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Nébih: more than 300 thousand tons of food are wasted every year in Hungary
In Hungary, people waste more than 300,000 tons of food every year. The monetary value of the loss exceeds 170 billion HUF, which is 18,000 HUF per person. Food waste...
Read moreMuesli is immune to the economic effects of a coronavirus pandemic
Although the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has led to declining sales in several confectionery product categories, muesli, which has consistently shown the fastest growth with biscuits in the...
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According to the company managers, the Hungarian economy may be cash-free in the foreseeable future
The financial digitization was significantly accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic in Hungary, and according to the company executives interviewed by Intrum, the cash-free economy is also within reach. However, the...
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Diet Coke – Unsung pandemic heroes can get a year of free soda
Diet Coke lets people reward unsung pandemic heroes with a year of free soda. Anybody can be nominated to win the soft drinks and the mini-fridge. Part of the brand’s...
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Professional organizations are demanding the lifting of the tightening of the kata
Several professional advocacy organizations are asking the parliament to withdraw the tightening of the kata (itemized tax for small tax companies) effective from 2021 and to discuss the 7 +...
Read moreRetail sales grew much more than expected in the United States in September
In September, retail sales in the United States saw a larger-than-expected three-month increase in the United States, according to a Friday report by the Census Bureau, a statistical institute in...
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The masters of thirst-quenching
The functional drink category had been growing and strengthening before it suffered a blow because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. There was one exception though, the...
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Special lecture for 2020 World Food Day
The global World Food Day ceremony in Rome introduced by FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and featuring high-level participants from around the world was followed by a lecture from Joachim von...
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Magazine: Cleanliness is more important than ever before!
Zsuzsa Petrikovics, brand manager of Unilever Magyarország Kft. reported to Trade magazin that sales in the cleaning product category grew by a single-digit number in 2019. Then in March-April 2020...
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Another program is helping to promote fish consumption
The Ministry of Agriculture pays special attention to fish quality issues and to the recognition of excellent fish products, which also includes the creation of geographical indications and the development...
Read moreAgriculture: on the road to the digital revolution
The present and future of agriculture can be shaped by two factors. On the one hand, the use of data-driven digital technologies and, on the other hand, the widespread use...
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A different Black Friday to come
This Black Friday will be different. There will be surprises elsewhere besides the Christmas tree. No big jump is expected as before. And in the summer months, webshop shopping also...
Read moreAn agreement on uniform taxation of the digital economy could be reached next summer
Today, the finance ministers of the G20 countries are discussing the package of proposals announced recently by the OECD, which aims to tax the digital economy and introduce a uniform...
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Aldi is among the top retailers for delivery
Ipsos published its first E-Commerce Experience Report which surveyed the US retailers on their e-commerce activities concerning in-store and curbside pickup and delivery services. The report surveyed 2,000 Americans on...
Read moreEntrepreneur tax benefits to come
Varga Mihály submitted a draft law containing tax relief to the Parliament. Among other things, there are measures such as raising the value limit of the small business tax or...
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The real punishment does not come by check
Thanks to years of efforts, the number of personal injury accidents caused by drunkenness has been steadily declining, but statistics from the period during the coronavirus show that drunk drivers...
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Development has its cost
According to a recent UN survey, the number of undernourished people grew by almost 60 million in the last 5 years. FAO economist (commodity and trade) Cheng Fang told: in...
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Magazine: Cured meat products are preparing for the autumn
Prices increased in the market of cured meat products last year, but this trend was accompanied by a 1-percent decline in volume sales. Due to the swine fever in China,...
Read moreStores: higher wages, but smaller staff
And fewer shops. The first wave of the pandemic, which closed the stores, pushed down the wages of sellers, while the reopening in May pushed it back – blokkk.com wrote....
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Nébih: the European food safety alert system hardly includes Hungarian products
According to the European Commission’s annual report, only a fraction of the more than four thousand food safety notifications published in the Food and Feed Alert System (RASFF) on concerned...
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Hungarian researchers produced milk replacer products from eggs
An embryo that develops in an egg has all the conditions to hatch a healthy bird, and in human nutrition, the egg is a balanced source of most of the...
Read moreThe size of ecoregions has doubled in five years
What the future will bring? An online conference titled Trends and Challenges in Sustainable Agriculture was organized by the Ecological Agricultural Research Institute (ÖMKi). The meeting revealed that in 2019...
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Billions of support for Hungarian livestock farmers
The Ministry of Agriculture announced a tender with a budget of 2 billion HUF for the development of disease control systems in poultry and pig farms – agrarszektor.hu wrote. Under...
Read moreCorn is harvested in Tolna with a high average yield
Due to the rains in July and August, 8.9 tons of corn per hectare were harvested in Tolna County with a high average yield, approaching half of the harvest, the...
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How to make a big bang for an innovation?
Many people think that the key to truly successful innovation is the big, world-saving idea. However, according to Dr. Mérő László, this is by no means the case: success depends...
Read moreThe WTO has allowed the imposition of European criminal duties on US products
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has allowed the European Union to penalize a U.S. products in a value of 4 billion USD, due to providing illegal subsidies to U.S. aircraft...
Read moreIMF expects a smaller economic downturn this year than before
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is signaling a less deep global economic downturn this year than its previous forecast, but expects a lengthy and cumbersome improvement, so it has also...
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Half a Christmas tree can come into vogue
An old-new craze is conquering the U.S., just over two months before this year’s Christmas: the cut-out Christmas trees have emerged, taking the category of space-saving festive pine to a...
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TikTok deal could affect 2021 ad plans
Almost three quarters (73%) of marketing executives said a deal for Oracle and Walmart to buy TikTok would affect their advertising plans for 2021, according to a survey that online...
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COVID-19: In quarantine abroad
Four FMCG managers talked to our magazine about the days they had spent in quarantine abroad during the coronavirus pandemic. Eszter Rajz (from now on abbreviated as RE) works for...
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