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Cigarette smoking has decreased in France, thanks to the spread of electronic cigarettes
Date: 2014-02-28 10:50:37
Cigarette smoking has decreased in France, thanks to the spread of electronic cigarettes and also less was sold of cessation medicinal products in 2013 – the Observatory Institute of Drugs...
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Magazin: Changes in the financial sector
Date: 2014-02-28 10:28:13
Data from Céginfo.hu (www.ceginfo.hu) reveals that Hungarian companies opened almost 660,000 bank accounts in the last five years. More than 93 percent of these are with the twelve biggest banks...
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The Foundation of the Hungarian – Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Budapest
Date: 2014-02-28 09:07:29
On 26 February 2014, took place the first meeting of the Board of Directors and Founding Members of the Hungarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RoCham). The meeting followed the...
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Increasing retail revenues from food, household chemicals and cosmetics
Date: 2014-02-27 12:59:41
The revenue of food retail in Hungary rose by 0.4 percent in the food household chemicals and cosmetics categories in the fourth quarter, compared to the comparable period of 2012....
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News flash: The new support deadline for the cash register victims is 30 April
Date: 2014-02-27 12:55:24
The government extended the support deadline for those entrepreneurs, who were not able to acquire a cash register, due to frauds or due to withdrawn cash register types. The extension...
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A significant increase in the support of the grape and wine industry
Date: 2014-02-27 12:03:53
The support of the grape and wine industry increases significantly. While in 2012/2013 it was 6.5 billion HUF, in the next five years it will amount to 29 million euros,...
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Privacy Policy Commando at the e-commerce companies
Date: 2014-02-27 12:02:41
The Direct and Interactive Marketing Association (DIMSZ) held a Privacy Policy Commando in the scope of the Dear Customer Programme. The targets of the raid were those web interfaces that...
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Russia can withdraw the import ban on Hungarian pork in mid-March
Date: 2014-02-27 12:00:07
Russia is expected to withdraw the import ban on Hungarian live pigs, pork and pork products in mid-March – Kardeván Endre told MTI on Wednesday. The Minister of State of...
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Vámos György would extend the deadline
Date: 2014-02-27 11:59:30
The deadline for the 50 thousand HUF support of cash registers expires tomorrow. Tens of thousands of retailers can suffer, since only about 50 thousand pieces of online cash machines...
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The two-third of the service centers is planning an expansion
Date: 2014-02-27 11:25:15
The two-third of the service centers operating in Hungary is planning an expansion. Most of the companies believe that the skilled workforce is the country's greatest strength – EY’s National...
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Positive lifestyle changes reduce diabetes risk
Date: 2014-02-27 09:44:21
Multiple lifestyle factors such as obesity and alcohol consumption increase a person’s risk of diabetes. But new research suggests that a person’s odds of developing the disease may decrease for...
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KSH: consumption continued to recover in December
Date: 2014-02-26 12:40:55
The sales of retail networks as well as the mail order and internet sales were 2.3 percent higher in December last year, than a year earlier – the Central Statistics...
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GfK: one in four Hungarians have loans
Date: 2014-02-26 12:01:40
One in four Hungarians have loans, but only 11 percent of the Hungarian population had bank savings last year – GfK Market Researcher Institute’s survey found out. According to GfK’s...
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Eight hundred thousand species of plants are kept in the global granary
Date: 2014-02-26 11:15:36
In the Global granary, that is the largest such institution and can be found in Svalbard, more than eight hundred thousand species of plant seeds are stored. More than twenty...
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The conversion of large cash registers is in a good progress
Date: 2014-02-25 12:50:34
The pace of progress is good, the cash registers are uploaded continuously to the server of NAV, but the complete transition may last until mid-2014. In case of PC systems;...
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Hungary against GM soy
Date: 2014-02-25 11:58:55
Hungary will take measures in order to supress genetically modified (GM) soy and to decrease import dependence on the soybean market – Feldman Zsolt said at a professional meeting in...
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Bread without crust was developed in Germany
Date: 2014-02-25 11:02:36
The bread is made of the mixture of rye and wheat. The soft-edged bread provides a great help for the elder, or for those who are suffering from feeding and...
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The Czech farmers demand Czech food to the public institutions
Date: 2014-02-25 10:54:48
The Czech farmers demand Czech food products to be served into the institutions of the Czech state. The organization of the Czech farmers sent an open letter to Marian Jurecka...
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The quarter of the cigarette sales has disappeared
Date: 2014-02-24 12:20:01
Only 9.3 billion cigarettes were sold in Hungary in 2013, after the 13 billion cigarettes of 2011 and 12.5 billion cigarettes of 2012. The increase in the price of tobacco...
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The nine-month rise of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index stopped in February
Date: 2014-02-24 11:53:53
The almost continuous nine-month rise of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects stopped in February According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI with the support of...
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The Immerse Yourself In! program continues this year
Date: 2014-02-24 11:22:36
This year, more than 13 thousand students of 204 elementary schools can get acquainted with the basics of gardening, thanks to the Immerse Yourself In! program, organized by the Hungarian...
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The Diószegi bakery is expanding in England
Date: 2014-02-24 11:21:43
Diószegi László, bakerman of Sepsiszentgyörgy opened a bakery in Luton, Great Britain – the Romanian Mediafax news agency wrote on Monday. The bakery produces about 300-400 Székely potato breads daily....
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Millions HUF worth cigarette catches on the highway
Date: 2014-02-24 11:02:25
The Finance guards of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) seized 16 million HUF worth cigarettes without tax stamps on the M1 motorway in Komárom-Esztergom county in recent days...
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The future looks rosy
Date: 2014-02-22 00:17:41
The year didn’t start well as until the middle of January it was practically spring instead of winter. However, if we don’t consider the weather, we can be hopeful about...
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New regulations for the customers of the cash machines with revoked permission
Date: 2014-02-21 12:00:27
The support and the deposit can not be reclaimed twice, after the online cash machines with revoked permissions. The National Tax and Customs Autority (NAV) became aware that the former...
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54 percent of the foreign trade surplus is provided by the agriculture
Date: 2014-02-21 11:55:46
The agricultural export revenue is 10 percent of the national exports. The agricultural sector provides more than half (54 percent) of the entire foreign trade surplus – Czerván György Minister...
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The Szentesi pepper became a protected geographical indication
Date: 2014-02-21 11:52:01
The European Commission declared the Szentesi pepper as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) on Friday. In the Food Quality Indicator System of the European Union – the protected designation of...
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The Nébih seized about a thousand bags of fake cocoa
Date: 2014-02-21 11:51:57
The Special Affairs Directorate of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) ordered the confiscation of about one thousand bags of fake cocoa – the agency told MTI on Thursday....
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Iranian Ambassador: Hungary could deliver agricultural products to Iran instead of Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-21 11:14:33
Due to the Ukrainian events Hungary could replace the foregone agricultural shipments to Iran – Iran's ambassador said in Debrecen. Morshedzadeh Mohammad Reza, after his meeting with the local chamber...
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Investigations for fake drinks and food products in thirty-three countries
Date: 2014-02-21 11:10:46
The Interpol and Europol seized more than 1,200 tons of false or inadequate standards of food products and almost 430,000 liters of adulterated liquor in an action involving 33 countries...
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