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EKAER: the NiT Hungary ask for a longer fine-free period
The NiT Hungary ask for the extension of the fine-free test period from the government. The Executive Secretary General of the advocacy organization, Dittel Gábor wrote a letter to Varga...
Read moreChina has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase list
China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a response...
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Two-digit growth in value and volume sales alike
In the two-month Easter period of 2014 ham and smoked meat were sold in the value of HUF 7 billion. This constitutes a 15-percent increase from the category’s performance in...
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More and more stores sell Quality Hungarian Pork
Pork products marked with the Quality Hungarian Pork (KMS) trademark. Hungarian pork meat and pork products are only allowed to use the KMS trademark if they regularly go through the...
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Nielsen: more people were watching food, chemicals and cosmetics commercials
The domestic TV commercials of food, household chemicals and cosmetics reached 1 percent more GRP last year, than a year before – according to a Nielsen Audience Measurement Ltd. The...
Read moreThe MLSZKSZ welcomes the retuning of EKÁER
The Association of Hungarian Logistics Service Centers (MLSZKSZ) welcomes the government's efforts that they retune the EKÁER system, building on the experiences of the two-month test period. The Association considers...
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Credit Market: More than half of the Hungarians do not compare the offers
The Hungarians’ trust in crediting shows a rising trend in the recent period; nearly two-third of the population accepts or even considers the good credit scheme as an option –...
Read moreFrench consumer confidence rose to a nearly three years peak
The French consumer confidence has increased to a nearly three years peak in February – according to the data of the French statistical office (INSEE). The index increased in February...
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Patterns inside the bottle
O-I, the owner of more than 50 years old Orosháza Container Glass Factory, had its internally embossed bottles patented in 2010. The innovation was first used in the neck of...
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A change in store type shares
General cleaner retail sales were between HUF 9 and 10 billion in the first ten months of recent years. The category is the 9th biggest from the 70 household chemical...
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CAP direct payments legislation is ready
The new legislation regulating the direct subsidies through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has now reached the conciliation stage. In Hungary seven regulations have been worked out by the Ministry...
Read moreMagazine: What to expect from the 2014 vintage?
According to Dr Zsombor Sümegi, development director of the National Council of Wine Communities (HNT), 2014 wasn’t an easy year for Hungarian winemakers, it was full of challenges. There was...
Read moreA paradigm shift is needed in the role of the sales organizations
In recent years, the sales efficiency is often mentioned as the task that the sales organizations are facing, mostly without specifics. With the aim to have an instant picture of...
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The GVH and the OÉTI signed a cooperation agreement
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) and the National Food and Nutrition Institute (OÉTI) have signed a cooperation agreement. According to the cooperation agreement, the two organizations mutually assist each other's...
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The Hungarian National Tourist Office has developed a three-year agri-marketing strategy
The Agricultural Marketing Centre and the Hungarian National Tourist Office have developed a new three-year collective marketing strategy to strengthen sectoral cooperation and to coordinate marketing activities. The social discussion...
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The pace of decline in consumer prices accelerated in the EU
The pace of decline in consumer prices accelerated in the European Union in January. The price level in an annual comparison fell by 0.5 percent after the 0.1 percent in...
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The Covasna county consumer protection backed out in case of the fine implemented on Székely Flavors
The leaders of the Covasna county consumer protection authority recognized that they need to punish primarily due to expired products – the Háromszék daily wrote on Tuesday. The Covasna County...
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“Political chocolate” was marketed in Russia
A Russian company started to sell “Political chocolate”. The covers of the bonbon boxes are made along the lines of the former Soviet propaganda posters, and such messages can be...
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Tractor buyers didn’t waste their time
In Hungary 2014 was a record year in tractor buying: according to data from the Hungarian Leasing Association, in the first seven months of the year farmers purchased 3,201 tractors,...
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Lower production prices in November
n November 2014 agricultural production prices decreased by 6.8 percent from the level of November 2013. The price of vegetable products was down 8.3 percent and the price of livestock/products...
Read moreSteps proposed to help small-scale producers
According to the Small-scale Producers Interest Group (KTÉ), the selling opportunities of small farmers have to be expanded, and for this several rules need to be changed. For instance KTÉ...
Read moreGKI-Erste prosperity index: improved consumer confidence
The seasonally adjusted value of the GKI Erste prosperity index has remained unchanged in February. Its level is still representing a relatively optimistic mood. According to the survey by GKI...
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MasterCard: a significant increase in the use of one-touch credit cards in Europe
Europeans like to pay with one-touch cards virtually in any location. According to MasterCard Europe’s compilation, sent to MTI on Monday, in the last quarter of 2014, the number of...
Read moreCzibere: The government is ally for companies employing people with changed working abilities
The government is the strategic ally and partner of companies employing people with changed working abilities, because they give chance for people to avoid social subsidies, to be able to...
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Changes were made to the proper diet guidelines of children's nutrition in the U.S.
New guidelines released today by a leading U.S. pediatricians group urge a more practical, commonsense approach toward nutrition to help improve children's diets and health, both in school and at...
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Slovakia has branded the Chimney cake long ago
The initiative to declare the Chimney cake as a European traditional specialty product will be tough in Austria – mno.hu wrote. The International Chimney Cake Professional Boards has taken steps...
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Proceedings started against illegal perfume wholesaler criminal organization in Kecskemét
More than two and a half billion Huf tax was concealed by a perfume wholesaler illegal criminal organization, which has been terminated by the financial investigators of the National Tax...
Read moreA man possessed untaxed tobacco products
A man in Cegléd bought tobacco on the market, than he processed it athome, finally he packed it in original cigarette bags, with a tax vignette. The finance guards filed...
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Family farms to be strengthened
A four-party declaration of intent was signed in Veszprém, by Pannon University, the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), the Municipality of Nemesvámos and the For the Prosperity of the Balatonfelvidék...
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European Union member states can decide on growing GMO crops themselves
New EU legislation enters into force in spring: it makes possible for all EU member states to decide whether to ban the growing of GMO crops or not. The new...
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