News and articles
Chinese super rice broke world record
Date: 2011-09-21 10:10:15
The Chinese hybrid rice called super rice broke its own world record with 13.9 tons per hectare yield this year. The DH2525 hybrid rice brought a record amount of 13.9...
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Belgian beer festival in the Museum of Agriculture
Date: 2011-09-21 10:04:46
The Museum of Agriculture is going to give home to a beer festival from 24th to 25th September. The Belgian beer festival is offering nearly 110 types of Belgian beers...
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NespressoBoutique
Date: 2011-09-21 00:22:38
NespressoBoutique reopened in downtown Budapest early August. More than 230 such places serve coffee lovers all over the world. Both the concept and the interior are coursebook examples of how...
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NespressoBoutique
Date: 2011-09-21 00:22:38
NespressoBoutique reopened in downtown Budapest early August. More than 230 such places serve coffee lovers all over the world. Both the concept and the interior are coursebook examples of how...
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Scala restaurant
Date: 2011-09-21 00:20:42
The best advertisement for four-star Hotel Wellamarin is the two chefs: Gábor Kostyál, the winner of Bocuse d’Or Hungary 2010 and László Szűcs aka Cheflászló, chef and famous culinary blogger....
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Scala restaurant
Date: 2011-09-21 00:20:42
The best advertisement for four-star Hotel Wellamarin is the two chefs: Gábor Kostyál, the winner of Bocuse d’Or Hungary 2010 and László Szűcs aka Cheflászló, chef and famous culinary blogger....
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Highway Diner
Date: 2011-09-21 00:15:47
Highway Diner is an American-type restaurant in Aszód. Its interior authentically recreates the style of the USA in the 1960s and 1970s. On the menu card we find hamburgers, hot...
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Highway Diner
Date: 2011-09-21 00:15:47
Highway Diner is an American-type restaurant in Aszód. Its interior authentically recreates the style of the USA in the 1960s and 1970s. On the menu card we find hamburgers, hot...
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More cereal grown on a smaller area this year
Date: 2011-09-20 13:15:24
In Hungary, 5.7 million tons of cereal was harvested in 2011, 8 percent more than in 2010, and on a 5 percent less area than last year on 1.4 million...
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The EU Food Aid Program continues
Date: 2011-09-20 13:00:28
In the scope of the EU Food Aid Program, the aid agencies that already have a signed contract wit the for Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) continue the delivery...
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ZEW index: German business sentiment deteriorated further
Date: 2011-09-20 12:55:17
In August, the German business sentiment index, decreased to -37.6 points, from the -15.1 points of July – announced the Mannheim-based European Institute for Economic Research (ZEW). Analysts forecasted a...
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Catering – the new rule is more favourable
Date: 2011-09-20 12:35:18
In the middle of this year, a new regulation concerning catering units has been reinforced. The main purpose of the new rule is to make basic things more simpler by...
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Warm food shop from the Shell-shops
Date: 2011-09-20 12:05:11
Shell strengthens its place in the competition with the renewal of its filling Station's shops. The Anglo-Dutch group's European Vice President, Kapitány István, however, is also confident that due to...
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Nearly three hundred Italian bakery products exist
Date: 2011-09-20 12:04:27
In Italy, more types of bread produced than pastas: the bakery products were counted and found that there are nearly three hundred of them. Half of the Italians consider bread...
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Russia would ban foreigners from retail trade
Date: 2011-09-20 12:00:23
The Russian government plans to ban foreign citizens from retail trade including markets, from the 1st of January 2012. According to the draft regulation; foreign cititzens are not desirable for...
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Rice dessert was a relative winner on the contracting market
Date: 2011-09-20 11:24:46
Data by GfK Hungária indicate that reduced spending by households had a negative effect on the dairy snacks market: families bought 10 percent less cooled dairy snacks in the first...
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The Ministry of Rural Development praises the hospitality decree
Date: 2011-09-20 10:54:14
This mid-year a new business-friendly, regulation came into force that also guarantees high level of food safety – said Kardeván Endre, secretary of state, responsible for agri management and food...
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Guest-friendly actions on World Tourism Day
Date: 2011-09-20 10:50:47
For the initiative of the Hungarian National Tourist Office on the 27th of September, on World Tourism Day, the sector's service providers in collaboration with the professional organizations will launch...
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Gastrofestival in Etyek
Date: 2011-09-20 09:59:40
The gastro-festival of the village of Etyek begins on 24th September 2011, and it offers a special prrogram to everyone involved in gastronomy and the horeca spehere – organizer Tamás...
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Environment -conscious World Week began
Date: 2011-09-20 09:17:50
An environment-conscious wordweek has begun on 19th September which will last until 23rd September, with more than 26 countries involved, all over the world by Hungary Green Building Council. You...
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The company responsible for the Hungarian red sludge tragedy has received a record penalty
Date: 2011-09-20 09:10:21
The Directorate of Environmental Protection and Water Management for Central Transdanubia has imposed a fine for infringement of waste management regulations of around HUF 135.14 billion (470 million euros) on...
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Croatia: no transactions in the first eight months of the year
Date: 2011-09-20 01:07:24
It is more than interesting that in Croatia there was no completed transaction in the retail sector in the first eight months of 2011. Statistics forecast a contraction, followed by...
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Romania: drastic decline, in line with consumption trends
Date: 2011-09-20 01:04:56
In Romania the number of completed transactions in the retail sector dropped from 15 to 6 in the first eight months of 2011. Consumption growth practically stopped: retail sales will...
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Slovakia: few transactions, enterprise-friendly environment
Date: 2011-09-20 01:03:42
In Slovakia the number of completed transactions in the retail sector doubled, from 1 to 2 in the first eight months of 2011. Statistical data indicate a slowing down in...
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Poland: fewer transactions but growing retail sales
Date: 2011-09-20 01:01:40
In Poland the number of completed transactions in the retail sector fell from 5 to 3 in the first eight months of 2011. Rather surprising data, considering that retail statistics...
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Latest merger trends in the retail sector in our region
Date: 2011-09-20 00:59:41
Experts at PwC Retail & Consumer (R&C) analysed the performance of countries in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of M&A transactions, plus highlighted characteristic M&A trends in the food...
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Staying in the game
Date: 2011-09-20 00:58:03
Small and medium-sized retail enterprises have to compete with many others every day, in order to keep their customers. Consequently, it is great help for them if orders can be...
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Cross of Merit
Date: 2011-09-20 00:55:37
On 20 August Eszter Vágóné Balla, together with other two colleagues from Coop was decorated with the Gold Grade of the Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. The CEO...
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Alföld Pro-Coop Zrt. strengthens its fresh product segment
Date: 2011-09-20 00:55:31
Domestic retail is stricken by economic difficulties, less money in consumers’ pockets and weakening purchasing power. Coop reacted to these trends by not surrendering: they carry on with the modernisation...
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