Events
One in twenty founding companies will be successful
Date: 2015-11-13 11:25:04
Tens of thousands companies are established by domestic entrepreneurs every year in Hungary, but almost forty percent of them proves to be short-lived, and only every twentieth will produce acceptable...
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Bakers baking for people in need
Date: 2015-11-13 11:03:14
On 16 October the Hungarian Baker Association organised its World Bread Day event for the 15th time. Many bakeries all over Hungary were distributing bread and other baked goods to...
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New survey on trademarks
Date: 2015-11-13 10:53:24
‘HUNGARIAN PRODUCT’ Nonprofit Kft. organised a partners meeting to share the results of their latest consumer survey. Managing director Attila Kecskeméti underlined that 80 percent of respondents buy products made...
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The old fee returns
Date: 2015-11-13 10:01:05
Hungary’s government decided against the new food chain supervision fee and this means that the former 0.1-percent fee returns – reported portfolio.hu. Shops with a smaller turnover mightn’t be happy...
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Sweetener is most accepted as a soft drink ingredient
Date: 2015-11-13 09:56:08
A survey conducted on sweeteners by Szinapszis this summer found that the proportion of conscious buyers increased in the soft drink, fruit juice, confectionery and fruit product categories, in terms...
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Magazine: Skin care matters even more in cold weather
Date: 2015-11-13 07:07:31
Women’s skin care is a category that full of challenges, because the market of widely used products is in stagnation. Economic recession made the category suffer, as body care isn’t...
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The impact of the Black Friday and the Sunday store closure on domestic e-commerce
Date: 2015-11-12 11:55:28
The Christmas season begins with the Black Friday in e-commerce, while despite the Sunday store closure we still not buy more online – according to the joint Online Retail Index...
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Cofidis: the Hungarian households intend to spend an average of 43 thousand HUF for Christmas expenditure
Date: 2015-11-12 11:42:04
The Hungarian households intend to spend an average of 43 thousand HUF for Christmas expenditure this year, of which 29 thousand HUF is planned to be spent on gifts, only...
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The NGM is working on an agricultural lending stimulus package
Date: 2015-11-12 11:37:10
The government is working on an incentive package to assist agricultural enterprises to get loans, in accordance with EU financial regulations – Hornung Ágnes, Minister of State for Finance in...
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The utilization of logistics real estate in Budapest has improved
Date: 2015-11-12 11:30:14
14.2 percent of urban logistics real estate in the area of Budapest was empty at the end of the third quarter. A year ago this ratio was almost 20 percent...
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The marketing of e-cigarettes to be tightened
Date: 2015-11-12 11:20:08
The government would tighten the marketing and the use of electronic cigarettes. According to a bill, such thing cannot be bought via the Internet in the future – the Deputy...
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Natural-foods and wines at the Millenáris
Date: 2015-11-12 11:10:44
More than one hundred natural-wines of about thirty producers from the Carpathian Basin, will be available to taste at the 5th Mitiszol festival on Saturday in the Millenáris Park, where...
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According to archaeological finds, humans are keeping bees for almost 9,000 years
Date: 2015-11-12 10:58:08
Traces of beeswax found on ancient pottery from Europe, the Near East and North Africa suggest the first farmers kept bees. The research, published in Nature, shows our links with...
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Cooperation between GVH and OGYÉI
Date: 2015-11-12 10:49:20
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI) have signed a cooperation agreement. In the future the two organisations will help one another in...
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Weak global growth in the next two years due to China and the emerging economies
Date: 2015-11-11 13:16:05
Global growth will be lacklustre over the next two years as the slowdown in China and other emerging markets continues to weigh on the world economy, Moody's Investors Service said...
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KSH: agricultural procurement prices have risen for the first time for two years
Date: 2015-11-11 11:58:34
In September, the producer prices were 1.2 percent higher than a year before and thus they rose for the first time since June 2013 on a year on year comparision....
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Nearly 100 groceries have entered the Budapest Nagybani Piac program already
Date: 2015-11-11 11:45:40
In September 2015 the Budapest Wholesale Market (Budapest Nagybani Piac) has launched a program called “Fresh from the Nagybani”. The program emphasizes those fruit and vegetable specialist shops that buys...
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Cooperation between the large breweries and the micro- breweries
Date: 2015-11-11 11:33:25
In order to increase the supply, a cooperation has been established between the large-scale breweries and the micro- and craft breweries for this year's Főzdefeszt – Bart Dániel, director of...
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Billions have been spent on purchasing online within minutes during the “singles day” in China
Date: 2015-11-11 11:04:10
Chinese consumers spent a record 91.2 billion yuan (14.3 billion USD, 9.4 billion pounds) online during the 24 hours of Singles Day this year, cementing the e-commerce extravaganza as the...
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Alcohol consumption decreased in Slovakia
Date: 2015-11-11 11:02:55
The per capita alcohol consumption in Slovakia shows a downward trend – the pluska.sk Slovak news portal wrote on its website referring to the current statistics of the Organisation for...
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30 tons of food in the anniversary donation convoy
Date: 2015-11-11 10:54:04
In the middle of October the Hungarian Food Bank Association and FAO organised a donation convoy, which travelled through the city centre of Budapest to take 30 tons of donation...
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ÉFOSZ and the Association of Confectionery Manufacturers suggest partnership
Date: 2015-11-11 10:43:21
A paradigm shift has become inevitable in public health – it was revealed at the conference organised by the National Institute for Health Development (NEFI). Hungarians are still less healthy...
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Magazine: Hungary’s packaging industry produces international quality
Date: 2015-11-11 07:48:10
Statistical data from the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) reveal that the packaging industry’s turnover was HUF 482 billion in 2014, HUF 15 billion more than in...
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GfK purchasing power: a huge gap between Europe's north-west and south-eastern part
Date: 2015-11-10 12:00:39
Purchasing power in Europe climbed by around four percent this year. But purchasing power levels vary substantially across the continent and within the 42 individual countries considered by GfK’s study....
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MNB: food prices also increased inflation
Date: 2015-11-10 11:40:31
In October, the annual inflation rate was 0.5 percent higher, while core inflation was 0.2 percentage points higher than in the previous month. The rise in inflation was because of...
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The National Association of Agricultural Economics and the Moving Market signed a cooperation agreement
Date: 2015-11-10 11:30:31
The National Association of Agricultural Economics and the Moving Market Programme (Mozgó piac program) signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Tuesday. The Chamber of Agriculture said in a statement that...
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Medium fish harvest in Tolna County
Date: 2015-11-10 11:25:46
The fish farms in Tolna county expect a medium fish harvest that will be similar to last year’s amount. This year, the Polish market can improve the export opportunities. Csibi...
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Unicum’s new promotional film quotes the heroic age of the Hungarian history
Date: 2015-11-10 11:20:39
Corps equipped with whips, multi-meter sturgeons, the Parliament and Hajós Alfréd in a movie. The new promotional film of Zwack Unicum evokes the past 225 years of the outstanding heroic...
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92 percent of the corn is in the granaries
Date: 2015-11-10 11:19:41
The harvesting works are approaching to the end in Zala county. More than 90 percent of the corn produced on 40 thousand hectares have already been transported to the granaries....
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The consumer protection authority tested baby chairs, diaper tables and diapers
Date: 2015-11-10 11:15:34
The Hungarian National Consumer Protection Authority (NCPA) tested baby chairs, diaper tables and diapers. Two out of five baby chairs and one out of ten diaper tables did not meet...
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