Lidl’s Hungarian wine exports increased by 50 percent last year

Last year, the Hungarian wineries exported 6.1 million bottles of wines through Lidl Magyarország, which is about 50 percent more compared to the 4 million bottles of the previous year
Nepp Zoltán, purchasing manager of Lidl Magyarország, Grósz Jenő, Chairman of the Board of Lidl Magyarország, Szabó László, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs Ministry (l-r) at the Lidl Wine Expo Hungary Wine Exhibition’s press conference in Budapest on 8 March 2017 MTI Photo: Balogh Zoltán

Nepp Zoltán, the Purchasing Managing Director of the company said on Wednesday at the Lidl Wine Expo Hungary event that export is 52 percent of the company’s export was Hungarian wines in 2016. He explained that about 11 percent of the total wine export revenue were from Hungarian wines sold by Lidl Magyarország. In 2016, the company sold Hungarian wines abroad in a value of more than 3 billion HUF, which is more than double of the amount of the previous year. (MTI)