PLMA News in brief

PLMA News in brief
Date: 2022-04-26 19:43:54

COOP Sweden is experimenting with a new store format, called X:-tra, where the focus is on communicating ‘low prices every day’. The chain will start with 70 stores in 2022. Penny reported...

Protocol dessert contest
Date: 2022-04-26 19:38:01

The Hungarian Confectioners Guild, the Association of International Protocol Professionals, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and the Count Széchenyi Family Foundation have announced their special protocol dessert competition....

Team Hungary finished second in the European selection of Bocuse d’Or!
Date: 2022-04-26 19:37:49

Once again there was great interest in the European final of the Bocuse d’Or chef championship, which part of Sirha Budapest’s programme. On 23-24 March 17 teams competed at Hungexpo....

Only a lunch for you, but 500 years for planet Earth
Date: 2022-04-26 19:32:57

According to data from the Association of Conscious Shoppers, every year 13 million takeaway food boxes are used in Budapest only. If all of these are disposable plastic boxes, they...

Who are the Hotel Heroes?
Date: 2022-04-26 19:32:55

At the end of winter HotelHero and the CSR section of the Hungarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (MSZÉSZ) cooked 1,600 portions of hot meal for poor families. In their second...

Charity catering
Date: 2022-04-26 19:32:53

In the first two months of the war László Kovács’s catering company, La Fiesta Party Service cooked for the refugees from Ukraine. Insurance company Aegon lent its Aegon Education Centre...

Atypical hospitality
Date: 2022-04-26 19:32:46

These days the term ‘atypical’ is most frequently used in the domain of employment. In in the context of hospitality it describes not special restaurant concepts or extremities, but the...

#Neszmély: The wine region’s collective wine
Date: 2022-04-26 19:29:22

Six wineries in the Neszmély wine region have formed an association, with the goal of setting the region’s winemaking standards and promoting its products. Just recently they have created the...

Drinks from the mountain
Date: 2022-04-26 19:29:19

Karloff distillery started making Tatratea liqueurs about 20 years ago. The concept of the 10-product range is built on traditions: mountain men tried to cure the sick using medicine they...

Japanese spirits in Hungary
Date: 2022-04-26 19:29:15

Formerly Japanese spirit had meant mainly sake in the West, but in the last two decades Japanese whiskies conquered the world. They keep winning awards and the biggest Japanese brands...

Péter Küllői: “I am searching for the essential everywhere”
Date: 2022-04-26 19:00:38

Péter Küllői believes that children shouldn’t be given money but opportunities, so that they will value what they create themselves. The philanthropist-businessman – who was the latest guest in the...

Tesco helps local communities
Date: 2022-04-26 18:58:11

In the tenth round of the ‘You choose, we help’ programme of Tesco, customers voted on various projects with more than 2.1 million tokens between 17 January and 13 February. Tesco will...

Eight million kilograms of food for people in need
Date: 2022-04-26 18:43:04

Food Bank already collects leftover food from 406 grocery stores and 132 food distributors. In 2021 the organisation saved 8 million kilograms of food, helping 250,000 people in need and...

France cuts the nitrite content of processed meats
Date: 2022-04-26 18:23:19

French parliament has approved a bill that seeks to gradually reduce the use of nitrite in cured meats. Plus the new act has ordered a review of the potential health...

Indotek Group invests in ELO
Date: 2022-04-26 18:09:45

On 24 March ELO (a holding owned by Auchan Retail Holding and New Immo Holding) signed a strategic partnership agreement with Indotek Group. According to this, Indotek acquires a 47% stake...

Júlio and Júlia collect HUF 16m
Date: 2022-04-26 18:09:42

Auchan Magyarország’s iconic plush beavers, Júlio and Júlia, collected HUF 16m for the 2nd Paediatric Clinic of Semmelweis University at the end of last year, as part of the retailer’s...

Kindergarten director named as the first Fruit-Vegetable Hero
Date: 2022-04-26 18:06:58

Balázs Győrffy, president of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) gave the main prize –100kg of fruit and vegetables, seed packs and children’s gardening tools – of the #FruitVegetableHero competition...

Falusi Kosár and DoDo team up for the market entry of small famers
Date: 2022-04-26 18:03:29

Start-up Falusi Kosár and artificial intelligence based delivery service provider DoDo have joined forces, to take the products of small farmers to city dwellers: orders placed in the online shop...

New Rossmann commercial uses CGI technology
Date: 2022-04-26 17:46:26

Rossmann has shot a special commercial, in which a ‘real’ centaur is walking around a Rossmann store, bringing the best promotions to the drugstore chain’s customers. The centaur is featured...

Pepsi suppliers to switch to green energy
Date: 2022-04-26 17:37:31

PepsiCo and Schneider Electric’s new initiative, pep+REnew seeks to provide the supplier partners of the soft drink maker with renewable energy. The first green energy buyer groups are likely to form...

SPAR’s turnover neared HUF 800bn last year
Date: 2022-04-26 17:22:49

In 2021 sales by SPAR Magyarország represented a value of HUF 791.8bn, having grown by 7.2% from the 2020 level – the retailer announced at a press conference on 24...

Pick Szeged and University of Szeged complete joint project
Date: 2022-04-26 17:17:25

The joint research and development project of Pick Szeged Zrt. and the University of Szeged – which the two parties launched back in 2017 – has come to an end....

Kometa’s capacity expansion commences
Date: 2022-04-26 17:10:07

Kometa 99 Zrt. has started doubling its production capacity. The development project has a budget of HUF 30.81bn, from which HUF 10.88bn is government funding. Once the project is completed,...

Anuga HORIZON – another hybrid event by Koelnmesse
Date: 2022-04-26 17:07:05

Koelnmesse is launching a new hybrid event, called Anuga HORIZON. The new trade show will examine solutions for future challenges facing the food and beverage industry. Building on the success...

(HU) Nincs többé automatikus blokknyomtatás a svájci Coop üzletekben
Date: 2022-04-26 17:07:03

Sorry, this entry is only available in HU....

Lidl Plus app arrives in Serbia
Date: 2022-04-26 16:47:37

Consumers are using the Lidl Plus app in more than 25 countries around the world. Lidl has now expanded its customer loyalty programme to Serbia, by launching the Lidl Plus...

KSH: average gross earning in February was 546 thousand HUF
Date: 2022-04-26 11:50:52

In February, the average gross earnings of full-time employees – enterprises employing at least 5 people, budgetary institutions and non-profit organizations significant for employment – were 546 thousand HUF, 31.7...

Nagy István: agrarian stability is an issue
Date: 2022-04-26 11:32:01

The events of the last few months confirm that agriculture is the decisive pillar of Hungarian economic and social stability, said Minister of Agriculture Nagy István at an Agrár Gala...

Cofidis: the willingness of Hungarians to borrow has increased
Date: 2022-04-26 11:30:23

Hungarians’ willingness to borrow has grown: 12 percent of those surveyed plan to take out a loan in the next year, up 5 percentage points from last August, according to...

MATE and COOP have signed a cooperation agreement
Date: 2022-04-26 11:28:39

In order to support the activities of the Hungarian food industry, the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences (MATE) and the COOP chain have signed a cooperation agreement, the...

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