Events
The US-China trade war can hold back world trade
Date: 2019-07-31 11:08:16
DHL’s Global Trade Barometer expects global trade to decline in the coming period – piacesprofit.hu wrote. Traffic is also declining in the air and maritime trade. Due to the growing...
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Sirha Budapest: Almost half of the exhibition space is already booked
Date: 2019-07-31 10:28:09
The next Sirha Budapest trade show will take place on 4-6 February 2020. It perfectly shows the significance of the Budapest event that already about100 companies have booked 5,000m² of exhibition...
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Henkel Acquires Majority Stake In Hair Colour Business, eSalon.com
Date: 2019-07-31 08:50:30
German consumer goods company Henkel has signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in the Los Angeles-based hair colouring business, eSalon.com. The acquisition will strengthen the Schwarzkopf maker’s hair...
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Morrisons to boost customer loyalty with new partnership
Date: 2019-07-31 08:30:45
Morrisons has teamed up with market research company IRI to help improve customer loyalty. The analytics firm will help the Big 4 grocer to better understand customers, predict analytics and...
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Magazine: The land of milk and…milk drinks!
Date: 2019-07-31 07:04:57
The milk drink market is booming: sales have been growing by two-digit numbers for years, driven by iced coffees – but sales of flavoured milk drinks also increased. Mária Tell-Prantner,...
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Beer Association: 2.4 percent less beer was sold in the first half of the year
Date: 2019-07-30 11:50:32
Beer consumption decreased in Hungary in the first half of the year, according to the president of the Hungarian Brewers’ Association, mainly due to the cooler weather. In the first...
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KSH: double-digit earnings growth again in May
Date: 2019-07-30 11:30:27
In May, gross and net average earnings were 11.2 percent higher than a year before. After the 9.0 percent growth in April a double-digit growth occured in May. Excluding the...
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EY: Hungarians are open to digital technology
Date: 2019-07-30 11:25:23
Hungarians using the Internet are the most open to applying digital solutions in the Central and Eastern European region – according to a study by EY, an international audit and...
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The deadline for paying the first installment of the Food Chain Supervision Fee expires on Wednesday
Date: 2019-07-30 11:22:25
According to the notice of Nébih sent to MTI, in order to ensure smooth administration, it is important to include the taxpayer / identification number of the payer on the...
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KSH: unemployment fell to 3.3 percent in the second quarter
Date: 2019-07-30 11:20:18
In April-June, the average number of unemployed was 155,000, and the unemployment rate was 3.3 percent, a new record after the 3.4 percent of a month before. The indicators of...
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More than 70 thousand packs of cigarettes were seized by NAV in Komárom-Esztergom County
Date: 2019-07-30 11:16:31
More than 70,000 packs of cigarettes were seized by the investigators of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) in Komárom-Esztergom County in two rented vans. The value of the...
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The economic climate in the euro area is at its lowest for three and a half years
Date: 2019-07-30 11:11:10
Economic sentiment in the euro area fell to a three-and-a-half-year low in July, and the business climate indicator reached a six-year low, according to a report released on Tuesday by...
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Eighty wineries, 45 concerts at this year’s Debrecen Wine and Jazz Days
Date: 2019-07-30 11:08:06
Eighty domestic wineries, 45 concerts, a jazz cinema and a craft fair are waiting for the visitors of the Debrecen Wine and Jazz Days on the shores of Lake Békás...
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Consumer sentiment in Germany is at a two and a half year low,
Date: 2019-07-30 11:05:29
GfK’s German consumer sentiment index for August decreased to a two-and-a-half-year low. According to a report released by GfK on Tuesday, the consumer sentiment index fell to 9.7 points in...
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Natural disasters caused less than average annual damage in the first half of the year
Date: 2019-07-30 11:01:59
Natural disasters have caused less than average annual damage in the first half of the year – according to a survey released on Tuesday. The world’s largest reinsurer, the German...
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Motor fuels of the future and freight forwarding were in the centre of attention
Date: 2019-07-30 10:28:12
On 30-31 May the drvingcamp centre was the venue of this year’s Innovation Days, where all the important players from the sector were present, courtesy of Shell Hungary Zrt., to...
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Danone Seeks Carbon Neutrality by 2021 With €25M Boiler Investment
Date: 2019-07-30 08:50:54
Danone has announced an NZ$40 million (€25 million) investment in its Nutricia spray drying plant with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2021. The company said that the achievement...
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PepsiCo buys into China’s Natural Food
Date: 2019-07-30 08:30:41
PepsiCo has taken a stake in one of China’s biggest natural food companies, Natural Food International. The snacking company is buying 26 per cent of the business for US$131 million...
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Tesco To Launch Super-Hot ‘Armageddon’ Chilli Pepper
Date: 2019-07-30 08:10:19
Tesco has announced plans to introduce the hottest British-bred chilli pepper – Armageddon – in its UK stores. The retail giant claims Armageddon stands head to head with America’s Carolina...
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Magazine: Ecommerce Summit 2019: Online shopping is the future
Date: 2019-07-30 07:01:26
Ecommerce Hungary has organised its annual two-day conference, which is now called Hungarian Ecommerce Summit, in Visegrád for the 16th time. Another new idea from the organisers was inviting experts...
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The price of melon has fallen
Date: 2019-07-29 11:40:10
This year, the dometic watermelon season started around 10 -11 July at the chain of stores in Hungary. The season started with prices around 250-300 forints per kilogramme, but now...
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The winter wheat harvest is nearing its end
Date: 2019-07-29 11:38:56
90 percent of winter wheat has already been harvested, yielding around 5.25 tonnes per hectare nationwide – the Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture said in Szeged-Szőreg on...
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Nébih is conducting a national food consumption survey
Date: 2019-07-29 11:36:17
The National Food Chain Safety Authority (Nébih), is conducting a survey on Hungarian food consumption habits with the participation of about 2,700 people. The Authority is now waiting for further...
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Beekeeping at ABB for data analysis
Date: 2019-07-29 11:32:46
ABB’s Krakow-based Corporate Research Center holds bees in beehives on the roof of the building, not just to improve the city’s environmental condition, but also to test computer algorithms. Many...
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Analysts: it is hard to mobilize labor reserves
Date: 2019-07-29 11:28:15
Remaining labor market reserves are now very difficult to mobilize, and unemployment can only be reduced very slowly – analysts told MTI commenting on the latest data released by the...
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KSH: employment continued to grow in the second quarter
Date: 2019-07-29 11:18:21
The average number of employees in the April-June period was 4 million 511,000, u 36,000 more than a year before. The average number of employees also exceeded 4.5 million in...
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New calls for proposals in the Hungarian Village Program
Date: 2019-07-29 11:00:47
The government is launching four new calls for proposals in the Hungarian Village program worth nine billion forints – the Commissioner responsible for the development of modern settlements announced at...
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(HU) Erősebb, büszkébb és színesebb – Megújul a Cinzano Vermouth
Date: 2019-07-29 09:00:49
Last month, Gruppo Campari used the 260th anniversary of Cinzano to mark the start of a new era for the vermouth and sparkling wine brand. Lucy Britner was in Turin...
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Asda uses 90,000 plastic bottles for car park resurfacing
Date: 2019-07-29 08:50:30
Asda has utilised 90,000 plastic water bottles to resurface the car park of its Wakefield store as the grocer finds news ways to recycle. The plastic was ground to tiny...
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Grocers urged to scrap junk foods from eye-level shelves as obesity crisis bites
Date: 2019-07-29 08:30:32
A health charity has urged supermarkets to remove junk food from shelves at eye level to reduce obesity levels. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) said in a report...
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