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Successful Hungarian wine tasters
The Hungarian team finished at the superb 5th place at the wine tasting world championship in France, called Championnat du Monde de Dégustation in France. There were 24 teams competing...
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Hungarian Product trade forum at CBA
HUNGARIAN PRODUCT Nonprofit Kft. started a new programme series in the summer of 2018: retail chains invite trademark users for a trade forum to discuss the most important matters and...
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Coca-Cola buys French fruit juice brand
Coca-Cola has acquired the French brand Tropico from Alizé. Tropico fruit juices are available in drink cartons and PET bottles in France and Belgium, and their annual sales amounted to...
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Auchan to start urban farming
Auchan France has decided to make its ‘good, healthy, local’ slogan a reality by buying several hundred hectares of land, which Auchan hopes to turn into urban farms. The land...
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New store concept from Delhaize
Delhaize launched a new concept supermarket: there is a so-called ‘quick route’ and in the Fresh Atelier fresh ready-to-eat meals are available. The new store is the outcome of a...
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Spar plans to enter the Serbian market
Spar is planning to enter the Serbian market by acquiring local retail grocery group Mercator S. The plan was supposedly first proposed last year, amidst the challenges at Agrokor, but...
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No more queuing at Marks&Spencer
Marks & Spencer has launched a new ‘Mobile, Pay, Go’ service, enabling customers to pick up lunch in under 40 seconds. Since the rollout in Waterside more than 20 percent...
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S Group informs shoppers about their buying habits
S Group, Finland’s largest retailer, gave customers access to their shopping history. S Group has been collecting detailed shopping data for years through its popular loyalty card, which is owned...
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Lidl: home delivery by bicycle in Ghent
Lidl Belgium has launched Lidl Simpl a pop-up webshop that allows users to order from about 400 fresh products online for minimum EUR 25 and have them delivered to their...
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Albert Heijn: Appie Fly to returning passengers
Netherlands-based Albert Heijn has introduced a new service called Appie Fly: the service aims to help travellers returning home to Rotterdam The Hague Airport to restock their fridges. As they...
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Do you want a cheese moustache?
Cheese tea has been invented in Shanghai. Chinese chain Happy Lemon – where cheese tea is served – has already opened tea shops in New York and Chicago. This year...
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A glass’ life
At the third Great Wine Test this year almost 22,000 people filled out the questionnaire. The survey revealed that 27 percent drink wine several times a week, 20 percent drink...
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Amazon lockers installed in E.Leclerc hypermarkets
E.Leclerc and Amazon have partnered and will install Amazon lockers (parcel vending machines) across the grocery retailer’s hypermarket network in Spain. The lockers are already installed in many stores, and...
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Tesco extends its vegan range
Tesco has announced that it is extending its Wicked Kitchen plant-based food range to include pies, ‘sausage’ rolls, sourdough pizzas, chilled desserts, and deli foods. This year Tesco saw that...
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Everyone’s beautiful, everyone’s healthy!
According to a recent trend report made by METRO, the health trend is getting stronger among consumers. The company thinks 2019 will be the year of alternative food ingredients. Instead...
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Oilseeds dried in Nak
An agricultural logistics centre has been built in Nak with HUF 110 million provided by the Territorial and Settlement Development Operational Programme, where oilseeds are going to be processed. The...
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What are you going to eat when you grow up?
Most office workers have lunch in the office and they eat what they brought from home; this is especially true for 18-30 year old workers – informed a representative online...
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Special government support for the market entry of food products
Since 2014 the government has financed the food industry with HUF 230 billion from both national and EU sources. Thanks to this the level of investment increased and more processed...
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Syngenta for sustainable agriculture
This August crop protection and seed specialist Syngenta announced: the company will start a worldwide consultation about the future of agriculture. At one of these forums Matthew Pickard, managing director...
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First Hungarian self-checkout system gets the green light
Laurel has been given the authorisation to market LAURA-SSC, the first self-checkout system developed by a Hungarian company. The new system runs the Laurel cash register software – which is...
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From the top online FMCG retail markets 4 will be European by 2023
According to IGD, calculating with a 20-percent annual growth, by 2023 the world’s top 10 online FMCG retail markets will produce a value of EUR 200 billion – and 4...
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Less optimistic Hungarian SMEs
According to K&H’s latest SME confidence index, small and medium-sized Hungarian businesses were 10 points less optimistic in the 3rd quarter of 2018 – the index was at 7 points....
Read moreAnother box ticked
Last year the Ministry of Agriculture published decree 28/2017. (V. 30.) on the self-review systems to be operated by food industry enterprises, This system was set up to make sure...
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Cofidis: we are prepared for the Black Friday, but we do not build the castle of gifts
The Black Friday is strongly linked to Christmas: 83 percent of those, who participate in the action plan to buy Christmas gifts at that time. 40 percent of the total...
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Essity wins awards
Essity has won two awards at the European Cleaning and Hygiene Awards ceremony: Tork EasyCube® walked away with the prizes for ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ and ‘Best Practice –...
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Geo-blocking has entered into force! What shall we pay attention to?
On 3 December the EU’s Geo-blocking Regulation entered into force: it addresses unjustified online sales discrimination based on customers’ nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal...
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For healthy fish
The National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) launched a 3-year project called HappyFish, to monitor the path of fish from the lake to the dinner table. They found that...
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Prices were up nearly 5 percent
In October 2018 consumer prices were 3.8 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with October 2017, food prices increased by 4.6 percent. Seasonal product prices (potatoes,...
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Chef world cup in Luxembourg
The Hungarian team performed very well at the chef competition World Cup Luxembourg 2018: in the cold dish category we won a bronze medal and the team brought home a...
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Quality improvement
At the end of November the Hungast Group announced that new companies had joined the Hungarian Ingredients in Public Sector Catering Kitchens programme. Csaba Csúri, the group’s purchasing director signed...
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