Events
More than 430 Hungarian webstores at the Shop of the Country competition
Date: 2012-09-27 11:30:52
The sales of the Hungarian web stores increase year on year, while traditional shops are often difficult to stand the competition. The webstores are standing still despite the general recession...
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Free pálinka distillation is two years old
Date: 2012-09-27 11:25:54
The free pálinka distillation called attention to the importance of fruit landraces, however, the number of competitions have shown that private distilerries can produce high-quality distillates – V. Németh Zsolt,...
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DHL Express favours small- and medium-sized businesses
Date: 2012-09-27 10:58:48
DHL's focus on selected industry sectors means customers benefit from working with specialists – not just in logistics, but also in their particular marketplace. Our aim is to build long-term...
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Two hundred kinds of foods at the Demecser cabbage days
Date: 2012-09-27 10:22:34
About two hundred kinds of food delicacies are waiting the guests at the eighth Demecser cabbage days, which is one of the biggest culinary festival of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. Gyula Kiss,...
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GKI: GDP decreases by 1.5 percent this year and increases by 0.8 percent next year
Date: 2012-09-26 13:50:26
The gross domestic product (GDP) decreases by 1.5 percent this year and increases by 0.8 percent next year – shows the forecast of the GKI Economic Research Company. Vértes András,...
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Egg festival of Siófok cancelled
Date: 2012-09-26 13:07:55
The egg festival of Siófok on 12th to 14th October is cancelled, as the organizers are not pleased with the new venue the town's local government has offered. Main organizer...
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A courier takes Fórum’s VAT-proposal to the Prime Minister
Date: 2012-09-26 12:10:43
The Fórum “Board for the reduction of basic foods” trade bloc, propose on the basis of the study of Ernst & Young (E&Y), to reduce the VAT of basic foods...
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Billions could be saved with the production of domestic cultivar potatoes
Date: 2012-09-26 11:55:22
According to the leader of the Keszthely-based potato cultivar working group, if the domestic potatoe producers would turn to the breeding of domestic cultivated potatoes, the sector could save billions...
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Scotch whisky industry unaffected by recession
Date: 2012-09-26 11:02:30
The whisky industry in Scotland, one of the most popular in the world, has not been affected by the economic downturn because of developing overseas markets, especially in India, China...
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The luxury goods market is changing in China
Date: 2012-09-26 10:58:07
Chinese no more buy tired and worn luxury brands for thousands of dollars without thinking, but the segment in the country will surely continue to spin for many years only...
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American farmers feed cattle with sweets
Date: 2012-09-26 10:55:04
The destructive dryness of the recent years made American cattle, sweet lover: due to the increased feed prices, more and more farmers find alternative in sweets. Mike Yoder, farmer who...
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VAT rate will increase to twenty percent in Serbia
Date: 2012-09-26 10:38:14
From 1 October the rate of Value Added Tax will increase to 20 percent in Serbia, from the current 18 percent. The Serbian parliament decided beside the increase on Tuesday...
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Olympians Pálinka – and Sausage Festival at the Castle of Buda
Date: 2012-09-26 10:25:09
Top athletes will visit the the Castle of Buda between 4-7 October to relax one last time before starting hard training again. Csernoviczki Éva, Olympic judo bronze medalist, Detre Diána...
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The food price increase can reach seven percent within a few months
Date: 2012-09-25 19:41:14
Up to 7 percent food price increases may come by the end of the year. According to the industry: without raising there is no future in the industry, and the...
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The domestic egg production covers only the three-quarters of the demand
Date: 2012-09-25 12:50:29
A year ago, no one expected that the European Commission will carry out a decision within two months to ban the use of conventional cages – was said at the...
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The state will not buy a meat factory
Date: 2012-09-25 12:10:25
The government has no plans to purchase state ownership to help meat companies in trouble – Budai Gyula. State Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development told Magyar Nemzet. Budai...
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The Chocolate Queen was elected
Date: 2012-09-25 10:40:27
Szalkai Nikolett became winner of the Bonbonetti Group's Miss Cherry Queen Chocolate Queen in the scope of the Sweet Days. The election took part on 23 September,2012 in the Castle...
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Lecture on the regions of Italy
Date: 2012-09-25 10:35:32
The lecture called the Regions of Italy will be held on 1 October 2012, on Monday at the Italian Institute of Culture (1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor u. 8) with the...
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Boy, a skunk please!
Date: 2012-09-25 09:06:08
A guest has asked for a living skunk at his hotel room, while others have requested coffins, dead roses or even a ghost. Metro magazin in Britain put together the...
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OKSZ: annual decline in retail sales can be 1-2 percent
Date: 2012-09-24 13:00:52
The International Trade Association and the analyst of Savings Bank calculate with a 1-2 percent retail sales decline this year. According to the Ministry of National Economy, the sales decline...
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KSH: volume of retail sales declined by 2.6 percent in July
Date: 2012-09-24 12:58:21
In July, the volume of retail sales declined by 2.6 percent, while in the first seven months of the year declined by 1.3 percent compared to the same period of...
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Domestic economic expectations remained pessimistic in September
Date: 2012-09-24 12:27:53
GKI-Erste economic confidence index adjusted for seasonal effects has been essentially unchanged since May. A modest increase at the beginning of the year was followed by a fall in May,...
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The big supermarket chains are preparing to online market entry in Hungary
Date: 2012-09-24 12:20:02
Hungary is lagging behind the neighboring countries in the field of e-commerce in connection with the online shops of the big chains. Among the reasons we can find mainly the...
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High feed prices cause difficulties to the livestock breeders in Zala county
Date: 2012-09-24 12:00:48
Because of the high feed prices, the livestock breeders in Zala county are in a difficult situation. Another problem is that the price of the imported high-protein imported soybean increases,...
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Special discount for early birds signing up for Anuga
Date: 2012-09-24 11:15:11
Anuga, in Cologne, Germany is the world's greatest FMCG trade show, and now early applicants get a 7 percent discount off the the rent of the box, Márta Kakuk, Hungarian...
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Czech police found the sources of the toxic alcohol
Date: 2012-09-24 11:00:45
Czech police found the sources of the toxic alcohol. The Czech police initated prosecution procceedings against two person who are the main suspects in the case – Martin Cervícek national...
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Who is cooking at the gala evening of caterers?
Date: 2012-09-24 10:57:51
The professional gala evening of the Hungarian Caterers' Body will take place on 1st December this year. The first preperations of the event began in August at Arany Kaviár restaurant,...
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Great interest on the first weekend of the wine festival in Pécs
Date: 2012-09-24 10:14:01
At the Saturday events of the the wine festival in Pécs about 8,000 people participated – Béni Gábor, organizer told MTI on Sunday. The free wine festival awaits the visitors...
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German business sentiment deteriorated further
Date: 2012-09-24 10:10:33
Business sentiment is deteriorating for five months in Germany – announced the Munich-based ifo Economic Research Institute. In contrast with market expectations, the German business confidence index has not improved,...
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Action began to increase the bucket sales of Hungarian apple
Date: 2012-09-21 11:58:44
Fazekas Sándor Rural Development Minister, Mártonffy Béla, president of FruitVeB and Dominique Ducoux, CEO of Auchan Magyarország Kft. jointly promoted the bucket sales of Hungarian apples in a department store...
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