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(HU) Így zárták a 2021/22-es tanévet a tartósan beteg gyerekek
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Innovation awards for sustainability
Tork’s cleaning cloth has won two awards at the Amsterdam Innovation Award, becoming the overall winner, and also finishing first in the sustainability and environment category. At the award ceremony...
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Say hello to premium convenience drinks!
Czech company Lipoo has developed a really special convenience product: gummy bear candies that can also be used to make instant tea. The gummy bears are made exclusively of natural...
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Communities and community wines
MyMátra is the name of the Mátra wine region’s new community wine brand. There are six wineries taking part in the initiative at the moment. Their objective is to introduce...
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Bag-in-Handbag
Probably this is creative packaging at its best: Vernissage bag-in-box packaging looks like a really stylish handbag, and inside there is 1.5 litres of wine. The whole concept is very...
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Start with coffee!
Coffee is already considered a superfood, but a company called Prodalim took it one step further: they developed the capsule product Capsoil, which contains ground coffee and added vitamins A-,...
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Association of Hungarian Brewers: Past, present and future
A roundtable discussion and a standing reception – this is how the Association of Hungarian Brewers (MSSZ) celebrated its 30th anniversary. Borsodi Brewery Kft., Dreher Breweries Zrt., Heineken Hungária Breweries...
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MNGSZ elects new officials
In May the Hungarian Gastronomic National Association (MNGSZ) elected new officials. András Krivács was voted president for the sixth time. Vice presidents: György Ambrus, Tibor Hajcsunk, Zoltán Barabás, Gyula Mayer,...
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Why does restaurant packaging cost more?
A recent market analysis by Indepack Kft. informs that demand has surged for paper packaging, but at the same time the price of cellulose soared and this entailed a global...
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METRO-dödölle
METRO Gastro Academy has asked five young and creative chefs to create a meat-free dish, which represents the harmony of food and community very well. Richárd Csillag (Lokal47) – Kéthely,...
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KÖSZ 2021-2022 contest and reality
There was great interest in the final of the Public Sector Catering Competition (KÖSZ), which was organised at the Sirha trade show by the National Association of Public Sector Catering...
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Consumers react to the inflation by spending less
In April 2022 US market research company First Insight did a 1,000-participant survey on how the biggest inflation rate of the last 40 years, 8.5%, has influenced consumer confidence and...
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Recommendations for the NTAK system
It is one of the missions of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) to call the attention of decision-makers to the problems affecting catering businesses. As a lot of questions...
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Cake of Hungary semi-final
Just like in former years, to celebrate 20 August – the day commemorating King Saint Stephen who established the Hungarian state – the guild has organised the Cake of Hungary...
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OKSZ: Planned windfall tax narrows room for manoeuvre for businesses
At its 27 May 2022 meeting, the National Trade Association (OKSZ) analysed the possible consequences of the government’s planned extra profit tax in the retail sector. OKSZ came to the...
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Great success at Sirha
The Sirha Budapest trade show – held between 22 and 24 March – was a great success for the Hungarian Confectioners Guild. Co-president László Selmeczi told that they organised...
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MVI’s Gala Dinner returns!
In the last two years the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) didn’t organise its annual gala dinner because of the pandemic. This year the event returns on 16 October and...
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KSH: prices increased by 10.7 percent on an annual basis
Consumer prices were on average 10.7 percent higher in May than a year earlier, up 1.7 percent in a month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. According to...
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According to the World Bank, the Hungarian economy will expand by 4.6 percent this year
According to the World Bank, the Hungarian economy will expand by 4.6 percent this year, 3.8 percent next year, and 3.4 percent in 2024, according to the global economic forecast...
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Four Hungarian platinum medals at the Decanter World Wine Awards
This year, Hungarian wineries won four platinum and nine gold medals at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), one of the most prestigious wine competitions in the world. Held for...
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Erste Bank: credit demand for small and medium-sized businesses may fall
Demand for credit from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may fall significantly in the third quarter, Erste Bank told MTI on Wednesday. The financial institution’s SME business performed outstandingly in...
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MNB: the number of card purchases has increased fivefold in ten years
The payment system has undergone tremendous development in the last ten years: for example, the number of POS terminals in operation tripled to 240,000 last year and the number of...
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Survey: The wage demand of Hungarian career starters increased by 29 percent
The average net wage demand of Hungarian career starters was 322,000 HUF, wich is an increase of 29 percent compared to last year, the Zyntern.com job portal told MTI on...
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Factoring providers achieved a 22 percent increase in turnover last year
Factoring service providers achieved a 22 percent increase in turnover in 2021, the Hungarian Factoring Association told MTI on Wednesday. It is explained that the estimated total value of receivables...
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Euro area GDP grew faster than previously estimated
On a quarterly basis, euro area gross domestic product grew at a higher rate than in the preliminary estimate and in the previous quarter, according to a report by Eurostat,...
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The Spanish government would take action against food waste
The Spanish government would legislate against food waste, obliging all actors in the food chain to use and recycle the remaining raw materials and products. Agriculture Minister Luis Planas called...
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The domestic Z generation can also join the fight against counterfeiting
In Hungary, the younger age group mostly buys counterfeits, according to Tárki’s representative research of 2021. And more than half of young Europeans aged 15-24 (52 per cent) said they...
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Helix: New employer approaches are needed globally
The power-centric, past practice of employers has suffered many shocks in the last few years, and the usual system has become essentially unsustainable in the current circumstances, said György Dudás,...
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(HU) Asztal, amitől tátva marad a cateringes szája – A nap videója
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Hungarian young people still buy counterfeit products and consume pirated contents
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