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Enchanting shop window for Christmas

Department store Fenwick Newcastle impresses shoppers with a marvellous shop window decoration in this Christmas season too. This year’s theme was inspired by a children’s book written by Raymond Briggs,...

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Spaghetti to-go!

Smorgasburg in Brooklyn is one of New Yorkers’ favourite summer eateries. It is a bit like a continuous culinary festival. This is the place where the spaghetti doughnut made its...

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Hungarian Product trade forum at CBA

HUNGARIAN PRODUCT Nonprofit Kft. started a new programme series in the summer of 2018: retail chains invite trademark users for a trade forum to discuss the most important matters and...

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Coca-Cola buys French fruit juice brand

Coca-Cola has acquired the French brand Tropico from Alizé. Tropico fruit juices are available in drink cartons and PET bottles in France and Belgium, and their annual sales amounted to...

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Auchan to start urban farming

Auchan France has decided to make its ‘good, healthy, local’ slogan a reality by buying several hundred hectares of land, which Auchan hopes to turn into urban farms. The land...

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New store concept from Delhaize

Delhaize  launched a new concept supermarket: there is a so-called ‘quick route’ and in the Fresh Atelier fresh ready-to-eat meals are available. The new store is the outcome of a...

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Spar plans to enter the Serbian market

Spar is planning to enter the Serbian market by acquiring local retail grocery group Mercator S. The plan was supposedly first proposed last year, amidst the challenges at Agrokor, but...

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No more queuing at Marks&Spencer

Marks & Spencer has launched a new ‘Mobile, Pay, Go’ service, enabling customers to pick up lunch in under 40 seconds. Since the rollout in Waterside more than 20 percent...

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S Group informs shoppers about their buying habits

S Group, Finland’s largest retailer, gave customers access to their shopping history. S Group has been collecting detailed shopping data for years through its popular loyalty card, which is owned...

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Lidl: home delivery by bicycle in Ghent

Lidl Belgium has launched Lidl Simpl a pop-up webshop that allows users to order from about 400 fresh products online for minimum EUR 25 and have them delivered to their...

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Belarusian retail chain Eurotorg enters the stock market

Belarusian retail chain Eurotorg is about to list its shares in the London Stock Market. The chain has a 19-percent market share in Belarus and it is five times bigger...

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Albert Heijn: Appie Fly to returning passengers

Netherlands-based Albert Heijn has introduced a new service called Appie Fly: the service aims to help travellers returning home to Rotterdam The Hague Airport to restock their fridges. As they...

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Amazon lockers installed in E.Leclerc hypermarkets

E.Leclerc and Amazon have partnered and will install Amazon lockers (parcel vending machines) across the grocery retailer’s hypermarket network in Spain. The lockers are already installed in many stores, and...

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Alibaba enters the wine market

Seeing the growing demand for imported wine, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest almost USD 290 million in domestic wine and spirits importer and retailer 1919.cn. In...

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Tesco extends its vegan range

Tesco has announced that it is extending its Wicked Kitchen plant-based food range to include pies, ‘sausage’ rolls, sourdough pizzas, chilled desserts, and deli foods. This year Tesco saw that...

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Oilseeds dried in Nak

An agricultural logistics centre has been built in Nak with HUF 110 million provided by the Territorial and Settlement Development Operational Programme, where oilseeds are going to be processed. The...

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Special government support for the market entry of food products

Since 2014 the government has financed the food industry with HUF 230 billion from both national and EU sources. Thanks to this the level of investment increased and more processed...

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Syngenta for sustainable agriculture

This August crop protection and seed specialist Syngenta announced: the company will start a worldwide consultation about the future of agriculture. At one of these forums Matthew Pickard, managing director...

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One billion packs of paper napkin a year

The paper napkin category represents a value of more than HUF 3 billion. Like-for-like value sales were down 3 percent in September 2017-August 2018 and volume sales dropped 8 percent...

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First Hungarian self-checkout system gets the green light

Laurel has been given the authorisation to market LAURA-SSC, the first self-checkout system developed by a Hungarian company. The new system runs the Laurel cash register software – which is...

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From the top online FMCG retail markets 4 will be European by 2023

According to IGD, calculating with a 20-percent annual growth, by 2023 the world’s top 10 online FMCG retail markets will produce a value of EUR 200 billion – and 4...

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Less optimistic Hungarian SMEs

According to K&H’s latest SME confidence index, small and medium-sized Hungarian businesses were 10 points less optimistic in the 3rd quarter of 2018 – the index was at 7 points....

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Cofidis: we are prepared for the Black Friday, but we do not build the castle of gifts

The Black Friday is strongly linked to Christmas: 83 percent of those, who participate in the action plan to buy Christmas gifts at that time. 40 percent of the total...

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Essity wins awards

Essity has won two awards at the European Cleaning and Hygiene Awards ceremony: Tork EasyCube® walked away with the prizes for ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ and ‘Best Practice –...

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Geo-blocking has entered into force! What shall we pay attention to?

On 3 December the EU’s Geo-blocking Regulation entered into force: it addresses unjustified online sales discrimination based on customers’ nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal...

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Prices were up nearly 5 percent

In October 2018 consumer prices were 3.8 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with October 2017, food prices increased by 4.6 percent. Seasonal product prices (potatoes,...

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Augmented reality in retail

Kosárérték.hu Magazin has analysed how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can be used in retail. According to Ákos Ződi, the owner of Szeged-based company CreatIT Solutions, in the...

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Rapid growth this year, slowing down next year

While most forecasts say growth is going to be at 4-4.5 percent this year, for next year experts foresee a 3-3.5 percent growth – with the exception of the Hungarian...

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Tesco extends the application period for its community-building application

Tesco extends the application period for its community-building application, the “You choose, We Help” program until 23 November 2018. For the program of Tesco, such charitable organizations and informal companies...

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New support for the organic farmers

There is no time for delay: “The Switch to Organic Farming, the Maintenance of Organic Farming” application has been published. The deadline for submission is very close: the electronic support...

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