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Aldi’s Polish expansion
Aldi is planning to open seven stores in Poland in September, as it intends to have 200 units across the country by the end of the year. The discounter has...
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Foodpanda enters the Hungarian market
From the end of September NetPincér continues under the foodpanda name: it has become a member of the Delivery Hero group’s company. The owners have remained the same and customers...
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Swiss company Emmi to buy US feta cheese brand Athenos
Swiss dairy company Emmi has bought US feta cheese company Athenos from Lactalis Group for an undisclosed sum. This step will help Emmi to strengthen its position in the US...
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Somlói Juhfark Festival 2021
In October Tornai Winery hosted the Somlói Juhfark Festival for the 6th time in Somló. Participants had the chance to taste 28 wines from 17 wineries – all of them...
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Lidl Serbia promotes local products with new private label
Lidl Serbia has recently launched a new private label brand, S ljubavlju, domaće (With love, local), consisting of about 80 products made by local producers. Lidl says the new product range...
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International recognition for Hungarian chocolate
Bonbonier Csokoládé Manufaktúra’s pistachio, Peruvian chocolate and salted caramel chocolate won a star at this year’s Great Taste Awards. The company’s chocolatier Nóra Erdélyi told: the biggest task was finding...
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Czech retailer Albert introduces digital price tags in more stores
Until the end of the year Czech retailer Albert plans to introduce digital price tags in another ten stores. The retailer has already installed more than 500,000 electronic price tags...
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Bulgaria’s Fantastico Group opens new store and entertainment complex in Pernik
Bulgarian retailer Fantastico Group (established in 1991) has unveiled a new multi-use retail and entertainment complex in Pernik. The new 10,753m² complex opened in August and took 10 months to...
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Order and payment trends in the summer
In the summer the average Hungarian spent HUF 3,500 on breakfast delivered to their door, they ordered lunch for HUF 4,000 and supper for HUF 4,200 on average. The food...
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Polish beer brand Żubr helps Biebrza National Park
Żubr has started a long-term cooperation with the Biebrza National Park in order to reclaim the land on its territory – about ٤٠ percent of the park is now privately...
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San Benedetto is still the No.1 non-alcoholic beverage in Italy
For the sixth year in a row, Acqua Minerale San Benedetto is the biggest player in the Italian non-alcoholic drink market. Fully Italian-owned company San Benedetto had a 16.3-percent market...
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It is good to compete and it is good to win!
Krisztián Füredi, head confectioner of Hisztéria in Tápiószecső won two of the three big cake competitions this year. Rose of Beszterce was inspired by the classic dessert Gerbaud cake, while...
Read moreAldi introduces first TikTok campaign
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have debuted with their first campaign on social media platform TikTok, with the groups teaming up with a number of influencers – who have nearly...
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Russia’s Yandex enters Paris with its Yango Deli service
Yango Deli is the name of Yandex’s online grocery service which makes its European debut in Paris. Yango Deli starts with four dark stores – strategically located around Paris –...
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Lidl Portugal rolls out canned wine
Lidl Portugal has launched two Portuguese canned wine products under its Adega Mãe brand – a rosé and a white wine. The discounter senses growing consumer demand for products that...
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What makes an ice cream successful?
Gergő Fehér won Ice Cream of the Year with his creation Bíborka. The self-taught confectioner works with one colleague in Cafe One in Békéscsaba. He learned ice cream making at...
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Netto Marken: NutriScore label on private label products
German discounter Netto Marken-Discount is extending the Nutri-Score label to both organic and conventional private label products. Thanks to this, customers will be able make better choices in terms of...
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Lidl Italia commits to further reduction in plastic use
As part of the Schwarz Group’s REset Plastic strategy, Lidl Italia has pledged to take further steps to reduce plastic packaging. The discounter seeks to achieve an average of 20...
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Minibar Delivery and 7-Eleven offer new service together
7-Eleven and alcohol delivery service Minibar Delivery have joined forces for a new service: delivering beer and wine to homes in select markets. The service will first launch in 600...
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Eating for Each Other!
The Hungarian Food Bank Association started the Eating for Each Other programme – which is already 10 years old – to help those people who can’t buy enough food: between...
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Irish Distillers launch Virtual Irish Whiskey Academy
In its Midleton distillery Irish Distillers launched an interactive education programme on the secrets and crafts of Irish whiskey production, called Virtual Irish Whiskey Academy. During the 3-hour course international...
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Germany’s Delivery Hero buys stake in British company Deliveroo
Germany’s Delivery Hero has acquired a 5.09 percent stake in online food delivery rival Deliveroo. Thanks to this, the UK-based company’s share price reached a new height since listing on...
Read moreAldi Süd: Customers can now also pay with Alipay
In Germany Aldi Süd is the first retailer in the stores of which mobile payment methods include Alipay too. Alipay’s popular QR code payment makes both shopping and payment easier...
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All private label yogurts are now organic at Plus
Dutch retail chain Plus has changed its entire private label yogurt range to organic. To expand its organic offering, the retailer introduced its private label Biologisch PLUS and enlarged its...
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Levente Lendvai finished 2nd in Paris
On 25 September the 2020 and 2021 Chaine young chef world championships took place in Paris at the same time – the former had been postponed because of the pandemic....
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Stereotypes proved wrong
Kifli.hu had conducted a survey in August 2021 that proved three stereotypes wrong. The first one was that city dwellers are the biggest online shoppers: the survey has found that...
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Infarm to open second vertical farm in the United Kingdom
German vertical farming start-up Infarm will set up a 9,760m² vertical farm in the UK, which will supply retailers in the greater London area and across southern and central UK...
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Just Eat Takeaway to hire 1,500 new workers
Just Eat Takeaway has ambitious growth plans as it plans to hire 1,500 new workers in the next 12 months. In the United Kingdom the rapid delivery food market is...
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Lidl opens its first service station shop in Portugal
In August Lidl opened its first store in a motorway service area in Oeiras – close to Lisbon – on the A5 motorway. The new store has a floor space...
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Acceptance, empathy, diversity
This year Starbucks had several initiatives that raised awareness of the importance of accepting and supporting each other. Besides sustainable and eco-friendly solutions, in 2021 the coffeehouse chain celebrated openness...
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