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The annual market is worth about eleven billion forints
Date: 2014-03-04 10:16:53
General cleaners were sold in the value of HUF 10 billion last year, making the category the tenth biggest from the 70 household chemicals and cosmetics audited by Nielsen. In...
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Nielsen’s consumer confidence index on three-year high
Date: 2014-03-04 00:29:33
Nielsen’s consumer confidence index in Hungary reached the highest position of the last three years. In Q4 2013 the index grew another six points from Q3 and was at 51...
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Those living in the country are far less satisfied with tobacco shops
Date: 2014-03-04 00:16:04
According to a telephone survey conducted by Budapest Business School, 60 percent of Budapest smokers are satisfied with the number and location of tobacco stores, but 55 percent of those...
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Slightly higher industrial production prices at the end of 2013
Date: 2014-03-04 00:09:57
In December 2013 domestic industrial production prices rose by 0.5 percent from the level of the previous month. Prices in 2013 were 0.7 percent higher than in 2012. In December...
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Tobacco industry retail: the plan went up in smoke?
Date: 2014-03-04 00:05:32
The tobacco product market is shrinking at shocking speed, the black marekt is expanding and state revenue from excise duty and VAT was 10 percent below the 2012 level....
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Retail confidence index reaches record height
Date: 2014-03-04 00:02:26
The GKI-Erste economic sentiment index kept growing dynamically in January, continuing the more than one year old trend. Consumer expectations kept elevating and reached the highest level of the last...
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NFÜ’s closing down is expected to result in faster work
Date: 2014-03-03 23:44:31
Last August the Prime Minister’s Office took over the work of the National Development Agency (NFÜ) and the latter was dissolved as of 1 January 2014. European Union development programmes...
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The Facebook Community of the Online Cash Register Bounded requested to extend the deadline to everyone
Date: 2014-03-03 12:40:33
The Facebook Community of the Online Cash Register Bounded requested to extend the deadline to every entrepreneurs who ordered the cash registers in time. The community wrote an open letter...
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Pálinka consumption is safe: only a few irregularities
Date: 2014-03-03 12:25:49
Objections incurred in connection with the pálinkas in only 7 percent of the products at the laboratory of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH). Therefore this hungaricum is safe...
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The manufacturers have paid more than 44 billion HUF of Neta until now
Date: 2014-03-03 12:10:58
The manufacturers have paid more than 44 billion HUF of public health product tax (Neta) since its introduction – Világgazdaság Online wrote. According to the datas of the Customs and...
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HITA: 16 Hungarian companies represented themselves at the food industry exhibition in Dubai
Date: 2014-03-03 12:00:39
Hungarian companies represented themselves at the Gulfood in Dubai for the third time. The Hungarian presence was organized by the National Foreign Trade Agency (HITA). At the 85-square-meter Hungarian stand,...
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MLBKT: BMI is over a three year average
Date: 2014-03-03 11:58:58
In February, the seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index was 54.3 points, higher than the February 53.4 points average of the past three years, but 3.5 percentage points lower than exceptionally...
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The P&G supported the sporting opportunities of young people with 10 million USD
Date: 2014-03-03 11:58:53
After the ending of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the P&G pays tribute to the high-performance of the sports ambassadors and do not forget about the mothers who...
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Fried crocodile and kangaroo stew at the picnic near the Danube
Date: 2014-03-03 11:00:43
Cooking Competition, the tasting of exotic and traditional Hungarian foods, theater performances, pop concerts and a street party welcomes visitors from Thursday to Sunday at the 1st Budapesti Duna Parti...
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Magazine: Mec3 Hungaria Kft.' presence at the SIRHA tradeshow
Date: 2014-03-03 11:00:03
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What are transfats, and what catering should do with them, part 2?
Date: 2014-03-03 10:52:22
The ban applies to all restaurants, room service, banquet functions and even snack foods in guest room mini bars. The move comes on the heels of a vote last week...
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Invitatation for the SIRHA Budapest tradeshow
Date: 2014-03-03 10:40:38
The SIRHA Budapest tradeshow is about food and beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, bakery and confectionery, cheese and dairy, frozen food, general provisions, organic and fresh produce, seafood, specialty food,...
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Legal proceedings started in the Czech methyl alcohol poisoning case
Date: 2014-03-03 10:35:14
The accusees of the Czech methyl alcohol poisoning case, can expect even a life-long imprisonment. The lawsuits began on Monday in Zlín, Moravia. In the much anticipated lawsuit, a total...
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Utazás 2014: forty thousand visitors at the country's largest tourism trade fair
Date: 2014-03-03 10:31:37
According to preliminary datas, 40 thousand people visited the Utazás 2014 (Traveling 2014) international tourism trade fair in the Budapest Fair Centre from Thursday to Sunday – the organizers told...
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More than 100 000 K&H Széchenyi Rest Card owners
Date: 2014-03-03 10:22:00
“In one year, the number of the K&H Széchenyi Rest Card users increased by 20 percent, while the most popular sub account remains the hospitality sub account. Card Usage is...
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GKI: Appearance and reality
Date: 2014-03-03 09:11:06
In spite of the optimism prevalent among Hungarian economic actors not seen for a decade, the improvement in the economy is only temporary. Although economic policy influenced by the elections...
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Agricultural production prices dropped 13.2 percent in December
Date: 2014-03-03 00:26:28
In December 2013 agricultural production prices dropped 13.2 percent from the level of December 2012. The price of vegetable products became 20.1 percent lower, but the price of livestock/products of...
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December’s retail volume sales were up 1.8 percent
Date: 2014-03-03 00:12:57
In December 2013 retail volume sales are estimated to have expanded by 1.8 percent from the level of December 2012. In grocery and grocery-type retail volume sales were up 0.4...
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Hungarian yoghurt loses market
Date: 2014-03-02 23:58:51
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that last year the average live weight production price of broiler chicken was HUF...
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More money for economic development
Date: 2014-03-01 23:47:00
In the development period that started in 2007 24 percent of the budget was used for the economic sector and job creation and from 76 percent public purpose investments were...
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Newspaper vendors lost one third of their revenues, due to the system of tobacco stores
Date: 2014-02-28 12:40:42
According to the datas of the Central Statistical Office (KSH), retail spendings have increased, but recovery still cannot be felt. Newspaper vendors lost one third of their revenues, due to...
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Grace period for those who are using billing programs
Date: 2014-02-28 12:04:31
Those entrepreneurs who opted to use billing programs and acted pursuant to their billing obligations, will be given a grace period – Pankucsi Zoltán, Deputy Minister of State of the...
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VM: more than half a million children can regularly eat fruit in schools
Date: 2014-02-28 12:00:45
In the scope of the School Fruit Scheme, 538 thousand children receive at least two kinds of fruits at least two times a week – the Ministry of Rural Development...
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Slovaks purchase more in Hungary, due to the weak forint
Date: 2014-02-28 12:00:31
Shopping tourism is booming again in the settlements near the Slovakian border. Experience has shown that Slovaks are purchasing even the most basic food products in Győr and in Komárom....
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The European Court of Justice will decide soon about free pálinka distilling
Date: 2014-02-28 11:59:25
The European Court of Justice may decide even in March or April about free pálinka distilling. While the European Court of Justice examines the domestic regulations, the finance officers are...
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