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Dreher builds Beer Workshop
Dreher Breweries has built a Beer Workshop, which operates independently of its historic brewhouse. Beer Workshop is going to be the home of a new Hungarian beer brand, ANTL. The...
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New Globus Vital products
Globus Vital products are made without salt and sugar, with the addition of just a little water that is necessary for steaming. There are no additives or preservatives, just the...
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Alcohol-free distillates in the cocktail competition
High Note Sky Bar in downtown Budapest hosted an alcohol-free cocktail (mocktail) competition and master course, where Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország’s alcohol-free Fluére portfolio made its debut. Fluére is a popular...
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Water, water, clean water
Hell Energy, Hungary’s market leader energy drink, ice tea and ice coffee manufacturer has entered the water market with a new brand, called Floewater: premium quality water that is packaging-free...
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What do you see in this picture?
McDonald’s launched a creative and confident reopening campaign in France, titled Devinez qui arrive dans votre ville (Guess who is coming to your town). The campaign images are made up...
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Twix White
New innovation in 2021: Twix White is an extension of the existing Twix chocolate bars portfolio. White chocolate is in trend and many consumers love white chocolate, which is also...
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Contactless menu card
Coca-Cole has developed a contactless menu card for smartphones, which the company makes available to Hungarian restaurants free of charge. On the new platform restaurants can customise the menu template...
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Zewa Jumbo large-sized kitchen roll Decor
Zewa Jumbo 325-sheet large-sized kitchen roll is now also available with colour patterns. Thanks to its size, the product is very practical as it provides long-lasting cleanness. You can use...
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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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