News and articles
Steps proposed to help small-scale producers
Date: 2015-02-24 08:55:53
According to the Small-scale Producers Interest Group (KTÉ), the selling opportunities of small farmers have to be expanded, and for this several rules need to be changed. For instance KTÉ...
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GKI-Erste prosperity index: improved consumer confidence
Date: 2015-02-23 11:54:07
The seasonally adjusted value of the GKI Erste prosperity index has remained unchanged in February. Its level is still representing a relatively optimistic mood. According to the survey by GKI...
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More and more people choose eco-friendly packaging products
Date: 2015-02-23 11:40:31
Seventy-one percent of the Hungarian population prefer products that are environmentally friendly during purchasing and has the same price as the other less environmentally friendly product – accor5ding to the...
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MasterCard: a significant increase in the use of one-touch credit cards in Europe
Date: 2015-02-23 11:21:09
Europeans like to pay with one-touch cards virtually in any location. According to MasterCard Europe’s compilation, sent to MTI on Monday, in the last quarter of 2014, the number of...
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Czibere: The government is ally for companies employing people with changed working abilities
Date: 2015-02-23 11:20:00
The government is the strategic ally and partner of companies employing people with changed working abilities, because they give chance for people to avoid social subsidies, to be able to...
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Changes were made to the proper diet guidelines of children's nutrition in the U.S.
Date: 2015-02-23 11:19:34
New guidelines released today by a leading U.S. pediatricians group urge a more practical, commonsense approach toward nutrition to help improve children's diets and health, both in school and at...
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Slovakia has branded the Chimney cake long ago
Date: 2015-02-23 11:18:34
The initiative to declare the Chimney cake as a European traditional specialty product will be tough in Austria – mno.hu wrote. The International Chimney Cake Professional Boards has taken steps...
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Ice-cream exhibition and festival will be held for the first time in Budapest
Date: 2015-02-23 11:15:34
The first Ice-cream Exhibition and F awaits the lovers of ice-cream, gourmets and professionals as well, between 6 and 8 March in Budapest. Professional presentations, lectures will enrich the program....
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Proceedings started against illegal perfume wholesaler criminal organization in Kecskemét
Date: 2015-02-23 11:10:50
More than two and a half billion Huf tax was concealed by a perfume wholesaler illegal criminal organization, which has been terminated by the financial investigators of the National Tax...
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The Lego in Nyíregyháza held further trainings for nearly three hundred of its employees
Date: 2015-02-23 11:05:13
Within an EU program, the Nyíregyháza-based Lego Manufacturing Kft. held further trainings for nearly three hundred of its employees – the Danish giant told MTI. According to the information, within...
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The Apple is building two data centers in Europe
Date: 2015-02-23 11:00:18
The Apple Inc. plans to spend 1.7 billion euros on building data centers in Ireland and Denmark in its biggest European investment, with the facilities set to run services such...
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A man possessed untaxed tobacco products
Date: 2015-02-23 11:00:13
A man in Cegléd bought tobacco on the market, than he processed it athome, finally he packed it in original cigarette bags, with a tax vignette. The finance guards filed...
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Drops of health – Being overweight
Date: 2015-02-23 10:39:17
All tea comes from one plant Camellia Sinensis if it doesn't come from that plant it is not tea (herbs come from a variety of plants). Over time, the plant...
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An ultra-orthodox pub was opened in Jerusalem
Date: 2015-02-23 10:30:40
Jerusalem's nightlife is spreading to the ultra-Orthodox sector: A new bar called “Kretshme” (a public house in Yiddish), located within the allies of the haredi Geula neighborhood, offers visitors meat...
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What do you sell with 100 maids – Video of the day
Date: 2015-02-23 09:42:39
100 Japanese maids challenge a frying pan relay to deliver a fresh and hot breakfast to their master!! The frying pans they use are called“FlavorStone”, which is known for the...
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Family farms to be strengthened
Date: 2015-02-23 08:49:11
A four-party declaration of intent was signed in Veszprém, by Pannon University, the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), the Municipality of Nemesvámos and the For the Prosperity of the Balatonfelvidék...
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European Union member states can decide on growing GMO crops themselves
Date: 2015-02-23 07:53:39
New EU legislation enters into force in spring: it makes possible for all EU member states to decide whether to ban the growing of GMO crops or not. The new...
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Local producers get support in the Pécs region
Date: 2015-02-23 07:51:20
NAK signed a strategic agreement with the municipality of Pécs and Pécs Holding Zrt., in order to assist local producers in accessing the market. The city of Pécs will designate...
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Nearly 500 participants at NAK’s farmer forum in Pápa
Date: 2015-02-23 07:46:54
At the January event of NAK’s forum series more than 500 farmers turned up. NAK president Balázs Győrffy spoke about the changes in the subsidy system from this year and...
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Magazine: Eco- and housewife-friendly washing
Date: 2015-02-20 12:31:24
Laundry detergents form the biggest subcategory in the washing category, where consumers can choose from powder, gel and capsule formats and many scents. Nóra Kisfürjesi, Henkel’s Biopon brand manager told...
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Nielsen: domestic retail sales grew faster than the European average
Date: 2015-02-20 11:58:06
Domestic retail sales grew at a higher rate than the European average during the fourth quarter. In terms of quantity of 3.2 percent more food, household chemical goods and cosmetics...
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Analysts: the rise in real wages will continue this year
Date: 2015-02-20 11:52:49
Even without the one-time effects the rise in real wages may continue this year according to analysts interviewed by MTI on Friday, According to data of the Central Statistical Office...
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The Spar does not plan to withdraw from Hungary
Date: 2015-02-20 11:50:41
The Spar does not plan to leave the Hungarian market, despite the fact that the company objects some Hungarian legislations – Gerhard Drexel, CEO of Spar Austria confirmed in an...
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The applications of communities are expected to the Food Avalanche Programme
Date: 2015-02-20 11:20:08
The Food Avalanche Programme of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta was launched for the sixth time. Local governments and non-governmental organizations can apply for vegetable seeds worth several...
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Stars are also promoting to have a breakfast
Date: 2015-02-20 11:15:13
According to the Actimel Breakfast Routine Survey, carried out in January 2015, 33 percent of the surveyed 600 adults between the ages of 25 and 60 do not eat breakfast...
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The Cellum has developed applications supporting mobile payment
Date: 2015-02-20 11:12:27
The Cellum Innovációs és Szolgáltató Zrt. (Cellum Innovation and Service Co.), Cellum has developed applications supporting the mobile payment system. The 174.45 million HUF project was carried out with the...
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The Jófogás is going to take over the users of OLX within a few months
Date: 2015-02-20 11:10:53
The users of the OLX advertising site will be taken over by Jófogás within three or four months, because OLX terminates its activities in Hungary – the owner of Jófogás...
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The Romanian consumer protection objected the “Székely Flavors' product labels
Date: 2015-02-20 11:06:43
The Romanian consumer protection authority obligated a meat company to replace its “Székely flavors” labels – the Krónika Transylvanian Hungarian newspaper published on Friday. The article quoted the communication of...
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The finance guards found unmarked mandarin at the Budapest Wholesale Market
Date: 2015-02-20 11:04:20
Twelve tons of unknown origin unmarked mandarin was found by the finance guards in a truck that does not have an ekáer number at the Budapest Wholesale Market – the...
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Melons were grown in Europe for the first time in Sardinia
Date: 2015-02-20 11:02:46
The oldest melon seeds of the Mediterranean basin were found on the island of Sardinia. The forty-seven melon seeds are from 2000 BC. On the basis of the previous findings,...
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