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KSH: the price of alcoholic beverages, tobacco and food products is at the forefront in inflation
Date: 2019-07-09 11:35:04
Consumer prices were on average 3.4 percent higher in June than a year before. Compared with May an average of 0.2 percent decrese in prices occured – the Central Statistical...
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More than a million people saw the Choose Domestic! video
Date: 2019-07-09 11:30:57
The community pages of Hungarian Product Trademark Users have also benefited from the Choose Domestic! campaign. 1.2 million people watched the video on Youtube by the end of June. The...
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Exports grew stronger than imports
Date: 2019-07-09 11:25:36
In May this year, a surplus of 678 million euros was recorded for product and foreign trade, 285 million euros more than in May of the previous year, the Central...
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Consumer protection associations: the majority of webshop are cooperating
Date: 2019-07-09 11:15:31
The vast majority of Internet merchant companies have been cooperating according to experience, but consumers also need to pay attention to when shopping – the CEO of the National Association...
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Average yield is expected in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county
Date: 2019-07-09 11:13:45
Average yields are expected in autumn sowing crops, which are the largest part of the sowing area, in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county – the county president of the National Agricultural Chamber (NAK)...
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The 32nd Bábolna Farmer Days will be held at the beginning of September
Date: 2019-07-09 11:10:24
The 32nd Bábolna Farmer Days will be held from 5 to 8 September, which will be one of the co-events of the 79th National Agricultural and Food Industry Exhibition and...
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The growth of retail sales decreased in the Czech Republic in May
Date: 2019-07-09 11:02:15
In May, the retail sales growth in the Czech Republic dropped to 2.7 percent, while rose by 6.9 percent in April – the Czech Statistical Office announced on Tuesday in...
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Nébih: Fressnapf calls contaminated dog food back
Date: 2019-07-09 11:00:24
Fressnapf calls back dog food contaminated with salmonella – the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) told referring to the chain store. According to the information published on the Nébih...
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McDonald’s home delivery service was launched in Budapest
Date: 2019-07-09 10:40:25
McDonald’s also began delivering food – Index wrote. The G7 noticed in Netpincér’s hamburger section that McDonald’s home delivery service was launched. McDonald’s network in Hungary currently consists of 89...
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The Balaton Sound broke a visitor record
Date: 2019-07-09 10:25:10
Balaton Sound closed with a higher number of visitors than ever: a total of 172,000 people participated at the festival held in Zamárdi from Wednesday to Sunday, while Saturday was...
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Budapest Airport’s passenger traffic increased by more than 7 percent in the first half of the year
Date: 2019-07-09 10:25:05
Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport’s passenger traffic increased by more than 7 percent in the first half of the year, compared to the same period of the previous year, and...
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The Croatian coast is available twenty percent cheaper in this year’s holiday season
Date: 2019-07-09 10:23:51
Accommodation can be found on the Croatian coast this season twenty but even thirty percent cheaper than last year – the Vecernji List Croatian newspaper wrote on Monday referring to...
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EY: Can you apply a globally consistent policy across an inconsistent world?
Date: 2019-07-09 10:03:30
New research in collaboration with the New York University School of Law’s Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging explores three models for multinational companies striving to advance LGBT+ inclusion in...
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Raspberry Picking Robot
Date: 2019-07-09 08:50:27
A new robot could help farmers pick up to 25,000 raspberries a day, according to Manufacturers Fieldwork Robotics. The robot was developed by Dr Martin Stoelen, a lecturer in robotics...
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Coles Launches Mum’s Sauce
Date: 2019-07-09 08:30:53
Australian retailer Coles has launched Mum’s Sause to help raise money for sick children in hospitals across Australia. Fifty cents from each of Mum’s Sause Bolognese 500g jar sold will...
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Brazil Gets Its First ‘Healthy’ Supermarket
Date: 2019-07-09 08:10:25
Super Saudavel, the first supermarket in Brazil to offer ‘healthy’ products selected by a team of nutritionists, has opened its doors to customers. The store is located in the Alto...
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Magazine: Technology brings major transformation to the Hungarian financial services market
Date: 2019-07-09 07:38:50
At the end of April more than 400 experts gathered at the FinTechShow conference, where Hungary’s fintech strategy and the fintech programme of the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB) were...
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Analysts: growth in retail sales is lower than expected
Date: 2019-07-08 11:40:14
The slower than expected retail sales of May surprised the analysts. Most of them expect further downturns in the second half of the year, compared to what they saw in...
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There is plenty of Hungarian grain for export
Date: 2019-07-08 11:33:55
Similarly to last year, five million tons of wheat production is expected in Hungary this year, and not only the supply of the country is secured, but there is also...
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AM: punishment for food counterfeiters to be tightened
Date: 2019-07-08 11:30:33
According to the amendment of the law of the Parliament, the punishment of food counterfeiters is stricter and they can no longer hide behind other companies after the fraud –...
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Nagy István: to maintain the EU agricultural budget a joint action by the region is needed
Date: 2019-07-08 11:25:23
The EU agricultural budget for the next seven years should not be reduced, even by increasing the contribution of individual countries, Nagy István, Minister of Agriculture said on Friday in...
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The prosecutor’s office found an infringement at every checked webshop
Date: 2019-07-08 11:14:37
In order to protect the rights of consumers, the prosecutor’s office examined the terms and conditions of sixteen webshops and found an illegal clause in each of them Szabó Ferenc,...
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AM: co-operation is essential in agriculture
Date: 2019-07-08 11:13:13
Co-operation is essential in agriculture. It is important for farmers to recognize that being a member in a producer co-operation is not a risk, but a security – Feldman Zsolt,...
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A conciliation body is needed to make businesses ready for consumer protection
Date: 2019-07-08 11:04:12
The experience of the first half of the year shows that it is necessary to prepare businesses for consumer protection in the 21st century – the Budapest Conciliation Body (BBT)...
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The National Soil Center has started
Date: 2019-07-08 11:03:28
Another strong bastion was created with the launch of the National Soil Center (NFK), which serves the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture and the transparency of the related activities – Nagy...
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Retail sales in the euro area were weaker than expected
Date: 2019-07-08 11:01:16
Retail sales in the euro area were weaker than expected in May. In a monthly comparison, decline occurs for the second consecutive month in the volume of traffic as a...
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Szállás.hu bought a Czech tourist company
Date: 2019-07-08 10:35:30
The Szállás.hu has acquired the Hotel.cz group of companies. The Hungarian accommodation intermediary company can increase its sales revenue by two-thirds, compared to last year. According to the announcement of...
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Let’s peel some cool stuff – Video of the day
Date: 2019-07-08 10:26:21
Learn how to peel all kinds of foods with our easy to do peeling hacks! Make cooking easy and fun with these hacks to help you peel food fast....
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This year, 16 beaches in Balaton have earned the best five-star blue wave flag
Date: 2019-07-08 10:22:18
Balassa Balázs, President of the Balaton Association (BSZ) said in Balatonalmádi at the award ceremony of the beach qualification that there were never so many beaches with excellent ratings on...
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