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Cake of Hungary – Competition Announcement 2020.
The Hungarian Confectionery Industry Association will announce the “Hungarian Cake” competition for the year 2020. The application is still open and confectioneries can be nominated outside the regular members of...
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Spar Gran Canaria Invests €5.5m In Warehouse For Fresh Produce
Spar has announced that it has invested €5.5 million in a new fruit and vegetables distribution centre in the Canary Islands. The distribution centre, located in Mercalaspalmas, will boost Spar Gran Canaria’s...
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Carrefour opens first fully automated store
In collaboration with tech start-up AiFi, Carrefour has opened its first automated store in its headquarters in Massy. Separately, the retailer has said it has extended the use of blockchain...
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Alibaba To Stop Sales Of E-Cigarette Components In The US
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said on Wednesday it will stop selling e-cigarette components in the United States, amid growing regulatory scrutiny and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked...
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Magazine: What I don’t have, you bring to the table
On 5 September the members of Trade Marketing Club and POPAI Hungary Association gathered in the BKIK building. The event’s title was ‘X, Y, Z in a different way: How can...
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15 years together! – A huge, unique birthday campaign from Lidl
Lidl Magyarország is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year and is launching a large-scale birthday campaign from 3 October to 30 October with a grand prize of 15 years worth...
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The best recipe is worth one million: Soproni is once again announcing a competition for domestic brewers
The 2nd Sopron Beer Competition, this year with a special beer type, hop lager, the best home brewer can win. The winner of the competition will be one million forints...
Read moreJohn Kingman takes over Tesco Bank
The UK retail chain appoints John Kingman at the head of the company’s financial sector, who will thus become non-executive director of Tesco Bank’s board of directors – origo wrote...
Read moreRethinking plastic packaging – towards a circular economy
We want to help build a circular economy in which we not only use less plastic, but also ensure the plastic we do use can be reused, recycled or composted....
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When will you reach the peak with the help of your dietary supplement?
There are more than 10,000 dietary supplements available in the Hungarian market. How can a product stand out from the crowd? It can be a great advantage if clinical studies...
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New CFO at McDonald’s
Since autumn 2019, Glattfelder Tamás is the new Chief Financial Officer of the Progress Étteremhálózat Kft. (Progress Restaurant Network Ltd.), McDonald’s Hungarian Developmental Licensee Partner. With nearly 20 years of...
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Students name EY world’s #1 most attractive professional services employer
EY has been named the #1 professional services employer for the fourth consecutive year in Universum’s 2019 “World’s Most Attractive Employers” annual ranking – moving up one place on 2018...
Read moreLidl to open 10 new stores in Greater Manchester
Lidl has announced plans to open 10 new stores across Greater Manchester over the next three years as the discount grocer ramps up its ambitious expansion plans in the region....
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Schwarz Group buys recycling specialist
Germany’s Schwarz Group takes over the Austrian Sky Plastic Group through its subsidiary Greencycle. The company is established in plastics recycling and is intended to provide the parent company of...
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Fighting waste
German hypermarket chain Kaufland and the food saver app “Too Good To Go” are joining forces. The app specialises in offering food online at a reduced price shortly before store...
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Less plastic at SPAR
The retail chain has reduced the weight of bottles of some of its own branded mineral waters and packed more fruits in smaller weighted nylon pouches or paked with degradable...
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Coca-Cola, Invitech, E.ON, and Tesco wins Effekt 2030
The EffeKteam recognized the companies’ effective environmental and social investment programs in the Chance Creating Business, Future Economy, Green Balance and Society of All categories. The Effekt 2030 Award will...
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Gluten-free and vegan products are added to OMV VIVA
Following the launch of our own branded iced coffee in April, seven new snack products have been added to the OMV VIVA filling station range from October, bringing an even...
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GreenGo has been ranked among the world’s best
GreenGo received an Excellence Award at the Oracle OpenWorld 2019 Conference in the Sustainability Innovation category. At the world’s largest business and technology event, at Oracle’s OpenWorld 2019 conference, Michaletzky...
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Cheetos Mix-Ups Flavors for family snacks
The Mega Fun and Streed Food snacks of the Cheetos Mix-Up product line are on the shelves this year. Mix-Ups is the brand’s first extruded snack product, where there is...
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Eccomerce meetup on mobile applications
Nowadays, a retailer, and in many cases a brand, need inevitable digital presence in order to effectively reach their customers, to communicate with them, and provide the opportunity to place...
Read moreThere will be a Sausage Festival in the Railway History Park
Home-made sausages, hams, cheeses, traditional pig carving shows, concerts, folklore shows, veteran car exhibitions and family programs await the visitors at the 6th Pig Sausage Festival on October 11-13 to...
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Rakuten Viber and Mastercard have launched an instant money transfer service
Viber users will be able to easily and safely send each other a small or larger amount of money a 125,000 HUF a month and a maximum of 780,000 HUF...
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Gourmets, head to McDonald’s!
Goose liver burger has returned to the domestic McDonald’s restaurants: The Goosey Gustav limited-edition specialty comes with two slices of 100 percent domestic goose liver. Goose liver is a real...
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Spar Netherlands Opens 150th Express Store In Utrecht
Spar Netherlands has announced that it has opened its 150th Express store in Eemnes in the province of Utrecht. The forecourt outlet caters to the immediate or daily shopping needs...
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Coop Italia Reviews Market Strategy As Consumption Declines
Coop Italia has reviewed its market strategy as food consumption declined in 2019 after three years of growth, according to reports. The cooperative has increased its focus on environmentally friendly...
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Tesco Poland extends restructure plans and exits large hypermarkets
At its H1 results presentation, Tesco has shared new detail about the restructure of its Polish operations, its largest business in central Europe. Tesco closed 62 unprofitable stores in Poland...
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The Auchan Traditional Autumn Wine Fair has begun
A special wine catalog awaits those again this autumn at Auchan who want to prepare for the festive season with the best, recognized Hungarian wines. The traditional wine fair of...
Read moreAM: The agricultural ministers of the Visegrád countries met in Prague
The shaping the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and forestry issues were the main topics of the meeting of the agricultural ministers of the Visegrád Cooperation in Prague, which...
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Volunteers collected nearly 2 tons of waste from the Lake Tisza
Shoes, flasks, PET bottles and many other rubbish contaminates the Tisza, its floodplains and reed beds. Last Friday, more than 1.8 tons of waste were collected by Coca-Cola Magyarország and...
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