Events
Dietary: fiber intake strengthens the immune system
Date: 2021-01-26 11:21:46
At the time of the pandemic, it is extremely important to support our immune system with a healthy diet and proper fiber consumption – the dietitian Somogyi Kovács Anita called...
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This year, the donut festival in Nagykanizsa will take place online, but with the possibility to buy
Date: 2021-01-26 11:20:11
In line with the coronavirus pandemic, the 13th Carnival Donut Festival programs will be held online. The donut baking competition will be held and those interested will be able to...
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IMF Improved this year’s world economic growth forecast
Date: 2021-01-26 11:10:32
World economic growth could pick up in the second half of the year, thanks to stimulus fiscal and central bank monetary measures and the launch of mass vaccinations, according to...
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Business sentiment in Germany deteriorated in January
Date: 2021-01-26 11:10:26
As a result of the severe situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, business sentiment in Germany deteriorated more than expected in January, according to a survey by the ifo economic...
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Walmart positions itself as key COVID-19 vaccine provider for rural America
Date: 2021-01-26 11:06:19
Walmart expects to be able to administer between 10 million and 13 million COVID-19 shots per month at its more than 5,000 in-store pharmacies in the United States and Puerto...
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A new record in freight transport
Date: 2021-01-26 11:01:29
A special freight train has departed from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong to Russia, origo wrote. The cargo arrives in Moscow in just 15 days, reducing delivery time by...
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PepsiCo plans to become a zero emission company by 2040
Date: 2021-01-25 19:48:50
PepsiCo Inc seeks to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its supply chain by 2040. The makers of Doritos chips and Tropicana juice said: first they will cut greenhouse gas...
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CSR Hungary Summit: COVID has created the opportunity for a new beginning
Date: 2021-01-25 19:23:15
The 2-day CSR Hungary Summit was organised online at the end of last year. On the first day participants discussed many COVID-related issues. Júlia Takács, founder and managing director of...
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Metro AG is the new owner of Davigel Spain
Date: 2021-01-25 19:01:16
Metro AG has announced the takeover of food service distribution company Davigel Spain – for an undisclosed fee. Davigel Spain supplies more than 4,000 partners in Spain, mainly on the Balearic and...
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Asda is testing a vegan butcher counter
Date: 2021-01-25 18:59:09
Asda has teamed up with vegan concept creator Kbox Global, to test a supermarket vegan butcher counter for this year’s ‘Veganuary’. In Asda’s Watford store a counter named Veelicious was built,...
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SPAR Austria continues to reduce sugar content of products
Date: 2021-01-25 18:54:32
SPAR Austria’s sugar reduction scheme – which was launched in 2019 – will continue in 2021. Since 2020 11,454 tons of sugar has been removed by SPAR’s partners in the initiative. SPAR Austria has cut...
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Waitrose: Seaweed will be the superfood of 2021
Date: 2021-01-25 18:52:13
Waitrose & Partners believes that seaweed is the must-have ingredient of 2021, as sales of the product grew by 23 percent last year if compared to 2019; sales were 71 percent...
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Nomad Foods buys Findus Switzerland
Date: 2021-01-25 18:42:09
Nomad Foods has bought Findus Switzerland from Froneri International Ltd, together with certain intellectual property from an affiliate of Nestlé S.A., for a price of approximately EUR 110 million. Findus...
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Hungarian bank card acceptance is among the fastest developing in Europe
Date: 2021-01-25 18:38:42
According to the latest data from Mastercard, the number of card payment terminals increased by 20 percent in Hungary in 2020. Mastercard launched its Doppio infrastructure development programme in the...
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Barilla acquires British fresh pasta maker Pasta Evangelists
Date: 2021-01-25 18:35:16
Via its BLU1877 business Barilla has acquired a majority share in Britain’s Pasta Evangelists, reentering the fresh pasta market and boosting its digital offering. The two companies did not disclose...
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The future of the supply chain: Cobots, drones and artificial intelligence cameras
Date: 2021-01-25 18:34:46
The Deloitte Technology Trends 2021 study has revealed: in the near future members of the supply chain will focus on sharing data, and the whole product chain will become visible...
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Digitalisation: Hesitant companies
Date: 2021-01-25 18:27:37
According to a global survey conducted by EY with the participation of 1,001decision-makers, 62 percent of executives think they should completely transform the way their company works within 2 years,...
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Visa innovations for improving smart payment solutions
Date: 2021-01-25 18:12:41
Visa Inc. has announced the launch of new artificial intelligence (AI) based services, called VisaNet+AI. This service offers a solution for banks, retailers and consumers to manage certain types of...
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Príma campaign with #buyhungarian face masks
Date: 2021-01-25 18:06:38
In January Príma implemented a special promotion campaign: they gave Príma face masks to those shoppers who purchased three products with the Hungarian Product trademark at the same time online....
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Hungarian workers calculate with lasting changes
Date: 2021-01-25 16:26:04
As the global job market is transforming because of the pandemic, job safety has become more important than ever before. According to the Randstad Workmonitor – a report prepared in...
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PLMA News in brief
Date: 2021-01-25 16:11:55
Aldi UK is adding 12 ready-to-cook meals to its low-calorie Slimwell range. Lidl is trialling a new store format in Belgium. The arrangement and the premium decoration differentiate the 1,500m²...
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In focus: the United Kingdom
Date: 2021-01-25 16:06:58
Young British consumers like to shop in discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl make up for 67 percent of the UK’s discounter market and they represent 13 percent of British FMCG...
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Successful Foam White Christmas at SPAR
Date: 2021-01-25 15:36:06
According to Eszter Benedek, managing director of Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft., their promotion campaign with SPAR was a big success last December. All Hungarian Product trademark bearing products available in...
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New digital solutions for e-commerce challenges
Date: 2021-01-25 15:28:13
Fintech company ZEN has teamed up with Mastercard to launch financial solutions that make it possible for consumers, freelancers and entrepreneurs to manage their finances easily and to make contactless...
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Higher cereal crop prices in January than a year earlier
Date: 2021-01-25 15:25:08
Data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reveals that Hungary’s poultry meat export dropped 13 percent to 147 thousand tons, while import grew by 3 percent to 55 thousand tons...
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Production costs up nearly 20 percent in the dairy sector
Date: 2021-01-25 15:19:47
A recent survey by the Milk Interbranch Organisation and Dairy Board conducted among members has found: in the dairy sector production costs increased by 15-18 percent in one year. The Dairy...
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Private label hand hygiene products at OMV filling stations
Date: 2021-01-25 15:09:48
In January OMV launched its own hygiene product range, which is available at every OMV filling station: the products clean and protect users’ hands without water. The pleasant-smelling and refreshing...
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Mars campaign for gender equality
Date: 2021-01-25 15:04:53
Mars has launched a new global crowdsourcing campaign, called #HereToBeHeard to improve the positions of women in every field of life – including race, age, sexuality, religion and ability –...
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Great success: Hungary has become one of the EU’s biggest isoglucose producers
Date: 2021-01-25 14:50:48
Hungary is one of the biggest corn-based isoglucose producers in Europe, as 40 percent of the EU’s annual isoglucose production, 500,000 tons are made in Hungary – almost 70 percent...
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XIXO pulls PET bottle packaging from full product category
Date: 2021-01-25 14:38:13
From 1 February HELL ENERGY Magyarország Kft. packages XIXO carbonated soft drinks in 100-percent and infinitely recyclable aluminium cans only. This means that the company stops using the PET bottle...
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