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Walmart positions itself as key COVID-19 vaccine provider for rural America
Walmart expects to be able to administer between 10 million and 13 million COVID-19 shots per month at its more than 5,000 in-store pharmacies in the United States and Puerto...
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Soft drink made of Christmas trees to come
An Estonian company makes a pine-flavored tonic from discarded Christmas trees. The minced needles of the pines are flavored with cardamom and lemon peel, so this is a sweet-bitter drink...
Read moreA new record in freight transport
A special freight train has departed from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong to Russia, origo wrote. The cargo arrives in Moscow in just 15 days, reducing delivery time by...
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Carrefour Suspends Sales Of Strawberries Until Mid-February
French retailer Carrefour has suspended the sales of strawberries in its stores until mid-February. Through the initiative, the retailer is aiming to educate customers about seasonality and offer better tasting strawberries. The...
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Spar Austria, REWE Offer Free FFP2 Masks As Governments Tighten Rules
Spar Austria is offering free medical-grade FFP2 masks to shoppers as the government has made it mandatory on public transport, shops and businesses, pharmacies, hospitals and medical practices. It has...
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Meet Tengai, the World’s First Job Interview Robot – VIDEO
Tengai is a very smart robot. It can speak up to 40 languages, can express emotions, but what is really interesting about it is that it is able to decide...
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PepsiCo plans to become a zero emission company by 2040
PepsiCo Inc seeks to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its supply chain by 2040. The makers of Doritos chips and Tropicana juice said: first they will cut greenhouse gas...
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CSR Hungary Summit: COVID has created the opportunity for a new beginning
The 2-day CSR Hungary Summit was organised online at the end of last year. On the first day participants discussed many COVID-related issues. Júlia Takács, founder and managing director of...
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Metro AG is the new owner of Davigel Spain
Metro AG has announced the takeover of food service distribution company Davigel Spain – for an undisclosed fee. Davigel Spain supplies more than 4,000 partners in Spain, mainly on the Balearic and...
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Asda is testing a vegan butcher counter
Asda has teamed up with vegan concept creator Kbox Global, to test a supermarket vegan butcher counter for this year’s ‘Veganuary’. In Asda’s Watford store a counter named Veelicious was built,...
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SPAR Austria continues to reduce sugar content of products
SPAR Austria’s sugar reduction scheme – which was launched in 2019 – will continue in 2021. Since 2020 11,454 tons of sugar has been removed by SPAR’s partners in the initiative. SPAR Austria has cut...
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Waitrose: Seaweed will be the superfood of 2021
Waitrose & Partners believes that seaweed is the must-have ingredient of 2021, as sales of the product grew by 23 percent last year if compared to 2019; sales were 71 percent...
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Carrefour’s expansion in Thailand
Carrefour has strengthened its presence in the proximity channel in Taiwan, with the acquisition of 224 former Dairy Farm stores. The line of stores includes 199 Wellcome shops with an average sales...
Read moreAldi to open 25 new stores in Portugal this year
Aldi Portugal has opened the first of 25 new stores it plans to open in 2021 and now already operates 84 stores in the country. One of the company’s main...
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Seville will be the home of Coca-Cola’s biggest European plant
Coca-Cola European Partners plans to invest EUR 48 million in the expansion of its production facility in Seville, by this transforming it into its largest plant in Europe. This expansion will increase...
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Nomad Foods buys Findus Switzerland
Nomad Foods has bought Findus Switzerland from Froneri International Ltd, together with certain intellectual property from an affiliate of Nestlé S.A., for a price of approximately EUR 110 million. Findus...
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Hungarian bank card acceptance is among the fastest developing in Europe
According to the latest data from Mastercard, the number of card payment terminals increased by 20 percent in Hungary in 2020. Mastercard launched its Doppio infrastructure development programme in the...
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Barilla acquires British fresh pasta maker Pasta Evangelists
Via its BLU1877 business Barilla has acquired a majority share in Britain’s Pasta Evangelists, reentering the fresh pasta market and boosting its digital offering. The two companies did not disclose...
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The future of the supply chain: Cobots, drones and artificial intelligence cameras
The Deloitte Technology Trends 2021 study has revealed: in the near future members of the supply chain will focus on sharing data, and the whole product chain will become visible...
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Digitalisation: Hesitant companies
According to a global survey conducted by EY with the participation of 1,001decision-makers, 62 percent of executives think they should completely transform the way their company works within 2 years,...
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Visa innovations for improving smart payment solutions
Visa Inc. has announced the launch of new artificial intelligence (AI) based services, called VisaNet+AI. This service offers a solution for banks, retailers and consumers to manage certain types of...
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Príma campaign with #buyhungarian face masks
In January Príma implemented a special promotion campaign: they gave Príma face masks to those shoppers who purchased three products with the Hungarian Product trademark at the same time online....
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Hungarian workers calculate with lasting changes
As the global job market is transforming because of the pandemic, job safety has become more important than ever before. According to the Randstad Workmonitor – a report prepared in...
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PLMA News in brief
Aldi UK is adding 12 ready-to-cook meals to its low-calorie Slimwell range. Lidl is trialling a new store format in Belgium. The arrangement and the premium decoration differentiate the 1,500m²...
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In focus: the United Kingdom
Young British consumers like to shop in discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl make up for 67 percent of the UK’s discounter market and they represent 13 percent of British FMCG...
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Successful Foam White Christmas at SPAR
According to Eszter Benedek, managing director of Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft., their promotion campaign with SPAR was a big success last December. All Hungarian Product trademark bearing products available in...
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New digital solutions for e-commerce challenges
Fintech company ZEN has teamed up with Mastercard to launch financial solutions that make it possible for consumers, freelancers and entrepreneurs to manage their finances easily and to make contactless...
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Higher cereal crop prices in January than a year earlier
Data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reveals that Hungary’s poultry meat export dropped 13 percent to 147 thousand tons, while import grew by 3 percent to 55 thousand tons...
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Production costs up nearly 20 percent in the dairy sector
A recent survey by the Milk Interbranch Organisation and Dairy Board conducted among members has found: in the dairy sector production costs increased by 15-18 percent in one year. The Dairy...
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Private label hand hygiene products at OMV filling stations
In January OMV launched its own hygiene product range, which is available at every OMV filling station: the products clean and protect users’ hands without water. The pleasant-smelling and refreshing...
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