Company and Personal News
Lidl: less salt, sugar and fat in private label products
Date: 2019-01-31 10:01:16
Lidl had made a pledge already in January 2017 to optimise the composition of several private label products: they cut the sugar content of Crownfield breakfast cereals by 35 percent;...
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Taco Bell tests a vegetarian menu
Date: 2019-01-31 10:01:14
Taco Bell is testing a vegetarian menu that combines the chain’s old and new vegetarian offerings. With this step Taco Bell is trying to reach out to younger consumers who...
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With a pragmatic approach
Date: 2019-01-31 09:57:46
Our magazine has interviewed Éva Vojtek, who is a real Jolly Joker in the Guild of Confectioners. What does your business card say? – Actually I have two, one...
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This is what happened in 2018
Date: 2019-01-31 09:49:03
In December Ferenc Horváth, president of the Guild of Hungarian Confectioners summarised their most important results in 2018 The building of the guild’s headquarters will soon be completed. As for...
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Zewa Project reloaded
Date: 2019-01-31 09:48:30
In the Zewa Designer Competition 16 in-store display designs, created by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, were competing. The brand celebrated the winners with a press...
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Uncle Karcsi passed away
Date: 2019-01-31 09:42:12
The guild reports it with great sadness that MVI member and our beloved friend Károly Arnold passed away on 31 December 2018, at the age of 86. Many times he...
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Quality is the connection
Date: 2019-01-31 09:34:27
XO Foods was one of the main sponsors of the guild’s end-of-year gala dinner. Our magazine interviewed the company’s sales director for Hungary, Martin Hanák. The Gundel Károly Award ceremony...
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Turkey: EBRD loan for developing Migros
Date: 2019-01-31 08:58:27
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced granting an EUR 60-million loan for modernising Migros stores in Turkey. Not only stores will be revamped from this sum,...
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Lidl-Müller partnership in the United Kingdom
Date: 2019-01-31 08:50:21
Lidl’s strategy heavily builds on British farmers, so two thirds of their products in UK stores come from local suppliers. Last year Lidl entered into a partnership with Müller Milk&Ingredients:...
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Unilever buys ‘Vegetarian Butcher’
Date: 2019-01-31 08:50:19
Unilever has acquired Dutch ‘vegetarian butcher’ company De Vegatarische Slager. The Utrecht-based ambitious manufacturer of meat substitutes established 4,000 points of sale in 17 countries in 11 years. Their products...
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Continente launches electronic invoice in Portugal
Date: 2019-01-31 08:50:17
Continente is the first food retailer in Portugal to have introduced e-invoicing: by using this service shoppers receive invoices via e-mail in real time, at the time of purchase. The...
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Walmart tests self-driving cars
Date: 2019-01-31 07:07:24
Walmart plans to speed up the home delivery of FMCG products by using self-driving cars – the model is being tested in Arizona, in cooperation with Udelv. In the current...
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Alibaba buys Berlin-based company data Artisans
Date: 2019-01-31 07:07:22
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group paid USD 103.3 million for data processing and streaming company data Artisans, which has customers such as Uber, Lyft, eBay, Comcast, a Huawei and Kin....
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Two from three British shoppers chose Aldi or Lidl at Christmas
Date: 2019-01-31 07:07:19
Two thirds of British households bought food and drinks in an Aldi or Lidl store before Christmas. According to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel, almost all retail chains saw...
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Carrefour: new store format in Italy and Belgium
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:28
In Portogruaro Carrefour Italia debuts with a new hypermarket that aims at making shopping simpler: they sell organic fruits and vegetables supplied by local farmers, ready meals to go, there...
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British Co-op to open 100 new stores in 2019
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:25
Co-op is investing GBP 200 million in opening 100 new stores in the United Kingdom in 2019. The development programme will create 1,500 new jobs. These shops will open at...
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Leclerc and Carrefour: new pick-up locations for pedestrians
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:21
‘E.Leclerc Relais’ is the name of Leclerc’s latest, 7th pick-up location for pedestrians in Paris, which opened on 9 January. Carrefour has also announced that before the end of January...
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Tesco uses robots for home delivery
Date: 2019-01-31 06:49:37
Teaming up with Starship Technologies, Tesco started using robots for home delivery in the United Kingdom: from a Tesco Extra store 1,000 products can be ordered, which are delivered in...
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Alibaba to build a trade hub in Belgium
Date: 2019-01-31 06:43:46
Alibaba, the biggest Chinese online retailer is to build its own 220,000m² base in Belgium, close to the Liége airport – reported Handelsblatt. The company will invest at least EUR...
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Good performance from Amazon Web Services
Date: 2019-01-31 06:31:25
Last year more than half of e-commerce giant Amazon’s revenue came from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon launched this in 2006 to provide businesses with cloud-based IT services. In the...
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Hungarian wine producers closed a good year in 2018
Date: 2019-01-30 11:28:13
Despite the extreme weather conditions, early harvest and yield restrictions, Hungarian wine producers closed a good year in 2018. The annual evaluation of the Dubicz Winery and Vineyard of the...
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Magazine: Winning cards
Date: 2019-01-30 07:35:51
Mastercard was the sponsor of the prize game and the cooking contest. We asked marketing manager Péter Mondovics about the cooperation. How did Mastercard end up ‘on the dinner...
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Tesco does not plan to close stores in Hungary
Date: 2019-01-29 11:40:09
Tesco does not plan to close stores in Hungary, the store chain will continue to invest heavily in its stores – Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. told MTI on Tuesday. In the...
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Street food dino – Video of the day
Date: 2019-01-29 11:19:50
Go Neng in Chiang Mai, Thailand sells crispy street doughnuts that look like dinosaurs. These crunchy fried Chinese doughnuts are called youtiao, or pa thong khao in Thai. The fried...
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The sales revenue of the Regio Játékkereskedelmi Kft. grew by 16 percent last year
Date: 2019-01-29 11:05:32
The Regio Játékkereskedelmi Kft. achieved net sales of 12.2 billion HUF in 2018, 16 percent more than in the previous year – the company told MTI on Tuesday. According to...
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McDonald’s encourages to read a new series of books of a world-renowned writer
Date: 2019-01-29 11:01:21
Hungarian McDonald’s is launching a new initiative in January. Families can now choose books instead of games with the Happy Meal menu. In this year’s campaign, the restaurant chain caught...
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Bocuse d’Or: the chairman of the Hungarian team will be in the meat jury
Date: 2019-01-29 10:50:05
Hamvas Zoltán, chairman of the Hungarian Bocuse d’Or Academy and the president of the Hungarian team is taking part in the meat dishes jury at the Bocuse d’Or International Chef...
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Ferran Adriá star chef opens a culinary creative laboratory at the world-renowned ElBulli restaurant
Date: 2019-01-29 10:30:05
Ferran Adriá star chef opens a culinary creative laboratory and gastronomic innovation museum at the former world-famous ElBulli restaurant, situates in the Costa Brava. The Spanish chef announced this on...
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