Airport from the Heinemann Duty Free
Pick Salami, Unicum and spice paprika grists – just a few of the hungarians that foreigners buy in the Heinemann Duty Free shop at the Budapest Airport SkyCourt. Of course,...
Read moreA closer collaboration to help farmers
Several organizations in the agricultural sector have joined forces to help the farmers – the president of the National Association of Hungarian Farmers (Magosz) announced on Wednesday at a press...
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Nébih’s laboratory in Debrecen was renewed
The National Food Chain Safety Office’s (Nébih), laboratory in Debrecen was renewed. The molecular biology department of Nébih was renewed from about 110 million forints – the Minister of State...
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We spend 330 billion forints annually on vegetables and fruits
Domestic households purchase 165 kilogrammes of vegetables and 89 kilogrammes fruits a year, worth over 330 billion forints. <img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-935303″ src=”https://trademagazin.hu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Budapesti-Nagybani-Piac.jpg” alt=”” width=”720″ height=”479″ /> Half of this...
Read moreGfK: The structure of the domestic online FMCG traffic approaches the structure of daily consumer goods turnover
According to GfK Commercial Analyzes’ study on this year’s first semester, households have rarely purchased larger amount of daily consumer goods between January and June 2017. In the first half...
Read moreThe Government is initiating the development of an irrigation development strategy
The Hungarian government considers it necessary to create an irrigation development strategy. According to the Government Decree published in the latest issue of the Hungarian Gazette (Magyar Közlöny), the Government...
Read moreAnti-Counterfeiting Board: Two-thirds of Hungarians would punish counterfeiters more rigorously
Two thirds of the Hungarians would punish the counterfeiters more rigorously and increasingly sees the risks of counterfeit products – Németh Mónika, secretary of the National Anti-Counterfeiting Board told M1...
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