Events
ALMA -The International School of Italian Cuisine
Date: 2020-02-11 10:11:47
Each young chef was carefully picked by ALMA -The International School of Italian Cuisine, where each of their signature dishes were assessed according to the same 3 criteria, the Golden...
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Lidl Belgium Introduces Digital Loyalty Card
Date: 2020-02-11 08:50:02
Lidl Belgium has announced that it has rolled out its first customer loyalty card through the Lidl Plus app. The loyalty programme will allow shoppers to receive their cash register...
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Coca-Cola Products Removed From Colruyt Shelves
Date: 2020-02-11 08:30:14
A number of Coca-Cola products have been temporarily removed from the shelves of retailer Colruyt, after the Belgian operator said that it had not reached agreement with the soft drink...
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Supermarket ‘dark stores’ dealing with online-only orders are “the future model of grocery in the UK”
Date: 2020-02-11 08:10:37
UK supermarkets are increasingly converting shop floor space into areas for online order fulfilment in their largest branches as rents continue to rise. ‘Dark stores’, areas attached to supermarkets which...
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Magazine: Consumer perception of innovations
Date: 2020-02-11 07:15:46
In the 2nd quarter of 2019 nominal value sales were up 7.7 percent from the level of the 1st quarter. The market share of discount supermarkets reached 28 percent –...
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(HU) A vendéglátás egyben országimázs is
Date: 2020-02-10 16:03:21
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New managing director for FÉSZ
Date: 2020-02-10 14:31:24
As of 1 January 2020 Attila Vörös is the new managing director of the Federation of Responsible Food Manufacturers (FÉSZ). Mr Vörös earned a degree in economics at Corvinus University...
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(HU) Új digitális program a UPS-től
Date: 2020-02-10 14:17:22
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New business model in e-commerce
Date: 2020-02-10 14:12:56
Webshippy launched a new service in 2020, called Dropshippy. Drop shipping is a business model, in which a retailer can operate an online shop without keeping goods in stock or...
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More digital information in the agri-food sector too
Date: 2020-02-10 14:06:38
On 12 February the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) hosted a conference at Szent István University in Gödöllő, titled ‘Digital Information Services and Technological Development’. Experts talked about 5G, IoT,...
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Auchan makes French operations simpler
Date: 2020-02-10 14:01:10
Auchan has announced 677 redundancies, which is about 17 percent of the total number of workers at its head office. The redundancies are part of a plan to save EUR...
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Online vagy? Védd magad! – Információbiztonsági programot indított a K&H
Date: 2020-02-10 13:29:05
A digitalizáció kényelmesebbé, egyszerűbbé, gyorsabbá teszi számtalan mindennapi tevékenységünket, azonban az online tér számos veszélyt is rejthet, ha nem vagyunk elég elővigyázatosak, elég csak az adathalász kísérletekre vagy hackertámadásokra gondolnunk....
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Colgate to buy US vegan toothpaste company
Date: 2020-02-10 13:24:17
Colgate-Palmolive Co would like to buy Hello Products LLC, a company that makes eco-friendly and animal cruelty-free toothpastes – some of which are infused with hemp seed oil. This step...
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Nestlé launches plant-based sausages
Date: 2020-02-10 13:24:16
Nestlé will launch plant-based sausages that look, taste, and cook like their meat-based counterparts in Europe and the United States. In Europe the food giant will introduce the soy-based Garden Gourmet...
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Tesco removes plastic from canned food multipacks
Date: 2020-02-10 13:16:11
Tesco has announced: they will remove plastic packaging from tinned multipacks from 2 March. Plastic packaging will be banned across Tesco’s multipack private label and branded products such as Heinz and Beanz....
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Aldi opens 6 new stores in Scotland in 2020
Date: 2020-02-10 13:15:54
Aldi has announced plans to open 6 stores in Scotland this year, as it continues its expansion across the UK. The discount supermarket’s new GBP 25 million storage and chill...
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Coca-Cola to spend 1 billion euros in 5 years on French operations
Date: 2020-02-10 13:04:30
Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) are to invest up to a EUR 1 billion over the next 5 years in its French operations. The investment will include the introduction...
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Amazon considers opening stores in Germany
Date: 2020-02-10 13:04:26
Amazon.com is considering opening stores in Germany, its second biggest market after the United States. Amazon already operates stores in the USA and the UK, including the Whole Foods grocery...
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Spar Italy opens renovated distribution centre
Date: 2020-02-10 13:04:23
Spar Italy’s partner Aspiag Service has recently invested EUR 1.6 million into renovating the logistics centre in Udine – this caters to Emilia-Romagna, the North East and the westernmost regions of...
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Walmart trials new technology to beat Amazon and Kroger
Date: 2020-02-10 12:57:46
Walmart has been piloting a new technology called Alphabot. It is designed to enable quicker picking of online grocery orders at store level. The Alphabot system operates inside a 1,860m²...
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Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France until 2022
Date: 2020-02-10 12:57:42
Discounter Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France by 2022, following its busiest year for new store openings in the country. Since 2012 Lidl has invested...
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Mastercard opens European Cyber Resilience Centre
Date: 2020-02-10 12:49:48
Mastercard has announced that it is developing its first European Cyber Resilience Centre, a state-of-the-art cyber and security centre in Europe. The new centre will drive collaboration between the public...
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NAV doesn’t slow down with digital development
Date: 2020-02-10 12:36:04
At a conference organised by EY Szabolcs Czöndör, head of department of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) told: They have started preparing for the introduction of the standard...
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Last year’s online shopping trends in Hungary
Date: 2020-02-10 12:27:40
The high season for online shops have remained Black Friday and the period before Christmas, but Valentine’s Day and Halloween are also occasions when Hungarians do a bit of online...
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Ingenico integrates the Apple Pay support of loyalty programmes
Date: 2020-02-10 12:19:00
Ingenico Group has announced that they started to integrate the Apple Pay support of loyalty and coupon programmes into payment terminals in the USA and in Canada. The popularity of...
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Hungarian Product gets the year going with momentum in retail chains
Date: 2020-02-10 12:12:28
Managing director Eszter Benedek told that Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. is implementing a wobbler campaign in Auchan stores this February and October, calling shoppers’ attention to products bearing the trademark....
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Coca-Cola urges consumers for recycling with soft drink caps
Date: 2020-02-10 11:56:06
Coca-Cola Magyarország is about to start a nationwide campaign for popularising selective waste collection. As part of this, there will be a graphic design urging for recycling on the caps...
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Swine fever is an advantage for domestic livestock farmers
Date: 2020-02-10 11:50:48
In some of our neighbors, African swine fever has caused significant economic damage, but domestic farmers have faced unprecedented opportunities thanks to the preservation of their herds. The rise in...
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New leader for Henkel’s Beauty Care division in Hungary
Date: 2020-02-10 11:47:02
As of 1 February 2020, Zsuzsanna Szak took over the leadership of Henkel Hungary’s Beauty Care division from Ottó Németh. Ms Szak earned a degree in economics at the Budapest...
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Tesco trains and retrains thousands of people a year
Date: 2020-02-10 11:40:45
Last year more than 3,400 workers were trained or retrained at the Tesco Academy – the retail chain announced in a press release on 24 January. The biggest part of...
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