The goal is supply 1,000 tons of peppers to make 120 tons of paprika, mayor Zoltán Nógrádi said. Last year, program participants supplied enough peppers to make 45 tons of paprika, he added. Kotányi, the namesake of its founder, János Kotányi, was established in Szeged in 1881. Today, the family-owned company is the largest spice distributor in Central Europe. It is among the market leaders in Austria, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. The company’s Hungarian unit had revenue of HUF 3.9 bln in 2013, public records show.