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KSH: turnover of retail stores decreased by 10.1 percent in February
In February 2023, according to raw and calendar-adjusted data, the volume of retail trade decreased by 10.1 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical...
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Retail sales in Romania increased by 3.9 percent in the first two months
In the first two months, according to raw data, the volume of Romanian retail trade increased by 3.9 percent compared to the same period last year, the Romanian National Statistics...
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Retail sales in the Czech Republic also decreased in February
On an annual basis, retail turnover in the Czech Republic also decreased in February, the rate of decrease was 6.4 percent, lower than January’s revised 6.8 percent. In a monthly...
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Walmart to increase the number of its health centre locations in 2024
Walmart will open 28 new healthcare centres in the United States next year; the first ones will be in Missouri and Arizona. By the end of 2024, the nation’s largest...
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ARANYCIPÓ Premium Bread
ARANYCIPÓ Premium Bread can already be found in ALDI’s large selection of bakery items, in three different versions. The yogurt, linseed and potato variants of this rye bread are excellent...
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Germany’s REWE and Montenegro’s Voli plan to buy Slovenia’s Tuš
Tuš is Slovenia’s fourth biggest grocery retailer and now two retail chains have plans for acquiring it. One of the potential buyers is Montenegrin retail chain Voli, the largest employer...
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Waitrose turn surplus food into animal feed
Waitrose has a new initiative to turn surplus food unfit for human consumption into animal feed, contributing to the reduction of food waste. This will take the form of a...
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Alnatura: home delivery in Germany
Several hundred Alnatura organic products are now available via the Flaschenpost online shop and home delivery service too – announced the Darmstadt-based organic product retailer. At the start of the...
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Garage beer mixes
Our unbelievably flavoursome new Garage beer mixes, Hard Lemon and Hard Strawberry offer instant refreshment. The stylish bottles have special design that calls attention to Garage in the shops, making...
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German, Italian, Dutch, French, Irish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese and Turkish winners at the European Private Label Awards
Altogether 16 retailers from 9 European countries have been named as the winners at the 2023 European Private Label Awards, which celebrate excellence in private label product innovation. The competition...
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Agroforum: due to the mild winter, fungal infection threatens the wheat and barley stocks
The causative agents of some fungal diseases – cereal powdery mildew and septoria leaf spot – remained intact due to the mild weather of the past winter, so they may...
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A kilo of foiled strawberries is expected to be around HUF 7,000
Although the price of Greek strawberries is currently around HUF 1,700, and a kilo of less ripe Hungarian strawberries ranges between HUF 2-3 thousand, we already know that foil strawberries...
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Wines from seven countries at the ninth Portugieser World Championship
Portugieser, i.e. blue port grape variety and the wines made from it are an integral part of Central European wine culture, even though they exist in the shadow of world...
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Hungarian Confectionery Industry Association: HUF 450-500 ice creams are coming
The industry expects a good ice cream season despite the fact that confectioners are planning a 10-15 percent increase during the season, so the price of a scoop of ice...
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Tegut To Acquire Organic Supermarket Chain Basic
German food retailer Tegut has announced plans to take over organic supermarket chain, basic, which it claims has run into ‘financial difficulties.’ Basic has over 19 outlets and employs approximately...
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Fanta is ‘bold not boring’ with first ever brand identity
Fanta has ensured its new look is “bold not boring” as it introduces its first ever global brand identity, created by Jones Knowles Ritchie, the design-led creative company to bring...
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Jennifer Lopez launches Delola Spritzes
Hollywood actress, singer and dancer Jennifer Lopez has launched a range of premium spirit-based ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails named Delola. The RTD cocktails, which are gluten free, low in calories and...
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Many farmers reported spring frost damage in their plantations
So far in the 2023 damage mitigation year, producers have reported spring frost damage to an area covering more than 400 hectares, this number will definitely increase significantly due to...
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Survey: Wizz Air flights departed from British airports with the longest delays last year
According to a survey prepared on the basis of data from the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and presented on Monday, the Wizz Air airline’s flights took off from Great...
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Starbucks’ olive oil innovation has received mixed reception
The novelty was launched in Italy in February, is now also available in the United States, and according to the original plans, will be released worldwide. Starbucks had high hopes...
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New measures to curb grain dumping in Ukraine
Our country is introducing new measures and will even more strictly control the Ukrainian grain coming from Ukraine on the solidarity river, so that it can actually reach the original...
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Pécs-based Somapak Kft. expanded its capacity with an investment of almost a quarter of a billion.
Pécs-based Somapak Csomagolástechnikai Gépgyártó Kft. built a production hall, acquired equipment and implemented IT developments with an investment of nearly a quarter of a billion forints, the company told MTI....
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Agricultural “target machines” – Video of the day
An amazing lineup of special machines and tools that have recently started to be used in agriculture (and in animal husbandry and the food industry). We watched it with our...
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K&H: the savings opportunities of young people are decreasing
Young people are less and less able to put money aside: in the first quarter of this year, barely 50 percent of them had a reserve, compared to the 56-60...
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What’s a pizza-failure like? – The picture of the day
It’s something you don’t know whether to cry or laugh when you see it! (The images were selected from Foodpanda.)...
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There will also be a direct train service to the Croatian coast this summer
The night flight of Adria InterCity, which operates with reclining, sleeping and dining cars, will connect Budapest with Split again this summer, MÁV-START told MTI on Saturday. They wrote: the...
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Eight private label trends to watch out for in 2023
Last December a US study found that 60% of shoppers believe that private label products are as good as major brands when it comes to quality, innovation, sustainability, trust, and...
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Already 36 companies have joined the Green Pledge initiative
On 30 January 36 companies ceremonially signed the declaration of intent to join the Green Pledge initiative of three advertising federations – the Self-regulatory Advertising Board (ÖRT), the Hungarian Marketing...
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One-way traffic!
Laws and regulations On 22 February 2023 the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling (CSAOSZ) organised a mainly legislation-themed conference in the Holiday Inn Hotel in Budaörs. 2023 and...
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The Croatian government has approved the sale of a majority stake in the country’s only fertilizer factory
At Thursday’s meeting in Zagreb, the government of Zagreb approved the sale of the majority stake of the Croatian oil industry company INA and the Croatian natural gas sales company...
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