Events
Retail sales increased in the EU
Date: 2014-03-05 11:57:36
Retail sales increased in the European Union (EU) in January 2014, compared to December 2013. Retail sales in the EU28 increased by 0.9 percent, while in the Euro Zone that...
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(HU) Future Store “A” pavilon 204. stand – SIRHA Budapest 2014 standlátogatás
Date: 2014-03-05 10:47:22
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Walking the green path into the future with the usual zeal
Date: 2014-03-04 23:52:12
Aquarius-Aqua Kft.’s last investment cost more than HUF 313.5 million and its results were a new production hall and new jobs. Aquarius-Aqua Kft. was established in 1991 and it is...
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2014: a transitional year in funding
Date: 2014-03-04 23:49:18
The main driving force behind development in the food sector is the various subsidies offered by the European Union and the national budget. Until 2020 Hungary will receive EUR 8.8...
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The amount spent on advertising increased slightly last year
Date: 2014-03-04 12:22:17
The advertising market grew, but only slightly last year. The market of advertisings amounted to 175.4 billion HUF, surpassing the previous year’s datas with about 0.6 percent, – was said...
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The NAV checks the entrepreneurs who have terminated the operation of their businesses
Date: 2014-03-04 12:21:21
The Customs and Tax Authority (NAV) has begun to check tens of thousands of businesses that did not claim online cash registers on the ground that they terminate their operation...
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The Hungarian Food Codex was expanded with several new directives
Date: 2014-03-04 12:20:24
The Hungarian Food Codex was expanded with several new directives. A new regulation was born in connection with artisan products and spice paprika grists. The new directive will also provide...
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What is shoppers’ choice?
Date: 2014-03-04 12:12:57
People’s hair style expresses their personality, therefore the hair care category is not only functional but emotional as well – says Anna Gábos, hair and oral care category manager with...
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Hungexpo Zrt.: A new exhibition for the food and catering industry
Date: 2014-03-04 12:10:11
The SIRHA Budapest professional exhibition offers new, innovative debuting opportunity for the food industry, hospitality and the hotel industry. The professional exhibition will be held in Budapest, between 10 and...
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Coffee can become more expensive worldwide
Date: 2014-03-04 12:01:04
Because of the bad crop prospects and the drought in Brazil, the price of the coffee’s raw material increased by more than 50 percent this year. As a result, the...
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VM: an agreement may born on the ban of GMO
Date: 2014-03-04 12:00:09
The environment protection ministers of the European Union (EU) discussed the proposal, which would allow Member States to ban the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their territory –...
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The National Association of Agricultural Economics develops a business ethics policy
Date: 2014-03-04 11:50:47
The National Association of Agricultural Economics (NAK) develops a business ethics policy, in which sets out the basic market ethic rules, that are expected to be complied from each member...
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New rules on the withdrawal of the farmers' card
Date: 2014-03-04 11:04:39
The agricultural producer cards can be wihdrawn from 2 month to two years period, then a new card should be issued – the new government regulation contains among others. The...
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Wafer and chocolate bar: dynamic sales growth
Date: 2014-03-04 10:38:09
While between December 2012 and November 2013 the average value sales of the 90 Nielsen-audited grocery categories didn’t change from the base period, sales of the nine confectionery categories combined...
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A new broom sweeps clean
Date: 2014-03-04 10:21:03
The big spring cleaning is characterised by optimism: housewives aren’t only pepped up by the rising consumer confident index, but also by the opportunity to sweep away the winter, the...
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The annual market is worth about eleven billion forints
Date: 2014-03-04 10:16:53
General cleaners were sold in the value of HUF 10 billion last year, making the category the tenth biggest from the 70 household chemicals and cosmetics audited by Nielsen. In...
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Nielsen’s consumer confidence index on three-year high
Date: 2014-03-04 00:29:33
Nielsen’s consumer confidence index in Hungary reached the highest position of the last three years. In Q4 2013 the index grew another six points from Q3 and was at 51...
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Those living in the country are far less satisfied with tobacco shops
Date: 2014-03-04 00:16:04
According to a telephone survey conducted by Budapest Business School, 60 percent of Budapest smokers are satisfied with the number and location of tobacco stores, but 55 percent of those...
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Slightly higher industrial production prices at the end of 2013
Date: 2014-03-04 00:09:57
In December 2013 domestic industrial production prices rose by 0.5 percent from the level of the previous month. Prices in 2013 were 0.7 percent higher than in 2012. In December...
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Tobacco industry retail: the plan went up in smoke?
Date: 2014-03-04 00:05:32
The tobacco product market is shrinking at shocking speed, the black marekt is expanding and state revenue from excise duty and VAT was 10 percent below the 2012 level....
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Retail confidence index reaches record height
Date: 2014-03-04 00:02:26
The GKI-Erste economic sentiment index kept growing dynamically in January, continuing the more than one year old trend. Consumer expectations kept elevating and reached the highest level of the last...
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The Facebook Community of the Online Cash Register Bounded requested to extend the deadline to everyone
Date: 2014-03-03 12:40:33
The Facebook Community of the Online Cash Register Bounded requested to extend the deadline to every entrepreneurs who ordered the cash registers in time. The community wrote an open letter...
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Pálinka consumption is safe: only a few irregularities
Date: 2014-03-03 12:25:49
Objections incurred in connection with the pálinkas in only 7 percent of the products at the laboratory of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH). Therefore this hungaricum is safe...
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The manufacturers have paid more than 44 billion HUF of Neta until now
Date: 2014-03-03 12:10:58
The manufacturers have paid more than 44 billion HUF of public health product tax (Neta) since its introduction – Világgazdaság Online wrote. According to the datas of the Customs and...
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HITA: 16 Hungarian companies represented themselves at the food industry exhibition in Dubai
Date: 2014-03-03 12:00:39
Hungarian companies represented themselves at the Gulfood in Dubai for the third time. The Hungarian presence was organized by the National Foreign Trade Agency (HITA). At the 85-square-meter Hungarian stand,...
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MLBKT: BMI is over a three year average
Date: 2014-03-03 11:58:58
In February, the seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index was 54.3 points, higher than the February 53.4 points average of the past three years, but 3.5 percentage points lower than exceptionally...
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Fried crocodile and kangaroo stew at the picnic near the Danube
Date: 2014-03-03 11:00:43
Cooking Competition, the tasting of exotic and traditional Hungarian foods, theater performances, pop concerts and a street party welcomes visitors from Thursday to Sunday at the 1st Budapesti Duna Parti...
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Invitatation for the SIRHA Budapest tradeshow
Date: 2014-03-03 10:40:38
The SIRHA Budapest tradeshow is about food and beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, bakery and confectionery, cheese and dairy, frozen food, general provisions, organic and fresh produce, seafood, specialty food,...
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Legal proceedings started in the Czech methyl alcohol poisoning case
Date: 2014-03-03 10:35:14
The accusees of the Czech methyl alcohol poisoning case, can expect even a life-long imprisonment. The lawsuits began on Monday in Zlín, Moravia. In the much anticipated lawsuit, a total...
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GKI: Appearance and reality
Date: 2014-03-03 09:11:06
In spite of the optimism prevalent among Hungarian economic actors not seen for a decade, the improvement in the economy is only temporary. Although economic policy influenced by the elections...
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