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Pernod Ricard buys stake in African online retailer
French company Pernod Ricard has announced that they acquired a strategic share in Africa’s leading online retailer, Jumia. The two companies wish to develop an innovative distribution strategy in the...
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Appeninn Holding became the majority owner of Club Aliga
The Appeninn Vagyonkezelő Holding Nyrt. has become the majority shareholder of the Club Aliga. The value of the sale exceeded 14.1 million euros – announced Appeninn Holding on the website...
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New sales leader for Unilever Food Solutions
Last November Péter Bisits joined the Unilever Food Solutions team as sales leader for Hungary. Mr Bisits has worked in the HoReCa sector for more than 20 years. Relying on...
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Glatz acquires Márker Distribution
Austrian company Glatz GmbH – the owner of Glatz Hungary Kft. – has bought Márker Distribution Kft. This means that in addition to Filippo Berio olive oils, Kronen corn germ...
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Trade awards presented
The tourism sector’s year-starting reception and award ceremony has been organised for the 27th time. This year MVI’s Restaurant Owner of the Year award went to Katalin Pintér, the owner...
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Lidl invests 1 million euros in solar energy in Ireland
Until the end of 2019 Lidl is investing EUR 1 million in the installation of solar panels at eight stores. The announcement came after the group’s store in Nenagh switched...
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The problems with cashless payment
A British study calls attention to the problems with cashless payment: ‘Access to Cash’ informs that in the United Kingdom the proportion of cash payments is 34 percent at the...
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New Nestlé coffee factory in Egypt
Nestlé opened a new 12,740m² Bonjorno coffee production plant in Egypt. There are 240 people working in the factory, which was built from CHF 13.9 million. It was in January...
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Health is the direction
A recent online survey with 1,400 participants by GfK Hungária has found that Hungarians are increasingly health-conscious in their eating habits. People are looking for food information online more and...
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Mobile payment platforms are spreading in Europe
After the US launch four years ago, Apple Pay is now available in Germany too. Partner companies already included Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank, Bunq and Boon, Comdirect, N26 and O2 banking....
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Colruyt Group tests smart lockers for parcel delivery
Belgian retailer Colruyt Group is testing smart lockers for parcel delivery in 6 stores, which are called Bringme Box. The lockers – developed by intelligent logistics solutions provider Bringme –...
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Amazon sends free samples
As part of Amazon Sampling, the online retailer sends free samples of new and established brands’ products to shoppers. It is Amazon that selects the customers who receive the free...
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Hungarian Wine Grand Prize
At the beginning of the year the Circle of Hungarian Wine Writers published their Super 12 list for the third time. The experts have decided that two wines are worthy...
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Trade competitions at Sirha in Lyon
At the same time as the Bocuse d’Or competition took place, Lyon also hosted the International Catering Cup, one of the most important world contests for event gastronomy companies. Albatros-Expo...
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Good Hungarian performance at the Bocuse d’Or
The Hungarian team finished 12th from 24 teams at Bocuse d’Or 2018-2019. In the Lyon final the team led by Ádám Pohner achieved a superb result. Denmark won, Sweden came...
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Starbucks: 10 new cafés instead of the planned 1,000
Instead of the formerly planned 1,000 new units, Starbucks has decided to launch between just 6 and 10 new cafés. The decision comes as the competition for a cup of...
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Lidl: less salt, sugar and fat in private label products
Lidl had made a pledge already in January 2017 to optimise the composition of several private label products: they cut the sugar content of Crownfield breakfast cereals by 35 percent;...
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Taco Bell tests a vegetarian menu
Taco Bell is testing a vegetarian menu that combines the chain’s old and new vegetarian offerings. With this step Taco Bell is trying to reach out to younger consumers who...
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With a pragmatic approach
Our magazine has interviewed Éva Vojtek, who is a real Jolly Joker in the Guild of Confectioners. What does your business card say? – Actually I have two, one...
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This is what happened in 2018
In December Ferenc Horváth, president of the Guild of Hungarian Confectioners summarised their most important results in 2018 The building of the guild’s headquarters will soon be completed. As for...
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Zewa Project reloaded
In the Zewa Designer Competition 16 in-store display designs, created by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, were competing. The brand celebrated the winners with a press...
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Uncle Karcsi passed away
The guild reports it with great sadness that MVI member and our beloved friend Károly Arnold passed away on 31 December 2018, at the age of 86. Many times he...
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Quality is the connection
XO Foods was one of the main sponsors of the guild’s end-of-year gala dinner. Our magazine interviewed the company’s sales director for Hungary, Martin Hanák. The Gundel Károly Award ceremony...
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Portugal plans to make PET bottles returnable
The Portuguese government has launched a programme to encourage the return of non-reusable plastic bottles: a new bill states that from 1 January 2022 a system for the storage of...
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GKI: 2018 was probably the best year of the decade for Hungary
GKI estimates that Hungary’s GDP expanded by 4.6 per cent in 2018 and this rate was remarkably high in the EU. The growth cycle is likely to have reached its...
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Wrangling about the profit
At the end of January the European Commission (EC) decided to go to court about the Hungarian rules for the retail sales of agricultural and food products – the EC’s...
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Turkey: EBRD loan for developing Migros
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced granting an EUR 60-million loan for modernising Migros stores in Turkey. Not only stores will be revamped from this sum,...
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Retail Decoded continues
Shop!’s podcast series already has six episodes: in the latest one Jean-Pierre Lacroix, president of the Toronto-based agency Shikatani Lacroix gives an insight into how artificial intelligence technology can be...
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nIm – milk in Klingonese
Fozzy Group, one of the biggest food retailers in Ukraine has opened a 1,170m² Star Trek-themed supermarket in Kharkiv. In the store product categories are also indicated in the Klingon...
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Lidl-Müller partnership in the United Kingdom
Lidl’s strategy heavily builds on British farmers, so two thirds of their products in UK stores come from local suppliers. Last year Lidl entered into a partnership with Müller Milk&Ingredients:...
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