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Magazin: The Guild’s managing director and co-president
László Selmeczi has been the managing director of the Guild of Hungarian Confectioners since 2006 and since 2015 he has also filled the position of co-president. He believes that besides economic...
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Paying attention to details, precision and innovative ideas – Family-Friss
Family-Friss Kft. started out as a soda water company 28 years ago. Now they are waiting for retailer and wholesaler buyers with 2,500 different products in a 300m² C+C store and a...
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Stable partners and fast service from Depó-Trade
Depó-Trade’94 Bt. has been in the wholesale business for more than 20 years. Presently they sell 1,500 different products. Three sales managers visit partners on a weekly basis and four lorries deliver the...
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Csoki Max plans to start its own chain
Csoki Max Magyarország Kft. opened its first wholesale store in 1998. They moved to the presently used 2,500m² premises in 2001. At the moment partners can choose from 8,000 SKUs. In 2015 they acquired...
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Chef Market has strengthened its positions in the countryside
For Chef Market the year 2017 was mainly about logistics development. They started cooperating with Waberer’s, thanks to which the company doubled both the number of non-Budapest deliveries and of partners...
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More wholesalers and fewer farmers at the Budapest Wholesale Market
The Budapest Wholesale Market had opened in 1991 and last year 460,566 tons of produce was sold there by farmers and wholesalers. In the last 27 years the number of seller...
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Quality work done at BA-HA-MA’S
BA-HA-MA’S Kft. was established in 1994. In 2017 the most important market change for the company was the poultry VAT cut in the retail trade sector and the hospitality VAT reduction in...
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ANGRO launches online store with more young partners in mind
ANGRO Nagykereskedelmi Kft. launched its online shop in 2017 – by using this retailer partners can save time and energy. Managing director György Rokszin’s experience is that there are more and more...
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New vehicles reflect METRO’s image elements even better
METRO is changing its vehicle fleet: Peugeot 208 models are gradually replacing the cars in the current fleet throughout the year. The new vehicles will bear METRO’s image elements in a...
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Here are the most successful marketers
The Marketing & Media magazine has compiled the top list of most successful home marketers for the third time this year. This year, nearly a quarter of the rankings changed,...
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SPAR is the sponsor of the U18 European Athletics Championships
There is barely a month left until the U18 European Athletics Championship, which starts in Győr on 5 July. The SPAR International has been a major sponsor of European Athletics...
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Leadership change at PwC Magyarország and in the company’s regional management as well
Nick Kós becomes the leader of PwC’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) region of 29 countries from 1 July 2018, who leaves PwC Magyarország’s CEO post after six years. His...
Read moreThe Agrokémia Sellye Zrt. will expand its capacity from more than half a billion HUF
The Agrokémia Sellye Zrt. – manufacturer of – plant protection products is expanding its capacity with more than half a billion forints investment – the company informed MTI. According to...
Read moreProlonged Sitting Tied to Brain Atrophy
Prolonged periods of sitting in middle age is tied to brain atrophy, new research shows. Using MRI, investigators found sedentary behavior is a significant predictor of medial temporal lobe (MTL)...
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The World’s 50 Best Restaurants – Video of the day
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018 list, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, has just been announced....
Read moreThe Hungarian Cuisine Balaton 2018 has been released with gastro map
The Hungarian Cuisine Balaton 2018 that collects the best restaurants, wineries, confectioneries, beach bars and markets of the Balaton region was published with the gastronomic map of the Balatoni Kör....
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Two billion forints remained on the SZÉP Cards after the deadline expired
Until the end of the May deadline, beneficiaries spent nearly the 98 percent of the amount uploaded onto the Széchenyi Rest (SZÉP) Cards two years ago. On the cards issued...
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More modern baths are needed
There is no longer any need for capacity expansion in the Hungarian bathing sector, rather for energetic modernization, environmentally consciousness and the raising of service standards – the new CEO...
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Let them play too …
Event – The BizBash Expo in Los Angeles is a trade show for event organisers, catering and marketing enterprises. We have collected some of the excellent ideas showcased there, from the fortune...
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This is how we like our coffee
Espresso with a bit of milk – this is how the typical Hungarian (72 percent) drinks their coffee, according to a representative questionnaire survey conducted by Swiss company JURA. Almost four...
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The tastes of our two most ancient drinks combined
A really innovative product, called O.Vine and made by Israeli startup Wine Water, has debuted at the Fancy Food Show in New York. O.Vine mixes the natural essence of grapes with...
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World’s first plastic-free grocery aisle opens in Amsterdam
Dutch grocery chain Ekoplaza has installed an entirely plastic-free supermarket aisle in its Amsterdam store, to help shoppers cut down on plastic packaging. They realised the project in partnership with British...
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Aldi and Lidl accept the challenge
Aldi and Lidl have reacted to the merger of Sainsbury’s and Asda that caused quite an excitement in British retail. After Sainsbury’s had announced that basic goods would become 10...
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Cash-free payment in Iper hypermarkets in Italy
Italian hypermarket chain Iper launched a cash-free payment service in all 27 stores. The platform is called Jiffy, it can be used via smartphone and requires shoppers to have a...
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Blockchain-based payment system – now in an app, too
British online payment platform Nuggets can now also be used in the form of a mobile app. The ‘Alpha’ app runs only on iOS at the moment. Nuggets utilises blockchain...
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Lidl enters the Serbian market
Lidl Srbija has opened its first logistics centre – built from EUR 55 million – in Nova Pazova. The first Lidl discount supermarket will also open this year and 15...
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Pseudocone
One of the promising conclusions that can be drawn from Hungarian ice cream contests is that Hungarian confectioners are creative, but even the elite – the 10-15 percent who are...
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Kellogg’s to leave Venezuela
Kellogg’s has decided to quit the Venezuelan market due to the deepening economic recession. Kellogg’s isn’t the first multinational company to take this step, as a strict price freeze policy...
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Tesco UK to ban non-recyclable plastic packaging
Tesco UK has informed suppliers that from 2019 they will only sell products in recyclable plastic packaging. PVC, polystyrene, PLA and water soluble organic plastic packagings will all be banned....
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Spar enters the Maltese market
Spar International has teamed up with the local Azzopardi Group to open its first supermarket in Marsaxlokk. Spar Malta plans to open 3 more shops this year and altogether 23...
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