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Intermarché’s expansion in Portugal
France-based Les Mousquetaires has announced a large-scale expansion plan for its Intermarché stores in Portugal. The retailer plans to invest EUR 200 million in opening 105 stores by 2023. EUR...
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7-Eleven introduces mobile checkout
After testing mobile self-checkout with employees at its own store, 7-Eleven launched the service in several Dallas locations in 2018 to get customer feedback for further fine-tuning. Customers at 7-Eleven in New...
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Target and Disney partner for a special in-store experience
Target will open about 65 in-store Disney stores in the next two years as part of a new partnership between the two companies. The first 25 of the shop-in-shop concepts will...
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No-checkout store concept arrives in Switzerland
Swiss company Valora and Migrolino follow the path of Amazon Go, testing a new store concept in Switzerland. This spring Valora opened its automated mini-store at the main train station...
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In the service of value and quality – for the second time
The Value and Quality Awards were presented to those products, companies and services that want to be ‘the best among the good ones’. Currently the Value and Quality Award is...
Read moreBook of Excellent Pálinkas
At the launch of the Book of Excellent Pálinkas 2019 Róbert Zsigó, state secretary for food chain supervision called attention to the fact that master distillers, pálinka houses, enterprises, trade...
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Sixty applicants won the Value and Quality Award in 2019
On 10 September the award ceremony of the Value and Quality Award took place in the building of the Hungarian Parliament for the second time. This year 67 entries by...
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‘Multifunctional’ drinking straw
There are several alternatives to plastic drinking straws, from aluminium to paper, but probably one of the strangest is the drinking straw made from algae. It can be used for...
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Coop Rally visited food companies in East Hungary this year
This year the Coop Rally’s more than 300 participants visited 8 destinations (meat and dairy plants, a soft drink company, a winery, COOP stores and a fresh product logistics centre)...
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A gluten-free life for 80 billion forints a year
Gluten-free groceries had a 4-percent share in total grocery sales between July 2018 and June 2019. Gluten-free foods were sold in the value of almost HUF 80 billion. Dóra Hajnal,...
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Europe is slowing down, but we aren’t
Like-for-like retail sales augmented by 3.4 percent in Europe in the 2nd quarter of 2019. The sales growth in this period was 7.7 percent in Hungary – this was the...
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Who is killing the great chefs of Europe?
A famous French chef, Marc Veyrat, who is the head of La Maison de Bois restaurant in Manigod, has written a letter of complaint to the editors of the Michelin...
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Changing loyalty programmes in retail
On average two thirds of European household participate in some kind of loyalty programme operated by a retailer. There are big differences between the countries, though, as in Belgium every...
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Mobile payment is ahead of a breakthrough in Hungary
About five years ago Apple Pay and Android Pay broke new ground in contactless mobile payment, especially in Western Europe. However, it is still early days in Hungary in this...
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A sweet experiment
Hungarian craft brewery Mad Scientist has come out with a new 11-percent abv beer called White Mead 50% Irsai Olivér™ with must. The new beer is made with premium acacia...
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Instant payment to be launched in Hungary next spring
The Central Bank of Hungary (MNB) has recently postponed the introduction of the instant payment system in Hungary – the new date is now 2 March 2020. By using the...
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There was no APA when we started drinking beer
…but Soproni has now given us Soproni Óvatos Duhaj APA, a new beer that won in the ale category at the International Beer Challenge! Soproni brand manager Dalma Szabó told:...
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Alcohol-free alcohol
At the end of summer an alcohol-free distillate appeared in the Hungarian market. Its distributor, Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország says Fluére is a novelty even at European level and it can...
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Mobile payment with QR code can be the key to fewer cash payments
In the instant payment system mobile payment with QR code has become popular in those countries where the market regulator and market players developed an open-source standard, or where banks...
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What kind of sandwich do Hungarians like?
The big Kométa sandwich survey has found that half of Hungarians eat a sandwich every day. From the 1,242 respondents 80 percent of men said a big tasty sandwich is...
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Top chefs will be competing in the Hungarian Bocuse d’Or selection
The Hungarian Bocuse d’Or Academy has selected the 10 chefs that will complete in the Hungarian final of the competition. Some of them are the heads of Michelin-starred restaurants or...
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Dessert competition
Bolka Dessert Boutique’s peach and almond cake has been named this year’s dessert of Budapest. The public could taste the new dessert for the first time at the 9th Sweet...
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50 years celebrated
It was 50 years ago that teaching started at the Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism of the Budapest Business School’s (BGE) predecessor institution. BGE celebrated the anniversary with a...
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Nébih guides for cutting food waste
Four working groups of the No Leftover programme of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) have compiled guidance documents that can help in preventing the production of food waste...
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A community food stand opens on thousand square meters
The Agricultural Marketing Center has been promoting Hungarian food in the form of community appearance at countless foreign exhibitions for decades. As this year’s OMÉK focuses on the food industry...
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The Ministry of Agriculture helps the competitiveness of Hungarian livestock farmers with subsidies
The Ministry of Agriculture (AM) also provides subsidies to Hungarian livestock farmers to help the sector cope with strong international competition – the Ministry announced on Friday. According to the...
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MNB: card payments ratio continued to expand in the second quarter
The infrastructure of card payments and the rate of card payments also expanded in the second quarter of this year -the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) announced on its website...
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Workforce, trends and prices
The Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK) has conducted a survey with the participation of restaurant and confectionery owners and guests. It has found that young people’s salary expectations...
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Thirty-five wineries and 50 programs at the Villányi Red Wine Festival
Thirty-five wineries and nearly fifty gastronomic, cultural and pop music programs await the visitors to the Villányi Red Wine Festival, which will be organized for the 32nd time between October...
Read moreMadosz: the quality of tobacco is better than last year
The quality of the tobacco produced this season is expected to be better than last year, and the quantity will be good as well – the president of the National...
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