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Nestlé joins forces with Canadian plant-based ingredient maker
Nestlé has teamed up with small Canadian plant-based food ingredient makers Burcon and Merit Functional Foods. Nestlé will buy pea and canola proteins from a 20,000 tons/year Merit plant, which...
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Eco-friendly in colours too
Eco-friendly paint manufacturer IFS Coatings launched its latest colour portfolio in January. The new colour groups are called Green Guilt, Imaginative Reaction, Robotic Reality and Actual Authenticity. CEO Glynn Mason...
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Gruppo Bennet buys Interspar hypermarket in Crema
Italian retailer Gruppo Bennet has strengthened its presence in Crema – in Northern Italy – with the acquisition of an Interspar hypermarket and shopping centre. The purchase is part of...
Read moreChina’s inflation is at its an almost nine years peak
Inflation in China rose to an almost nine-year high in January as a result of rising demand due to the Lunar New Year holiday and the coronary epidemic that hit...
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Amazon wants to create 15,000 new jobs
The company is dramatically expanding its presence in its hometown, Seattle. in Bellevue the company increases its workforce by 15,000, while the district currently employs 2,000 people – origo wrote...
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Migros–Too Good To Go partnership goes nationwide
Swiss retailer Migros has announced it is extending its partnership with Too Good To Go to all regions of Switzerland. This programme seeks to reduce food waste by offering ‘magic bags’...
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Belgian Delhaize stores sell carbon-neutral bananas
Belgian retailer Delhaize has introduced ‘100-percent carbon neutral’ bananas to its product selection. The retailer said that due to reduction and compensation measures along the supply chain, from planting to delivery,...
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(HU) Dr. Losó József az Év Agrárembere 2019-ben
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Carrefour enters the subscription economy
French supermarket chain Carrefour has expanded further into online groceries by acquiring a subscription box company. Potager City sells fruit and vegetable boxes to customers in 350 towns in France....
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Pen, paper, coffee
US stationery and office supplies retailer Staples ordered 1,145 coffee displays, with which they ensured the attention raising presence of Keurig coffees in 90 percent of the chain’s stores. They...
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Aldi pays higher salaries and recruits 3,800 new workers in the UK
The British arm of German discount supermarket Aldi will recruit more than 3,800 store level positions this year and increase salaries, as part of its plans to hire the best...
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Hungarian Tourism Agency: Hungarian tourism set a new record in 2019
Last year Hungarian tourism set a record again, with the number of guests in commercial accommodation reaching 12.8 million and the number of overnight stays reaching 31.3 million. Revenue from...
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Co-op UK went meat-free in January
Co-op has revealed a new meat-free range just in time for the vegan January (Veganuary). They realised their biggest launch of vegan products with new brand Gro. Made up by...
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Debenhams closes 19 stores
In early January Debenhams revealed the locations of the 19 stores which were shut in the United Kingdom in the same month, resulting in 660 job losses. The department store...
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New biopolymer-based packaging
Having formed a consortium, DS Smith Packaging Hungary Kft, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Polifoam Műanyagfeldolgozó Kft. were granted HUF 552.21 million by the National Research, Development...
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The street mixers of Mumbai – Video of the day
This Boy is making Extreme Lemon Soda with Amazing Skills....
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Régi-új szakember a FÁN Group élén
A FÁN Group Kft. cégvezetését a korábbi kereskedelmi igazgató, Kanizsai Tóth Csaba látja el. Az FMCG-szakember több hazai gyártói cégnél dolgozott vezetőként. Stratégiája az új munkakörében a fenntartható fejlődés és...
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New retail holiday debuted in January
In the USA the third Saturday in every January – which was on 18 January this year – will be the ‘National Use Your Gift Card Day’ at participating retailers...
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Lidl removes cartoon characters from private label breakfast cereal packaging
Lidl has announced that from spring 2020 it will stop displaying cartoon characters on its private label cereal ranges in the UK, in order to help parents tackle pester power...
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Asda offers one-hour click- and-collect service
Asda has launched a new click-and-collect service that makes it possible for shoppers to pick up their online orders in less than an hour. With Express Click and Collect, shoppers...
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Top performance by Nestlé’s Hungarian factories last year
Nestlé Hungária Kft.’s sales revenue continued to rise in 2019. The lion’s share of the sales increase, HUF 15 billion was export sales growth. All three Hungarian Nestlé factories –...
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Lactogal: Bio-based packaging for Mimosa milk
Portuguese dairy company Lactogal has introduced Mimosa low fat, skimmed, and whole milk in bio-based packaging in Portugal and Spain. The milk is available in new Tetra Brik Aseptic Edge...
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LDC and Luckin Coffee are to build a coffee roasting plant
Dutch agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Company and Chinese coffee firm Luckin Coffee have started building a joint coffee roasting plant in Xiamen, China. The plant – which is located...
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Soups from Waitrose & Partners tell you to ‘Love Your Gut’
British retailer Waitrose & Partners has launched a new range of private label, gut-friendly soups called ‘Love Your Gut’. The range has been developed by nutritionists and offers two SKUs – carrot,...
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Online orders can be collected in a growing number of Rossmann stores
Shoppers can now pick up parcels ordered in the Rossmann Online Drugstore in already 44 stores in and around Budapest. More and more shops are added to the list of...
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Oreo celebrates with cookie dunking world record
On 30 January Mondelēz International broadcast a Guinness world record attempt live online: the most people dunking cookies across multiple venues. The successful record attempt was coordinated to celebrate the OREO cookie brand...
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Lidl to open another distribution centre in the USA
Lidl is expanding in the south of the USA. The discount grocer announced it will build a USD 100 million regional distribution centre in Covington, Georgia. The 86,000m² facility will...
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ISM: 50 years of sweets
ISM is the biggest annual trade fair for sweets and snacks in the world, which has been organised for 50 years. In 2020 Cologne hosted the event between 2 and...
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Coca-Cola buys dairy product company fairlife LLC
The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it has acquired a 100-percent stake in fairlife LLC, a Chicago-based manufacturer of value-added dairy products. Fairlife LLC started operations in 2012 with a high-protein milkshake,...
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Gruppo Selex invests 330 million euros in its stores in 2020
Italian retailer Gruppo Selex is going to invest EUR 330 million in opening new stores and remodelling existing supermarkets in the country next year. This budget will be used to...
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