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446 kilograms of food products were offered for charity by the exhibitors of the 79th OMÉK

This year, the 79th OMÉK exhibitors also collected food for the benefit of the Hungarian Food Bank Association. Participants of the National Agricultural and Food Exhibition and Fair, which closed...

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The food remaining at OMÉK is used for charitable purposes

The food, which remains at the end of the 79th National Exhibition and Fair for Agricultural and Food Industry (OMÉK), will be used for charitable purposes – the organizers told...

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790,000 cans of food for people in need

Bonduelle Central Europe Kft. and the Hungarian Food Bank Association donated 790,000 canned food products in the value of HUF 246 million to people in need.  The 221 tons of food...

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7.7 million forints donated to Food Bank

Thanks to the shoppers, Tesco and Mars collected HUF 7.7 million for the Hungarian Food Bank Association between 16 and 30 May. Shoppers could help by buying the designated Mars...

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Almost 8 million HUF has been gathered for the needy

The customers of Tesco and Mars donated a total of 7.7 million forints to the Hungarian Food Bank Association during the action took place between May 16 – May 30....

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“Today I also ate bananas because they were saved.”

In the first half of the year, the Hungarian Food Bank Association distributed more than 1,250,000 food packages. The amount of food surplus collected by the Food Bank continues to...

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More than 10,000 children receive a candy package on children’s day

The last Sunday of May is a children’s day, and the Hungarian Food Bank Association is preparing a special competition for this event. Not all children are fortunate enough to...

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Tesco and Mars launch action against food waste to support the Hungarian Food Bank Association

Food waste is an important issue for Tesco. Food waste is being reduced by the company’s daily activities and several programs. Examples include the support action from May 16 to...

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Magazine: Waste made useful by recycling

According to Norbert Höflinger, strategy director at HWD Recycling Kft., European waste processing companies are still unable to process the waste that got stuck on the continent after China’s waste...

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Tesco’s customers make Christmas more beautiful with nearly 200 tons of food

Tesco joined again to the Christmas Fundraiser Campaign of the Hungarian Food Bank Association this year. The customers this time contributed with a total of 490,000 doses of food. As...

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The Hungarian Food Bank organizes Christmas Fundraising between 23-25 November in more than 200 stores

The Hungarian Food Bank organizes organizes traditional Christmas Fundraising again in 2018. The food donations of the population are expected in more than 200 stores in nearly 120 settlements across...

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FAO: World Food Day coming up

he World Food Day 2018 (WFD) – marked each year on 16 October – highlights the need to step up efforts to end hunger as, globally, chronic hunger and malnutrition...

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Tesco doesn’t reject fruits and vegetables that don’t look so good

It was on 24 January 2017 that Tesco started selling so-called Perfectly Imperfect fruits and vegetables: the retailer also purchases those fruits and vegetables from suppliers which formerly didn’t meet...

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‘No Food Waste Event’ programme launched

Event catering is a special segment of the hospitality sector, where often too much food is available and some of it ends up as waste. With the coordination of the Hungarian...

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Mushroom cultivation against breast cancer

School Mushroom Growth Boxes, Pink Tray Calling for the Importance of Cancer Screening and Supporting Disadvantaged Families – only a few of the program elements from the Bio-Fungi Kft., the...

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More than 8,000 sweets packs for children in need

This May the Hungarian Food Bank Association compiled more than 8,000 packs from sweets and other delicacies, which were distributed among children at various Children’s Day events via partner organisations. The...

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Auchan has expanded the range of foods offered for donations with vegetables and fruits

Auchan operates its program in 16 stores in Hungary with the help of the Hungarian Food Bank Association. As the result of the cooperation with the Food Bank Association, about...

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Tesco programmes fighting food waste: not a single bite of food can be thrown away!

According to the Hungarian Food Bank Association, 1.8 million tons of food waste is produced in Hungary every year. In the 2016-2017 fiscal year Tesco published a report on the...

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The Hungarian Food Bank organizes Christmas Fundraising in nearly 200 stores

In 2017, the Hungarian Food Banking Association organizes its traditional Christmas Fundraising with the main support of CIB Bank. For three days, on November 24th, 25th and 26th, the food...

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Thirty tons of food for those in need have been delivered through Budapest during the World Food Day

A truck convoy delivered thirty tons of food donations from nineteen companies to the needy families through the historic downtown of Budapest on Monday to draw attention to the World...

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In co-operation with its suppliers, the Tesco supports the Hungarian Food Bank Association with more than 7.7 million HUF

Tesco supports the Hungarian Food Bank Association with over 7,7 million HUF donations. The chain of stores, in cooperation with its suppliers, offered 1% of the revenue from the sales...

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Food Bank collection point at the Budapest Wholesale Market

Budapest Wholesale Market has joined forces with the Hungarian Food Bank Association: from 21 June 2017 growers selling their produce at the market can give unsold produce to the association’s...

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Tesco is co-sponsoring the Hungarian Food Banking Association

Tesco Európa, has announced a new charity action against food waste, whereby the Czech, Polish, Slovakian and Hungarian supermarkets support local food banks by selling selected products. In the action,...

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The Food Avalanche Programme helped to five thousand families

The Food Avalanche Programme of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta took place in fifty-three settlements this year. The local authorities and civil societies that took part in the...

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Tesco: it is good to help others!

More than 162 tons of food donations, enough to prepare 405 000 doses of food was gathered by the customers of Tesco within the Christmas fundraising campaign of the Hungarian...

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The volunteers of the Food Bank Association collected 226 tonnes of durable food products

The Christmas fundraising campaign of the Hungarian Food Bank Association – that took place during the weekend – was successfully completed. The fundraising campaign took place in nearly 120 settlements...

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Tesco doubles the amount of food collected for charity

Tesco nearly doubles the amount of food collected to charity in the company’s food rescue program. From now, the supermarket chain recollects the no longer sold, but still edible croissants,...

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Europe wastes 88 million tons of food a year

The EU-funded project FUSIONS, in which the Hungarian Food Bank Association also participates presented the new estimates on the amount of food waste that is thrown away in the EU...

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The Food Avalanche helped to fourteen thousand people

One hundred and seventy tons of crops were harvested this year, from the lands of 52 governmental and non-profit organizations within the program of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and...

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153 tons of food donations in 3 days

During the Hungarian Food Bank Association’s Christmas collection campaign, Tesco’s customers donated more food than ever to the needy in a value of 65 million HUF on the last weekend...

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