News and articles
More than one billion forints for winemakers’ technological development
Date: 2014-07-10 09:23:43
The Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) has earmarked more than HUF 1.32 billion for subsidising winemaking facilities’ technological modernisation, in order to preserve the competitiveness of Hungarian wines in...
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Agricultural investment speeding up
Date: 2014-07-10 09:21:43
Negyedik negyedéve folytatódott a beruházások növekedése az idei első három hónapban – állítja a KSH. Az eddigi legnagyobb, előző negyedévi 14,9 százalékos növekedés ütemét is jelentősen túllépve a beruházások volumene...
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FruitVeb: This year's fruit crop can be one million tonnes
Date: 2014-07-09 12:20:24
This year's fruit crop in Hungary can reach one million tonnes – Mártonffy Béla, president of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation (FruitVeB) told MTI on Wednesday. He added...
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We love fish but rarely buy
Date: 2014-07-09 12:12:35
Healthy, light, protein-rich – these come to mind about fish to the majority of Hungarians, 32 percent of them specially fond of fish dishes. However, the most recent survey on...
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The Ministry of Agriculture developed measures to treat the sour market surpluses
Date: 2014-07-09 12:10:22
The Ministry of Agriculture (FM) by involving the participants of the sector has developed the necessary measures to manage the sour market tensions. The Ministry of Agriculture redeployed the additional...
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Economic growth may be close to three percent in Hungary this year
Date: 2014-07-09 12:05:08
Hungary's economic growth can reach three percent this year, which will significantly above the average for the euro zone’s GDP growth of 1.1 percent. The basis of the domestic recovery,...
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FrieslandCampina’s new dessert plant was handed over in Mátészalka
Date: 2014-07-09 11:32:34
The new dessert plant of the Dutch-owned FrieslandCampina Hungária Zrt. was handed over on Wednesday, in Mátészalka Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. The investment cost 650 million HUF. At the ceremony, Zsigó Róbert,...
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NGM: the share of SMEs increased in export sales
Date: 2014-07-09 11:30:46
The share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Hungarian export sales increased by three percent over three years – turns out from the report on the situation of...
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The KSH reported 419 million euros export surplus
Date: 2014-07-09 11:20:02
The value of exports, calculated in euros increased by 2.4 percent, while the value of imports increased by 3.8 percent in May, compared with a year earlier. The export surplus...
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The market hall in Gyula has been completed
Date: 2014-07-09 11:10:05
The local government of the city of Gyula built a market hall, with the support of the farm development program. The about five hundred square meters modern facility was opened...
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Opten: a new firm deleting record in the second quarter
Date: 2014-07-09 11:02:08
In the second quarter of this year, 10,297 companies were terminated in Hungary. It is an all time negative record – the Opten company information service provider told MTI on...
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The 20 percent VAT remains in Slovakia
Date: 2014-07-09 10:55:57
The Slovak Parliament in Pozsony (Bratislava) approved the amendment the VAT law’s amendment. According to the amendment the government does not need to decrease the currnet 20 percent VAT to...
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Destination: Lyon!
Date: 2014-07-09 10:23:49
Gábor Molnár finished 9th in the European Final of chef competition Bocuse d’Or and qualified for the Lyon final of the unofficial world championship. Gábor Molnár works as junior sous...
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The triumph of promotions
Date: 2014-07-09 10:08:29
Trade magazin organised ‘The most successful promotion of the year’ competition for the sixth time in 2013. The award ceremony was held on 10 April 2014 in the Királyok Room...
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Brands treat Facebook users like schoolchildren?
Date: 2014-07-09 09:47:37
According to a study conducted by Track Maven (USA), brands treat Facebook users like they were 7-11 year old. Two thirds of their Facebook posts are written at a 5th...
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Magazine: Gourmet Club returns to KVIK
Date: 2014-07-08 12:38:54
BGF’s College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism (KVIK) organises open exams for students at the end of each ‘Special food and drink knowledge’ course. This May there were nearly 100...
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The Russian pork embargo remains: breeders have to look for new markets
Date: 2014-07-08 12:10:20
New markets will be required if the Russian pork embargo lasts longer. The action over the past few months has caused a loss of 580 million euros in exports to...
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The Szent András Brewery exploded the beer tourist season with a PAKK main prize and a Beer-GPS
Date: 2014-07-08 11:15:22
The Szent András Brewery became a Category Winner, Main Prize Winner with its new bottle designs at the Pakk Packaging Design Competition that is rewarding the country's most exciting, most...
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COOP, the oldest partner of the Hungarian dairy farmers
Date: 2014-07-08 11:14:25
It is unworthy to attack a purely Hungarian-owned store chain that is a reliable, stable partner of the Hungarian milk producers and domestic customers for decades – the COOP Gazdasági...
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South-East Asian export recovery programs to the Hungarian enterprises
Date: 2014-07-08 11:10:04
Those Hungarian companies that are operating in environmentally friendly technology industry can sign up to the export stimulus program that is helping to access the South-East Asian markets until 11...
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Dairy producers are demonstrating for more favorable market
Date: 2014-07-08 11:05:21
The dairy producers are demonstrating for more favorable market with half-track road closure in three places on Tuesday. In Budaörs Nagytarcsa and Pécs – Hegedűs Imre, head of the demonstrating...
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Anthrax has been detected in a beef in Heves county
Date: 2014-07-08 11:00:25
On Saturday, the Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) found anthrax in beef at a slaughter house in Heves county – the Nébih informed MTI...
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Grotesque humour in a restaurant ad – Video of the day
Date: 2014-07-08 10:36:32
This half-minute-long spot is perhaps one of the weirdest and most controversial Latin American commercials, created by the Jamochas restaurant in Mexico. Watch iot you are prepared to see some...
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Retail sales increased in the Czech Republic
Date: 2014-07-08 10:28:32
On an annual basis, the retail sales in the Czech Republic increased by 1.1 percent in May. In a monthly comparison, however, the decline was 1.5 percent – the Czech...
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There would not be football World Cup without the DB Schenker
Date: 2014-07-08 10:25:33
230 containers on sea, 270 tons by air: the half of the teams at the Brazilian football World Cup, have so many packages. The DB Schenker is taking care to...
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A new record in the domestic tourism
Date: 2014-07-08 10:20:15
Domestic tourism gains momentum. According to fresh datas of Szallas.hu, expansion was over 10 percent in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the same period of the last year....
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How to become a personal brand?
Date: 2014-07-08 09:56:19
Trade Marketing Club welcomed summer with a barbecue party in La Perle Noire restaurant (a place recommended by the Michelin Restaurant Guide). Zsuzsanna Hermann welcomed participants and members of the...
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Magazine: ‘Local’ is a buzzword in tourism too
Date: 2014-07-07 12:48:41
In the Hungarian restaurants there are hardly any local products which are characteristic of a given village, town or region. The same can be said about rural tourism: without having...
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