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Duck and goose processing plant starts production in Mélykút
Date: 2019-01-31 23:26:53
On 28 January the new factory of Hunent Víziszárnyas Feldolgozó Zrt. ceremonially started production in Mélykút. The new state-of-the-art plant was built from EUR 40 million and can process 50,000...
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New loan programme for developing agri-businesses
Date: 2019-01-31 23:22:00
This year the Ministry of Agriculture plans to launch a new loan programme for helping agri-food businesses in implementing development projects. The ministry has decided to do because in earlier...
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Decision on financing energy efficiency projects
Date: 2019-01-31 23:07:14
The Ministry of Agriculture has granted HUF 7-billion funding for 128 projects in the first round of the Rural Development Programme. Winners can use the money for realising innovative and...
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New animal vaccine production and development centre being built
Date: 2019-01-31 23:00:54
Ceva-Phylaxia Oltóanyagtermelő Zrt. is building a new animal vaccine production plant and a research and development centre in Monor. The French-owned company invests HUF 8.17 billion in the project, while...
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Solar panels at the Varsád fish farm
Date: 2019-01-31 22:53:40
Czikkhalas Halastavai Kft. invests HUF 80 million – from which 50 percent comes from the Hungarian Fisheries Operational Programme (MAHOP) – in modernising the company’s fish farm in Varsád. As...
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The year of building
Date: 2019-01-31 22:49:38
Minister of Agriculture István Nagy called 2019 ‘the year of building’ at the opening ceremony of the AGROmashEXPO and AgrárgépShow trade show on 23 January. He revealed that the within...
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Back from the USA
Date: 2019-01-31 22:29:17
Last year Katalin Mandel, general secretary of the association was invited to the annual conference and congress of the International Franchise Association (IFA). She told our magazine: franchise is conquering...
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2nd Franchise Fair in Budapest
Date: 2019-01-31 22:25:52
The Hungarian Franchise Association has organised its Franchise Fair for the second time. Nearly 30 concepts introduced themselves at the one-day event, which took place in Novotel Centrum. More than...
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The great sausage tour in Gyula
Date: 2019-01-31 22:20:27
On 9 January Gyulahús Kft. and Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. organised a visit for the representatives of the press to the production facilities of Gyulahús Kft., to celebrate 150 years...
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Pöttyös car ends up in Százhalombatta
Date: 2019-01-31 22:14:47
A mother living in Százhalombatta won the prize game of Pöttyös: she drove home in a new Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet on 20 December 2018. Between 15 November and 12 December...
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EFO app already in a test phase
Date: 2019-01-31 22:08:09
The Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) commissioned the National Infocommunications Services Zrt. (NISZ) with improving the smartphone app that had been developed for reporting simplified employment – the application is...
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Prize game for a greener future
Date: 2019-01-31 22:02:28
Henkel and Rossmann organised their prize game for the third time, in which the main prize was a HUF 2-million budget for playground refurbishment. This year’s winner was the Albertfalvi...
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New director at the Association of Hungarian Brewers
Date: 2019-01-31 21:30:55
Dr Sándor Kántor has been elected president of the Association of Hungarian Brewers. He told that beer drinking has already become part of traditional Hungarian gastronomy, and that he wants...
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What can be the main trends in the communication strategies of FMCG brands in 2019?
Date: 2019-01-31 15:41:11
Between 1 July and 31 December 2018 the Hungarian representatives of the most valuable international FMCG brands were communicating online in line with global trends. International surveys showed that among...
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Private label conference
Date: 2019-01-31 15:34:40
Amsterdam-based organisation Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) will organise a conference on private label (PL) products in Hamburg on the last two days of February. On 27 February, Denise Klug,...
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Private labels: rankings and records
Date: 2019-01-31 15:29:10
The market share of private label (PL) products is already 34 percent (in volume) in Hungary – informs the 2018 edition of the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) yearbook. PL...
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Television commercials at full throttle
Date: 2019-01-31 15:20:16
What do the Nielsen Audience Measurement data say about the performance of television commercials in 2018? Atmedia’s most important target group is consumers between the ages of 18 and 59...
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Szerencsi chocolate’s trademark has a new owner
Date: 2019-01-31 15:10:12
Nestlé Hungária Kft. has decided to renounce ownership of the ‘Szerencsi’ trademark for sweets, which in the future will be used exclusively by Szerencsi Bonbon Kft. – it was announced...
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The starting salary is now more than 300,000 forints at ALDI
Date: 2019-01-31 15:06:43
From 1 January 2019 ALDI Magyarország Élelmiszer Bt. increases the pay of cashier and logistics workers by 10.88 percent, who will now earn a gross HUF 301,900 for a 40-hour...
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SPAR campaigns against food waste in hypermarkets
Date: 2019-01-31 15:06:41
SPAR Hungary and Bay Zoltán Applied Research Public Benefit Nonprofit Kft. are calling shoppers’ attention to better planned and more economical food usage. SPAR’s head of communications Márk Maczelka told:...
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Shoppers motivate enterprises for development
Date: 2019-01-31 14:26:16
Mastercard CEE’s SME Monitor study has found that every third small or medium-sized business in Central and Eastern Europe introduced card payment on customer demand. 60 percent of respondents said...
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Discount supermarkets are the leading channel now
Date: 2019-01-31 14:16:30
Between January and December 2018 Hungarian consumers spent HUF 1,800 billion on food – there was a 7-percent increase in value sales from the 2017 level. More than 70 percent...
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Hungary’s retail dynamics above the European average
Date: 2019-01-31 14:11:53
Retail trade has come up with a stable performance all over Europe: there was a 3.7-percent growth in Q3 2018. In the same period Hungarian retail sales surged by 7.6...
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A report on the customer service sector
Date: 2019-01-31 14:07:09
According to a representative survey conducted by Cofidis on the customer service sector, today approximately 160,000 people work in the segment in Hungary. The level of fluctuation is high and...
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A surge in vegetable prices
Date: 2019-01-31 14:03:22
Last December food prices elevated by only 4.7 percent if compared with December 2017, but we had to pay 22.4 percent more for potatoes, fresh fruits and vegetables – reported...
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Fruit and vegetable prices went in opposite directions
Date: 2019-01-31 13:58:52
In November 2018 agricultural production prices grew by 4.4 percent from the level of November 2017 – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). This increase was the result of vegetable...
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Private label products remain on an upward trajectory
Date: 2019-01-31 13:56:17
Between October 2017 and September 2018 the market share of private label FMCG products (PL) grew by 0.7 percentage point. From the HUF 1,800 billion spent on food 29 percent...
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Retail sales were developing well at the end of last year
Date: 2019-01-31 13:53:03
In November 2018 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 5 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 4.9 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Non-food sales...
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Growing market, expanding research
Date: 2019-01-31 13:46:48
Ágnes Szűcs-Villányi, market leader of Nielsen in Hungary told Trade magazin that last year Hungarian stores had sold 7 percent more FMCG products than in 2017. Sales by discount supermarkets...
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Last year was the best of the decade
Date: 2019-01-31 13:38:14
According to GKI’s estimation, the Hungarian economy grew by 4.6 percent in 2018 – this growth rate was exceptionally good in the European Union (ranked 2nd or 3rd in the...
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