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Coupons on mobile
Mastercard launched the Priceless Specials programme in June 2015. It is now also available in the form of a mobile app. The app makes it possible to check it in...
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Southern Italy in focus
Marco Bulf director of the ITA office in Budapest ITA (Italian Trade Agency) is a network of trade offices ran by the Italian state. Its task is to promote products ‘Made...
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Kométa appoints new domestic meat product sales director
Due to the increase in sales turnover, Kométa will divide meat and meat product sales into two areas, which will be managed by two different directors. Newcomer Gábor Zab will...
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Automation at eMAG
The logistics centre of eMAG in Üllő, which was built 2 years ago and already operates on 21,000m², is waiting for this year’s Black Friday and Christmas periods with 600,000...
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Tobacco retailers ask for delaying the introduction of standardised packaging
On 7 November a conference was organised for National Tobacco Shop operators and their partners. It turned out that about 40-50 percent of tobacco shops are in a difficult situation, while...
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New version of NAK’s smartphone app launched
As a result of the first phase of the NAK APP 2.0 project, the services which were formerly only available on the NAK website can now also be used on...
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METRO gives car to happy winner
On 27 November László Török from Dunakeszi received the main prize of the METRO Winning Weeks prize game, a brand new TOYOTA Yaris Hybrid. Those METRO customers could participate in the...
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Magosz wins chamber elections
At the end of November the members of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) were voting: from the approximately 360,000 NAK members 47,696 turned up. No less than 88.3 percent...
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Auchan offers discounts to families with small children
Auchan Hungary launches a new loyalty programme for pregnant women and families with children under the age of 6, called Auchan Bébé Program. The programme runs under the retailer’s Bizalomkártya loyalty...
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Soproni Démon becomes an Óvatos Duhaj
Soproni Óvatos Duhaj is to turn into a product range: after the huge success of Soproni Óvatos Duhaj IPA that debuted this summer, dark beer Soproni Démon also bears the...
Read moreSzentkirályi Talent winners announced
The Szentkirályi Talent Programme is realised in cooperation with the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB). A six-member board of trustees has selected the programme’s three winners: kayaker Ádám Varga, swimmer Nándor Németh and sailor Máté Benyó. They...
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Joint Henkel-SPAR campaign for ill children
From November the children in Szent Borbála Hospital in Tatabánya can regularly meet the Red Nose Clown Doctors. The programme has been organised for the seventh time: every shopper who bought...
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ALDI starts selling discount motor fuels in Hungary
In January 2018 ALDI is going to open filling stations in the parking lots of several stores. OMV Hungária will partner with ALDI to sell high quality, MSZ EN 590 and...
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Isomalt factory inaugurated in Tiszapüspöki
On 30 October Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga and Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas ceremonially opened the isomalt factory of KALL Ingredients Kft. The new factory...
Read morePraktiker: the online shop develops the fastest
Although Praktiker operates 20 DIY stores in Hungary, it is the ‘21st’ unit, the online shop that develops the fastest. The online shop had been launched in 2009 but it went...
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Strong third quarter for Henkel
In the 3rd quarter of 2017 Henkel’s sales revenue augmented by 4.9 percent to EUR 4,981 million. Organic growth was 3 percent, while adjusted operating profit (EBIT) rose by 7.1...
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The year of breaking records
From many points of view, this year was about breaking records in Hungary: the consumer confidence index reached the level where it had been before the recession – 76 points...
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A good broom sweeps clean
Péter Antal, managing director of Amsa Higiénia Kft. informed our magazine that they sell hygiene equipment to food industry manufacturers. The company has been waiting for a long time for Horeca businesses...
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Booming coffee market
Bence Vig, managing director of Progast Kft. opines that demand is growing for quality coffee, and this entails a need for buying new machines at many places. Hotels have also realised by...
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Our main goal is to showcase products
In the last 2-3 years the market of professional kitchen machinery didn’t really change – informed Sándor Gál, owner and managing director of Assur Kft. Although grant money is available for...
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Quality and rationality
According to Krisztián Újvári, sales manager of Coninvest Kft., in the last 2-3 years there were two major changes in the domestic market of professional kitchen machinery. The first one is...
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Positioned higher
The food stands of the Christmas market in Budapest’s Vörösmarty Square have had enough of the criticism they receive for the food they serve. They asked Teodóra Bán, managing director of...
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Winners of the 2017 HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition
The Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) organised the first HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition in 1967. They celebrated the competition’s 50th birthday with the patronage of Minister of Agriculture...
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Nielsen: chocolate Santa Clauses brought the two-thirds of the turnover
Chocolates are the biggest favorites of the Christmas holiday season: over 400 million tonnes ie over eight million was sold in October-December 2016, according to the 90 food category of...
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ALDI Hungary’s green programme rewarded
ALDI Hungary’s 2017 complex energy project won the CSR Hungary award in the ‘Environment-Green Excellence’ category. As a responsible company, ALDI Hungary continuously develops and introduces environmentally friendly solutions that reduce...
Read moreKSH: foreign trade surplus was 937 million euros in September
In September, the value of exports increased by 5.6, while imports increased by 6.7 percent compared to a year before. Foreign trade sales amounted to 937 million euros, 28 million...
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L’Oréal recognised for leadership in environmental matters
L’Oréal is a global leader in corporate sustainability. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent organisation that issues environmental certificates, has recently announced that L’Oréal scored an ‘A’ for all three...
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Retail giants sign strategic agreement in China
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Auchan Retail S.A. and Ruentex Group have signed a strategic agreement: they decided to share the experience they have in traditional (offline) and digital (online) retail, in...
Read moreNearly 180 tons of food products were donated by Tesco customers
Tesco’s customers donated 178 tons, ie 445,000 servings of food, in the Christmas fundraising campaign of the Hungarian Food Bank Association. In addition to the donations of the buyers, Tesco...
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