Events
A new Hungarian application calculates how environmentally conscious you live your days
Date: 2020-12-04 11:18:13
A new Hungarian application defines itself as a community content sharing and attitude development media platform, which provides feedback on how environmentally conscious we are and what progress we are...
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Retail sales in the euro area increased in October
Date: 2020-12-04 11:04:11
In October, retail sales in the euro area grew more than expected, according to a quarterly report from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. In the 19 euro area Member...
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FAO: Food Price Index rises sharply
Date: 2020-12-03 14:40:17
Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, according to a benchmark United Nations report released today. The FAO Food Price Index...
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KSH: Compared to October last year, the turnover of retail stores decreased by 1.9 percent
Date: 2020-12-03 11:45:51
In October, according to the raw data, the turnover of retail stores at constant prices decreased by 2.4 percent and by 1.9 percent, adjusted for the calendar effect, compared to...
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Import pushes pork prices down
Date: 2020-12-03 11:42:37
The price of live pigs has fallen further, which, coupled with high maize and soybean prices, means selling below cost to many producers already, according to industry players. In addition,...
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Secretary of State for Investment will contribute to the development of agriculture
Date: 2020-12-03 11:30:51
Not only has survived, but despite the difficult year this year, the agricultural and food economies have strengthened and even steps have been taken through investments and regulatory systems that...
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The country’s first LGBTQ-themed web store has been launched
Date: 2020-12-03 11:26:18
More than 200 orders were received in the first week of the launch of the country’s only LGBTQ-themed web store. The goal of Humen.Shop was to function as a platform...
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KSH: foreign trade surplus close to record
Date: 2020-12-03 11:25:08
In September, the value of exports in euros increased by 6.1 percent year-on-year and surpassed the previous month by 30.0 percent. Imports fell 0.8 percent year-on-year, but were 19.7 percent...
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Chicken meat produced in lab can already be sold in stores in Singapore
Date: 2020-12-03 11:18:24
Singapore was the first in the world to allow the sale of chicken meat produced under laboratory conditions – agroinform.hu wrote. According to MTI, the Singapore Food Safety Authority (SFA)...
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Christmas fairs are not opened in Austria either
Date: 2020-12-03 11:10:28
In addition to hotels and restaurants, Christmas markets will remain closed in Austria this year due to the coronavirus pandemic – the Austrian government has decided. Tourism Minister Elisabeth Köstinger...
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Inflation in OECD countries slowed to 1.2 percent in October
Date: 2020-12-03 11:08:26
In the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the annual growth rate of consumer prices was 1.2 percent in October after 1.3 percent in September....
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ProWein 2021 will not take place on account of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date: 2020-12-03 10:40:39
ProWein 2021 – the world’s leading and most relevant trade fair for wines and spirits – will not be held as planned from 19 to 23 March on account of...
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Interpack and components 2021 cancelled, too
Date: 2020-12-03 10:28:46
Uncertainty among companies due to high infection numbers proved too great. In agreement with its partners in associations and the industry, and with the trade fair advisory committee, Messe Düsseldorf...
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Analysts expect an economic downturn of around 6 percent for the full year
Date: 2020-12-02 11:40:14
The performance of the national economy fell by 5.5 percent in the first three quarters, but for the year as a whole, analysts interviewed by MTI expect a decline of...
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Buy domestic BIO, protect your home!
Date: 2020-12-02 11:30:48
We are preparing during the Advent period, recipes for our favorite festive dishes are revealed. We know from our grandmother’s brew, and since the Hungarian gastronomy has been conquering, we...
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Effects of restrictions during pandemic
Date: 2020-12-02 11:24:47
You’re broke even though you spent 6,173 HUF a day, measured in volume, shopping consumption decreased by 3.5 percent in the third quarter and by 2 percent between January and...
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European overview – Nielsen 2020
Date: 2020-12-02 11:24:00
In 2020 European FMCG market grew 8,3% so far. Brands outgrew private labels both in the traditional and online channels, by Nielsen presentation at PLMA online show. The Nielsen presentation...
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KSH: last year, the amount of R&D expenditures exceeded HUF 700 billion
Date: 2020-12-02 11:22:36
In Hungary, the amount of research and development (R&D) expenditures at current prices reached 702 billion HUF in 2019, which is more than twice as much as in 2010 –...
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Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, Booking domestic companies can sue foreign “giants” at home
Date: 2020-12-02 11:20:45
The Court of Justice of the European Union has also ruled in favor of domestic companies: in order to compensate for damages resulting from an infringement of competition, the largest...
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Postal parcel traffic jumped significantly already in November
Date: 2020-12-02 11:15:28
Domestic postal parcel traffic in November was almost 30 percent higher than a year earlier, so Magyar Posta is preparing for a much larger Christmas season than last year, and...
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NAV seized half a billion forints worth cigarettes
Date: 2020-12-02 11:05:29
At ten locations, 373,000 boxes of untaxed cigarettes worth more than half a billion forints were recently seized from a Ukrainian-Hungarian criminal group by the National Tax and Customs Administration...
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Retail sales in Germany increased in October
Date: 2020-12-02 11:04:22
In Germany, retail sales grew at a much higher rate than analysts expected in October, both monthly and annually. The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Wednesday that retail...
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Producer prices in the euro area rose in October
Date: 2020-12-02 11:02:06
In October, industrial producer prices in the euro area rose more than expected from the previous month, according to a report by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office, on Wednesday....
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The law has been passed: double quality will be punishable
Date: 2020-12-02 10:56:51
Dual quality will be sanctioned as unfair commercial practices from May 2022, after Parliament passed an amendment to the Consumer Protection Act without a vote on Tuesday, the Ministry of...
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The winter seasonal check has started
Date: 2020-12-02 10:43:40
Norbert Erdős, State Secretary for Food Chain Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, ordered a winter seasonal food chain inspection from 1 December. The aim of the campaign is for...
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KSH: Economy fell 4.6 percent on an annual basis in the third quarter
Date: 2020-12-01 11:50:58
The volume of gross domestic product decreased by 4.6 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period of last year. According to seasonally and calendar-adjusted data, the performance...
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CBA, Coop, Real which is the most popular
Date: 2020-12-01 11:45:34
CBA the competition of Hungarian-owned store chains operating franchise networks of more than a thousands stores – according to a recent poll. After the competition of discount stores, in which...
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Research: In almost half of Hungarian stores people do not keep their distance
Date: 2020-12-01 11:38:48
In Hungarian stores, masks are worn more than the European average, but in almost half of the shops, buyers and sellers do not adhere to the mandatory distance, according to...
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MLBKT: PMI rose 51.9 points in November
Date: 2020-12-01 11:30:16
The seasonally adjusted value of the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 51.9 points in November from 50.2 points of the previous month, ie respondents reported more favorable developments in...
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The store goes with fewer sellers
Date: 2020-12-01 11:20:36
In September, the stores went with 6,000 fewer sellers blokkk.com, wrote. Due to their loss of market share, the manufactured goods stores could no longer take everyone back, they had...
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