Events
Consumer prices have risen in Europe’s largest economy
Date: 2018-11-14 11:01:49
The increase in consumer prices boosted to six-and-a-half-year peak in Germany in October. The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Tuesday that the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP)...
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FAO: Declining international prices to ease food import burden for poorest countries
Date: 2018-11-14 10:19:34
Declining international agricultural commodity prices should ease the bill the world’s poorest countries pay for food imports, although the strengthening U.S. dollar poses “serious concerns”, a new United Nations report...
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Magazine: Consumers are more conscious, but they still have a lot to learn
Date: 2018-11-14 07:04:47
Although the market of functional foods keeps growing, it isn’t sill fully clear yet what products belong to this category. The general interpretation is that those foods are functional which...
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Nearly one million Hungarians are considered to be snacking addicts
Date: 2018-11-13 11:50:01
In October, the Mogyi-Caramoon carried out its research on snacking with the participation of more than 1000 participants. When, what and why do we eat snacks? – these were the...
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Nagy István: there is no successful agriculture without successful food processing
Date: 2018-11-13 11:32:19
There is no successful agriculture without successful food processing – the food industry is a strategic sector, a key task as well as its complex development, to which the government...
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Export momentum has continued to decline
Date: 2018-11-13 11:30:33
In September, exports in euro declined by 2.3 percent, while imports rose 6.3 percent. Foreign trade surplus was 268 million euros, 699 million euros less than a year before –...
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The Olympic Swimmer takes part in the dairy products promotional campaign
Date: 2018-11-13 11:12:48
Kenderesi Tamás held a milk drinking contest at a primary school to draw attention to the importance of drinking dairy products. The Olympic bronze medalist and European champion silver and...
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Increased weight and height will require more food
Date: 2018-11-13 11:09:22
It will be more difficult to supply food to the Earth’s estimated population of 9 billion by 2050, as an average person will need more food in terms of height...
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Almost two billion forints of government subsidies were granted to SMEs for job creation
Date: 2018-11-13 11:07:51
Nearly two billion forints non-refundable subsidies have been received by 141 businesses in the framework of a support for job-creating investment among the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises – the...
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85,000 euros was paid for a white truffle
Date: 2018-11-13 11:05:08
The owner of a Hong Kong restaurant paid 85,000 euros for 850 grams of a special white truffle at an auction in Alba, Piedmont – index wrote. This auction is...
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European Court of Justice: the taste of a food can not be protected by copyright
Date: 2018-11-13 11:02:49
The taste of a food can not be protected by copyright, as it is not yet possible to identify it precisely and objectively, so it can not be distinguished from...
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Magazine: Candy – yes, sugar – no
Date: 2018-11-13 07:18:50
Sales are on the rise again in the candy market – it was revealed at a roundtable discussion organised by the Association of Hungarian Confectionery Manufacturers on 3 July. New...
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KSH: Hungarians spend the most on food and non-alcoholic beverages
Date: 2018-11-12 11:45:14
The average monthly average per capita spending of the Hungarian population was 88,600 HUF in the first half of this year, 8.8 percent more than in the same period of...
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The change in prices of vegetables and oil has spurned inflation
Date: 2018-11-12 11:40:23
The 2.7 percent inflation in the first nine months of the year can be explained by the price change of seasonal vegetables and the international rise in oil prices –...
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Raiffeisen: the growth of the Hungarian economy may be above 2 percent in 2020 and will be 3.5 percent next year
Date: 2018-11-12 11:30:54
Raiffeisen Bank analysts expect a slowdown in economic growth in the coming years: while this year’s GDP growth is expected to exceed 4 percent, next year it will fall to...
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The Tócóskert market was handed over in Debrecen
Date: 2018-11-12 11:08:35
One of the most important investments of the viable city program of the New Phoenix Project was the Tócóskert market in Debrecen, which was handed over by the mayor of...
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Coffee consumption can protect against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Date: 2018-11-12 11:07:17
According to a Canadian research, coffee consumption can provide a certain degree of protection against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease – the ScienceDaily.com online science portal wrote. A new study out...
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Nébih: African swine fever appeared again in Bihar County, Romania
Date: 2018-11-12 11:05:34
The presence of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in Bihar County in Romania, while some part of the protection and surveillance districts were extended to Hajdú-Bihar County –...
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The consumer sentiment deteriorated in November in the United States
Date: 2018-11-12 11:02:47
The Consumer Sentiment Index of the University of Michigan and the Reuters news agency decreased but became better than expected in November in the United States. In November, the consumer...
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Except for beet, harvesting of autumn arable crops has been completed
Date: 2018-11-09 11:45:53
With the exception of sugar beet, the harvest of arable field crops has been completed. The country has safe supply of maize, sunflower and soybean yields and significant quantities can...
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390 thousand tonnes of grapes have been harvested by farmers
Date: 2018-11-09 11:40:58
According to Tarpataki Tamás, Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture; until now, 390 thousand tonnes of grapes have been harvested with a111.6 per hectare yields per hectare,...
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Food sales increased the most in Hungarian online commerce
Date: 2018-11-09 11:38:40
Online food trade is the fastest growing area of Hungarian trade – was said at the Agora Professional Conference in Budapest where the experts of the sector spoke about the...
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Extreme Digital: domestic e-commerce sales in November are expected to be higher than in December
Date: 2018-11-09 11:33:25
Thanks to the black Friday sales, the November sales of e-commerce in Hungary are expected to be higher than the December sales – Várkonyi Balázs, executive director of Extreme Digital...
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The European Commission has improved its GDP growth forecast for this year and for the next year
Date: 2018-11-09 11:30:53
The European Commission has improved the Hungarian economy’s growth forecast for this year and for the next year – in its autumn prognosis published by the European Commission. The analysts...
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The 20-year-old Budapest Advent and Christmas Fair opened its gates
Date: 2018-11-09 11:13:08
The 20-year-old Budapest Advent and Christmas Fair on Vörösmarty Square await the visitors from Friday, until the 1st of January, with traditional gastronomic offerings of the Carpathian Basin, festive cultural...
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The income generating capacity of the honey sector should be increased
Date: 2018-11-09 11:11:49
Hungarian honey, in terms of its quality, belongs to the highest category in the world, and it could significantly increase the income generation capacity of the honey industry – Nagy...
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Magazine: Once upon a time…Business Days 2018 (Part 1)
Date: 2018-11-09 07:26:25
This year we invited partners to tell and listen to fairytales at the Business Days conference in Tapolca, which was organised in cooperation with the Chain Bridge Club. Between 25...
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