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Frozen barcodes

Barcodes and barcode-based identification, storage, transportation and logistics are all very important at Kedvenc JM Kft., a retailer and wholesaler of frozen meat and meat products. Informatics director Julianna Szauter...

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Soft drink and fruit juice consumption fell by 10 percent last year

Hungarian soft drink and fruit juice consumption decreased by 10 percent last year – the Association of Hungarian Soft Drinks, Juices and Mineral Water Manufacturers told MTI on Thursday. According...

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FruitVeB: the development of the fruit and vegetable sector can bring hundreds of thousands of new jobs

Hundreds of thousands of new jobs would be created through the development in the fruit and vegetable sector in the Hungarian agriculture Mártonffy Béla, chairman of the Hungarian Fruit and...

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Who will pay the ferryman?

The participants of the food chain put up this question literally in connection with the new toll payment system, planned from July. The broadening of the road toll system will...

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Production restarted in the meat plant in Gyula

Quality food production has a great future in Hungary, Fazekas Sándor Rural Development Minister said on Wednesday in Gyula, where he visited the meat plant with Budai Gyula, Minister of...

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Caloric values on food labels are inaccurate

Caloric values on food labels are inaccurate – state researchers, who are suggesting the revision of the currently used calorie calculation method. Previous studies have shown that the method of...

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Brandbank Hungary has been launched

The Brandbank, that was founded 14 years ago is present in several European countries has been launched in Hungary too at the end of last year. The company's main profile...

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Magazine: OK or KO: will Dairy Queen enter Hungary?

Dairy Queen didn’t give up its plan of entering Central Europe. Last October, when the company placed its partner seeking ad for the second time. The problem is that the...

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The horsemeat scandal in Britain goes on

The meat content of some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus was up to 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency has said. Findus withdrew its beef lasagne from retailers in...

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EU budget summit opens hours late

EU leaders opened tough talks over a trillion-euro budget hours late Thursday amid sharp differences over spending cuts and investment for growth and jobs. The meeting got underway almost six...

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I've heard about it, but… 8. – What is tex-mex?

“Tex-Mex” (portmanteau of Texan and Mexican) is a term describing a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced...

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Fast Food Restaurant for Kids: Chuck E. Cheese’s targets Hungary

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Wine Wandering in the Badacsony wine region

The Wine Wandering series of events of the Badacsonyi Céh Turisztikai Egyesület aims to promote Badacsony and its surroundings in order to reach that the popular summer holiday region to...

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Makó plans to build on multi-day tourism

The Hagymatikum bath complex in Makó expects more than 200 thousand guests in 2013. The complex has an annual 470 million HUF budget – Nagy Nándor the director of spa...

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Sió peach-apple

A new addition to our product range: one of the most popular flavours, peach. ‘100% fruit. Nothing else.’...

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Palette Salon Colors

When creating the 15 trend-setting colours, the Palette SALON COLORS professional colour pigment mixes were selected from numerous colour pigment combinations. Palette SALON COLORS came to life thanks to many...

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Ten billion HUF from Széchenyi Rest Card

At the moment, the Széchenyi Rest Card does not seem to be a success story. According to the datas of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) last year the revenues of...

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New type fun for our kids – Video of te day

The concept is a sit-down pizza restaurant, complemented by arcade games, amusement rides, an animatronic show, and other diversions, such as climbing equipment, tubes, and slides − all mainly directed...

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MagyarBrands, the brand value

The Superbrands Hungary Council and its heads felt the growing need for paying special attention to Hungarian products, so in 2010 they launched the MagyarBrands programme. MagyarBrands is a trade...

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Trends, whys and answers – part 8

Shopping and consumption are most useful if they help to uncover what lies behind the trends. With this knowledge more targeted market strategies can be developed. Just recently Irish firms...

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Smartphone for tracking shoppers

Fortinet and Euclid developed a new product called Euclid Zero: this system senses the MAC address of mobile phones and monitors it while the phone’s owner is in-store, collecting information...

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Half of shoppers feel they know more than shop assistants

According to a study by Motorola on the last Christmas season, because of their smartphones with internet access shoppers feel they are better informed abut products and promotions than shop...

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It doesn’t disappear, it just transforms!

A study by NRC, conducted in August 2012 with 1,000 participants from the 18-49 age group, revealed lots of interesting facts about pálinka. Only 3 percent said they consume alcoholic...

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Thailand: a smiling case study

Thailand has a population of 65 million and is called ‘the country that is smiling’. Bangkok is the capital city where we can get to anywhere by taking the Sky...

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Having fun and networking for the fifth time

On the evening of 15 November we gathered for the fifth time in the Grand Hotel on Margaret Island to meet and greet – and to do a bit of...

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Less wine sold – at higher prices

Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that the production price of raw milk in Hungary was HUF 89.47/kg in November...

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Less detergent sold in promotion

Detergent retail sales in January-October 2012 surpassed HUF 27 billion. Value sales didn’t change from the base period but volume sales fell 9 percent, according to the Nielsen Retail Index....

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Detergents, softeners: this is the age of rationalising

This year both detergent and softener volume sales plunged by 10 percent. Softeners: the number of buyers fell considerably (the category’s penetration lowered from 68 to 65 percent from one...

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Old and new tricks in washing

Anna Siba, brand manager of Henkel Hungary’s detergents and household cleaners division is of the view that some consumers still wash their clothes driven by their old habits, but at...

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Products with an added value and manufacturer brands increase their share from sales

Data from GfK Hungária’s Household Panel indicate that the expansion of the mineral water market also has to do with the advancement of manufacturer brands and products with an added...

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