Tag "Magyar Élelmiszerbank Egyesület"
Water champions, aid organizations and food industry companies together drew attention to the key to the future
The food challenges caused by global and regional water shortages were presented at Monday’s event organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Hungarian Food...
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Today is World Food Day
In order to maintain water security and safe food production, our goal is the sustainable development of agriculture, which predicts the expected effects of increasingly extreme weather conditions and keeps...
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This year, Tesco and Nestlé are also making a monetary donation from the food sold
This year, between September 28 and October 11, the Nestlé and Tesco joint campaign to support the work of the Hungarian Food Bank Association will run again. Within the framework...
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Saving food
On average 42% of all cooked food prepared in school kitchens ends up as food waste. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2023/8-9. About half of this...
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Sustainability with reservations
This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2023/8-9. The Hungarian Food Bank Association has been helping people in need for 18 years “For the first time, this year...
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100 million kilos of saved food went to the needy
In the first half of 2023, the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület saved and donated 4.7 million kilos of expired and defective goods to the needy. Since their establishment, they have collected...
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In the first half of the year, the food bank helped the needy with 4.7 million kilos of saved food
In the first half of this year, the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület rescued and donated 4.7 million kilograms of expired and defective goods to the needy. In a statement delivered to...
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Food rescue in school kitchens
As part of a pilot project, the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület and the Catering Service Organization of the Budapest Metropolitan Municipality have successfully tested the conditions under which leftover, unserved food...
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The Food Bank and the Jesuit order help in Borsod with saved food
On June 21, the Hungarian Food Bank Association added its five hundred and fiftieth charitable partner to its national food rescue network. The association, which collects products with near-expiration or...
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Penny strengthened further last year, and the expansion doesn’t stop
Trade magazine interviewed Eszter Kazatsay, Penny’s head of corporate communications. – What was the most important event in the company’s life last year? – PENNY reached another important milestone last...
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The biggest food collection of the year so far for the needy is here: are Hungarians still collecting the most from pasta?
On May 12-13, Friday and Saturday, the biggest food collection campaign of the year will take place organized by the Hungarian Food Bank Association. In response to the ever-increasing needs...
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The biggest food collection of the year so far is here
On May 12-13, Friday and Saturday, the biggest food collection campaign of the year will take place organized by the Hungarian Food Bank Association. In response to the ever-increasing needs...
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The Food Bank is organizing a spring food collection campaign for the first time
Due to the increase in the price of food, the Hungarian Foodbank Association is organizing a food collection campaign for the first time in the spring this year. The association...
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The Hungarian Food Bank Association helped the needy with HUF 10 billion worth of food in 2022
In 2022, a total of 239,000 needy people benefited from the near-expiry or defective products that the Hungarian Food Bank Association collected from stores and manufacturers. In 2022, we increased...
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Together with its customers, ALDI supported those in need
Social responsibility is extremely important to ALDI, the defining element of which is environmental awareness and social sensitivity. The company has been doing important social work for years through joint...
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Last year, PENNY helped with a donation of over HUF 600 million!
PENNY also had a busy year in 2022 in terms of donations. Our country’s leading retail store chain helped those who needed it the most with large-scale collection campaigns and...
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Danone continued its year-round donation even at Christmas
Danone Magyarország Kft. continued to help those in need in 2022, but during the winter months, around the holidays, it turned its attention to those in difficult situations in order...
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Tesco and Nestlé support the care of the needy with HUF 15.5 million
Like Santa Claus, Nestlé and Tesco are preparing gifts on December 6. As a result of this year’s joint campaign, the two companies are supporting the work of the Hungarian...
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December 5 is the International Day of Volunteering
Volunteering is charity, work done out of free will, without financial compensation. On December 17, 1985, at the initiative of the United Nations, the decision was made that December 5...
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Online learning material for reducing food waste
While food prices show a continuous increase, an average person in Hungary still produces nearly 65 kg of food waste at home every year. Among other things, this is what...
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152 stores, 3 days, HUF 111 million worth of product donations – the balance of a Tesco weekend
93 tons of food donations were collected in the non-perishable food collection campaign of the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület last weekend in Tesco stores, in which well-known actors also participated. This...
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The Food Bank collected more than 240 tons of donations
Customers collected a total of 241 tons of durable food in the 17th Christmas fund-raising campaign of the Magyar Élelmiszerbank Egyesület from Friday to Sunday in 334 stores in 160...
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The country’s largest food collection campaign is here
From Friday to Sunday, the biggest food collection campaign of the year will take place organized by the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület. The stakes are high, without joint assistance, tens of...
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The Hungarian Food Bank Association is launching a food collection campaign on Friday
The food collection campaign of the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület will take place from Friday to Sunday in the stores of four retail chains across the country. The Food Bank asks...
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A Christmas fundraiser is starting in ALDI stores across the country
This is the fifth year that ALDI has participated in the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület’s Christmas Fundraiser. This year, November 18-20. customers can drop off food intended for the needy at...
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Danone supports the needy with more than 3,000 products worth nearly half a million forints
On October 14, a donation convoy loaded with food passed through the historic downtown of Budapest on the occasion of World Food Day. Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization...
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The government is committed to global food security
For the Government of Hungary, food security is of strategic importance, and the fact that good quality food is on the table of the Hungarian people. On the occasion of...
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This year, a convoy of donations drew attention to World Food Day
A truck convoy loaded with food donations worth HUF 100 million drew attention to World Food Day in Budapest on Friday. The convoy of 20 trucks passed through downtown Budapest...
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The amount of food waste in Hungary is amazing
The majority of Hungarians claim to be environmentally conscious, and we throw approximately 300,000 tons of salvageable food into the trash every year. 80 percent of the Hungarian population considers...
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Although the majority of Hungarians shop consciously, they still waste a lot of food
According to their own admission, the majority of Hungarians buy consciously and pay attention to the expiry date of food, yet they produce 65 kilograms of food waste every year,...
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