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Hungarian restaurant franchise in Europe
Makery restaurant has been open in Budapest for 5 years, and the eatery with the do-it-yourself concept is now building a franchise network in European cities. The project started a...
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Nature Box Power Shot
The most intensive Nature Box care formula so far! Intensive care for damaged and stressed hair with 5 times more cold pressed oil*. 99 percent of ingredients are natural and the packaging...
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Douwe Egberts OMNIA 3in1 speciality
Douwe Egberts OMNIA has been in the market for 50 years, providing consumers with high quality coffee that offers fresh and intense taste. Thanks to the 3in1 format, the product...
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New presidency for KÖZSZÖV
At the July annual general meeting the National Association of Public Sector Catering Service Providers (KÖZSZÖV) elected new presidency members. President Anikó Rózsás resigned, so the presidency elected a new...
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Food truck = green thinking
Food trucks have found themselves in a special situation during the pandemic, but it seems that few operators were able to capitalise on their market advantages in Hungary. Perhaps they...
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Practice rights and market protection
According to László Kovács, president of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI), practice rights should be applied in the hospitality sector, just like in other trades. This way it would...
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More than just a gesture
Diageo and its Hungarian distributor Zwack Unicum helped 508 partners with the reopening: 178 Budapest and 330 country bars and pubs were given a gift box with a bottle of...
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Lucullus Ground Coriander 15 g, Lucullus ardamom 7 g
In 2021 two new products were added to the Lucullus ‘Special Product Range’. Cardamom is widely used in Indian, Arab and African cuisine. It can add flavour not only to...
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Problems and solutions in the restaurant business
Rudolf Semsei, the owner of Vakvarjú restaurants and Budapest Party Service told our magazine that home delivery sales dropped significantly since the reopening, so when the VAT returned to normal,...
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Festive treats with behind-the-scene secrets
Hungary’s flour market doesn’t depend on end-of-years sales, mainly because of the level of industrial flour utilisation. In retail trade demand is growing for small-sized and special flours. Sales of...
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Unilever’s factory modernised with environmental considerations in mind
Unilever Magyarország Kft. completed the first round of modernisation at its Nyírbátor factory, where drug products are made. The company invested HUF 5 billion in the project that expanded the...
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HelloFresh to enter the Norwegian market
Meal kit company HelloFresh SE is entering the Norwegian market. Following the group’s successful launches in Sweden and Denmark, the Norwegian market – with approximately 2.5 million households – offers...
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Lucart doubles storage capacity and introduces innovative palletising robots
In July Lucart Kft.’s new, nearly 4,600m² warehouse opened, doubling the company’s storage capacity to approximately 10,000 pallets. The company also installed innovative palletising robots in its Nyergesújfalu facility. Managing...
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Refresco likely to buy German company Hansa-Heemann
Bottling firm Refresco has concluded an agreement to buy family-owned German mineral water and carbonated soft drinks company, Hansa-Heemann. The acquisition forms part of Refresco’s buy-and-build strategy, which seeks to consolidate...
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Altria Group plans to sell wine business for 1.2 billion dollars
Altria Group Inc wants to sell its Ste. Michelle Wine Estates business to private equity firm Sycamore Partners for USD 1.2 billion, because the tobacco company seeks to concentrate its...
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Lidl to put animal welfare label on sausages
German discounter Lidl is putting animal welfare labels on sausages sold under its private-label Metzgerfrisch. The label indicates the level of animal husbandry standards in the supply chain and helps...
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Wine chocolate, bubbly chocolate and medical sweets
All over the world people celebrated World Chocolate Day on 7 July. On this occasion the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office collected the most interesting chocolate-related patents from the last 125...
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Poland’s Żabka launches new parcel service
Polish retailer Żabka is introducing a new service: customers can drop a parcel at a Żabka store addressed to an individual for pick up. Users only need to submit a...
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Nébih completes study on the double standards in food quality
By analysing more than 300 products, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) compared 117 product pairs and trios between 2018 and 2021. The goal of the EU-funded project was to...
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Continente unveils soups without added salt
Portuguese retailer Continente has expanded its Equilíbrio soup range to include products without added salt, colourings or preservatives. The soups are produced in Portugal, using quality fresh vegetables and extra...
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Delhaize rolls out wine in paper bottle in Belgium
Delhaize Belgium has rolled out a new wine in an innovative bottle made of recycled paper: Planet B wine comes in a so-called ’Frugal bottle’, made of 94 percent recycled...
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Smurfit Kappa buys Mexican company Cartonbox
Smurfit Kappa Group has acquired Cartonbox, a folding carton company situated in Monterrey, Mexico. The acquisition sees the group strengthen its participation in the paper packaging solutions business in Mexico:...
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AB InBev to open a marketplace in Brussels
In partnership with real estate developer Extensa, brewer AB InBev plans to open a food market at Gare Maritime in Brussels this autumn. There will be 10 restaurants, covered terraces...
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Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese makers oppose NutriScore
Producers of Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano cheese in Italy have joined forces to oppose the nutritional labelling system NutriScore. The cheese producers say: the system is misleading and deceptive,...
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Albert Heijn adds new products to the Streeckgenoten range
Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has added nine fish products to its private label range Streeckgenoten. The packaging of the new SKUs features the places and fishing companies where the Streeckgenoten...
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Mere stocks up before opening first UK store
Russian discount chain Mere is set to open its first UK store in Preston. The discounter is now accepting deliveries of stock as it continues preparing for the opening. More...
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Sainsbury’s to spend 50 million pounds on cutting prices
Sainsbury’s plans to invest about GBP 50 million in cutting the prices of 60 popular products (fresh produce, meat and milk). The cheaper prices – which according to Sainsbury’s could...
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Kaufland launches private label called K-Wertschätze
German retailer Kaufland has launched a new private label range called K-Wertschätze, which concentrates on high animal welfare standards. The brand highlights the retailer’s commitment to improving the living condition...
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Efficiency, scent and something extra
In 2020 the value of the laundry detergent market increased by 2.5 percent, which was much less than the +7.2 percent in 2019; volume sales stagnated last year – informed...
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Paymenttools: A new payment technology unit by REWE Group
Germany’s REWE Group has announced: they are going to launch paymenttools.com, a payment technology subsidiary to drive the group’s digital business. Based in Cologne, the company will develop a B2B payment...
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