German Consumers’ Appetite for Fish and Seafood Decreased Due to Increased Prices, Reports Fish Information Center

German Consumers’ Appetite for Fish and Seafood Decreased Due to Increased Prices, Reports Fish Information Center

The significantly increased prices are curbing German consumers’ appetite for fish and seafood. They spent 3.7 billion euros on food retail in the first nine months, an increase of 4.3 percent, as the Fish Information Center (FIZ) announced in Hamburg on Wednesday. But the quantity purchased shrank by 5.5 percent compared to the previous year. … Read more

The Prime Minister announced the introduction of restrictions on consumer loans

The Prime Minister announced the introduction of restrictions on consumer loans

Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov announced the need to introduce restrictions on consumer loans and review rates on payday loans, Tengrinews.kz correspondent reports. At a government meeting, Alikhan Smailov reported that as of September 1, 2023, the total volume of consumer loans from banks amounted to 9.2 trillion tenge. “Some citizens, in order to close overdue … Read more

AMA Quality Seal Ensures Austrian Origin for Plants Used on All Saints Day

AMA Quality Seal Ensures Austrian Origin for Plants Used on All Saints Day

AMA quality seal identifies plants with Austrian origin Vienna (OTS) – On All Saints Day on November 1st, all deceased people are remembered. Many people visit the cemeteries and decorate the graves with colorful flowers to mark the occasion. In plants with the With the AMA quality seal you can be sure that the goods … Read more

New Government Regulations for Mortgage Switching and Insurance Institutions

New Government Regulations for Mortgage Switching and Insurance Institutions

The government decided to put limits on this. Customers will soon be able to switch to a new policy with another insurance institution free of charge after one third of the term of the home loan, without this having any consequences on the interest rate. The new rules only apply to new mortgages. The initial … Read more

Insights into GDR Insurance Policies: What You Need to Know

Insights into GDR Insurance Policies: What You Need to Know

MDR at 4: Which GDR insurance policies do many people still have? Fabian Holzheimer, Consumer Center Saxony: In the GDR, on the one hand, this was household insurance – a bundle of private liability, household contents and luggage insurance. It was adopted that way after the fall of communism. On the other hand, this is … Read more

Companies and Municipalities Offer to Participate in ‘StromGedacht’ App to Stabilize Electricity Market

Companies and Municipalities Offer to Participate in ‘StromGedacht’ App to Stabilize Electricity Market

Wendlingen/Neckar (dpa/lsw) – The debate about almost everyday electricity shortages, which require the use of reserve power plants or the purchase of electricity from abroad (redispatch), is bearing fruit. According to company boss Werner Götz, the first companies and municipalities at the transmission system operator TransnetBW have offered to participate in the “StromGedacht” app. This … Read more

Mangystau entrepreneurs were reminded of the need to use cash registers and indicated the amount of penalties for ignoring these obligations

Mangystau entrepreneurs were reminded of the need to use cash registers and indicated the amount of penalties for ignoring these obligations

As Nikar Rafikova says, according to Article 33 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Protection of Consumer Rights”, the seller is obliged to use a cash register in the manner and in cases provided for by the tax legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This means that every entrepreneur must register a … Read more

Deutsche Bahn Announces the Largest Expansion of Services in 20 Years: More Connections and Faster Journeys

Deutsche Bahn Announces the Largest Expansion of Services in 20 Years: More Connections and Faster Journeys

Leipzig (dpa) – Faster connections, more seats, more journeys: With Deutsche Bahn’s timetable change from December 10th, passengers are facing the “largest expansion of services in 20 years”, according to the company. The company announced on Friday that not only the metropolises will benefit from the improvements, but also the regions. According to the railway … Read more

Apple’s Controversial Use of “Death Marketing” to Sell Products

Apple’s Controversial Use of “Death Marketing” to Sell Products

Money Today Reporter Kim Seung-han | 2023.09.20 07:59 [IT썰] iPhone 15. /Photo = Newsis It has been pointed out that Apple is using the death of consumers as marketing. According to industry sources on the 19th (local time), American IT media outlet The Verge recently published an article titled ‘Apple continues to use our deaths … Read more

Premiere: Flash mob of Austrian florists

Premiere: Flash mob of Austrian florists

The Austria-wide campaign will take place on September 13th in the state capitals Vienna (OTS) – There will be a very special premiere on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., for example on the main square of the respective state capital, when the Austrian florists carry out their first flash mob. The motto of … Read more