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Coca-Cola is making a big push into coffee
Coca-Cola is planning on making a big push into coffee industry this year.The company is releasing Coca-Cola Coffee in 25 markets around the world by the end of 2019. The...
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The Night of Cafes is coming soon
Thirty venues and about a hundred cultural programs await the lovers of coffeehouse culture on 17 May in Budapest during this year’s Night of Cafes programs. Last year, the Municipality...
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The Chinese coffee chain enters the market in the United States
Luckin Coffee, which is the Chinese rival to Starbucks, has filed the US stock exchange documents. With an initial public stock market release, the company can get up to 800...
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‘Beyond the bottle’: PepsiCo unveils new hydration platform
PepsiCo has unveiled a new hydration platform, centred around two variations on the same water dispenser, as it strives to develop its water portfolio “beyond the bottle”. The new water...
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From 2025, cage-keeping eggs will not be available in Tesco
Tesco sold nearly 114 million eggs in Hungary in 2018. There are also several sizes and types in the range, of which nearly 90 percent come from a Hungarian producer....
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‘Too Good To Go’ Extends Service To 240 Carrefour Stores
Carrefour Belgium has announced that around 240 stores are now a part of the ‘Too Good To Go’ initiative, with 84 Carrefour Hypermarkets and Carrefour Market joining the platform on...
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Fruit processor is under construction in Szekszárd
A construction company creates a fruit processing plant in Szekszárd, with almost 700 million HUF investment. The fruit processor of the Dovi-Trade Kft. to be launched in 2020. The project...
Read moreThe Szentendre Beer Festival to be held in May
The traditional Szentendre Beer Festival will take place from 3 to 5 May at the local Dunakorzó, where craft beers and other gastronomic experiences, pop-music talent competition and the concert...
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Coop Switzerland Introduces Meat-Free ‘Beyond Burger’
Swiss retailer Coop has launched a new meat-free burger, the Beyond Burger, which is ‘almost indistiguishable’ from a regular burger, according to the retailer. Baselgia added that it is the...
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Kroger’s driverless delivery goes live in Houston
Following a successful pilot in Scottsdale, Arizona, The Kroger Co. has brought its self-driving grocery delivery service pilot to a second market. The nation’s largest grocery retailer has launched the...
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Less sugar, more ice cream? US review explores ways to reduce sugar in dairy
A new report by North Carolina State University (NC State) and the US National Dairy Council (NDC) is reviewing the options available to the dairy industry to reduce sugar in...
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Coca-Cola to make all small bottles from recycled plastic by end of 2019
Coca-Cola Australia and Coca-Cola Amatil have today committed to making 100 per cent of the beverage giant’s small bottles entirely from recycled plastic by the end of 2019. All small packages, 600ml...
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International portugieser muster and wine tastings are held in Pécs
An international muster and wine tasting will be held to promote the portugieser between 25 and 28 April in Pécs and Villány – the organizers told MTI. As they wrote...
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Spar Spain Launches Nutrition App To Promote Healthy Eating
Spar Spain has announced that it has launched a new nutrition app – Spar, saber elegir (Spar, know what to choose) – to help customers make conscious choices about the...
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Metro grocery stores to permit reusable containers in effort to cut waste
Metro grocery chain will allow customers across Quebec to bring reusable containers for the purchase of fresh products, facing increasing consumer concern about single-use plastics. The grocery and drug store company announced Monday that beginning April 22, customers will be...
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Ördög Nóra has become the ambassador of the Ooops! brand
The new advertising films of Vajda-Papír bring the “For All Cases” slogan of Ooops! into life. The campaign is made by ti:me Agency. This year’s 20-year-old Vajda Papír is now...
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Communities wishing to evolve have won at the InnoMax Award
This year, the Invitech InnoMax Award focused on supporting the innovation efforts of nonprofit organizations. Among the winners of the application of the infocommunication company was the design of an...
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The Royalsekt Cooperative Winery expands its capacity
The Royalsekt Champagne, Wine, Soft Drink Producer Co-operative Winery Zrt. is expanding its capacity from the 277 million HUF grants of the Economic Development and Innovation Operational Program (GINOP) and...
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Pepco brings twenty-seven billion forints to Hungary
Pepco is investing nearly 27.2 billion forints in logistics in Hungary to serve all the countries of the region from Gyál, Pest county – the Minister of Foreign Affairs said...
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Starbucks investing in regional solar farms to support stores
Starbucks Coffee Company is upping its investments in renewable energy via a new model. The café giant developed two solar farms which provide enough energy for the equivalent of 360...
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Henkel achieves good organic sales growth with strong earnings, profitability and cash flow
Sales at 19.9 billion euros: impacted by negative currency effects of 1.1 billion euros; organic growth +2.4% Increase in operating profit (EBIT)1: +1.0% to 3,496 million euros Further EBIT margin1...
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Coop Switzerland Acknowledged by WWF
Retailer and wholesaler Coop Switzerland has improved in almost all areas of the WWF’s environmental rating, compared to the last time a rating was taken, in 2015. “We are very...
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Lidl Italia Opens Store With ‘Urban Garden’ In Turin
Lidl Italia has opened its first store with an ‘urban garden’, managed by an NGO that develops cooperation and social inclusion projects for people in need. The store, located in...
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The best known pálinka brand confirms its position
This year, the twelve-year-old pálinka house opens a new chapter: packaging is changing and the product portfolio is rationalized. One thing, however, still does not change: the high and constant...
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SPAR provides work for disadvantaged people
This year, the store chain provides a job to anouther autistic youth. A company that has long been committed to equal opportunities helps disabled people as well as colleagues with...
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Spring Cleaning in Hűvösvölgy in CIF way
Clean environment, happy people. CIF’s global cleaning program was launched from this simple recognition, in which community spaces and buildings can regain their former light. Their first project in Hungary...
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Lidl Invests €1.6m To Install Solar Panels In Belgian Distribution Centre
Discounter Lidl has announced that it has invested €1.6 million towards the installation of around 7,200 solar panels at its distribution centre in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium. The retailer will generate...
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Tesco trials removing plastic from 45 fruit and veg items
Good news for the planet – Tesco is removing the plastic packaging from some fruit and veg products. The retailer has cut out most of the plastic in the fruit...
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