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Cigarette smoking has decreased in France, thanks to the spread of electronic cigarettes

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

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

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

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

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the support deadline for those entrepreneurs, who were not able to acquire a cash register, due to frauds or due to withdrawn cash register types.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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