News and articles
Cheaper small-scale farmer IDs
Date: 2016-09-29 10:46:14
The new, card-format small-scale farmer IDs will take more time to make, but manufacturing them will cost only half the sum originally planned. Almost 190,000 cards need to be manufactured....
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Baker association wants VAT cut
Date: 2016-09-29 10:42:30
The Hungarian Baker Association urges a VAT cut and wants fair market conditions in the baking industry. President József Septe is of the opinion that prices need to be increased...
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Watermelon oversupply in Europe
Date: 2016-09-29 10:38:48
This year’s watermelon season was characterised by low purchasing prices and oversupply, not only in Hungary but in the whole of Europe. This year Spanish and Italian watermelon was still...
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Magazine: Serving the gastronomy sector in 21st century fashion
Date: 2016-09-29 10:10:00
METRO’s new service, called METRO MAX, debuted at Sziget Festival in August: bars and restaurants on the festival island could get everything they needed in the METRO MAX centre’s ‘festival-edition’,...
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Changes in the system of subsidies
Date: 2016-09-29 09:51:08
NAK president Balázs Győrffy told at a roundtable discussion in Bálványos that the biggest challenge of the next few years will be assisting farmers in preparing for the new system...
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From now on there will be more meat in the sausages
Date: 2016-09-28 11:35:02
Sausages and parisians should contain more meat, because the regulations of the Hungarian Food Code will change. The use of mechanically separated meat was tightened as well. New quality requirements...
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GKI: Hungary's GDP may expand by 2 percent this year and by 2.7 percent in 2017
Date: 2016-09-28 11:30:56
According to the most recent forecast of the GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. ( GKI Economic Research Co.), Hungary's GDP may expand by 2 percent this year and by 2.7 percent in...
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The NAK supports the agriculture and the food industry training with market survey
Date: 2016-09-28 11:27:17
The National Agricultural Economics Association (NAK) in collaboration with the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) launches a complex labor market research to assist the market-oriented vocational training, suitable for the...
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Fazekas: Increase in milk procurement prices can be felt less in Hungary
Date: 2016-09-28 11:25:11
The increase in milk procurement prices have already begun in the European countries, in Hungary, however, this is not very noticeable – the Minister of Agriculture told M1 news channel....
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What should we put on the table? Hungarian food industry at the crossroads
Date: 2016-09-28 11:25:00
At the Coop Rally – which is the traditional vocational program of the COOP supermarket chain, the Sága Foods greeted the participants of the event this year as host. At...
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Procter & Gamble is growing together with Hungary for a quarter of a century
Date: 2016-09-28 11:24:28
The company's quarter century offers one of the most innovative and diverse product portfolio for the Hungarian people, offering such dominant brands as Ariel, Pampers, Always, Gillette, Jar and Head...
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AB InBev purchased SABMiller
Date: 2016-09-28 11:14:50
Shareholders from both companies voted overwhelmingly in favor of the acquisition, one of the largest in corporate history. AB InBev will drop the SABMiller name and begin trading as a...
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St. Francis-day pepper festival held in Szeged-Alsóváros
Date: 2016-09-28 11:05:22
A festival presenting the paprika-growing traditions will be held on Saturday in Szeged-Alsóváros – Petri Márta, the head of the Franciscan Visitor Centre told MTI. Certainly the Franciscan friars were...
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The little self-sufficient local farms are looking for local production facilities
Date: 2016-09-28 11:04:42
It is vital to have employment in small communities, which provides a livelihood for the local people, and helps to keep populations to retain themselves. The government supports the creation...
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Consumer sentiment reached its nine-year peak in the world's largest economy
Date: 2016-09-28 11:03:38
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Increased in September The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had increased in August, improved further in September. The Index now stands at 104.1...
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Autumn fish stocking has started at the Lake Balaton
Date: 2016-09-28 11:03:00
Fifteen tons of carps were put into the Lake Balaton near Balatonlelle and Siófok on Monday. Szári Zsolt, CEO of the Balatoni Halgazdálkodási Nonprofit Zrt. (Lake Balaton Fish Management Company)...
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Changes in the Labour Code
Date: 2016-09-28 10:57:25
Act 67 of 2016 on next year’s budget has amended the Labour Code too. One of the new elements is that in the past pregnant women couldn’t be made redundant...
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VAT fraud is Europe’s third biggest problem
Date: 2016-09-28 10:52:33
Three quarters of European think that fighting VAT fraud is the third most important priority for the European Union, right after battling terrorism and reducing the level of unemployment –...
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Career bridge
Date: 2016-09-28 10:50:46
From 1 August 2016 the Career Bridge Programme is up and running once again. Within the framework of this scheme, if a company employs someone whose previous position has been...
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New changes in the EKÁER system
Date: 2016-09-28 10:48:38
Having an Electronic Public Road Trade Control (EKÁER) number is obligatory even if the total weight of a vehicle only becomes more than 3.5 tons when it is loaded over...
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Street artists of the kitchen – Video of the day
Date: 2016-09-28 10:31:57
If there were an Olympic event called “Making Food in the Quickest, Most Amazing Way Possible,” these skilled men and women would all be gold medal contenders. From hand-pulling noodles...
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New CEO in the lead of the Danubius Hotels Group
Date: 2016-09-28 10:30:07
From 1 January 2017, Kovács Balázs, the current sales and chief marketing officer of the group will be the CEO of the Danubius Hotels Group – the company informed MTI...
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Magazine: A hero from our past
Date: 2016-09-28 07:46:21
A book has been published telling the life story of István Lukács, Hungary’s most famous chef in the period before the political transformation in 1990. He is the only chef...
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Fazekas Sándor: quality Hungarian wines are more and more recognized
Date: 2016-09-27 11:30:41
The quality Hungarian wines are more and more recognized among consumers in Hungary and abroad, as their quality is constantly renewed, and they combine tradition with innovation – the Minister...
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Foreign webshops are more and more popular
Date: 2016-09-27 11:26:56
According to a recent research, the foreign-based webshops are more and more popular among the Hungarian customers – portfolio.hu wrote. Those who regularly purchase on the Internet in Hungary, are...
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New rural development projects to appear later during the fall
Date: 2016-09-27 11:25:19
Further applications are expected during the fall in the Rural Development Programme. By the end of the year applications will be published in a value of around 200 billion HUF....
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KSH: the number of employees increased in June-August
Date: 2016-09-27 11:22:23
In June-August, the number of employees was 4 million 386 thousand, 135 thousand more than the year before. The employment rate for the 15-64 age group increased by 2.5 percentage...
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eNet-Telekom: the number of mobile Internet users is 2.6 million
Date: 2016-09-27 11:20:03
98 percent of the more than 3.5 million smartphone and tablet users are using wifi, 72 percent of them, 2.6 million have mobile internet – the report of eNet and...
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The third of the world's population could be obese by 2030
Date: 2016-09-27 11:15:46
Poor diet poses a threat to the health of half of the world's population – warns an independent committee of nutrition experts. By 2030 a third of the planet's population...
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(HU) Halászfaluvá változik a szolnoki tér a Tiszai Hal Napján
Date: 2016-09-27 11:01:11
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