Events
The mandatory deposit can ruin selective waste collection
Date: 2013-03-12 12:20:48
The introduction of deposit on the single-used beverage packagings can eliminate selective waste collection and would cause unreasonable additional costs for the state and the economy – was said at...
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The Ministry of Rural Development (VM) would easen the damage of dairy producers caused by aflatoxin
Date: 2013-03-12 12:10:44
The Ministry of Rural Development has been working on the regulation, which would provide assistance to producers who are forced destroy their milk that excess the limit of aflatoxin content...
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The Hungarian-Azerbaijani agro and food industrial working group holds its first session
Date: 2013-03-12 11:55:55
The Hungarian-Azerbaijani agro and food industruial working group holds its first session on Tuesday in Baku – the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) told MTI on Monday. The Hungarian working...
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A New York judge has decided that the mayor can not ban high-sugared drinks
Date: 2013-03-12 11:40:03
A judge struck down New York’s limits on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before they were to take effect, in a significant blow to one of the most...
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Decline in retail sales is slowing down in Croatia
Date: 2013-03-12 11:35:56
In January 2013 the volume of retail sales fell by 5.3 percent in Croatia, compared to the previous year, which is less than the 6.1 percent decline of December –...
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Nike and Adidas are expanding in China
Date: 2013-03-12 11:00:21
Adidas and Nike are expanding in China this year. Both companies seek to slit a bigger slice from the 24 billion USD Chinese market with new market strategies. Nike, which...
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The CAP’s system will be more complex
Date: 2013-03-11 12:55:27
EU's new Common Agricultural Policy’s (CAP) system that will be introduced in 2014 will be more complex than now – Czerván György, Minister of State for the Rural Development Ministry...
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KSH: foreign trade balance was 318 million euros in January
Date: 2013-03-11 12:52:50
In January, exports grew by 4.3, imports increased by 5.2 percent calculated in euro, compared with a year earlier – the Central Statistics Office (KSH) announced on Monday on the...
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Food and beverages brands are the most mentioned on Twitter
Date: 2013-03-11 12:45:45
The food and beverages, clothing, and the retail sector generate the most direct mentions among Twitter users in the UK – the new study of BrandWatch Institue states. The survey...
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The Tokaj Trading House opened a representation in Tokyo
Date: 2013-03-11 12:45:09
The Tokaj Kereskedőház Zrt. (Tokaj Trading House Co.) opened a representation in Tokyo. The repesentation will serve the Hungarian national image as well. Several months of preparatory work preceded the...
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More than 18 thousand people were interested in Hungary's new gastronomic market
Date: 2013-03-11 12:40:36
Even in the last moments customers were standing in filled rows in front of the desk of the world sensational aurochs salami at the 5th Handicraft Hungarian Flavors Fair and...
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Nébih subtracted counterfeit Polish cheese from the markets
Date: 2013-03-11 11:51:26
As the result of several weeks of investigation, several tens of tons of fake cheese products were withdrawn from circulation by the staff of the National Food Chain Safety Office...
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The Árkád 2 shopping centre soon to be opened
Date: 2013-03-11 11:00:55
The Árkád 2 shopping centre opens its gates on 20 March 2at the Örs vezér square. The 20 thousand square meters Árkád 2 together with Árkád 1 will be the...
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Sándor's day Wine Muster in Tapolca
Date: 2013-03-11 10:58:14
The Balaton Wine Region’s most important professional meeting, the Wine Muster on Sándor's day will be held at the start of the spring. Vistors and professionals can becme aquanted with...
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Eighty billion pairs of chopsticks are consumed in China every year
Date: 2013-03-11 10:54:23
A leader of a northeast Chinese wood industrial company named disposable chopsticks as one of the causes of deforestations at the ongoing session of China's parliament: He claims that every...
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VM: seeds are strategic products
Date: 2013-03-08 12:30:39
The Hungarian seeds are strategic products. Production is implemented currently on 130 thousand hectares. The expansion of the production area is a national security interest – Szépe Ferenc, internationally renowned...
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Ten percent of mobile users use their cell phone to compare product prices
Date: 2013-03-08 11:17:56
One in ten Hungarian mobile users also use their cell phone to compare the product prices of different products. In Hungary, most people search for informations on electronic goods for...
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Small farmers destroy tens of thousands liters of milk
Date: 2013-03-08 11:04:08
Small farmers are forced to destroy tens of thousands liters of milk in Tolna countys since the beginning of the week. The processor does not take over the products due...
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The Budapest Pálinka Festival moves back to the city center
Date: 2013-03-08 11:00:47
2013 will be the year of cherry at the Budapesti Pálinkafesztivál (Budapest Pálinka Festival), where authentic Hungarian pálinkas and sour cherry fruit delicacies will play a special role. The culinary...
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Ericsson ConsumerLab: women precede men in smartphone use
Date: 2013-03-08 11:00:23
According to the research of Ericsson ConsumerLab, the growing popularity of smartphones is primarily due to women. Women use all the smartphone features more and more regularly than male users...
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“Observatory tour” for wine lovers in Eger
Date: 2013-03-08 10:55:25
Wine producers invite wine lovers to an “Observatory tour” on March 15 in Eger, as 20 local wineries will present their 2012 vintage Egri Csillag (Star of Eger) in the...
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Horsemeat scandal: new chapters in Romania
Date: 2013-03-08 09:28:29
The Romanian National Foodsafety Authority has published on its website: horsemeat has been found last week at the lake of Tarnica near Cluj. The meat is of 922 kilograms and...
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Television advertising revenues have fallen with 11 percent
Date: 2013-03-07 12:25:40
The TV market closed a difficult year in 2012 – shows the results of MEME. Television advertising spendings were below 50 billion HUF for the first time in 2012. The...
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Nébih: a bi-monthly investigation was ruined by the news coverage on horse meat scandal
Date: 2013-03-07 11:22:53
The independent investigation of the press and the recently published news baffled the two monthly jointly investigation of the National Food Chain Safety Office and other authorities – Oravecz Márton,...
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MVH: the 2012 EU Food Aid Program is near completion
Date: 2013-03-07 11:01:02
The aid organizations contracted with the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) in the scope of the EU Food Aid Program will complete the delivering of food products mid-March this...
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NAV: the tax authority investigates new areas this year
Date: 2013-03-06 12:00:18
The MAZARS international audit and consulting firm raises the domestic enterprises’ awareness to the fact that the NAV launches investigations in new areas in 2013. According to the MAZARS, investigations...
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Ball for the lovers of the Hungarian flavours
Date: 2013-03-06 11:02:49
At the first ever Ball of Hungarian Flavours specialties and high-level professional awards were waiting for the 250 elegant guest in the Royal Palace of Gödöllő. The visitors of the...
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Discounters have taken the leading position
Date: 2013-03-05 21:34:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Household Panel survey, in 2012 Hungarian families spent 2 percent more on household cleaners than in 2011. Despite the growth in value sales consumers rationalised their...
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Health and intimate hygiene
Date: 2013-03-05 21:24:58
Mariann Varga, brand manager with Alveola believes that if we want to be healthy, we have to keep our body clean – not forgetting about intimate hygiene either. The company’s...
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Manufacturer brands significantly increased their share from sales
Date: 2013-03-05 21:22:14
Energy and sports drinks sales have been growing fast for years, but last year brought an 8-percent decline in retail volume sales and a 2-percent drop in value sales (December...
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