Tag "Belgium"
Straws made from paper can be harmful
Date: 2023-08-29 09:58:34
Instead of banned plastic straws, restaurants now offer paper straws. But these can also be harmful to the environment and health, warns a group of researchers in the journal “Food...
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Delhaize And Carrefour Lower Prices In Belgium
Date: 2023-08-25 09:21:35
Two leading supermarket chains in Belgium, Delhaize and Carrefour, have announced plans to offer discounts on hundreds of products. In ads published in all major Belgian newspapers, Delhaize announced that...
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Lidl simplifies store concept in Belgium
Date: 2023-08-24 09:01:08
Lidl is planning to simplify its store concept in Belgium, with the aim of ensuring that all 310 stores in the country have the same layout. It follows a similar...
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HelloFresh introduces ready-to-eat service Factor to Europe
Date: 2023-08-22 09:54:23
HelloFresh Group has expanded its ready-to-eat brand, Factor, to the Netherlands and the Flanders region in Belgium. Other countries on the continent will follow suit. “Bringing Factor to Europe is...
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Belgium sees beer exports plummet
Date: 2023-07-14 09:13:48
For the third year in a row, Belgian beer exports have gone down. However, beer consumption in Belgium increased by 7.5 % – getting nearer to pre-pandemic levels. Pandemic pill almost...
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Colruyt Looks To The ‘Store Of The Future’
Date: 2023-06-29 09:01:29
Belgian retailer Colruyt has announced it is testing a new technology to ensure that shelves remain optimally stocked, while also measuring how many customers enter the store and how busy...
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Belgian Government Orders Food Industry To Lower Supermarket Prices
Date: 2023-06-20 09:32:39
The Belgian Federal Minister for the Economy, Pierre-Yves Dermagne, has given a mid-July deadline for food producers to bring down supermarket food prices. “It is not acceptable that when prices...
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A Bulgarian driver crashed on the M5 with hidden conterfeit drinks
Date: 2023-06-12 09:18:58
The Bulgarian driver who transported hundreds of liters of alcohol on the flatbed of his truck was trying to get from Bulgaria to Belgium, but the tax inspectors of the...
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Carrefour Belgium Launches Wave Of Price Reductions
Date: 2023-05-12 09:01:46
Carrefour has launched a wave of price reductions in Belgium, commencing 8 May with further price reductions planned in the coming weeks. The retailer is reducing the prices of up to...
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Our shared responsibility is to provide farmers with predictable conditions
Date: 2023-04-24 09:00:37
It is the responsibility of the EU presidency trio starting in July to ensure that European farmers can work predictably and in safe conditions and receive answers to their problems...
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„Silence is Golden”: Leffe embraces the silent power of friendship in major new campaign
Date: 2023-04-18 09:54:37
Belgian beer brand Leffe has today (14 April) launched a new pan-European brand platform to encourage the public to ‘Bring More to the Table’ and create deeper connections. Developed in...
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Delhaize to sell all Belgian stores
Date: 2023-03-10 09:33:29
Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize has announced it wants to sell all its integrated supermarkets in Belgium to independent franchisers. In doing so, the chain aims to become more profitable in...
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Colruyt opens another autonomous container store in Belgium
Date: 2023-03-06 12:16:10
Colruyt Group member Okay Direct has opened a second autonomous convenience store. The unmanned container store was set up in the car park of Okay Lennik, and its floor space...
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Colruyt’s unmanned van delivers first groceries to home
Date: 2023-01-25 09:13:42
After two months of trial runs in an business district, Belgian Colruyt Group‘s self-driving trolley has now actually delivered groceries to the homes of three customers for the first time....
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France’s InVivo To Buy One Of The World’s Oldest Malthouses
Date: 2023-01-11 09:28:53
Malteries Soufflet, a branch of French agribusiness group InVivo, has signed an agreement to take over Belgian malthouse Castle Malting, one of the oldest producers of the beer ingredient in...
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Metro Belgium to be acquired by foodservice competitor Sligro
Date: 2022-12-08 09:36:41
Sligro is allowed to acquire Belgian wholesaler Metro, in combination with Van Zon. The verdict is in: the combination of Sligro and Van Zon has been approved as acquirers of...
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Colruyt Launches Points-Based Programme To Support Environmental Initiatives
Date: 2022-11-11 09:37:41
Belgium’s Colruyt Group has developed a point-based programme through its Xtra app, to encourage responsible, sustainable shopping. Under the motto of ‘Making conscious choices is scoring points’, the scheme will...
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Colruyt launches ‘welfare chickens’ in new supply chain
Date: 2022-10-24 09:09:09
Colruyt is joining forces with 17 Belgian breeders by launching an exclusive collaborative chain for meat chickens. The chickens are to become genuine “welfare chickens”. Colruyt is entering into a...
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Barry Callebaut to continue production in Belgian factory
Date: 2022-09-22 10:10:00
In early August Barry Callebaut restarted production in its chocolate factory Belgium. The chocolate maker stopped manufacturing at the end of June, after discovering salmonella in a production lot. Lecithin...
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FrieslandCampina sells milk powder factory in Belgium
Date: 2021-11-08 16:42:40
FrieslandCampina has sold its milk powder factory in Aalter, Belgium, to Royal A-ware for an undisclosed amount. The deal will also transfer 40 employees to Royal A-ware. The sale is...
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Belgian Beer Exports Decline For First Time In Ten Years
Date: 2021-06-16 08:30:56
The Belgian beer market has witnessed a slump in domestic sales and exports for the first time in ten years, with both seeing an 18% decline, according to a report...
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Aldi Belgium To Ensure Efficient Water Use In Fruit And Vegetables Production
Date: 2021-03-30 08:30:51
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Lidl Belgium adds new vegetarian and vegan products
Date: 2021-03-16 14:08:54
Lidl Belgium has added 11 new meat substitute products to its private label vegetarian and vegan range. From the new additions 7 are vegetarian and 4 are vegan products. Lidl Belgium has...
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Commercial units can reopen from Mondayi Belgium
Date: 2020-11-27 11:10:36
The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has slowed in Belgium, so commercial units that sell non-essential goods may reopen from Monday – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo announced at...
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A Belgian chocolate maker was chosen as the best confectioner in the world
Date: 2020-10-30 10:37:58
The master, known for his minimalist style, opened his first store 25 years ago. Today his luxury sweets are sold in forty stores – nepszava.hu wrote. A Belgian chocolate master...
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In Belgium, catering establishments to close for a month
Date: 2020-10-19 10:20:58
In Belgium, due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, catering establishments will be closed from Monday for one month and a night curfew will take effect. Belgian Prime...
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Bars and cafés in Brussels will close for a month
Date: 2020-10-07 10:15:33
To curb the growing coronavirus pandemic, all bars and cafés and event centers in the Belgian capital and region must be closed for at least a month, and alcohol consumption...
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A campaign to promote french fries has started in Belgium
Date: 2020-05-26 11:12:15
Local NGOs in Belgium have launched a campaign to boost the consumption the country’s symbolic french fries in order to save some 750,000 tonnes of potatoes that are at risk...
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Record quantities of counterfeit cigarettes were seized by the Belgian customs authorities
Date: 2020-01-17 11:01:08
126 million counterfeit cigarettes have been seized by the Belgian customs authorities in Antwerp since the beginning of the year – the Belgian customs authorities announced on Friday. According to...
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Carrefour: new store format in Italy and Belgium
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:28
In Portogruaro Carrefour Italia debuts with a new hypermarket that aims at making shopping simpler: they sell organic fruits and vegetables supplied by local farmers, ready meals to go, there...
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