Events
Meeting of wine-friends and cooking competition at the 20th Gastroblues Festival in Paks
Date: 2012-03-16 10:00:46
On the first weekend of July, the Gastroblues Festival will be held for the twentieth time in Paks. The Festival is the joint celebration of music and gastronomy. This year,...
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Two weeks to announce agricultural danages
Date: 2012-03-16 09:39:47
The Ministry of Rural Development has prepared a three-tier package of measures to aid farmers who have suffered frost damage, the second tier of which is comprised of an interest...
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Coffee drinking is not linked to chronic diseases
Date: 2012-03-16 09:27:39
Numerous studies of coffee's links to myriad diseases have provided head-spinning results, but a new paper finds java drinkers have no more risk of illnesses such as heart disease or...
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Jean Reno plays a chefs! – Video of the Day
Date: 2012-03-16 09:15:22
Recently culinary-inspired film were rare, but nowadays, the fans of these films can not complain. It would be too long to list the films that were dealing with the “adventures”...
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Ipsos: half of the employees are satisfied with their working conditions
Date: 2012-03-16 09:10:28
Worldwide, 47 percent of the workers consider their work environment as safe and healthy, 27 percent of them have opposite view, while 26 percent’s position is located between the two...
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Budapest’s first Macaron Day to come
Date: 2012-03-16 09:10:25
With the “Macaron Nap Magyarország” titled event, Budapest joins to the program series that have a great popularity in New York and Paris for years. The program series are designed...
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Ham purchase saw a growth both in terms of value and volume
Date: 2012-03-14 14:34:58
More and more ham is being purchased in the stores during Easter-time. Last year, customers spent nearly 5 billion HUF on ham, which is 4 percent higher than in the...
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The Central and Eastern European economies will have a weak year
Date: 2012-03-14 13:02:11
The Central and Eastern European economies will have a much weaker, “challenging” year than last year. Many of them – including Hungary – is expected to spend year 2012 in...
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KDNP: marketing conditions of foodstuffs may be tightened
Date: 2012-03-14 13:00:03
According to the Christian Democratic Party (KDNP), the National Assembly can acept the bill on the rules of food marketing with consensus. Tarnai Richárd, Member of Parliament highlighted at a...
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Euro area’s industrial production increased in January
Date: 2012-03-14 12:25:24
Industrial production of the Euro area and the EU increased in January on a monthly comparision – announced the European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, on Wednesday. In January, the industrial...
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The new rules of the agri damage mitigation
Date: 2012-03-14 12:22:55
The first pillar of new agricultural risk management system was published in the Magyar Közlöny. Those producers who were hit by agricultural damages between the 1st November 2011 and 10th...
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An annual 11 million tons of food is thrown out by the Germans
Date: 2012-03-14 12:20:50
According to new study presented on Tuesday, in Germany, an annual 11 million tons of food is thrown away, 81 kilograms per person. Most of the food that ends in...
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Bee Festival to debut
Date: 2012-03-14 12:10:59
The Méhecske Fesztivál (Bee Festival) will be organized for the first time this year on March 17 on Saturday, in Ukk, Veszprém county. The free all-day series of events will...
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GfK: Costumers spend the most on food in hyper-and supermarkets
Date: 2012-03-13 13:50:28
The GfK Market Research Institute conducted its GfK Shopping Monitor Research 2011-2012 in December 2011. The goal of the annually prepared study is the mapping of the motivations and purchasing...
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KSH: mainly energy and food prices moved inflation in February
Date: 2012-03-13 13:30:43
Consumer prices in February were 5.9 percent higher than a year earlier. In a month, prices rose by 0.8 percent, due to the significant jump of household energy and food...
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Online purchase on the podium of online activities
Date: 2012-03-13 13:10:25
MasterCard's latest research shows that online shopping and the associated browsing are the third most popular online activity in Hungary, only preceded by reading news and e-mailing. 38 percent of...
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Manpower: fewer employers planning redundancies
Date: 2012-03-13 13:00:37
According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, 17 percent of Hungarian employers intend to reduce their workforces during the second quarter of 2012 while only 14 percent of employers plan...
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U.S. retail sales increased
Date: 2012-03-13 12:40:08
U.S. retail sales increased the fastest extent in February in the last five months; a 1.1 percent increase occurred, compared to January. As analysts expected U.S. retail sales increased seasonally...
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Chips are not responsible for the salt intake
Date: 2012-03-13 12:20:30
How is it possible that in Hungary, salt intake is twice twice as much per capita than in the U.S., despite Americans consume 23 times more chips than the Hungarians?...
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Frost damage is around twenty percent in the Tokaj Wine Region
Date: 2012-03-13 12:15:52
On average, 20 percent of buds has damaged, due to this year’s hard frost in the Tokaj Wine Region – states the researchers of the Vine and Wine Research Institute...
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Germans eat forty kilograms of pork annually
Date: 2012-03-13 12:08:09
Last year, the revenues of the German meat distribution and event services increased by 3.2 percent. According to the Tuesday published datas of the German Meat Processors Association, consumption of...
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Weak domestic consumption continues to hold back imports
Date: 2012-03-12 14:00:59
According to the preliminary datas, the foreign trade value, calculated in euros, slightly increased by 2 percent in January, compared to the previous year's high levels – the Central Statistical...
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Increasing risk of bankruptcy
Date: 2012-03-12 13:45:50
According to Hungarian companies, the number of bankrupt businesses will slightly rise this year as well, following an all-time high of last year. They expect a particularly strong wave of...
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Costumers travel for special flavor vegetables and fruits
Date: 2012-03-12 13:28:48
The old Hungarian fruit and vegetable varieties will reappear probably on the local and regional markets, which establish the reputation of the Hungarian horticulture. In recent decades, the old, local,...
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Hungarian distilleries are preparing the apricot pálinka of the year together
Date: 2012-03-12 12:50:15
After last year's joint success Hungarian distilleries will prepare the pálinka of the year jointly again, this time from apricot. The special brew will debut in the spring, at the...
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Warsaw is the second most attractive commercial real estate market in Europe
Date: 2012-03-12 12:40:40
According to CBRE international consulting firm, Warsaw is the second most attractive commercial real estate market in Europe. The survey’s results were published in the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. In 2012,...
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Attendance record at the third Hungarian Artisan Flavours Fair
Date: 2012-03-12 12:30:18
About 17 thousand visitors supported the Hungarian producers with tens of millions of forints at the third Hungarian Artisan Flavours Fair. According to their votes, the Mézmúzeum (Honey Museum) became...
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SIAL returns in May
Date: 2012-03-12 12:06:46
After a record-breaking first edition in Toronto in 2011, the Salon International de l'Alimentation is back in Montreal from the 9th through the 11th of May, 2012 at the Palais...
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Revenues of Somogy county merchants and restaurateurs declined
Date: 2012-03-12 12:06:11
According to the survey of the Trade and Tourism Advocacy of the Entrepreneurs in Somogy County (KISOSZ), more than half of the merchants and restaurateurs of Somogy county reported about...
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Russia bans the European pork imports
Date: 2012-03-12 12:05:16
From the 20th of March, Russia bans pork imports from the European Union, due to the Schmallenberg virus emerging in Europe. The Russian veterinary authorities explained on Monday that the...
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