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Euro area GDP growth is on a four-year low
In the fourth quarter of last year, economic growth in the euro area stagnated at a four-year nadir, according to a preliminary estimate of the European Union’s Statistical Office, Eurostat,...
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The EU-Japan Trade Agreement comes into force
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement will come into force on 1 February, which will abolish the vast majority of customs duties of about 1 billion euros per year for the...
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(HU) GfK: Merre halad a magyar digitális fogyasztó?
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A new trend: in-store greenhouses
Auchan has teamed up with Agricooltour to grow herbs and lettuce in a Torino store, which the customers can pick themselves. The 30m² greenhouse was built in November 2018. Casino...
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The problems with cashless payment
A British study calls attention to the problems with cashless payment: ‘Access to Cash’ informs that in the United Kingdom the proportion of cash payments is 34 percent at the...
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Mobile payment platforms are spreading in Europe
After the US launch four years ago, Apple Pay is now available in Germany too. Partner companies already included Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank, Bunq and Boon, Comdirect, N26 and O2 banking....
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Portugal plans to make PET bottles returnable
The Portuguese government has launched a programme to encourage the return of non-reusable plastic bottles: a new bill states that from 1 January 2022 a system for the storage of...
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GKI: 2018 was probably the best year of the decade for Hungary
GKI estimates that Hungary’s GDP expanded by 4.6 per cent in 2018 and this rate was remarkably high in the EU. The growth cycle is likely to have reached its...
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Wrangling about the profit
At the end of January the European Commission (EC) decided to go to court about the Hungarian rules for the retail sales of agricultural and food products – the EC’s...
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Retail Decoded continues
Shop!’s podcast series already has six episodes: in the latest one Jean-Pierre Lacroix, president of the Toronto-based agency Shikatani Lacroix gives an insight into how artificial intelligence technology can be...
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nIm – milk in Klingonese
Fozzy Group, one of the biggest food retailers in Ukraine has opened a 1,170m² Star Trek-themed supermarket in Kharkiv. In the store product categories are also indicated in the Klingon...
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Magazine: Blockchain is waiting for retail to discover it
On 16 October the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK) organised a conference about the not yet utilised opportunities offered to retail by the blockchain technology. Zoltán Házi, the...
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More young people bought Christmas presents using apps
The latest report by Selectivv has revealed that more and more consumers are using some kind of smartphone app to buy gifts. In the last quarter of 2018 the number...
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How does the introduction of Payment Services Directive 2 in 2019 affect retailers?
The European Union gave a green light to the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in November 2017, which is basically a collection of regulatory technical standards (RTS) enabling consumers to...
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There is no one to carry out the digital revolution
Digital transformation affects basically the whole Hungarian SME sector, but only a few of these companies can exploit the opportunity created by the digital switchover, because there aren’t enough experts....
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GKI: Real estate market races without braking
n January of 2019, the GKI real estate indices for Budapest and Hungary stood at 9 and 11 points respectively. Budapest index decreased by almost 2, the national index rose...
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Nielsen: manufacturer brands and discount stores are the most popular in retail
Manufacturer brands and discount stores were the most popular participants of retail in 2018, according to the retail survey of Nielsen monitoring 90 food and 80 household chemicals and beauty...
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We are running out of domestic potatoes
According to the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 192.7 thousand tons of potatoes were produced on 8046 hectares last year. The average yield ranged from 13.4 to 50 tons – Világgazdaság...
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The Ministry of Agriculture is the partner of farmers in the apple issue
The Ministry of Agriculture (AM) wants to be a partner for apple growers to solve the apple market situation, but farmers need to decide how they want to produce in...
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KSH: the number of employed increased in the fourth quarter of last year
In October-December last year, the average number of employees was 4 million 481 thousand, 34 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of 15-64-year-olds increased by 0.7 percentage...
Read moreMore and more people are cooking pálinka at home
Hundreds of people bought the equipment needed for making home-made pálinka last year, so nearly 24,000 cauldrons have been registered by local authorities in recent years – Magyar Idők wrote....
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Cash-saving program to be started at fifteen schools
With the involvement of fifteen educational institutions, a cash-saving school program will start for students and parents in the semester that is just starting – the Director of Education at...
Read moreGfK’s German consumer sentiment index has improved
Instead of the expected decline, the consumer sentiment index of GfK’s Nürnberg Institute for Economic Research improved in February in Germany, while consumer expectations and willingness to buy increased again,...
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A few pieces of stinking fruit were sold at an amazing price
Some special pieces of the Southeast Asian fruit, the Durian are sold in a hypermarket in an Indonesian city for gold prices. For a single piece, 14 million rupees, 1343...
Read moreUS employment data is over expectations
In contrast to the expected 178,000 people, 213,000 new jobs were created in the US private sector in January – portfolio.hu wrote afrter ADP. In addition to the better-than-expected developments,...
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Magazine: Vegetables perform better than fruits
Vegetables are grown on 83,000-85,000 hectares of land in Hungary, annual production is around 1,900-2,000 thousand tons and this represents a value of HUF 185-190 billion. According to Ferenc Ledó,...
Read moreAM: Hungary is opposed to make wine of inferior quality grape varieties
The European Commission would authorize wine production from decades forbidden vines, but Hungary opposes the proposal; a further 12 EU member states supported the Hungarian initiative to maintain the ban...
Read moreNagy István: reduction in rural development funds is unacceptable
The European Commission’s proposal to reduce Hungary’s rural development resources after 2021 by more than 26 percent is unacceptable – Nagy István, Minister of Agriculture said at the Agriculture and...
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The cultivation of GMO-free protein crop should be promoted due to the reduction of EU soy import dependency
The cultivation of GMO-free protein crop should be promoted due to the reduction of EU soy import dependency Hungary continues to be committed to genetically modified food (GMO) -free food...
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Nébih: the second installment of the food chain supervision fee should be paid by 31 January
The second installment of the 2018 food chain supervision fee should be paid by 31 January – the National Food Chain Safety Agency (Nébih) draws attention. The Authority recalled in...
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