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K&H Sustainability Index: the intention is there
K&H first published its sustainability index in the first half of 2022. The results of a second survey, which was done half a year later, reveal that sustainability is a...
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Deliveroo breaks even
With a strong second half of 2022, British delivery service Deliveroo reached break-even in all regions. Last year the delivery service saw transaction volume increase by 7 %, while its market...
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Mastercard says shoppers buy less but shop more often
According to a forecast for 2023 by the Mastercard Economics Institute, shoppers will have to change the contents of their shopping baskets if they wish to keep up with the...
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KSH: The turnover of retail stores decreased by 4.5 percent
In January 2023, according to the raw data, the turnover volume of retail trade decreased by 3.9 percent, adjusted for the calendar effect, by 4.5 percent compared to the same...
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Walmart develops e-commerce website for SMEs
Walmart Business is the name of the e-commerce website that Walmart has developed especially for SMEs. The website offers a selection of more than 100,000 items, and is meant to...
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Colruyt opens another autonomous container store in Belgium
Colruyt Group member Okay Direct has opened a second autonomous convenience store. The unmanned container store was set up in the car park of Okay Lennik, and its floor space...
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The French government announces an “anti-inflation quarter” in supermarkets
The French government agreed with the big supermarket chains to keep food prices “as low as possible” until June; within the framework of the “anti-inflation quarter”, supermarkets can freely choose...
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Retail sales in Romania increased by 5.7 percent in January
According to raw data, the volume of retail sales in Romania increased by 5.7 percent in January compared to January of the previous year, the Romanian National Institute of Statistics...
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The French government announces an “anti-inflation quarter” in supermarkets
The French government agreed with the big supermarket chains to keep food prices “as low as possible” until June; within the framework of the “anti-inflation quarter”, supermarkets can freely choose...
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Scientific results are indispensable for successful agriculture
The advantage of our country’s GMO-free status must be used even more effectively than before – said Minister of Agriculture István Nagy at the 150th meeting of the Genetic Technology...
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The EU imposes urgent tasks and drastic measures
The main goal of the European Union’s energy policy by 2030 is for member countries to reduce their primary energy consumption by 30 percent and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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Healthy food is worth a fortune
Hungary’s goal with the renewal of the Common Agricultural Policy was to set a new direction for the transition, as a result of which European agriculture will become sustainable, responsive...
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JMSZ: low utilization of company cars, carsharing also supports environmental protection
By using carsharing (shared car access), companies can not only support environmental protection, they can also reduce their costs, and as a cafeteria element, they can also enable the use...
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The government is doing everything for the farmers
The government did everything to ensure that the farmers felt as little as possible the effects of the war and the consequences of last year’s drought, Minister of Agriculture István...
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Kellogg’s meets gender parity goal three years ahead of target
Kellogg’s has reached its target of having 50% male and female representation at manager level and above in the UK, three years ahead of its 2025 goal. In 2019, Kellogg...
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Carrefour Polska To Shutter Galeria Alkoholi Stores
Carrefour Polska plans to close stores operating under its Galeria Alkoholi format as it aims to focus on developing its best-performing banners, according to a report in the online publication,...
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Walmart warns employees not to share corporate secrets with ChatGPT
American retail giant Walmart issued an internal memo to its staff, urging not to disclose any confidential, financial or customer-related information to generative AI tools like ChatGPT. The leaked memo...
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Our common heritage is the Carpathian Basin Wine Culture
We do not leave all the wealth that lies in the soil of the Carpathian Basin, vineyards, fruit bushes and human expertise, diligence, said István Nagy, Minister of Agriculture II....
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E-commerce trends in 2023
In the past few very eventful years, the reliability of forecasts by researchers became somewhat questionable. We at NRC have a decades-long overview of e-commerce trends, as being the biggest...
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Márton Nagy also spoke about the extra profit tax and the price cap
If energy prices had not fallen, no matter how high the central bank interest rate is, the exchange rate of the forint will probably not stabilize, which is why it...
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Gardeners have to cope in a tightening world
Representatives of the horticulture sector met for the eighth time in Szeged to review the issues affecting the sector at the Zsendülés conference on March 2. The main patron of...
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The new managing director of Kifli has spoken: this is what we can expect after the price cap
In his recent interview with Pénzcentrum, Gabriel Makki, the newly appointed new managing director of Kifli, spoke about the company’s biggest changes, the expansion of their own-brand product range, as...
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Pork may become more expensive in the coming months
In the case of meat, we can expect a 10 percent price increase after the introduction of the price cap, primarily in the price of pork, but it is also...
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Should plant-based food be placed next to meat in stores?
According to recent research, many consumers think: the preparation of dishes from plant-based foods is complicated and expensive, and the result is less tasty in comparison with meat. Experts believe...
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Start-ups are developing vegan salmon fillet and crab cake
Toronto-based start-up New School Foods is working on developing vegan seafood. With three years of work, they invented cutting-edge technology, utilising target freezing to create structures similar to the muscle...
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Is potato milk the new alternative in the dairy industry?
Swedish brand DUG is using potatoes to reinvent dairy products. The company claims its potato milk is the best alternative in the market, pointing it out that potato is a...
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Soy protein reduces the risk of heart diseases
A recent study claims the special proteins in soybean can reduce the LDL cholesterol level, and they also diminish the risk of metabolic disorders such as arteriosclerosis and fatty liver....
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If the lemons are sour…just use them to make lemonade!
Nielsen data reveal that fruit juice value sales grew by 11.2% in January-November 2022, but volume sales decreased by 6.6%. The like-for-like sales drop was even bigger in the last...
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An overview of the eating habits of Hungarians
Nestlé Hungária has conducted a representative survey on what Hungarians think about healthy eating and what their meat consumption habits are like. It turned out that the majority would never...
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Hungarian-owned retail chains: adjustment period after the 54% inflation
Many of us thought that we would be able to take a breather post pandemic, however, the 54% retail inflation in Hungary has proved us wrong. So, what is fuelling...
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