News and articles

One of the key elements of plant production is plant species experimental activity

One of the key elements of crop production is plant species experimental activity, as the biological basic is the safety of cultivation for agriculture and forestry – the Minister of...

Read more

More than 2,500 people attended Amway’s charity event in 12 cities

On 1 October Amway re-organized its charity walk in 12 locations across the country. The participants of the “10 000 steps FOR YOU and FOR THEM” program walked 10,000 steps...

Read more

The number of visitors at the Oktoberfest in Munich is over six million

The number of visitors rose over six million (to the usual level) at the world’s largest beer festival, the Oktoberfest in Munich on Tuesday evening. According to the organizers’ preliminary...

Read more

(HU) KKV cégvezetőket kérdezünk!

Sorry, this entry is only available in HU....

Read more

Illegal cigarette factory operators were accused

The Metropolitan Public Prosecution has filed charges against people who operated a cigarette factory – Ibolya Tibor Attorney General told MTI. According to his report, the eight men are accused...

Read more

The most racist videogame of the world takes place in a Chinese restaurant – Video of the day

A game company by the name of Big-O-Tree (say that out loud, by the way) is releasing a blatantly racist and wildly offensive smartphone game called Dirty Chinese Restaurant. Judging...

Read more

Neckermann Hungary closed a successful season

Neckermann Hungary closed a successful season, the turnover of the travel agency exceeded 14 billion forints in the business year ending September, and the company has been operating steadily for...

Read more

Waste oil collected in Romania

Carrefour Romania has started collecting waste oil from customers, in order to reduce the chain’s ecological footprint. Shoppers can take back 1-4kg of filtered waste oil in transparent bottles. In...

Read more

Automatic offices are more efficient

One third office tasks could be automated but this proportion is still less than 5 percent in Hungary – revealed a survey by xFLOWer that was done with the participation...

Read more

Our children are learning for us too

Recently the association of German cooks has started a cooking course programme for children: the objective is to familiarise primary school pupils with cooking ingredients and how to prepare them...

Read more

Brutal drought caused 100 billion HUF damages to the corn

This year’s summer heat caused up to 100 billion HUF damages to the corn producers – agrarszektor.hu wrote. According to the harvest results so far, yield is more than 2...

Read more

KSH: import was growing faster than export in July

In July, the value of exports in euros was 5.0, while the value of import was 11.3 percent higher than one year before. Export surplus was 348 million euros, 410...

Read more

This year, the autumn wheat varieties were tested by VSZT and GOSZ

The seed experiment work of the Seed Association Interprofessional Organization and Product Council (VSZT) and the National Association of Grain Producers (GOSZ) has been closed in 2017. Farmers have summarized...

Read more

The chocolate saloon has opened its gates

The famous Ghraoui Chocolade from Damascus has opened its shop in Budapest. After the civil war broke out in 2011 in Syria, the Ghraoui Chocolade started its activity in Hungary....

Read more

The seasonally adjusted value of the Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) for September is 59.3.

Compared to the previous September, this year’s value exceeds the long-term September average (52.3) and the average of the last three years (54.3) as well. Most of the sub-indices examined...

Read more

Baker Association: the Hungarian Food Book should be developed

A growth in consumer awareness and the further development of the Hungarian Food Book is needed – the Baker Association said after negotiations with the Ministry of Agriculture (FM), the...

Read more

Magyar Levente: Chinese companies make a significant contribution to Hungary’s economic successes

Chinese companies are making a significant contribution to Hungary’s economic success, and Hungarian exports to China are expected to continue to grow and increase their added value in products –...

Read more

Huge competition support can be used by the domestic “gazelle” companies

By 19 October 2017, the Rapidly Growing Businesses (Gazelle) will be able to apply for a first call for applications for the Complex Development of Domestic Companies. The bet is...

Read more

Hungarians will also compete at the WorldChefs Chef Championship in Prague

Three Hungarian contestants will compete at the continent finals of the World Association of Chefs’ Societies (WACS, WorldChefs) tournament in Prague on Friday and Sunday. Adamek Balázs (Székesfehérvár) will represent...

Read more

The NAV found 11,000 packs of cigarettes hidden on a train

The dogs of the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) found 11,000 packs of cigarettes on an express train from Kiev – the NAV told MTI on Monday. The dogs...

Read more

The majority check whether the food is Hungarian

The vast majority of the respondents prefer Hungarian food rather than foreign products – the survey of the Research and Marketing Institute of the Budapest University of Economics (BGE) reveals....

Read more

EU Directive confronts banks with new challenges

The first Payment Services Directive (PSD) introduced the SEPA bank transfer standard that is currently valid throughout Europe in 2009. The second to open up the banking market is now...

Read more

The yield of corn and sunflower is smaller this year in Békés county

Due to the droughty summer, yields of both crops are lower than usual – the Békés County Harvest Coordination Committee determined at its meeting. Adamcsik László, a member of the...

Read more

Bizarre Japanese milk-ad – Video of the day

A new commercial from Japanese company Rakunoh Mother’s is destined to go down in the Dairy Ad Hall of Fame, right next to the “Got Milk?” campaign of the ’90s,...

Read more

Chio was the host of the POPAI meeting in September

On 7 September 2017 POPAI members met at the Intersnack/Chio headquarters. Discussions focused on the discount supermarket channel: GfK’s client service director Rita Csillag-Vella spoke about the latest trends and challenges...

Read more

ALDI Hungary joins UN programme

ALDI Hungary is the first retail chain from the country to join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) initiative, the world’s biggest sustainable and responsible corporate management programme. The ALDI SOUTH...

Read more

Quality meat dishes for children in need

Hungarian Product Grand Prize winner Mar-Ne-Váll Kft. donated 2,000 portions of meat dishes to the children who regularly participate in the trainings of the Hungarian Maltese Charity’s sport club. The chicken breast...

Read more

Twenty-one new OMV petrol stations

Since early last year more than 20 new OMV petrol stations opened in Hungary. Since August 8 former Avanti filling stations have transformed into OMV units. At the moment the OMV chain...

Read more

Eggshell

Practically all European Union member states are now affected by the Fipronil scandal – eggs have been infected with pesticide. Millions of eggs had to be pulled from stores, but finally...

Read more

Tesco: another salary raise

In mid-August Tesco announced the third phase of this year’s salary increase programme: from 1 September almost every full-time store and logistics centre worker will earn a gross HUF 11,000...

Read more
Oldal