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Sad onion celebration in Mako

Instead of the usual 72-hour, this year's International Onion Festival of Mako only lasts one day. There is nothing than can really be celebrated: large part of the onion crop...

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Glattfelder: Milk supply should be regulated on European level

According to Glattfelder Béla, European MP of Fidesz; the milk high-level working group's proposals do not solve the problems of the dairy farmers, and are contrary to the unified European...

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Eurozone increased in the first quarter

Eurozone’s GDP growth in first three months of 2010 is 0.2 percent quarterly and 0.6 percent in an annual level comparison, prior to the preliminary datas. According to the revised...

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Infected pigs from the Netherlands

The often illegally sold, uncontrolled imported, low priced pigs prices significantly deteriorate the situation of the domestic pig breeders. These kind of animals are easier to import from the Netherlands...

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Italian demonstrations for food security

Farmers demonstrated yesterday in northern Italy for safer food. The reason of the demonstration was the blue Mozzarella. The German imported Pseudomonas bacteria infected mozzarella cheese found by food inspectors...

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TheEuropean Union thinking about licensing camel milk imports

The milk supply may expand in the stores of the European Union Member States: the European Commission is considering the licensing of camel milk imports. "The camel milk is very...

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Focus on customer awareness

In 2009, the daily consumer goods purchased by households remained stable in nominal terms, compared to 2008, but the volume narrowed. Among the commercial channels, the supermarket channel has reached...

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The meat guild listed the industry’s difficulties in a communication

The unfavorable economic environment and the black trade hardens the situation of the meat industry the most. The sector would like to reach lower VAT, tighter market and unity. Every...

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More and more food consumed in China and Brazil

While the Americans, the British and the French are spending less on food, in China and Brazil more and more food and drinks consumed – shows a British research. According...

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After pálinka, the wine and soda and the home made beer to come

After the government announced the free fruit preparation, the wine and soda and home made beer makers feel, that they suffer unjustified discrimination. They would like to achive a reduction...

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Five percent higher-value holiday vouchers in the first half of the year

In the first half of the year, 36 billion HUF worth holiday vouchers were used, compared to the same period of last year. That is a 5 percent increase –...

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New online application is easy to calculate the ecological footprint

BASF developed an internet-based eco-efficiency barometer, which allows the user to examine the environmental impact of a particular product through combinations of several key parameters. So far, if anyone wanted...

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Russia seeks self-sufficiency in chicken breeding

A serious fall may occur in European chicken exports in a couple of years, if Russia succeeds in the development of its own chicken breeding. Consumption slightly increases in the...

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Mádi László became the President of the Hungarian Brewers Association

Mádi László former MP of Fidesz fills the presidency of the Hungarian Brewers Association – reports the association. From July 2010 Mádi László will be the president of the association,...

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Greenpeace charge against global companies

Greenpeace in its latest report condemns many global companies, because they used to buy paper products from a company, that destroys Indonesian forests. Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hewlett...

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Spring rejuvenation in ten towns and villages

The spring collection campaign of KÖSZI, a joint initiative of CBA and Procter&Gamble finished at the end of June. 10 winner towns and villages won HUF 1 million, which they...

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Borsodi is still the market leading beer in Hungary

Borsodi Brewery’s sales revenue was HUF 40.6 billion in 2006, with a pretax profit of HUF 4.3 billion – the result of cost efficiency measures after a loss-making 2008 business...

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The elements of success

We asked Ágnes Horváth, the recently appointed managing director of McDonald’s about her plans and about stages of the chain’s strategic development. – What kind of changes do you intend...

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Knorr Rafinéria product

Two new additions to the Knorr Rafinéria product range – which offers nourishing and delicious recipes....

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A guide that reads well

Balázs Pászti told our magazine that the University of Szeged and MÉTE published a book, ‘Food technology for engineers’. It is a good read that focuses on the production of...

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The tale of the long wiener

It was 60 years ago that a 3-year old little boy invented a tale about a king, who made such a long wiener that it fed the whole country. This...

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Ability Park became Tesco’s ’Supported project of 2010’

As part of the ’Supported project of 2010’ programme, Tesco will organise a road show with Ability Park from September 2010 until June 2011. Ability Park’s main goal is to...

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Gramex participated in PLMA’s World of Private Label

One of Hungary’s biggest private label soft drink manufacturer, Gramex 2000 Kft. participated in the world’s biggest private label trade fair in Amsterdam. There were several foreign companies showing interest...

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Ice cream of the year

The 14th ’Ice cream of the year’ competition took place in June. Zsolt Csuta from Csákvár won in the freestyle category with his white chocolate based composition. Györgyné Trella from...

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Knorr instant soups

Knorr instant soups welcome two new flavours....

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The recipe for success

With her mayonnaise, Anna Kovács won Trade magazin’s special award at the competition organised by MÉTE. – Anna, could you say a few words about yourself? – I am 25...

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Balaton: attack!

BALATON ATTACK – this name does not designate a summer heavy metal festival, but an in-house initiative by Borsodi Brewery: those who do office work go out and do some...

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Completa’s prize game comes to an end

Completa’s promotion campaign started on 1 March 2010. Participants had to collect 4 barcodes from products and send them to Completa before 30 April. The first 5,000 senders received Completa...

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Water polo players on a date with Theodora

From May six Olympic gold medallist water polo players and coach Dénes Kemény will appear on the bottles of Theodora mineral waters. Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt. has been sponsoring the national...

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Below par performance this time

The Hungarian team performed below expectations at the Bocuse d’Or Europe in Geneva on 7-8 June 2010. Gábor Kostyál, the head chef of Hotel Helikon in Keszthely gave a fair...

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