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Important challenges await herbalists
The safety of the food chain must be guaranteed from its roots, i.e. from plant protection, therefore the professional up-to-dateness of plant doctors and plant protection engineers is not only...
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Cucumber ketchup – Picture of the day
After the Hot Varieties series introduced in April, Heinz has announced its second big launch this year: pickle-flavored ketchup is being launched; also reacting to the American pickle craze. The...
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Making cotton candy without a machine – Video of the day
A vattacukrot úgy készítik, hogy a felhevített cukrot egy „célgépben” vékony szálakká pörgetik. Egy ügyes kínai fickó azonban megmutatja, hogyan lehet vattacukrot varázsolni úgy, hogy forró, karamellizált cukrot forgatunk nagy...
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Business Days 2023 video summary
The video summary of this year’s Business Days conference has been prepared, which anyone can view by clicking on the link below. Hunguest Hotel Pelion hosted the largest 5-day professional...
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Trade Marketing Club and POPAI joint year-end event
We invite you to an exciting meeting. The Trade Marketing Club and POPAI Hungary, as the international point-of-sale marketing association, are jointly organizing their last meeting of the year. Visitors...
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István Nagy: the food industry and trade play a national security role
In the current, challenging period, the Hungarian food and processing industry and trade have not only become a strategic sector, but also play a national security role, said Minister of...
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Food price growth slowed to 8.1 percent in the OECD
In the countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the annual growth of consumer prices slowed down to an average of 6.2 percent in September from...
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Black Friday is coming – GVH is helping Hungarian consumers again this year
The practice is becoming more and more common that customers can find Black Friday discounts and Christmas sales not only at the end of November, but throughout November. The Economic...
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They shop 20 million times a year in OMV Spar express stores
In October, it was 10 years since OMV Hungária and SPAR Hungary opened the first OMV Spar express in Budapest, at the filling station on Fehérvári út. There are currently...
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Henkel Hungary has been enriched with new CSR Hungary Awards
On the evening of the CSR Hungary Summit 2023 conference, for the 16th time now, the ceremonial award ceremony of the Hungarian Corporate Responsibility Award, the CSR Hungary Award, took...
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Retail sales in the Czech Republic also decreased in September
Retail sales in the Czech Republic decreased by 4 percent year-on-year in September, the Czech Statistical Office (CSÚ) announced on Tuesday in Prague. In August, a drop of 2.8 percent...
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A Hungarian company has developed compostable bioplastic packaging
Bioplastic packaging materials, which can be composted together with food waste, were developed by Bibo Franchise Kft., whose founder and research leader was the guest in the podcast of the...
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The negative hidden costs of food systems can reach $10 trillion
Agrifood systems generate significant benefits to society, including the food that nourishes us and jobs and livelihoods for over a billion people. However, their negative impacts due to unsustainable business-as-usual...
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Hungary’s GMO-free position must be strengthened
Hungary’s GMO-free position must be reaffirmed for the sake of food safety – urged Antal Csárdi, the deputy faction leader of the LMP, on Tuesday. At his press conference, which...
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Szabina Tomán: “If you believe in your product, you can sell everything”
Businesswoman Szabina Tomán – whose new book has just come out – was Szilvia Krizsó’s guest in the latest episode of the Future Talks podcast. This article features parts of...
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Advertisements are collected from garbage in a domestic advertising podcast
Kim Kardashian’s trash can, the Sziget commercial with Péter Janklovics, György Klapka and the gold, Kapa and Pepe, and Tibi Kasza’s car sticker are all discussed in the KreaTúra podcast....
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There are six priority sectors: vehicles, health, food, raw materials and creative industries, as well as information and communication technology
The Hungarian pharmaceutical industry represents a huge value and international competitiveness from the point of view of the country – said the Minister of Economic Development in a video message,...
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Secretary of State: a regional development fund will be created
The government is creating a regional development fund for the implementation of urban and catch-up developments, the state secretary responsible for regional development said on Tuesday in Siófok, at a...
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In an increasingly smaller area, fewer and fewer potatoes are grown
According to KSH data, the area under cultivation and the amount of potatoes produced show a decreasing trend: in 2022, 17 percent less potatoes (199.2 thousand tons) were produced than...
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Chamber of Agriculture: next year, the rules of the new KAP on crop rotation will enter into force
The preparation of next year’s sowing plans requires even more care than before, after the rules of the new Common Agricultural Policy for crop rotation and the preservation of biological...
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KPMG: Lots of coal, less natural gas, slightly more renewables in last year’s global energy mix
While it increased by roughly one percent worldwide, primary energy consumption in Europe decreased by almost four percent, according to the Statistical Review of World Energy research conducted by the...
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8 percent more sunflower seed production is expected in the EU
Oil World expects a worldwide sunflower seed harvest of 56.7 million tons (+3 percent) in 2023/2024. financial year. The global output may be 0.5 million tons below the indicated consumption of...
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Rossmann tests artificial intelligence in Germany
As of early November, Microsoft allows German companies to use the artificial intelligence assistant “Microsoft Copilot”. Rossmann is putting it to the test in everyday work. “Microsoft Copilot” is a...
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Consumers want grocers to use AI to help them save money, Dunnhumby finds
More than half of participants in the firm’s latest Consumer Trends Tracker said they share their information with grocers to redeem rewards, up 4 percentage points from earlier this year. Consumers are...
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Beetroot is becoming more and more popular among Hungarian consumers
There is a real superfood on Hungarian soil, beetroot, rich in vitamins and minerals, is being grown by farmers in an ever-increasing area, according to the joint market overview of...
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Beyond Meat conducting strategic review of its operations
Beyond Meat is conducting a strategic review of its global operations as its sales situation deteriorates. In a Nov. 2 announcement, six days before releasing its third-quarter earnings on Nov....
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An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in the Hajdú-Bihar county of Nébih
The laboratory of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) confirmed the presence of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the county of Hajdú-Bihar. The liquidation of the affected stock...
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Cool kitchen gadgets – Picture of the day
They are practical, look good and help solve real problems....
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This is how to make a trailer for a gastronomic film series – Video of the day
We are attracted to spicy food (this is what the Heat Eaters series shown on YouTube this summer is about), but that’s not why we like this movie recommendation, but...
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