Events
                    The dairy sector votes on VAT reduction
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-12 12:25:06
												                    
				
                To stabilize incomes is a major challenge for the dairy industry players. The law on interbranch organizations can help them – Feldman Zsolt Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of...
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                    Mountain villages: grape harvest has good quality, but import will be needed from cheaper wines
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-12 12:10:19
												                    
				
                This year's grape harvest has a great quality. Hungarian grapes have been so healthy as now long time ago, but from cheaper wines Hungary is expected to rely on Italian...
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                    The price of Arabica coffee increases dramatically
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-12 11:05:25
												                    
				
                On Monday, the price of Arabica coffee increased spectacularly, by more than 6 percent to 173 cents. Such a price increase occurred last time in January 2009, in addition on...
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                    The tax authorities also checked the fruit vendors of the South Plains
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-12 11:00:58
												                    
				
                The inspectors of the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) checked the regularity of fruit sales in the southern Great Plains region during the summer months. In almost half of...
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                    Cheese Festival will be held on Saturday in Csermajor
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-12 10:55:29
												                    
				
                Cheese competition, cheese knight inauguration, cheese tasting, the country's largest Pannonia cheese and milk combat will waiting for those who visit the fifteenth edition of the cheese festival on Saturday...
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                    The Parliament adopted the law on tobacco sales
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 13:55:49
												                    
				
                Tobacco retail will be a state monopoly from the 1st of July next year. The state can give a green light to applicants in the scope of a concession contract....
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                    Corn crop will be enough
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 12:23:53
												                    
				
                Despite the drought, the estimated 4 million tons of corn crop may be sufficient to satisfy the interior needs of the country – Czerván György told at Tuesday’s agricultural forum...
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                    The rating of MLSZKSZ may worth billions
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 11:40:36
												                    
				
                In the past 6 years, the applicants who have a certificate of qualification developed by the Association of the Hungarian Logistics Service Centres (MLSZKSZ) won a total of 7.5 billion...
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                    Mexico moves in the Buda Castle
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 10:55:59
												                    
				
                Hungary's finest pálinkas, special meals, exhilarating music from Latin America and culinary delights await the visitors between 4 to 7 October in the Buda Castle, where guest will be Mexico...
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                    Ipsos: Rather personally than via “gadgets”
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 10:55:41
												                    
				
                Four out of five people prefer to talk face to face rather than by telephone. 81 percent of people prefer to communicate in person, than through a telephone set. In...
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                    Spanish olives competition
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-11 10:50:22
												                    
				
                The Spanish olives are not only healthy, but has a wide range of use. Now in the scope of a special recipe competition, anyone can share their own favorite olive...
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                    The FEOSZ and the NÉBIH works together to inform the consumers
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 12:32:57
												                    
				
                The National Association of Consumer Associations (FEOSZ) and the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) signed a cooperation agreement on 7 September in order to better inform consumers than ever...
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                    The number of chip cards increases
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 12:26:18
												                    
				
                In the first half of the year, the spread of chip cards continued in Hungary: According to the Hungarian National Bank, their rate was nearly 78 percent in June. Chip...
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                    Hungarian companies spend less on advertising
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 12:10:00
												                    
				
                According to the list price datas of Kantar Media, companies in Hungary spent 4.4 percent less on advertising in the first half of this year than in the same period...
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                    The system of tobacco shops will be launched in July instead of January
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 12:00:44
												                    
				
                Instead of January next year, the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament proposes to set up the concession tobacco shop system from the 1st of July 2013. The scope...
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                    Investor sentiment has improved in the euro area in September
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 11:10:25
												                    
				
                Thanks to the the sovereign bond market intervention program of the European Central Bank, investor sentiment index improved in September for the first time since March in the euro zone...
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                    Twenty to thirty percent less grapes in the Szekszárd wine region
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 11:00:04
												                    
				
                Due to the drought, twenty to thirty percent less grapes were harvested in the Szekszárd wine region, where the harvest of some late-ripening varieties has begun. The winemakers of the...
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                    Children collected two tons of beverage cardboard at the zoo environment program
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 10:55:43
												                    
				
                About five thousand children, who took part in the Zoo’s Happy Box Days environmental program, during the weekend collected almost two tons of beverage cardboards. In the environmental action of...
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                    Taste Hungary! – Culinary show at the Village Museum of Sóstó
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-10 10:25:28
												                    
				
                Thirty-three chef teams will cook fifteen thousand doses of seventy food specialties, on 15 September at the “Taste Hungary!” culinary show at Village Museum of Sóstó. Páll István, the director...
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                    Stagnant industry, a fall in GDP – there is no sign of a turning point
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 13:51:12
												                    
				
                According to analysts, a positive turn is not expected in industrial production during the second half of the year, even in spite of the expected growth of the Mercedes plant....
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                    Magazine: Sales expanded on the market of feminine hygiene products
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 12:51:33
												                    
				
                The market of feminine hygiene products audited by Nielsen surpasses an annual HUF 14 billion. Sanitary napkin is the biggest segment with annual sales in the value of HUF 5...
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                    Sunflower is on a record price
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 12:23:56
												                    
				
                Sunflower has a record price, despite the drought. The industrial plant costs one and a half times more than in last year. According to the preliminary estimates the crop can...
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                    Global consumers' intent to buy food and beverages online grows 44 percent in 2 years
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 12:19:43
												                    
				
                According to a new study from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, global consumers’ intent to buy food and beverages online...
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                    Food prices increased in China
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 11:12:36
												                    
				
                The Chinese consumer price index (CPI) increased slightly in August proper to the analysts’ expectations. On an annual comparision, consumer prices increased to 2 percent from the previous month's 1.8...
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                    Furmint celebrations in Mád
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 10:59:28
												                    
				
                The historic Tokaj wine region’s world-famous Furmint wines are in the focus of the Mádi Furmint Celebrations 2012, that will be held on Friday and Saturday. In addition to the...
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                    Good wines to be celebrated in Révkomárom at the weekend
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-07 10:50:27
												                    
				
                The Borkorzó Festival of Révkomárom will be the festival of good wines, music and delicacies. At the event the visitors can taste the wines of the Komárom-Párkány, the Somló, Villány,...
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                    VM: there can be reverse VAT in the pig sector
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-06 13:00:37
												                    
				
                Even the Ministry of Agriculture withdrew its proposal of the reverse VAT in the pig sector in August, the government once again discussed the question. The Ministry supports the idea....
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                    KSH: nearly 5 percent exports increase in euros
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-06 12:20:41
												                    
				
                Exports increased in euros by 4.6 percent, imports rose by 4.0 percent in July compared to a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on Thursday. Due to...
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                    Melon case – The government has approved the report of the Ministry of Rural Development
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-06 12:10:53
												                    
				
                There has been no cartel agreement protecting the melon growers – states the report of the Ministry of Rural Development, which was adopted by the government – the ministry told...
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                    Finance guards seized more than 300 thousand eggs
                    
                        
																								Date: 2012-09-06 11:55:55
												                    
				
                The finance guards of the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) seized more than 300 thousand unmarked eggs – the organization told MTI on Thursday. According to the communication, the...
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