Events
Agricultural production prices dropped 13.2 percent in December
Date: 2014-03-03 00:26:28
In December 2013 agricultural production prices dropped 13.2 percent from the level of December 2012. The price of vegetable products became 20.1 percent lower, but the price of livestock/products of...
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December’s retail volume sales were up 1.8 percent
Date: 2014-03-03 00:12:57
In December 2013 retail volume sales are estimated to have expanded by 1.8 percent from the level of December 2012. In grocery and grocery-type retail volume sales were up 0.4...
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Hungarian yoghurt loses market
Date: 2014-03-02 23:58:51
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that last year the average live weight production price of broiler chicken was HUF...
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Newspaper vendors lost one third of their revenues, due to the system of tobacco stores
Date: 2014-02-28 12:40:42
According to the datas of the Central Statistical Office (KSH), retail spendings have increased, but recovery still cannot be felt. Newspaper vendors lost one third of their revenues, due to...
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Grace period for those who are using billing programs
Date: 2014-02-28 12:04:31
Those entrepreneurs who opted to use billing programs and acted pursuant to their billing obligations, will be given a grace period – Pankucsi Zoltán, Deputy Minister of State of the...
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VM: more than half a million children can regularly eat fruit in schools
Date: 2014-02-28 12:00:45
In the scope of the School Fruit Scheme, 538 thousand children receive at least two kinds of fruits at least two times a week – the Ministry of Rural Development...
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Slovaks purchase more in Hungary, due to the weak forint
Date: 2014-02-28 12:00:31
Shopping tourism is booming again in the settlements near the Slovakian border. Experience has shown that Slovaks are purchasing even the most basic food products in Győr and in Komárom....
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The European Court of Justice will decide soon about free pálinka distilling
Date: 2014-02-28 11:59:25
The European Court of Justice may decide even in March or April about free pálinka distilling. While the European Court of Justice examines the domestic regulations, the finance officers are...
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Cigarette smoking has decreased in France, thanks to the spread of electronic cigarettes
Date: 2014-02-28 10:50:37
Cigarette smoking has decreased in France, thanks to the spread of electronic cigarettes and also less was sold of cessation medicinal products in 2013 – the Observatory Institute of Drugs...
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Magazin: Changes in the financial sector
Date: 2014-02-28 10:28:13
Data from Céginfo.hu (www.ceginfo.hu) reveals that Hungarian companies opened almost 660,000 bank accounts in the last five years. More than 93 percent of these are with the twelve biggest banks...
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The Foundation of the Hungarian – Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Budapest
Date: 2014-02-28 09:07:29
On 26 February 2014, took place the first meeting of the Board of Directors and Founding Members of the Hungarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RoCham). The meeting followed the...
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Increasing retail revenues from food, household chemicals and cosmetics
Date: 2014-02-27 12:59:41
The revenue of food retail in Hungary rose by 0.4 percent in the food household chemicals and cosmetics categories in the fourth quarter, compared to the comparable period of 2012....
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News flash: The new support deadline for the cash register victims is 30 April
Date: 2014-02-27 12:55:24
The government extended the support deadline for those entrepreneurs, who were not able to acquire a cash register, due to frauds or due to withdrawn cash register types. The extension...
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A significant increase in the support of the grape and wine industry
Date: 2014-02-27 12:03:53
The support of the grape and wine industry increases significantly. While in 2012/2013 it was 6.5 billion HUF, in the next five years it will amount to 29 million euros,...
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Privacy Policy Commando at the e-commerce companies
Date: 2014-02-27 12:02:41
The Direct and Interactive Marketing Association (DIMSZ) held a Privacy Policy Commando in the scope of the Dear Customer Programme. The targets of the raid were those web interfaces that...
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Russia can withdraw the import ban on Hungarian pork in mid-March
Date: 2014-02-27 12:00:07
Russia is expected to withdraw the import ban on Hungarian live pigs, pork and pork products in mid-March – Kardeván Endre told MTI on Wednesday. The Minister of State of...
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Vámos György would extend the deadline
Date: 2014-02-27 11:59:30
The deadline for the 50 thousand HUF support of cash registers expires tomorrow. Tens of thousands of retailers can suffer, since only about 50 thousand pieces of online cash machines...
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The two-third of the service centers is planning an expansion
Date: 2014-02-27 11:25:15
The two-third of the service centers operating in Hungary is planning an expansion. Most of the companies believe that the skilled workforce is the country's greatest strength – EY’s National...
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Positive lifestyle changes reduce diabetes risk
Date: 2014-02-27 09:44:21
Multiple lifestyle factors such as obesity and alcohol consumption increase a person’s risk of diabetes. But new research suggests that a person’s odds of developing the disease may decrease for...
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KSH: consumption continued to recover in December
Date: 2014-02-26 12:40:55
The sales of retail networks as well as the mail order and internet sales were 2.3 percent higher in December last year, than a year earlier – the Central Statistics...
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Huge exhibitor interest towards the Interpack 2014 trade fair
Date: 2014-02-26 12:03:25
The Messe Düsseldorf organized a press conference on 20 February in Vienna, where Bernd Jablonowski, Project Manager of Interpack presented the novelties of the Interpack 2014 trade fair, that will...
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GfK: one in four Hungarians have loans
Date: 2014-02-26 12:01:40
One in four Hungarians have loans, but only 11 percent of the Hungarian population had bank savings last year – GfK Market Researcher Institute’s survey found out. According to GfK’s...
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The Startup Spring 2014 series of events to be started
Date: 2014-02-26 12:00:26
The Startup Spring 2014 (www.startuptavasz.hu), series of events will be launched with the cooperation of the Hungarian startup world. In the scope of the Startup Spring 2014 series of events,...
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Eight hundred thousand species of plants are kept in the global granary
Date: 2014-02-26 11:15:36
In the Global granary, that is the largest such institution and can be found in Svalbard, more than eight hundred thousand species of plant seeds are stored. More than twenty...
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The conversion of large cash registers is in a good progress
Date: 2014-02-25 12:50:34
The pace of progress is good, the cash registers are uploaded continuously to the server of NAV, but the complete transition may last until mid-2014. In case of PC systems;...
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Hungary against GM soy
Date: 2014-02-25 11:58:55
Hungary will take measures in order to supress genetically modified (GM) soy and to decrease import dependence on the soybean market – Feldman Zsolt said at a professional meeting in...
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Pálinka is one of our national prides
Date: 2014-02-25 11:55:36
The National Pálinka Council (PNT) organizes the National Pálinka and Grape Pálinka Competition on new basis this year. The National Pálinka Council’s professional reconciliation forum contributes in the implementation of...
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Bread without crust was developed in Germany
Date: 2014-02-25 11:02:36
The bread is made of the mixture of rye and wheat. The soft-edged bread provides a great help for the elder, or for those who are suffering from feeding and...
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Jelly feast in Miskolc twice within two weeks
Date: 2014-02-25 11:00:57
A jelly feast will be held in Miskolc twice within two weeks: the 14th traditional jelly feast begins on 7 March. The guests of honor this year will be Szikszó...
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The Czech farmers demand Czech food to the public institutions
Date: 2014-02-25 10:54:48
The Czech farmers demand Czech food products to be served into the institutions of the Czech state. The organization of the Czech farmers sent an open letter to Marian Jurecka...
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