Events
Sainsbury's local gets high strength alcohol ban
Date: 2007-10-17 00:00:00
A Sainsbury's Local store in Ealing, has been banned from selling high strength lagers, beers and ciders. Sainsbury's accepted a proposed police condition to remove all high strength beers and...
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Grocery retail sales growth increases to 5% in Britain
Date: 2007-10-17 00:00:00
According to the latest figures from research group TNS the Britain's supermarket industry showed stronger growth in the past three months. Sales through grocers grew at an annual rate of...
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Price increase and quality trademark at the egg-market
Date: 2007-10-16 00:00:00
Some grower delivers its goods with the Hungarian Saint Crown sign, which shows that the egg is not only Hungarian but healthy. Growers, who get the trademark are controlled by...
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Prices and wages shoot up in Poland
Date: 2007-10-16 00:00:00
Prices of Polish goods and consumer services in September rose by 2.3%, compared to September 2006 – economists forecasted a rise of 1.9%. At the same time, gross wages in...
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30 million people starve in Europe
Date: 2007-10-16 00:00:00
The UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrates the 27. World Food Day, it was a Hungarian initiative. Jozsef Graf, Hungarian minister of agricultur at an event said every governments...
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Whispering campaign is the most efficient
Date: 2007-10-15 00:00:00
According to Nielsen research in 47 countries, people believe in information coming from another person, better than from the newspapers, radio or tv. For costumers, using the internet, the most...
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20% less sugar beet to process
Date: 2007-10-12 00:00:00
From the total of 805,000 tonnes of sugar beet 119,000 tonnes of sugar will be placed in to the silos. The factories would still be able to cover local demand....
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Notice for Brasil
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00
The Brazilian government and the country's farming industry deny the claims of use of illegal growth hormones and say Brazil is implementing the recommendations of EU animal health officials who...
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Textil war between EU-China is over
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00
Imports of chinese textils will be closely monitored, but the level of import will not be restricted. The European Union has agreed to end quota restrictions on Chinese textile imports...
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Bta Trade Show together with Hispack in 2009
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
Representatives of 3,500 exhibitors in a net area of 85,000m2 occupying the six pavilions of Fira de Barcelona's Gran Vía venue. Over 60,000 professional visitors are expected, 10% of them...
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Government to get tough on Scotch whisky definitions
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
Scotch need protection because of the foreign counterfeiters, this drink is Scotland's most important export product. The proposed legislation will make special provisions relating to Scotch whisky. The proposals will...
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Retail-branded chocolates are popular in Britain
Date: 2007-10-09 00:00:00
Last years English consumer bought candies for GBP 4.1 billion. The chocolate is very popular in the land, but further people wanted the products of big chocolate companies, nowadays they...
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Help for Hungarian firms on the foreign markets
Date: 2007-10-08 00:00:00
Last week Kinga Gönczi, foreign minister and Istvan Fekete, president of Joint Venture Association (JVA) signed an agreement. According to the engagement the members of the JVA help to ministry...
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EU allows most UK meat exports
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
The export of fresh beef and sheep meat would be allowed. The decision would be adopted formally from October 12 but would enter into force only if there were no...
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Golden lolliPOP Award
Date: 2007-10-05 00:00:00
This year 174 tenders vied in six categories. The Winners are: DisplaysBest design: Rauch Nativa plexi puld display – Unobi Design Communication Kft.Best technic: Djuice display – Colorpark Design...
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Polish fish meal is unsafe
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
Tthe ban is to stay in force until Russian veterinarians investigation the Polish system of export controls. Russia has banned imports of fish meal, mainly used as fodder, mixing meat...
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Pubs step up pressure over supermarket alcohol
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00
Pub operators have stepped up the pressure on the Government to take action against supermarkets selling cheap booze. The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has written to ministers urging...
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A shipment of 47 tons of frozen sardines was rejected
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
The sardines, imported from a Japanese trading company originally from the United States were infected with disease-inducing bacteria. The report said sample inspections showed the sardines were infected with listeria...
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Deal with POS
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
A new website, megallitotabla.hu, started by Conint-Print. The site shows wide range of BTL tools. megallitotabla.hu can be a good start point for people interesting or working for BTL, retail...
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Bird flu in Russia
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
More than 230,000 birds have been culled at a poultry farm in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory. The lethal H5N1 virus was identified at the farm on 4th September. Following an...
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China has the third-largest economy
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Since 2002 China has advanced from the world's sixth-largest economy to No. 3, overtaking the U.K. and Germany and India and narrowing the gap with the world's two largest economies:...
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Politicians against throw-away bottles
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
MDF, Hungarian party said the traders should take back every kind of bottles. According to partei's opinion extension of the deposit cost for throw-away bottles would help to increase the...
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7% decrease at the Confidence-index
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
55% of managers expect domestic demand to remain unchanged and 27% expect decreasing demand. The monthly Ecostat Top-100 index, a gauge of confidence at Hungary's biggest hundred companies dropped to...
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Less ready meals in Britain
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
According a survey despite time pressures, the majority of mothers are said to prefer to cook meals from scratch rather than open a jar or heat ready meals. The research,...
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HUF 12 million conraband
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
Customs officers seized 31,000 cartons of cigarettes in a van. The worth of contraband cigarettes was 12 million forints, the products brought into the country from the Ukraine. The officers...
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