Events
Eighty billion pairs of chopsticks are consumed in China every year
Date: 2013-03-11 10:54:23
A leader of a northeast Chinese wood industrial company named disposable chopsticks as one of the causes of deforestations at the ongoing session of China's parliament: He claims that every...
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VM: seeds are strategic products
Date: 2013-03-08 12:30:39
The Hungarian seeds are strategic products. Production is implemented currently on 130 thousand hectares. The expansion of the production area is a national security interest – Szépe Ferenc, internationally renowned...
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Ten percent of mobile users use their cell phone to compare product prices
Date: 2013-03-08 11:17:56
One in ten Hungarian mobile users also use their cell phone to compare the product prices of different products. In Hungary, most people search for informations on electronic goods for...
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Small farmers destroy tens of thousands liters of milk
Date: 2013-03-08 11:04:08
Small farmers are forced to destroy tens of thousands liters of milk in Tolna countys since the beginning of the week. The processor does not take over the products due...
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The Budapest Pálinka Festival moves back to the city center
Date: 2013-03-08 11:00:47
2013 will be the year of cherry at the Budapesti Pálinkafesztivál (Budapest Pálinka Festival), where authentic Hungarian pálinkas and sour cherry fruit delicacies will play a special role. The culinary...
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Ericsson ConsumerLab: women precede men in smartphone use
Date: 2013-03-08 11:00:23
According to the research of Ericsson ConsumerLab, the growing popularity of smartphones is primarily due to women. Women use all the smartphone features more and more regularly than male users...
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“Observatory tour” for wine lovers in Eger
Date: 2013-03-08 10:55:25
Wine producers invite wine lovers to an “Observatory tour” on March 15 in Eger, as 20 local wineries will present their 2012 vintage Egri Csillag (Star of Eger) in the...
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Horsemeat scandal: new chapters in Romania
Date: 2013-03-08 09:28:29
The Romanian National Foodsafety Authority has published on its website: horsemeat has been found last week at the lake of Tarnica near Cluj. The meat is of 922 kilograms and...
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Television advertising revenues have fallen with 11 percent
Date: 2013-03-07 12:25:40
The TV market closed a difficult year in 2012 – shows the results of MEME. Television advertising spendings were below 50 billion HUF for the first time in 2012. The...
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Nébih: a bi-monthly investigation was ruined by the news coverage on horse meat scandal
Date: 2013-03-07 11:22:53
The independent investigation of the press and the recently published news baffled the two monthly jointly investigation of the National Food Chain Safety Office and other authorities – Oravecz Márton,...
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MVH: the 2012 EU Food Aid Program is near completion
Date: 2013-03-07 11:01:02
The aid organizations contracted with the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) in the scope of the EU Food Aid Program will complete the delivering of food products mid-March this...
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NAV: the tax authority investigates new areas this year
Date: 2013-03-06 12:00:18
The MAZARS international audit and consulting firm raises the domestic enterprises’ awareness to the fact that the NAV launches investigations in new areas in 2013. According to the MAZARS, investigations...
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Ball for the lovers of the Hungarian flavours
Date: 2013-03-06 11:02:49
At the first ever Ball of Hungarian Flavours specialties and high-level professional awards were waiting for the 250 elegant guest in the Royal Palace of Gödöllő. The visitors of the...
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Discounters have taken the leading position
Date: 2013-03-05 21:34:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Household Panel survey, in 2012 Hungarian families spent 2 percent more on household cleaners than in 2011. Despite the growth in value sales consumers rationalised their...
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Health and intimate hygiene
Date: 2013-03-05 21:24:58
Mariann Varga, brand manager with Alveola believes that if we want to be healthy, we have to keep our body clean – not forgetting about intimate hygiene either. The company’s...
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Manufacturer brands significantly increased their share from sales
Date: 2013-03-05 21:22:14
Energy and sports drinks sales have been growing fast for years, but last year brought an 8-percent decline in retail volume sales and a 2-percent drop in value sales (December...
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Energy drinks slowly leave the tutti-frutti flavour behind
Date: 2013-03-05 21:09:05
After the two-digit growth of previous years last year shocked the energy drink market with a one-digit sales drop. However, this decline could easily be forecasted after the details of...
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Reasonable changes in the fruit-vegetable sector
Date: 2013-03-05 21:03:40
The fruit and vegetable sector is becoming increasingly polarized: on the one hand the role of retail is more and more important in selling fruits and vegetables, and this requires...
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Even better price/value ratio squeezed out of those plastic bottles
Date: 2013-03-05 20:58:45
Due to the elevated packaging material and ingredient prices, to a certain extent wet condiment prices rose in the spring of 2012, which obviously led to a bit lower volume...
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Ministerial visit to the SPAR TANN meat plant
Date: 2013-03-05 20:55:35
On 5 February 2013 Minister of Rural Development Dr Sándor Fazekas paid a visit to the TANN meat plant. The minister and representatives of the press had a chance to...
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METRO prepares for Easter with new products and services
Date: 2013-03-05 20:48:30
For METRO the meat/meat product category has always been of great importance and in 2012 regional, homely flavours were in the limelight: in many stores local flavours have been added...
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Easter may also be a time of fasting on the ham market
Date: 2013-03-05 20:41:00
Elevated animal feed prices and the drop in the pig stock may put manufacturers in a difficult position and increase the consumer prices of meat products. This season yet another...
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Ethical advertising
Date: 2013-03-05 20:37:23
Act 48 of 2008 on the Basic Requirements and Certain Restrictions applying to Commercial Advertising Activities regulates and in theory prohibits advertisements targeting children that would be harmful to their...
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Recommended to young people too
Date: 2013-03-05 20:29:10
The Think Healthy Programme is a non-governmental initiative with the objective of creating a safe family and institutional environment for all children in Hungary, giving them the chance to develop...
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Milks in the stores are safe
Date: 2013-03-05 12:20:38
It is safe to consume milk products marketed in Hungary. The authorities have actually found products contaminated with aflatoxin, after the Hír TV revealed that aflatoxins were found at a...
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The good potato crop and low import price may bring price decrease for the autumn
Date: 2013-03-05 12:11:41
Due to last year's drought the domestic potato crop will not last much longer, but because of the structure of imports rise is not likely to continue in the retail...
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The Hungarian sugar industry should be revitalized, at least for self-support
Date: 2013-03-05 12:08:33
According to the Minister of Rural Development’s written response to questions from MPs, the establishment of new sugar factories can be considered in the next seven years. Due to the...
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Hungarian-Brazilian fishery agreement
Date: 2013-03-05 11:01:41
razil's Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Marcelo Crivella is on an official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas. At their meeting today, the...
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One can sign in to the MaReSz Day on discounted price until 8 March
Date: 2013-03-05 11:00:37
The Hungarian Association of Event Organizers and Sevice Providers are organizing the MaReSz Day for the third time now in the “Innovation in event organization” topic. Date:19 March 2013 (Tuesday)...
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The local market in Gyula to be renewed
Date: 2013-03-05 11:00:05
The local market will be renewed in Gyula. The construction works have been started on Monday and will be finished at the end of April – Görgényi Ernő (Fidesz) mayor...
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