Events

Nebih warns of a closed disease control

Bird flu continues to occur sporadically in Europe, so poultry keepers have to keep their plants closed due to disease control – the statement from the National Food Chain Safety...

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Waitrose & Partners To Expand Its Vegan Range

Upmarket retailer Waitrose & Partners has announced plans to add more than 30 new vegan items to its private-label and branded product ranges. The new range, available in a new...

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Continente Opens First Supermarket With Plastic-Free Area

Sonae MC has opened its first supermarket in Portugal to adopt a single-use plastic free policy in its fruit and vegetable section. The policy has been rolled out in the...

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Waitrose Marks 10 Years Of Sustainable Tuna In Own-Brand Products

Waitrose & Partners has announced that it is 10 years since the retailer pledged to offer sustainably caught tuna for its private-label products. Waitrose also claimed that it is the...

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Venchi Introduces Smart Packaging For Chocolates

Italian gourmet chocolate manufacturer Venchi has secured €3.2 million in financing for its intelligent packaging project, media reports suggest. The financing, obtained from the Piedmont Region and Ministry of Economic...

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Tesco To Sell ‘Ugly’ Potatoes To Help Flood-Hit Farmers

UK retailer Tesco has announced that it has introduced potatoes sourced from the flood-hit farmers in the eastern region in collaboration with supplier Branston. The floods have resulted in lower...

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(HU) Díjmentes belépő a Sirha Budapest kiállításra

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MA-HAL: 30 to 35 percent of annual fish consumption occurs at the end of the year

30-35 percent of annual fish consumption falls to the end of the year, a spokesman for the Hungarian Aquaculture and Fisheries Trade Organization (MA-HAL) told M1 news channel. Lévai Ferenc...

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The European Parliament would tighten up the protection of bees

On Wednesday, the European Parliament called for stricter regulation on the protection of bees and other pollinators by the European Commission. The resolution adopted in Strasbourg calls for more targeted...

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The Health Fairy Monsters arrived to the kids

The first story of the Health Fairy Tales series has been published, with tens of thousands of copies were distributed to 50 kindergartens and schools before the holidays with the...

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Countdown has begun: the final of S.Pellegrino Young Chef comes in 2020

S.Pellegrino announces finalists for S.Pellegrino Young Chef International Culinary Talent Research. Launched in 2015, the competition aims to support the future of gastronomy by helping culinary talent. This year, the...

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About 700,000 tourists visit Prague in December

About 700,000 tourists booked accomodiations in Prague in December. That’s 4.5 percent more than in December 2018 – the Prague City Tourism (PCT) company announced on Thursday. According to the...

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Hungaricool winners: Top culinary products on the shelves of Interspar stores

In the following we present the 10 winners from the 269 entries in the Hungaricool product innovation competition organised by SPAR with professional support from the Agricultural Marketing Centre. Heart...

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Fisheries organization: plentiful supply of fish, price changes are not expected

The festive fish supply is plentiful as the weather is favorable for farming and consumer prices are unchanged, compared to last year – the spokesman of the Hungarian Aquaculture and...

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Negotiations on the new Common Agricultural Policy will continue in Brussels next year

At the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on Monday, EU agriculture ministers agreed that further negotiations on the details of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were needed and that an...

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The price of coffee jumped to heights has not seen for years

Coffee futures quotes have seen an overnight increase since 2015 – origo wrote. However, this is not a big surprise when we consider that commodity prices have increased by 38...

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More than one hundred million forints of fake branded clothes were seized on M43

More than nine thousands of fake branded clothes in a value of over seven million forints were seized by a National Tax and Customs (NAV) authority in a Truck on...

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Angel Shoe Box action sets record for helping Transylvanian needy

This year a record amount of 730 shoe boxes and fifty kilograms of durable foods have been collected by the Three Kings, Three Princess Movements, together with the Hungarian Scout...

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The Brits also enter the Chinese pork export competition

The Asian country is severely affected by African swine fever, a quarter of the herd has been killed or had to be slaughtered, leading to a surge in pork prices,...

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VR application teaches you how to wash hands properly

Adherence to hand hygiene rules can reduce nursing and school absenteeism by half, while healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 70 percent. Virtual technology can help in this...

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In Germany, business sentiment improved in December

Business sentiment in Germany improved more than expected in December, according to a study by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. The improvement is another...

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Prices in the euro area have risen

Consumer prices in the euro area increased year-on-year in November, in line with analysts’ expectations. Final figures released by the European Union Bureau of Statistics (Eurostat) on Wednesday show that...

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Spar Aims To Raise €400,000 For Make-A-Wish

Spar has announced Make-A-Wish as its new national charity partner for the next two years, vowing to raise up to €400,000 for the Children’s Charity through collection boxes in more...

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Finnish Plastic-Free Drinking Straw Attracts Funding To Scale Up

Finland’s Stora Enso said its biodegradable drinking straws aimed at tackling the world’s plastic waste were now on sale to European customers, while its developer, Sulapac, had raised funds to...

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Nestlé Portugal Invests €11m In Organic Snacks Production Line For Babies

Nestlé has announced that it has invested around €11 million in a new production line for organic snacks for babies in its facility in Avanca in Portugal. The new line...

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Hungaricool: With product innovation for the development of the food industry

There was extraordinarily great interest in SPAR’s product innovation competition Hungaricool, which was implemented with support from the Agricultural Marketing Centre (AMC). From the 269 entries the 10 winner products...

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The Trade Parliament was in session (Part 2)

On Thursday the day’s topic was hypermarkets, discounters, drugstores and e-commerce. The moderators of the day’s work were Zoltán Fekete, secretary general of Branded Goods Association Hungary and HD Group’s...

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We eat apples in winter

Hungary does not need to import apples at all, due to the high quality and high yields of apples – magyarhirlap.hu wrote. In the winter season, apples are favored by...

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Századvég: economic growth can be 5 percent this year

The Századvég Economic Researcher expects the Hungarian economy to grow close to or even 5 percent in 2019, one of the highest growth rates among EU countries. Slower growth of...

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Nébih: baking margarines met food safety considerations

Baking margarines are good from a food safety standpoint, but labeling deficiencies have been reported by the National Food Chain Safety Authority (Nébih) in this year’s closing test of the...

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