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There are a lot of illegal workers on EU farms

Up to 60 percent of workers are illegally employed in some farms of the European Union – agrarszektor.hu wrote. Because of the seriousness of the case, many experts urges the...

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DHL China to start drone deliveries

DHL China is to start delivering goods by drones, cutting the delivery time on a route in Guangzhou from 40 minutes to just eight. The international express delivery-service provider has...

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Google launches Grow My Store tool

Google has unveiled a new tool known as Grow My Store to support retailers with improving their customers’ online and omnichannel experiences. The new Grow My Store tool gives retailers...

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Spar Austria Commits To Home-Produced Milk

Spar Austria, which operates the Eurospar and Interspar banners in the country, has committed to only offering fresh milk that is sourced from Austria. Two of these products, S-Budget Frischmilch...

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Magazine: Festival presence

The Coachella music and arts festival in California marks the unofficial start of the festival season. Retail trade sees great opportunities in festival presence and some retailers prepare for these...

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The 2018 FMCG retailer ranking is out now

Trade magazin traditionally publishes its FMCG retailer ranking on the first workday in June. The good sales results of former years improved further last year. Discount supermarkets were very successful,...

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GKI: Hungarian GDP growth peaked in the first quarter

In the first quarter of 2019 the Hungarian economy grew by 5.3 per cent, at a record speed. This rate is by far the fastest in the EU, together with...

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Századvég: Hungarian customers prefer domestic products

Hungarian consumers prefer to buy products produced in Hungary, have good opinion about their quality and are willing to pay more for them – Századvég Gazdaságkutató Zrt. revealed in its...

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FruitVeB: Producers can harvest more tomatoes and cucumbers this year

From a smaller production area this year, the producers can harvest 5-10 percent more tomatoes and 5 percent more cucumbers from heated glass and foil houses – FruitVeB predicts. Ledó...

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Coop is committed to Hungarian products

The cooperation between the Coop and teh Magyar Product Nonprofit Ltd. is extensive and stable since 2015. Coop has always been concentrated on the products produced in Hungary, and is...

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Magyar Levente: serious and real interest towards Hungarian food products in Canada

Serious and real interest occured towards Hungarian food products in Canada. The Hungarian government is doing everything to make a successful partnership with Canadian companies – Magyar Levente, Minister of...

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Aldi increases the number of employees with 50 people at its IT Center in Pécs

The Aldi International IT Services Ltd (Aldi IIT) will increase the number of its employees this year because its IT support center moved to a new building in Pécs, and...

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The vine-growers recommend green harvesting

Wine producers are facing huge sales difficulties this year, so they asked the National Council of Mountain Regions to authorize the removal of unripe fruit – for the first time...

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Fish and wine festival to be held in Balatonfüred

Fish and wine festival to be held in Balatonfüred: the four-day event series to start on 7 June with fish tasting, concerts and family programs. Cserép László, Head of the...

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Easter holidays have boosted retail sales in Germany

Retail sales in annual comparision expanded with a much greater extent in April than expected, mainly due to the Easter holidays. According to preliminary data published on Friday by the...

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Consumer sentiment improved less than expected in the United States in May

Consumer sentiment in the United States has improved less than expected in May, according to the regular monthly survey of the Michigan University. According to the final data published on...

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IATA reduced the annual profit prospects for airlines

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reduced its profit forecast of airlines by the end of the year. The association expects a 28 billion USD profit instead of the previous...

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The Rainy May worsens the turnover of beaches

The Rainy May worsens the turnover of beaches, but the traffic in baths with indoor swimming pools increased. Boros László Attila president of the Hungarian Bath Association told MTI that...

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(HU) Derűsre borús!

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Amazon teams up with Japanese supermarket chain to sell fresh produce online

Amazon Japan has partnered with the Eastern nation’s major supermarket chain Life Corporation to sell fresh produce online. Life is the first food supermarket in the country to participate as...

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BelOrta introduces sustainable packaging for red fruit, new snacking line

Dutch fruit and vegetable company BelOrta launched the first cardboard punnets with topseal on Wednesday, commenting that it responds to the trend towards more sustainable packaging. The company says its...

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REWE Group and Lekkerland combine expertise in important market segment through merger

REWE Group and Lekkerland Group want to create a new strategic business unit “Convenience” within REWE Group through a merger of the two companies. To this end, RE-WE Group acquires...

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Google invests in online retail in China

Google invests 550 million USD in China’s second largest online retail company, the Jingdong (JD.com) group to increase its presence on the fast-growing Asian markets and to tackle competitors, including...

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Magazine: Trends of the past, driving forces of the future

In 1979 Géza Kovács collected possible problems of the future, from the fate of natural resources to social inequalities. Some of these are being dealt with today as well, for...

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Spar Austria Forms Alliance to Promote A Reduced-Sugar Diet

Spar Austria has launched a sugar reduction initiative to draw attention to the benefits of lower sugar consumption, the retailer said in a statement. The aim of the initiative is...

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Zero Advertising Tax, Accommodation Tax Reduction – Here’s the Government’s new action plan

The government announced a significant tax cut in its new economic action plan – penzcentrum.hu wrote. Economic slowdown is expected in the world, and the goal of the Hungarian government...

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The sugar and calorie content of domestic soft drinks almost halved in Hungary

Since 2010, the average sugar and calorie content of soft drinks and fruit juices in Hungary has decreased by 43 percent. According to the voluntary commitment of the Hungarian Mineral...

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Pig exports jumped

Seven percent fewer cattle, one percent less poultry, and four percent fewer pigs were slaughtered in domestic slaughterhouses in the first quarter of 2019 compared to January-March 2018 – Magyar...

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