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Shoppers like mobile messaging apps
According to a recent study conducted by Kenshoo in the UK and France, 51 percent of messaging app users thinks reading messages is faster than verbal communication. 48 percent of...
Read moreWorld food prices slide marginally in July
Global food commodity prices saw a slight decline in July, led by lower prices for some cereals, dairy and sugar, more than offsetting firmer prices for meat and oils. The...
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K Group To Introduce Carbon Footprint Calculator For Food Items
Finland’s K Group has announced that it is to add a new feature to its K-Ostokset tool that will show customers the carbon footprint of their food purchases. The K-Ostokset tool is...
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Generation Z has two faces
A study conducted by IBM and the National Retail Federation (NRF) found that the so-called Generation Z – consumers born in the 1990s and early 2000s – will consist of...
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Best of both worlds: Coca-Cola US water brand to launch plant-based rPET HybridBottle
Coca-Cola bottled water brand DASANI has announced a series of landmark sustainability moves, including the introduction of the HybridBottle. The HybridBottle is Coca-Cola’s first US pack to be made with...
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Norwegians Shopping In Sweden More, Spending Less In Home Market
Norwegian consumers are crossing the border into Sweden more often, while also spending less in domestic supermarkets, new data has found. The data, from Statistics Norway, found that in the...
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Nielsen: gluten-free life for 80 billion a year
Gluten-free foods accounted for 4 percent of the total value-added domestic retail trade turnover between July 2018 and June 2019, which amounts to nearly 80 billion HUF. Among other things,...
Read moreNagy István: agriculture will be able to produce more safely and competitively next year
The expanding agriculture budget will allow safer and more competitive production in 2019, the agriculture minister said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday. Nagy István stressed that from...
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The turnover of the packaging industry increased
The packaging industry had a turnover of about 630 billion HUF in the Hungarian market last year, an increase of nearly 9 percent, compared to the base year of 2017...
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The Catch it! mobile application encourages fish consumption
The Ministry Agriculture has introduced the “Catch it!” campaign, a mobile application that users can download for free – the Agricultural Marketing Center told MTI. Downloaders of the app can...
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Investments increased by 18.8 percent in the second quarter
In the second quarter, the dynamic expansion of national investments continued throughout the year. The volume of developments was 18.8 percent above last year’s level of 16.2 percent – the...
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The Nébih has prepared a guide to reduce food waste
The National Food Chain Safety Authority (Nébih) compiled a guide to help prevent and reduce food waste. According to a statement, the guides can be downloaded for free for the...
Read moreGerman GDP decreased in the second quarter
German gross domestic product declined in the second quarter compared to the previous quarter – according to a communication released on Tuesday by Destatis, the German Federal Bureau of Statistics....
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The euro area economic sentiment index improved in August
Economic sentiment in the euro area improved in August, but worsened in the European Union, according to a report released by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial...
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Countdown to Reduce Carbon Emissions by 60%
Countdown has announced its target to reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 vs its 2015 levels, published in the company’s 2019 Sustainability Report released today. In the last three years,...
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Aldi Suisse tests the Nutri-Score
Aldi is pinning its hopes on the Nutri-Score in Switzerland. The discounter wants to be the first retailer in the country to introduce the five-stage nutritional labeling system, starting from...
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McDonald’s expands McDelivery with new partnership
The fast-food giant is offering on-demand delivery from DoorDash at thousands of stores across the country. Following a successful 200-restaurant pilot launched in July 2019 in Houston, McDonald’s will offer...
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Agricultural output reached 2,720 billion HUF last year
Agricultural production has grown spectacularly in recent years, with output of the sector reaching 2,720 billion HUF in 2018 and only 1,686 billion HUF in 2010, making Hungary the strongest...
Read moreNagy István: Digital Agriculture Strategy means a change of era in agriculture
The development of Hungary’s Digital Agricultural Strategy (DAS) will mark a turning point, and the measures contained therein will promote the digitalisation of Hungarian agriculture and increase its competitiveness –...
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The number of employees continued to increase
During the three-month period of May-July, the average number of employees was 4 million 518 thousand, 34 thousand, or 0.8 percent more than a year before. The employment rate of...
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The Budapest Wine Festival is coming soon
For the 28th time, the Budapest Wine Festival awaits the guests who want to drink wine, want to relaxation and be entertained at one of the most spectacular venues of...
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A sustainable water future depends on saving water and reducing water pollution
The Earth’s population is growing drastically while we have been use the same amount of water since the planet was created. Therefore, in addition to sparing water use, it is...
Read moreGfK’s German consumer sentiment index stagnated
Instead of the expected decline, the Nuremberg-based GfK Economics Research Institute’s consumer sentiment index stagnated in September in Germany, while consumer income and economic expectations declined and willingness to buy...
Read moreConsumer confidence in the United States weakened slightly in August
Consumer confidence weakened slightly in August in the United States. The Conference Board nonprofit Economic Research Institute announced on Tuesday that the consumer confidence index has dropped from the 135.8...
Read moreMore than two thirds of the Czechs are satisfied with their standard of living
More than two-thirds, 68 percent, of the Czech population are more or less satisfied with their current standard of living, according to a July poll released in Prague on Wednesday....
Read moreWorldwide smartphone traffic has declined
Global smartphone sales decreased in the second quarter, according to the Gartner market research firm. According to Gartner’s records, global smartphone sales decreased by 1.7 percent in the second quarter...
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Blurred lines between physical and digital shopping experiences
Global non-profit trade association SHOP! prepared a study on the most important retail trends of 2016. According to them, there are five important trends which shape the retail market today:...
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Pigeon grey is trendy
Bedrock Kft. distributes hair care product lines and among these we find Joanna – one of the biggest Polish cosmetics brands. Sales of the Joanna Naturia Color hair dye augmented...
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Next-generation ice cream: PureCircle launches stevia treats
Producer and innovator of stevia sweeteners PureCircle is launching an ice cream with no added sugar, set to debut at the end of the month in Chicago, US. The “gourmet”...
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Denmark’s Dagrofa Introduces Store Game To Train Spar Employees
Danish retail group Dagrofa has announced that it has introduced a digital store game for training employees in 51 Spar outlets. The company believes that gamification is a more effective...
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