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Rema 1000 Collaborates With Schulstad To Fight Food Waste
Rema 1000 has announced that it has joined forces with Danish bakery giant Schulstad to prevent food waste by encouraging customers to use leftover bread as an ingredient in their...
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Nestlé To Launch KitKat Gold In Europe
Nestlé has announced plans to roll out KitKat Gold across Europe and other selected countries throughout 2020. KitKat Gold is a combination of crispy wafer and smooth milk chocolate, topped...
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FrieslandCampina Adds €24m To Its Annual Sustainability Budget
FrieslandCampina has announced an additional annual investment of €24 million to improve sustainability practices in the dairy farms of its farmer members. The extra investment is in line with the...
Read moreState wine marketing activity is intensifying
State wine marketing activity will be put a greater emphasis and will be strengthened – the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ) and the Agricultural Marketing Center (AMC) told MT on Friday...
Read moreBeekeepers will receive 1.8 billion HUF indirect funding per year
Beekeepers will receive 1.8 billion HUF indirect funding over the course of a year to buy bees, bee health care products, support for continuing vocational training, consultancy and the latest...
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Avian influenza also appeared in Slovakia
Bird flu spreading in the neighboring Poland has already appeared in Slovakia since the end of last year – the Slovak Public Service Agency (TASR) reported on Friday, referring to...
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False perfume worth 11 million HUF was seized by NAV
Eleven million forints of various brands of fake perfume have been seized by the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) during an inspection in Budapest – NAV told MTIon Friday....
Read moreAbundant grape harvest was predicted in Ópusztaszer
Abundant grape harvest was predicted by farmers of the surrounding mountain communities and the representatives of the Carpathian Basin wine orders at the St Vincent’s Day celebration in the Ópusztaszer...
Read moreConsumer prices in OECD countries have accelerated
In OECD member countries, the annual growth rate of consumer prices accelerated to 1.8 percent in November, from the 1.6 percent of October, the lowest rate since November 2016. In...
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Vertical vegetable growing in Japanese cities
The Japanese are also experimenting with a new way to help their troubled agriculture – origo wrote after Euronews.com. Vegetables are grown in cities under artificial light. Vertical crop production...
Read moreThe proportion of women is rising in the management of German companies
In five years, the proportion of women in the management of German companies has doubled and increased to over 10 percent, according to a statement released Friday. According to EY’s...
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LG partners with Microsoft to accelerate an automotive revolution
LG Electronics (LG) and Microsoft entered into a memorandum of understanding to enhance and further grow LG’s autonomous vehicle and infotainment system business. Under the terms of the partnership, LG...
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IKEA enters UK shopping centers market with London mall deal
IKEA’s shopping center business is spending 170 million pounds ($222 million) to buy and upgrade a London mall in its first foray into Britain, betting it can win over a...
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Coop Switzerland Launches Winter Drink In Three Flavours
Coop Switzerland has launched a new ginger-based winter beverage range under its private-label brand, Karma. The vegan drink is available in a 60-millilitre pack in three flavours – beetroot, ginger,...
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Frozen Food Company Iglo Launches ‘Green Cuisine’ In Germany
Frozen food company iglo has launched a new line of meat-alternatives in Germany under the label Green Cuisine. The assortment comprises nine items including four ready meals and five individual...
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Reál is the most popular store in the online space
During the festive season, there was a lot of news about shopping rushes, full shopping malls, practically completely looted department stores and shops. Photo: AFP, Világgazdaság Online And data from...
Read moreFAO: food prices rose to a five-year high in December
For the third consecutive month in December, world food prices have risen to a five-year high, mainly due to higher prices of vegetable oils. The December price index of the...
Read moreBeekeepers’ Association: beekeepers have not closed a good year
Beekeepers have not closed a good year. Prices are depressed and last year’s yield has been moderate – Bross Péter, president of the National Hungarian Beekeeping Association told M1 news...
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A Hungarian school canteen is experimenting with meat-free meat
Recently, 265 children received meat-free Bolognese spaghetti made entirely from pea protein instead of meat – origo reports after Napidoktor.hu. Although meat-free meat is not an unknown concept in Hungary...
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Euro area unemployment rate stagnates at eleven-year low
The euro area unemployment rate stagnated in November at its eleven-year low – according to a Eurostat report released Thursday. The unemployment rate in the European Union has been at...
Read moreThe Chinese also confirmed that the US-China trade sub-agreement will be signed next week
Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Liu Ho will travel to Washington on 13 January for a three-day visit to Washington, where he will sign a partial deal to resolve the US-China...
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World food prices continue rising in December
World food prices rose for the third consecutive month in December, as a strong rally in vegetable oil prices drove the FAO Food Price Index to its highest level in...
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UK Farm Bill To Be Introduced This Month
An agriculture bill is to be introduced in Britain’s parliament later this month as the country prepares to develop its own farm policy for the first time in decades, environment...
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Obeikan MDF Joins ‘Food Fellows’ Project
Spanish packaging company Obeikan MDF has joined the ‘Food Fellows’ project to fight food waste and devise sustainable solutions. The project is an initiative of the Harvest House in the...
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Coca-Cola Acquires Dairy Products Company Fairlife LLC
The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it has acquired 100% stake in Fairlife LLC, a Chicago-based manufacturer of value-added dairy products, for an undisclosed amount. Fairlife LLC commenced operations in...
Read moreThe recovery in retail sales is a good sign for GDP growth
Retail sales revival in November is a good sign of last year’s fourth-quarter GDP growth, analysts said in a statement, commenting on the report of the Central Statistical Office (KSH)...
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Analysts: earnings growth barely slowing this year
Analysts told MTI that they expect to see slightly lower earnings growth than last year, with government measures likely to play a bigger role than before. According to a report...
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KSH: The value of exports and imports decreased slightly
In November last year, the value of exports in euro terms decreased by 0.1 percent and the value of imports in euro terms decreased by 0.8 percent year-on-year, with the...
Read moreKSH: industrial production increased, the food industry performed above average
Industrial production rose 3.6 percent in November last year from a year before. According to working-day adjusted data growth was 5.7 percent – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on...
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All schools in the country are eligible for cashless payment
Pupils’ financial awareness can be strengthened by the fact that all schools in the country can benefit from cash-free services, said the Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of...
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