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Good performance from the poultry sector
According to the latest market report of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI), the European Commission forecasts that the EU’s poultry meat production will keep growing until 2030. Between January...
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Co-op Star is 20 years old
Jászberény-based retailer Co-op Star Zrt. celebrated its 20th birthday on 29 January 2019. At the moment the company operates 131 shops in 102 towns and villages – from these 121...
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OECD: positive outlook, with risks
According to the latest OECD report about the Hungarian economy, economic growth will be 3.9 percent in 2019 and 3.3 percent in 2020. The report was presented to the public...
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McKinsey: online FMCG retail is in a vicious cycle
New York-based global consulting firm McKinsey has analysed online FMCG sales in Europe. Their report states: the fact that masses of European consumers haven’t started buying food and drinks online...
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Provident: only every tenth buyer has financed Christmas and New Year’s expenditures from loans
Participants of the Provident Pénzügyi Zrt.’s 600-person telephone research typically spent the holidays at home, preparing for Christmas and New Year’s Eve expenditures, and this time they also considered the...
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PwC CEO survey: the trust in global economic growth is shaken
According to the latest Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), trust in a global economic growth has become smaller in almost every country. 30 percent of executives think that global...
Read moreIn 2018, Tesco supported more than 100,000 needy people with their daily food donations
Tesco has launched its food-saving program in 163 out of its 205 stores in Hungary. In 2018, the supermarket chain donated more than 7 500 tonnes of food to those...
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Sixteen exhibitors at the Seventh Chocolate Carnival in Pécs
The Seventh Chocolate Carnival in Pécs will be organized in the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter in Pécs on 9 and 10 February. Mosonyi Éva, chocolate maker and the organizer of the...
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Gyermelyi has become a major producer of pasta in the Central and Eastern European region with the help of ABB technology
The Gyermely Group is one of Hungary’s leading producers of pastries, one of its most important food businesses. In 2018, Gyermelyi Zrt. built a new pastry factory with an investment...
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Analysts: policy intervention is needed to increase employment
The Hungarian economy practically reached full employment last year. The 3.6 percent unemployment data of the fourth quarter of 2018 indicate a tight labor market, and a further policy intervention...
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Personal changes in the leadership of Nestlé Hungária
Szilva Mónika is now leading the Maggi brand, ie the Nestlé Food business. Her main task will be to further develop the business, finding answers to the challenges of changing...
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The ambassador of Czech beers in Budapest
Beer bar Hetedik Lépcső opened on Rákóczi Avenue in Budapest last December. Its mission is to do away with the myth that Czech beer equals lager: they serve excellent craft...
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Dreher Breweries strenghtens with new pr agencies
The Dreher Sörgyárak Zrt., a member of the Asahi Group, selected its new pr-partners by Tender. The team of Dreher searched pr-agency partners for more intensive communication than before. In...
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Our grandmothers don’t do it anymore, streetfooders still don’t get into it – Video of the day
Granny Apple’s Fries at Legoland California serves fries made from fruit. On busy days, the stand goes through about 1,500 green apples. Once the apple slices are pulled from the...
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The amount of the Farm Development Program has doubled this year
The total amount of the Farm Development Program was doubled compared to last year to 2.4 billion HUF in 2019 – the Deputy Minister State of the Ministry of Agriculture...
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Where do we buy wine?
According to an online survey, 44.2 percent of social media users buy wine in wine shops and 25.2 percent purchase them at wineries. 44 percent go to a supermarket for...
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Euro area GDP growth is on a four-year low
In the fourth quarter of last year, economic growth in the euro area stagnated at a four-year nadir, according to a preliminary estimate of the European Union’s Statistical Office, Eurostat,...
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Crowdfinding!
Every December Pinterest publishes data on the 100 topics most viewed by the website’s visitors. They also indicate which keywords people used when searching. Let’s see the most popular culinary...
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Let’s play cards!
It seems that the hospitality sector is also going cashless: with card payment mistakes are less likely to be made, service is faster and turnover can be monitored better. Cashless...
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The EU-Japan Trade Agreement comes into force
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement will come into force on 1 February, which will abolish the vast majority of customs duties of about 1 billion euros per year for the...
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Tizenhat tonna csirkehúsból készült terméket hívott vissza a Tyson Foods
Mintegy 16 tonna szennyezett, csirkehúsból készült, elősütött terméket hív vissza a Tyson Foods, a világ legnagyobb húsfeldolgozó vállalata, írja az amerikai lapok, például a Huffington Post nyomán az origo. A...
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The return of the king
Ferran Adriá is going to open a creative culinary laboratory and a gastronomic innovation museum where his world famous restaurant elBulli used to be, on the Costa Brava. The 56-year-old...
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Walmart uses game app in training
From February Walmart uses a simulation game app called Spark City to train newly recruited store staff. Workers have to manage the dry goods section of the store in real...
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Our potatoes
Nébih has organised a one-day conference about harmonising Hungarian potato growing with the needs of the gastronomy sector. Experts told that from the several hundred potato varieties grown in Hungary...
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(HU) GfK: Merre halad a magyar digitális fogyasztó?
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Amazon delivers with robots
In Snohomish (Washington) Amazon has started using robots to deliver products to customers’ homes. Six Scout robots do the job every day, from Monday to Friday. Shoppers can ask for...
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Tesco and Jamie Oliver teach community kitchen cooks
Tesco and Jamie Oliver have joined forces to teach more than 1,000 cooks at community kitchens to bring the most out of the food donations that they receive. In the...
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JD.com: drone delivery in Indonesia
JD.com has used a drone to deliver products outside of China: in January a box of books and backpacks were delivered to a distance bigger than 250km. JD.com has been...
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Changes at Nébih
As a result of the recent structural changes at the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih), head of department Anna Zoltai – she was dealing with the hospitality sector – was...
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Trade magazin named as the official media partner of Sirha Budapest
The next Sirha Budapest trade show will take place on 4-6 February 2020. Just like in former years, the event’s official media partner is going to be Trade magazin. The...
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