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Test lab in the future's restaurant

Cameras monitor every reaction of the customers.  In the new research center, devoted to exploring a both simple and complicated question: What makes people eat and drink the way they...

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Ten Commandments in the American Catering Trade

Some restaurants from Los-Angeles collected a list about how to be gastfriendly, they hope other restaurants all over the world follow them. The regulations said for example, that every guest...

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10 tons food was found in the re-labeling plant

In the Sparkle-action the supervisors pounced in a food depot in Budapest. In the illegal food depot relabeled and new dated foods: meat, sweets, eggs and softdrinks were found. The...

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Sio steps on the Energy drink market

From 1. January 2008 Sio-Eckes is the local distributor of Bomba! Energy drink in Hungary. Next year Sio will offer four soft-drink brands, the Sio and hohesC fruit drinks, the...

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Slow growth, stubbornly high inflation

Hungary's internal and external balances are expected to improve on expectations this year. According to the latest report by think-tank GKI and Erste bank published the government deficit to shrink...

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New Christmas Credit Offer by Tesco

Tesco branded electronic goods are sold for 12 months credit, without any interest.  The retail chain starts this christmas season with a new bank contact. Hungarian Cetelem Bank offers six...

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Consumers like own-brand goods

Almost three quarters of consumers have a positive perception of supermarket own-brand goods, a new study has found in England.  Supermarket supplier Catalus questioned over 500 consumers on how they...

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Tesco US in top ten supermarkets by 2015

British grocer Tesco Plc could sales $10 billion with its Fresh & Easy n the United States by 2015, TNS Retail Forward said  "There is demand for this type of...

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Conctactles payment starts in Europe

French hypermarket chain to trial contactless payment of MasterCard Europe. Normal the PayPass technology is used by shopping under 25 euro, but this card could make the payment 40% faster...

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Luxury hotel in Szentes Hungary

A new 4-5 stars hotel will develop from the former Hotel Pefofi. The investment is HUF 3.5-4 billion. The reconstruction started in Mai, for the works the local government made...

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Hungarian Tax and Financial Control Administration increase the default penalty

Next year guilty must pay HUF 1 million because of invoice problem.   The default fines increase from HUF 100,000  to 200,000, form 200,000 to 500,000. One million HUF is...

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Fake milkdisributor found

The Budapester enterpreuter operated without permissions.  In Sparkler-action, collective control of several authorities, 5 tons milk product were found. The milk, cheese, cottage-cheese in value of  HUF 7-8 million must...

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HUF 680 billion excise in government pocket

Due to the continuously control increase the legal petrol, cigarettes and alcohol sales. According to industrial dates there was 7.1% higher sales in the first 10 months as a year...

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Next year's carriage must cover the lost from this year too

According to plans of Budapest local government trucks should pay ten times higher fees for coming into the city as now. Association of Transport Companies said this year carriage can't...

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Looking for Fondness on the Beach

85% of turism nights at Lake-Balaton realized at 4-5 stars hotels. Nowadays there are 27 high quality hotels at the Balaton, but there is additional need for 4-5 stars hotels. ...

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Fütyülős on the Budapest-Bamako Rally

Charitable contributions of most popular product of Zwack. Budapest-Bamako rally is a charity Africa run, starts on 12 January 2008. On the end of the tournament, in capital of Mali...

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Auchan to invest 0.5bn-euro in Romania

French retailer targets 22 cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants by 2010.  "We will continue to expand with large-scale hypermarkets, because this what we specialise in. The Discount Market store...

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Brilliant Tesco start in the US

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is going down well with shoppers.  Fresh & Easy has now been open for nearly three weeks, with 13 stores trading in Los Angeles, Las...

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HUF 24 million donation by Real

This year 12 children foundation get HUF 24 million from Real Hungaria Elelmiszer Zrt. It was the fifth autumn, that Real paid charity from its own branded products sold in...

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BioFach: Hungarian visitors in top 10

Looking at the statistics of the BioFach exhibition, Hungarians seem to display a deep interest in the bio-market by international standards. 530 Hungarians have been registered at the last exhibition,...

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Prophecies and facts in Tapolca (part 2.)

We hard five presentations on the second day of the Tapolca conference about innovative brands, Trade Marketing Klub held a meeting in the evening, while the third day was devoted...

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Question:

The Weight Control program has completed its first six months in the FMCG sector. I would like to ask Alexandra Béres, the creator of the program, to assess the results...

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Canning industry in need of imports

According to László Cseh, chairman of the Hungarian Association of Refrigerating and Canned Food Industry, this year’s production of fruits and vegetables is not sufficient to meet the needs of...

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(HU) Növekedési források az új piaci helyzetben

Sorry, this entry is only available in HU....

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Chio Crackings

The market leader among excellent quality salty snacks Chio, is introducing a new innovative product under the brand name Crackings which is a ham shaped cracker with a surprisingly ham-like...

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New packaging for red meats

DarfreshBloom™ . the latest innovation by Cryovac Packaging has been developed specially for red meats. The packaging is a combination of three foils, which has both the advantages of vacuum...

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Heineken strengthening its brands

László Benedek, sales director did not recommend that participants follow the example of the beer industry, as this years expansion was due entirely to the 25 per cent extra tax...

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Answer:

Weight control is complex lifestyle system of which diet is only one – though very important – element. It has never been our intention to flood the FMCG market with...

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Chocolate still leading

Total sales of sweets exceed HUF 150 billion in Hungary. According to Mrs. Kanyó, general secretary, members of the Hungarian Sweets Manufacturers’ Association account for 83-85 per cent of this...

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Dolce vita in stores as well

Italians enjoy life and food. The rate of economic growth is 3-4 per cent, inflation is around 2 per cent and Italians are spending more on food. Private labels are...

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