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Hungarian foods and pastries in China
Date: 2016-03-18 10:55:15
Hungary and Hungarian dishes to be served for a month in the presigous Mincu hotel of the Chinese capital, while in Shanghai, Hungarian pastry weeks are held. At the opening...
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Sushi is not just fish and rice – Video of the day
Date: 2016-03-18 10:50:38
Sushi may look simple, but the preparation that chefs complete behind the scenes before service even begins is much more complicated than in seems.From expertly seasoning rice to handling whole,...
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Fast-Food Consumption Linked to Lower Test Scores
Date: 2016-03-18 10:47:31
The amount of fast food children eat may be linked to how well they do in school, a new nationwide study suggests. Researchers found that the more frequently children reported...
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Guest nights at commercial accommodations increased by six percent
Date: 2016-03-18 10:45:14
The guest nights at the commercial accommodations increased by six percent in January, while the gross sales of commercial accommodations rose by 3.8 percent, compared to the same month of...
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FMCG advertising: spending grew by one fifth
Date: 2016-03-18 10:11:20
Calculated at rate card price, companies spent 20 percent more on advertising FMCG products in 2015 than in the previous year. Television commercials also had more viewers: FMCG products’ GRP...
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A new fruity flavour in the AirwavesCool chewing gum range
Date: 2016-03-18 10:09:22
A new fruity flavour in the AirwavesCool chewing gum range. Orange, lemon and mint in an exciting combination make CoolFruit products really special. An explosion of freshness first, followed by...
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Magazine: Few of the many innovations have the power to break through
Date: 2016-03-18 08:04:58
New products from Ariel, Garnier, Nivea, Lay’s, L’Oréal, Scholl, Vanish and other selected brands are featured in Nielsen’s 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report. The market performance of 24,500 SKUs of 8,650...
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The Nébih has not yet met with extreme cases
Date: 2016-03-17 12:30:01
The seasonal food chain control series of the spring has not yet revealed extreme cases – Pleva György food and feed safety director of the National Food Chain Safety Office...
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Gardenexpo from Friday to Sunday
Date: 2016-03-17 11:47:52
Hungary's biggest outdoor living exhibition is re-opening its gates with a myriad of new solutions for your garden:garden furniture, machines and tools, outdoor cladding, shading technology, outdoor lighting, irrigation, heating...
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Whitening pork sector, struggling industry
Date: 2016-03-17 11:40:24
Éder Tamás, Societal, President of the Hungarian Meat Industry Association analyzed last year in light of the reduction of VAT on pork at the traditional Easter press conference of the...
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Another campaign will be launched to popularize Hungarian milk
Date: 2016-03-17 11:39:43
A larger than ever marketing campaign will be launched to popularize Hungarian milk – Fazekas Sándor, Minister of Agriculture announced on Thursday, at a press conference held in a store...
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Hungary is a net exporter of wine again
Date: 2016-03-17 11:25:03
Hungary has become a net exporter of wine again. The country can fufill its wine needs and is able to export. The National Wine Excellence program has important role in...
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The Verpelét-based Asiafood restarted production
Date: 2016-03-17 11:22:42
The Verpelét-based Asiafood Kft. has restarted production with an about one billion HUF EU and government support. The company's executives inaugurated the frozen pasta manufacturing plant on Thursday. At the...
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Retail sales doubled with the Baltic countries
Date: 2016-03-17 11:07:36
Compared to 2010, retail sales doubled between Hungary and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The foreign trade turnover increased by 9 percent last year – Szijjártó Péter foreign economic and foreign...
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More than 15 thousand people registered for this year's TeSzedd action within a week!
Date: 2016-03-17 11:03:34
In one week, more than 15 thousand volunteers registered for this year TeSzedd! (Pick It Up!) national garbage collection action. The TeSzedd! action will take place for the sixth time...
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The NAV recommends inculpation in fraud cases worth 6 billion HUF
Date: 2016-03-17 11:02:27
Two criminal organization dealing with the trade of chocolate and edible oil cheated almost six billion HUF Value Added Tax (VAT). The National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) recommends inculpation...
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UNESCO: Neapolitan pizza can be a World Heritage Treasure
Date: 2016-03-17 11:01:43
Italy nominated the Neapolitan pizza as a candidate for inclusion in UNESCO'S cultural heritage list for next year. It voted unanimously to protect the Neapolitan pizza as part of the...
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Neanderthal diet: 80 percent meat, 20 percent vegetables
Date: 2016-03-17 10:59:29
Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) in Tübingen have studied the Neanderthals' diet. Based on the isotope composition in the collagen from the prehistoric humans'...
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Hotel Association: the EU institutions support the strengthening of hotel ratings
Date: 2016-03-17 10:50:04
The institutions of the European Union support the further strengthening of the Hotelstars Union’s (HSU) certification system used on the European hotel industry – the Association of Hungarian Hotels and...
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We hardly use mobile payment apps
Date: 2016-03-17 10:47:20
The first mobile shopping and payment apps appeared in Hungary only a few years ago and the majority of consumers still don’t use them. Only 8 percent of online buyers...
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Google launching an online course in Hungary
Date: 2016-03-17 10:27:45
As the digital marketing landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, marketers are faced with new challenges and opportunities within this digital age. The Digital Marketing Course is an...
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Food industry’s institutional system to be restructured
Date: 2016-03-17 10:24:05
Hungary’s government has decided to examine the possibility of closing 73 state institutions for good – many of which are operating in the agricultural sector. According to news website Vs.hu,...
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Magazine: Clean homes – more simply!
Date: 2016-03-17 08:31:28
After years of stagnation the household cleaner category had commenced to grow in 2014 and this trend continued. We learned from Daniella Csefkó, retail marketing manager of Colgate–Palmolive Magyarország Kft....
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A decision was born in Brussels on the temporary reduction of EU milk production
Date: 2016-03-16 11:50:45
The European Union backed temporary cuts in milk production on Monday, in an emergency move intends to tackle excess supply. The overproduction of milk has been a problem since the...
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Hungarian walnuts are popular abroad
Date: 2016-03-16 11:32:38
The domestic production of nuts is before unlimited export opportunities – hirado.hu wrote after Magyar Idők. Ledó Ferenc, president of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation and Product Board...
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New warnings may be place on the labels of the beer and wine bottles
Date: 2016-03-16 11:30:55
The Hungarian consumer protection propose new kind of labeling on the labels of the alcoholic beverages to the European Union. They want to reach to indicate the calorie content of...
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27 INTERSPARs will stay open this Sunday
Date: 2016-03-16 11:25:08
Based on the customer habits, the SPAR Magyarország is waiting for its customers on 20 March, the Sunday before Easter in 27 INTERSPAR hypermarkets. SPAR Group is continuously analyzing customer...
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Fresh eggs, more than 90 kinds of ham, 28 sorts of cakes and millions of pieces of candies in Auchan’s Easter offer
Date: 2016-03-16 11:23:28
The egg supply of Auchan stores comes from domestic suppliers exclusively. The bulk eggs are available from even 35 HUF. 20 percent of the chain's annual ham sales is realized...
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Fornetti goes abroad
Date: 2016-03-16 11:20:47
Fornetti soon launches its first shipments to Germany, after the company received the first order from a market leader German food company. “Fornetti's first products will arrive to the German...
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