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The second largest pig farm in Europe was attacked by ASF in Romania

Gicu Dragan, head of the branch office of the Braila County branch office, told Agerpres news agency on Saturday that the commercial unit, which consists essentially of three farms belongs...

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The emotional well-being of women is more affected by diet

Women may need much more key nutrition materials to maintain their emotional well-being than men need – a new study from New York State University researchers revealed. An increasing number...

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Ecommerce Hungary has a new website

The new website of Ecommerce Hungary was launched in August 2018. Thanks to the new design and structure, a more active and effective communication becomes possible. It is needless to say that...

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Big Fish Payment becomes an independent company

From June 2018 Big Fish Payment is officially an independent company as a member of the 20-year-old Big Fish group. Since 2009 the company has become Hungary’s biggest payment integrator that...

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The Great Webshop Survey – this year’s results

In 2018 WebShop Experts and ShopRenter conducted a survey with the participation of 894 online shops, which revealed that the average conversion rate of respondents is 1.37 percent, 69 percent...

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Foodbank’s successful six months

Food Bank takes over leftover food from 100 manufacturers and 5 large retail chains. Every day they collect food products from nearly 270 shops. In the first half of the year the...

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SPAR is training the next generations

SPAR Hungary gives the chance to nearly 900 students in this school year to do traineeship at the company. Within the framework of this programme already 452 students passed their trade...

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New CEO for Pick Szeged

László Sutka has replaced Endre Nagy as the acting CEO of Pick Szeged. Mr Sutka started his career as an economic analyst at Pick Szeged Zrt. in 1998. Before being appointed as acting...

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NAK members decide to buy gas from NKM National Utilities

NKM National Utilities will provide nearly 50 members of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) with natural gas in the 2018-2019 period. The winner of NAK’s tender will provide NAK members...

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Lighter and greener bottles from Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Hungary cuts the weight of plastic bottles by 20 percent, at the same time increasing the share of their recycled components to 40 percent by 2020. The company has invested...

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Competition authority gives green light to Hungerit deal

The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has ruled that Csányi Group’s buying of HUNGERIT Poultry Processing and Food Zrt. has no negative competitive effect on the domestic market. It turned out that in...

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SPAR going greener

SPAR’s operations are environmentally conscious in general, for instance last year the retailer collected and took care of the recycling of 40 percent of the waste they had produced. SPAR also...

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Hungarian artisan chocolate wins at this year’s culinary Oscars

The salty caramel truffle with walnut of Bonbonier Chocolate Manufacture won at the Great Taste Awards. With its bonbons and chocolates, the company collected 15 international prizes in the last 3...

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Hungarian communications director offered group level task

From August Valentin Tóth, public affairs and communications director of Coca-Cola Hungary, is responsible for Coca-Cola HBC’s group level CSR programmes. His main tasks will be working out the long-term strategy...

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Penny Market installs LPG cylinder vending machines

In July the Penny Market store in Érd installed Hungary’s first LPG cylinder vending machine. Thanks to the system developed by FLAGA Hungária Kft., it only takes a few minutes for...

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World champion products in dm drugstores

Footballer Lukas Podolski – who played for the German national team 130 times – and dm have teamed up to create a special new brand. The STRASSENKICKER range consists of four...

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Lacikonyha Magyarország: new managing director

As of June 2018 László Bruszt is the managing director of Lacikonyha Magyarország, a member of the Polish group Prymat. The new managing director believes that one of his most important...

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‘Onlife’ 15th E-commerce Conference, 5-6 June 2018, Visegrád (Part 2)

Visegrád was the host of the 15th Ecommerce Conference, which was organised by Ecommerce Hungary on 5-6 June 2018. There were nearly 50 presentations and workshops on the 2-day programme. Ecommerce Hungary...

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Gyulai Artisan Sausage wins two stars

Brussels-based The International Taste & Quality Institute rewarded Gyulahús Kft.’s Gyulai Artisan Sausage with two stars. The jurors, who come from the 16 most prestigious European culinary and sommelier organisations, evaluated...

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New marketing book: Value Creation 4.0

Akadémiai Kiadó has published the new book of the famous marketing expert Gábor Rekettye. The book’s title is Értékteremtés 4.0 (Value Creation 4.0) and it introduces the challenges, threats and opportunities...

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Cofidis Magyarország team up with eMAG

In early July Cofidis Magyarország joined forces with eMAG. At the moment eMAG is the biggest online-only retailer in Hungary, while Cofidis is a specialist of online loan services. //...

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Tesco donation to children in need

Tesco shoppers contributed to the Happy Childhood donation collection programme of the Hungarian Interchurch Aid with almost HUF 34 million. The money will be used to organise summer camps for abused...

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Carrefour expands its organic product selection

The organic product market has kept growing in recent years in France. This is the reason why Carrefour has bought organic product distributor chain So.bio. So.bio operates in the province of...

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Survey to be made on companies’ food waste

The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) is conducting a survey on companies’ food waste and private label products. AKI has already found out earlier that after households it is food companies...

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Nyárlőrinc-based Szikrai Winery increases production capacity

Szikrai Winery Kft. in Nyárlőrinc received nearly HUF 180 million funding from the Economic Development and Innovation Operative Programme (GINOP) to increase the company’s competitiveness. The winery’s production capacity has tripled: now...

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Hailstorm protection with IT support

The IT system that serves the nationwide hailstorm protection system is up and running. HUF 300 million was spent on improving the performance of the Apollo super-computer that had been purchased...

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Grant programme for gene preservation

The Minister of Agriculture has announced a grant programme for 2018, the main objective of which is to finance the work done to preserve, manage and develop the genetic material...

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Nyíregyháza-based Color Pack invests in developing printing factory

Printing and packaging company Color Pack is investing HUF 773 million in developing its factory in Nyíregyháza. The company is buying a cutting-edge offset printing machine, which is capable of printing...

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ITM: growth in household income is the driving force of retail trade

The increase in retail turnover is due to the growth in household income, which is expected to continue in the coming months – Pomázi Gyula, the Deputy Minister of State...

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The harvesting of blue grapes has begun in Villány

In Villány, due to the warm weather, the grape harvest of kékoprtó has begun – the secretary of the 2500-hectare wine-growing region’s commune council told MTI on Friday. Nagy Gergely...

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