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We can not avoid stress at work, but we can turn it into our favor
The Profession.hu’s Stress at Work survey showed that the vast majority of us used to be confronted with a stressful situation at work, but to more than half (58%) of...
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Even the NÉBIH was shocked
Due to serious hygiene irregularities, the operations of an animal by-products processing plant in Baranya County was suspended with immediate effect – the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) told...
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Magazine: The aspects of health and wellness prevail in our diet
In Hungary, the majority of people consider themselves as overweight in some degree. Four in ten are on a slimming diet as well. Most of them are carrying out a...
Read moreThe spritzer is at risk
The excise duties on products containing grape wine and carbonated unflavoured waters decreased to zero in January, thus the way is opening for the manufacture and sale of bottled spritzers....
Read moreKSH: the fuels and manufactured goods pulled the retail trade in December
The retail sales continued to recover in December last year. The turnover was 5.6 percent higher than the calendar adjusted data of a year after the previous month's 5.1 percent...
Read moreAnalysts: the growth can be persistent in retail
According to analysts interviewed by MTI on Wednesday, the growth can be persistent in retail trade. Török Bálint, analyst of the Buda-Cash Brókerház Zrt. (Buda-Cash Brokerage House Ltd.) told MTI...
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The Hungarian Advertising Association urges a dialogue in the case of advertising tax
The Hungarian Advertising Association (MRSZ) calls the government for dialogue because of the changes in the tax on advertising. Lázár János, Minister leading the Prime Minister’s Office told MTI on...
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Thr retail sales increased in the EU in December
Last December, retail sales rose by 0.3 percent in the European Union (EU) and in the euro zone, compared to the previous month – the EU's statistical office, the Eurostat...
Read moreUnique export successes in South Korea
The Hungarian companies achived unique export successes in South Korea – Magyar Levente Minister of State of the Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs (KKM) announced on Wednesday in Budapest. Magyar...
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The Nánási merchandise received an EU award
The campaign facilitating to create the Nánási merchandise, first local trademark received the second prize of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) communication award in Brussels. Szolláth Tibor (Fidesz) Mayor...
Read moreThe Hungarian beef will be exported to Hong Kong soon
The Hungarian beef can be exported to Hong Kong soon, after the local food safety authority has accepted teh necessary animal health guarantees – the Ministry of Agriculture (FM) told...
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Magazine: Matchmaking at the highest level… because not only business success matters!
Managers often struggle with finding their partner in life: they are busy and don’t have time for themselves. Irina Beke is the owner of dating agency First Class and she...
Read moreBridgehead in North Africa
The European Union has been working on closer cooperation with the countries in the Mediterranean, especially in North Africa for quite a while. So far diplomatic and economic opening worked...
Read moreHungary’s GDP growth may go above three percent
Ernst & Young’s quarterly Eurozone Forecast reveals that this year Hungary’s economy may grow by 3.3 percent – this would be the best performance since 2006. Ernst & Young CEO...
Read moreMVH answers SMS messages too
From HUF 400 million the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) improved its customer service system within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan. The new system means that MVH...
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Tradition is a trend
In Hungary the average basket value in a bakery is between HUF 250 and 380. One bakery generally needs to serve 1,000-1,300 customers to sustain itself. Obviously bigger bakeries located...
Read moreA new development brings relief to the users of EKÁER
Many businesses are unprepared for the introduction of the EKÁER. The owners sent the data sheets with many mistakes. The ProgAdat Kft. (belonging to the Laurel Group) dealing with commercial...
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Lázár suggests the reduction of the advertising tax
Lázár János Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office proposes advertising tax reduction and to introduce a flat rate system, instead of the current progressive tax tax system on advertising. Lázár...
Read moreThe BMI index increased in January
The value of the purchasing manager index increased by 3.3 percentage points to 54.2 points in January, compared to the previous month's 50.9 points – the Hungarian Logistics, Purchasing and...
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KSH: 843 million euros export surplus
Last November, the exports increased by 3.1 percent in euros, compared with a year earlier, while the imports rose by 2.1 percent. The monthly merchandise trade surplus was 843 million...
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The Hungarian seed is a competitive economic value
Hungary is the sixth largest seed exporter in the world behind France, the Netherlands, the United States, Germany and Chile. This year, 35 percent of the quantity of the seed...
Read moreBisnode: the number of firms decreased last year
The number of active companies between January 2014 and January 2015 decreased by 2.55 percent to 543,692 firms in Hungary – the Bisnode international company rating firm told MTI on...
Read more145.5 million euros support for plantation renewal
In the new EU grant cycle 145.5 million euros support will be available for plantation renewal in Hungary – Feldman Zsolt Deputy Minister of State, resposnible for agri-management said on...
Read moreRetail sales increased by 7 percent in Romania last year
Last year, retail sales increased by 7 percent in Romania, compared to 2013 – teh Romanian national statistical institute announced on Tuesday. The increase is mainly due to the 10.6...
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More than two million poultry were slaughtered because of bird flu in Taiwan
So far more than two million poultry had to be cut down, due to the spreading bird flu epidemic on the island of Taiwan. According to the latest nerws a...
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A paprika grist called Szegedi was withdrawn in the United States
Because of the possible allergy content of peanut, the Szegedi Sweet Hungarian Paprika was withdrawn in the United States. The product was sold between September 18, 2014 and October 13,...
Read moreTwenty-million HUF worth smuggled cigarettes were found in Tiszakerecseny
The finance guards and police officers found Twenty-million HUF worth smuggled cigarettes were found in the region of Tiszakerecseny – the press officer of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Directorate of Customs...
Read moreGood performance – with prices forced down
In the metal packaging market steel cans have the biggest, 70-percent market share. Aluminium solutions – including aerosol cans – represent only 10 percent of the market but they play...
Read moreGKI: Improvement in terms of trade
The GKI Economic Research Co. predicts that – although in 2014 the growth was approx. 3.2 percent a temporarily extremely rapid growth – the deceleration started in the third quarter...
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The two-third of the apple crop is processed by industrial plants
Industrial plants processed the two-third of the annual 820-900 thousand tonnes of apple crop last year – the President of the Product Council in Újfehértó told MTI. Takács Ferenc said...
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