News and articles
Bee Festival to debut
Date: 2012-03-14 12:10:59
The Méhecske Fesztivál (Bee Festival) will be organized for the first time this year on March 17 on Saturday, in Ukk, Veszprém county. The free all-day series of events will...
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Innovation at PayPal
Date: 2012-03-14 12:08:56
PayPal’s management has unveiled the plans for the transformation of the portal. The popular site becomes a device and platform free electronic payment site. PayPal’s management plans that the fully...
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Szenna-Pack would continue production after bankruptcy arrangement
Date: 2012-03-14 12:08:20
Szenna-Pack’s new owner, the Irish Ardagh Group is already preparing for the production and in addition to the previous 120 workers, they are calculating with the recruitment of 180 new...
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CBA opening a restaurant
Date: 2012-03-14 11:56:54
CBA is opening a self-service restaurant, cofeehouse and bakery in the Castle. “Our goal is to adapt to the new, freshly changed eating habits, and offer our customers an easy...
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Wizz Air has a new destinatin from Budapest
Date: 2012-03-14 11:52:34
Wizz Air announced it would add direct flights between Budapest and Varna (Bulgaria), Palma de Mallorca and Milan to its summer timetable. Wizz Air will fly to the destinations from...
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More than 270 thousand workers use Széchenyi Rest Cards
Date: 2012-03-14 11:46:27
According to the early March datas of the the issuing banks, more than 270 thousand workers have Széchenyi Rest Cards. The number of plastics will reach 300 thousand within a...
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KSH: Guest traffic of accommodations increased in January
Date: 2012-03-14 11:10:04
Guest traffic of commercial accommodations grew dynamically in January. Foreign guests spent 502 thousand nights at the commercial accommodations, their number increased by 18, the number of their guest night...
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Magnum, from sustainable source only
Date: 2012-03-14 09:07:05
Magnum, one of the world’s most popular ice-cream brands, has launched two new chocolate ice-creams made with cocoa from Rainforest Alliance certified™ farms in Ecuador and Ghana. Called Magnum Ecuador...
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Fresh and easy to work with – the advantages of vegetable boxes
Date: 2012-03-14 09:00:07
The vegetables are seriously checked at all stages of the production process. Between harvesting and processing only a few hours tahe place, so the finished product retains the flavor and...
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GfK: Costumers spend the most on food in hyper-and supermarkets
Date: 2012-03-13 13:50:28
The GfK Market Research Institute conducted its GfK Shopping Monitor Research 2011-2012 in December 2011. The goal of the annually prepared study is the mapping of the motivations and purchasing...
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KSH: mainly energy and food prices moved inflation in February
Date: 2012-03-13 13:30:43
Consumer prices in February were 5.9 percent higher than a year earlier. In a month, prices rose by 0.8 percent, due to the significant jump of household energy and food...
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Online purchase on the podium of online activities
Date: 2012-03-13 13:10:25
MasterCard's latest research shows that online shopping and the associated browsing are the third most popular online activity in Hungary, only preceded by reading news and e-mailing. 38 percent of...
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The price of eggs increasing dynamically
Date: 2012-03-13 13:05:18
In January, the increase of agricultural producer prices has stopped, the producer price level of agricultural products was only 0.3 percent hiigher, compared to the previous year's level – the...
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Manpower: fewer employers planning redundancies
Date: 2012-03-13 13:00:37
According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, 17 percent of Hungarian employers intend to reduce their workforces during the second quarter of 2012 while only 14 percent of employers plan...
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Magazine: Recession? What recession?
Date: 2012-03-13 12:55:49
French company En-K de Caviar offers ‘A little luxury for every moment’. They sell a slick, original tin containing 15 grams of sturgeon caviar. It comes with a special caviar...
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U.S. retail sales increased
Date: 2012-03-13 12:40:08
U.S. retail sales increased the fastest extent in February in the last five months; a 1.1 percent increase occurred, compared to January. As analysts expected U.S. retail sales increased seasonally...
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Chips are not responsible for the salt intake
Date: 2012-03-13 12:20:30
How is it possible that in Hungary, salt intake is twice twice as much per capita than in the U.S., despite Americans consume 23 times more chips than the Hungarians?...
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Frost damage is around twenty percent in the Tokaj Wine Region
Date: 2012-03-13 12:15:52
On average, 20 percent of buds has damaged, due to this year’s hard frost in the Tokaj Wine Region – states the researchers of the Vine and Wine Research Institute...
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Germans eat forty kilograms of pork annually
Date: 2012-03-13 12:08:09
Last year, the revenues of the German meat distribution and event services increased by 3.2 percent. According to the Tuesday published datas of the German Meat Processors Association, consumption of...
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We finally work with seafishes again – part 2
Date: 2012-03-13 11:45:19
Péter Palotás is the owner of PLP Seafood Ltd which is specialized in the most sophisticated form of fine dining, with high quality sea-products, in irder to serve the taste...
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Who will be the beersommelier? – Video of the day
Date: 2012-03-13 11:26:10
Birnbaum and Zablocki decided back in 2002 to combine their respective backgrounds in business and the culinary arts. Initially, they thought of opening a wine bar in Williamsburg. But when...
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The Hungarian National Tourist Office launches a movement to promote tourism among the Hungarians living in Austria
Date: 2012-03-13 11:10:13
The Hungarian National Tourist Office launches a diaspora program among Hungarians living in Austria to help increasing the number of guest nights spent by Austrians in Hungary. The program is...
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Agárdi Pálinkafőzde's number one expert receives state award
Date: 2012-03-13 10:43:28
Tibor Véres from Agárdi Pélinkahouse has received a special state award (the Silver Cross) from Sr. Sándor Fazekas, minister of rural development. The expert was also the brewer of the...
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NIVEA Tour is about to start!
Date: 2012-03-13 09:34:41
NIVEA Tour is about to open its gates for the sixth time, and will go on for more than a month with a serious of various sport-events for free in...
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Weak domestic consumption continues to hold back imports
Date: 2012-03-12 14:00:59
According to the preliminary datas, the foreign trade value, calculated in euros, slightly increased by 2 percent in January, compared to the previous year's high levels – the Central Statistical...
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Increasing risk of bankruptcy
Date: 2012-03-12 13:45:50
According to Hungarian companies, the number of bankrupt businesses will slightly rise this year as well, following an all-time high of last year. They expect a particularly strong wave of...
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Costumers travel for special flavor vegetables and fruits
Date: 2012-03-12 13:28:48
The old Hungarian fruit and vegetable varieties will reappear probably on the local and regional markets, which establish the reputation of the Hungarian horticulture. In recent decades, the old, local,...
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We finally work with seafishes again – part 1
Date: 2012-03-12 12:55:28
Péter Palotás is the owner of PLP Seafood Ltd which is specialized in the most sophisticated form of fine dining, with high quality sea-products, in irder to serve the taste...
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Magazine: Vinegar cocktails
Date: 2012-03-12 12:50:29
Shrub is back: having disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century, it now seems to make a triumphant return to American bars. Shrub is an alcoholic beverage, usually made...
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Hungarian distilleries are preparing the apricot pálinka of the year together
Date: 2012-03-12 12:50:15
After last year's joint success Hungarian distilleries will prepare the pálinka of the year jointly again, this time from apricot. The special brew will debut in the spring, at the...
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