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Wineries in Villány won gold medals at the world's largest international wine competition
Date: 2014-10-13 11:15:59
The Cabernet Franc MANDOLÁS Cabernet Franc wine selection of the Villány-based Vylyan Winery was selected as the best red wine at the Mundus Vini International Wine Competition. The Cabernet Franc...
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The Resideal entrusted C & W to operate four of its malls
Date: 2014-10-13 11:05:01
The Resideal entrusted the Cushman & Wakefield (C & W) commercial real estate advisory company to operate four of its malls in rural areas. The Cushman & Wakefield (C &...
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Volume sales of household chemicals and cosmetics are rising again this year
Date: 2014-10-13 10:35:57
Sales of household chemicals and cosmetics amounted to HUF 158 billion in the first six months of 2014. Value sales were 6 percent higher than a year earlier and volume...
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Moderate growth in industrial production prices
Date: 2014-10-13 09:14:50
In June 2014 domestic industrial production prices increased by 0.8 percent on average from the level of the previous month. Domestic industrial sales prices rose 0.3 percent on average –...
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Another year passed…for Trafikvilág too
Date: 2014-10-13 09:09:18
National Tobacco Shops operate in compliance with strict regulations. All in all, experience is that in addition to entrepreneurs’ skills and business strategy, the profitability of these units first and...
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For excellent Hungarian wines
Date: 2014-10-10 22:57:24
The main task of Hungary’s National Wine Excellence Programme (NBP) is to find excellent wines and use them for the benefit of the country. Dr Eliza Kiss, deputy state secretary...
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Syngenta optimistic about sweet corn yield
Date: 2014-10-10 22:37:42
According to Syngenta Kft., lots of rain in the summer and early autumn was beneficial to the development of sweet corn. Hungary is a sweet corn superpower as Europe’s biggest...
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South Békés melon plans go up in smoke
Date: 2014-10-10 22:31:33
The year was worse than expected for melon producers in South Békés: heavy rains at the end of summer ended the season earlier than usual. This year 40 tons of...
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Sour cherry growers saved
Date: 2014-10-10 22:28:06
The state decided to give non-refundable subsidy to sour cherry growers for the processing of excess sour cherry and for temporarily holding back sour cherry from the market. HUF 800...
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Preliminary evaluation of the year in agriculture
Date: 2014-10-10 22:26:24
NAK opines that the rainy summer was good for corn. The chamber called attention to the fact that sunflower is in good condition all over the country but too much...
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Already more than four thousand opinions on land sales
Date: 2014-10-10 22:24:32
As of 1 May 2014 temporarily NAK’s county presidencies are acting as land committees. Since then they gave their opinion on more than 4,000 sales contracts. In certain counties such...
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NAK supports cutting milk’s VAT
Date: 2014-10-10 22:22:19
At their last meeting NAK and the Dairy Interprofessional Organisation and Product Council proposed the reduction of VAT on milk from the present 27 percent to below 10 percent. The...
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Increasing prestige of agricultural higher education
Date: 2014-10-10 22:20:16
Balázs Győrffy, the president of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) told at a Budapest trade meeting that in the future agricultural higher education would be better adapted to the...
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AKG to restart in two years time
Date: 2014-10-10 22:18:22
Officials announced at an agricultural forum organised by the Prime Minister’s Office in Bátaszék that HUF 450 billion would be available for investments and HUF 188 billion for environmental protection...
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‘Shopping needs to be fun’
Date: 2014-10-10 22:14:55
Grocery retail in Austria is much more concentrated than in Hungary: in Hungary there are 18,700 grocery stores for 10 million people, while in Austria 5,600 stores serve 8.5 million...
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MNKH and VOSZ KMRSZ sign agreement
Date: 2014-10-10 22:12:17
The Hungarian National Trading House Zrt. (MNKH) and the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers’ (VOSZ KMRSZ) Central Hungary Section signed a cooperation agreement. Supporting Hungarian SMEs in uncovering new...
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Green light given to Hungarian meat in the New World
Date: 2014-10-10 22:10:09
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, after on-site inspections carried out by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service in Hungary, more Hungarian meat products have been given the green...
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Hungary-Macedonia business relations improve further
Date: 2014-10-10 22:07:39
On 2 September the Hungarian National Trading House Zrt. (MNKH). organised a business forum where participants had the chance to conduct negotiations with members of Macedonia’s government. Macedonia is one...
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Brazil is our main market in Latin America
Date: 2014-10-10 22:01:46
So far the Americas haven’t been important markets for Hungarian produce. About 83-84 percent of our agri-food export goes to the European Union. However, it is our basic interest to...
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FMCG commercials reached more viewers in the first six months
Date: 2014-10-10 21:47:49
According to data from Nielsen Audience Measurement Kft., in the first half of 2014 commercials for groceries, household chemicals and cosmetics had a 2 percent higher Gross Rating Point (GRP)...
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What makes a breakthrough innovation?
Date: 2014-10-10 21:45:33
Nielsen’s ‘Breakthrough Innovations’ report analysed retail sales of 61,000 SKUs of 12,000 new products launched in Europe since 2011. One of the things Nielsen’s experts found was that from two...
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Retail volume sales kept growing in July
Date: 2014-10-10 21:43:26
Retail volume sales are estimated to have increased by 2.3 percent in July 2014 in comparison with July 2013. Food and food-type retail sales were up 1.6 percent, non-food sales...
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Industrial production prices continued growing
Date: 2014-10-10 21:41:32
In July 2014 domestic industrial sales prices rose 0.2 percent on average from the previous month. Prices in the processing industries augmented by 0.7 percent. There was no change in...
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Further drop in agricultural production prices
Date: 2014-10-10 21:39:25
In July 2014 production prices reduced by 5.1 percent in agriculture if compared with July 2013. The price of vegetable products was down 8.4 percent but the price of livestock...
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Autumn arrived in tobacco retail too
Date: 2014-10-10 21:36:03
The summer months weren’t bad at all in tobacco retail if we look at value sales. Although Trafik.hu partners’ sales data suggest a 2-3 percent drop in August, HUF 45-50...
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Opinion Leaders in focus – letting average consumers go
Date: 2014-10-10 21:33:26
According to Everett Rogers, the originator of the diffusion of innovations theory, adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorised as innovators (2.5 percent), early adopters (13.5 percent),...
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Magazine: This is the fresh casual style
Date: 2014-10-10 12:09:21
Fresh casual. This is how the founders of LYFE Kitchen restaurants categorise the new places. Who are these founders? Well, they used to work in McDonald’s management and this time...
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Magyar Nemzeti Kereskedőház Zrt. enters the market of eating apples and apple concentrates
Date: 2014-10-10 11:38:10
The Magyar Nemzeti Kereskedőház Zrt. (Hungarian National Trading House)was established in 2013 with the goal to coordinate the domestic export activities – mainly in the small and medium enterprise sector,...
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Wine excellences in the Auchan
Date: 2014-10-10 11:35:43
Dr. Fazekas Sándor Minister of Agriculture opened the Auchan supermarket chain’s wine fair. The visitors of the fair can meet with the excellent domestic wines on discount prices. that can...
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The Tesco Shopping Online team offers new opportunities for job seekers
Date: 2014-10-10 11:25:44
The Tesco is expanding its The Tesco Shopping Online team. One can join to the team, started in 2013 in shopping and delivery assistant positions as well. In March 2013,...
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