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Fast food restaurants prefer chicken meat
Date: 2012-07-09 08:55:38
Dan Thompson, CEO of McDonald's would intoduce more and more products made of chicken, to the menu of the fast food chain. With the change, the company would target the...
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Nielsen: the amount that Hungarians spend on home maintenance is an European record
Date: 2012-07-06 12:48:02
The Hungarians spend the most part of their monthly budgets on housing-related services among the residents of twenty-eight European countries. While in Hungary, 36 percent of the average costs usually...
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Melon market participants consult in the ministry
Date: 2012-07-06 12:40:22
Local watermelon producers and multinational chain of stores are consulting in the Rural Development Ministry (VM) on Friday, on creating balanced melon market conditions – informs Simonka György, President of...
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Kalocsai paprika powder under EU protection
Date: 2012-07-06 12:30:49
The European Commission registered the “Kalocsai paprika powder” into the register of protected designations and protected geographical indications on July 3 – the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) told MTI...
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Hipercom: The best basket choice of June
Date: 2012-07-06 12:22:49
Hipercom Hungária Ltd. has listed the best basket choices of the month for June, too, based on various channels. The data of the research are taken from Hipercom Monitoring database,...
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Magazine: Outdoor furniture trends
Date: 2012-07-06 12:18:47
METRO is the country’s biggest distributor of outdoor furniture used by bars and restaurants. According to communications manager Yvette Krubl, demand for exclusive furniture has increased, but at the same...
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Low-quality food distributors may be sentenced to several years in prison
Date: 2012-07-06 11:55:15
Those who will distribute low-quality, unhealthy or false food will risk even several years of sentence from January 1 next year – when the new Criminal Code will enter into...
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The Hungarian Prison Service joins to the “Start” work model program
Date: 2012-07-06 10:58:26
The Annamajori Kft., the Baracska-based farm of the Hungarian Prison Service delivers about 22 thousand chickens to forty municipalities nationwide from Friday. The Annamajori Kft., has joined to the “Start”...
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Coca-Cola slashes water footprint
Date: 2012-07-06 10:37:21
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report (CRS) highlights how CCE is delivering against its 2007 sustainability targets. This follows on from its 'Reasons to Believe' sustainability report released at the start...
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The most ice cream in Italy is consumed in Rome
Date: 2012-07-06 10:28:07
Rome leads the list of Italian cities of artisan ice cream consumption with an annual 19 kilograms per person. In Rome an annual six or seven kilograms ice cream is...
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The genome of melon was decoded by Spaniards
Date: 2012-07-06 10:27:21
In the scope of the cooperation of nine Spanish research centers the complete description of melon’s genome is ready. Seven melon versions were introduced to the genetic analysis, the researchers...
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Pancakes will be fried in Derekegyház for one hundred and seventy hours
Date: 2012-07-06 10:21:33
At the sixth Pancake Festival in Derekegyháza pancakes will be fried for one hundred and seventy hours in the scope of a record attempt. So far, Hungarian records were born...
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Fingerprint-based payment at a Spanish hotel
Date: 2012-07-06 10:15:09
We can forget our credit card and cash, if we are planning our holiday to the Spanish Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel. The guests only have to touch their fingers to...
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Bike mall to be built in Csepel
Date: 2012-07-06 08:55:22
Indotek Group will start the construction of the on ten thousand square meters Pedál Market for byciclists in the beginning of 2013 on the area of the former Csepel Metal...
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Workplace Protecting Plan – positive impact is expected in trade
Date: 2012-07-05 12:59:09
According to experts, the costs of wages are the biggest in trade, so the Prime Minister's package of measures announced on Monday can be beneficial. Prime Minister Orbán Viktor announced...
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OTP launches a one hundred billion HUF investment loan program
Date: 2012-07-05 12:57:30
OTP Bank launches a one hundred billion HUF investment loan application its corporate clients. One priority of the program is to finance manufacturing, agricultural and food investments, that are planned...
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Policy Agenda: improving SME sector expectations
Date: 2012-07-05 12:50:15
The expectations of the Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprise sector continued to improve in the second quarter, however the leaders of the companies still not expect a significant change in...
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Ten percent of the wheat was already harvested in Vas county
Date: 2012-07-05 12:15:39
On the 40 thousand hectare wheat field, 10 percent of the crop was already harvested in Vas county. Experience has shown that there will be no problems with the amount...
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Magazine: Alcohol brands ranked
Date: 2012-07-05 11:51:34
British trade magazine Drinks International ranks the world’s biggest alcohol brands every year, based on sales data. This year is the first when the ranking is made according to the...
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VinAgora: record number of entries
Date: 2012-07-05 10:51:57
A record number of 630 entries from twenty countries arrived to one of Hungary's most prestigious and only accredited international wine competition the VinAgora International Wine Competition, held for the...
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Bull's Blood celebration in Eger
Date: 2012-07-05 10:50:35
The Mountain Village of Eger organizes the Bull's Blood celebration in Eger for the 16th time this year. The festival lasts from th 5th to the 8th of July, on...
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Praktiker to be re-organized
Date: 2012-07-05 10:50:19
The Germany-based Praktiker DIY chain will be re-organized. According to the decision approved at the general meeting of the company that concept will be implemented, which envisages store closures. Under...
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Annually 200 million Chinese get sick from contaminated food
Date: 2012-07-05 10:49:26
The Chinese leadership promises to improve food security –the Renmin Ribao central party newspaper wrote on Wednesday. The government has promised the introduction of a more effective regulatory system and...
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Est Media would sell a part of Sziget Kft.
Date: 2012-07-05 10:38:47
According to the communication of Est Media published on the site of BÉT, the Est Media would sell the EMG Médiacsoport Kft. owned portion of the Sziget Kft. for 2...
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Everything you wanted to know about fishes
Date: 2012-07-05 10:36:11
Chefs, gourmets and of course fishers will definitely like the new service of horgasz.hu where nearly 600 types of fishes are described with Hungarian, English and Latin names. Clich here....
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Wine Dinner – A new culinary TV show presents Hungary's wine regions
Date: 2012-07-05 10:35:14
“Wine Dinner – landscapes, flavors, stories” (“Borvacsora – tájak, ízek, történetek”) – a new culinary program starts on Friday on the m1 TV channel: the program will present the typical...
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To cut or not to cut – Video of the day
Date: 2012-07-05 09:29:50
In the esteemed opinion of the Film Lions jury and the Film Craft Lions jury at Cannes, these are the best commercials of the past year—15 individual spots, along with...
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Unilever and sustainability
Date: 2012-07-05 09:16:08
In 2011, 87 companies responded to the FFD’s annual Disclosure Request, up from 35 in 2010. FFD named Unilever, along with Nestlé, joint leader of the Food Products and Soft...
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Tokaji wineries were debuted in Russia
Date: 2012-07-05 09:00:22
Eight Tokaji wineries were presented themselves in Moscow on Thursday. The audience of the event was mainly consisted of Moscow-based Russian wholesale chains, and the largest buyers, but many representatives...
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Retail sales of the EU and the euro area increased in May
Date: 2012-07-04 12:52:32
In May, retail sales increased in both in the 17-member euro zone and in the 27-member EU – the European Union's statistical office the Eurostat announced on Wednesday. In May,...
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