Posts From trademagazin
                    Batteries with elementary power
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Energizer batteries are available in all retail channels. According to Orsolya Varga, Energizer Magyarország Kft.’s trade marketing manager the focus is different in every channel, but the company is able...
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                    Food products are expensive, but they slow down inflation
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Inflation pressure eased a bit in July, as KSH reported a monthly consumer price increase of 0.1 percent. The price of cooking oil fell by 8.3 percent, but pork prices...
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                    The summer was characterised by lowering pig prices
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and meat products. Their last report reveals that in the first half of 2010 10 percent...
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                    Export plays the main role
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, mainly export-driven economic growth will be around 1 percent this year in Hungary. Industrial production in the first five...
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                    Greece on top of the inflation list
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                EUROSTAT reported that consumer prices diminished in the eurozone in July, in comparison with June. In the EU-27 consumer prices were 1.9 percent higher in the same period. Prices decreased...
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                    Disappointing second quarter results in European food retail
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In the second quarter less food was sold in retail in ten developed European countries (Hungary included), compared to April-June 2009. In terms of value, Nielsen Growthreporter registered negative performance...
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                    Food import is shrinking
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In January-May 2010 the volume of export augmented by 17 percent and import growth was at 15 percent. KSH’s quick report reveals that our export balance surplus was HUF 605...
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                    Cream that makes you drunk
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Cream is a novelty by a Cleveland company called Kingfish Spirits: flavoured cream with 15-percent alcohol content. Cream comes in vanilla, cherry, caramel, raspberry and chocolate flavours, and it can...
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                    Cucumber juice
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Mr. Q Cumber is an all natural crisp and refreshing drink that tastes like you just bit into an ice cold cucumber. With a bit of ice it eases even...
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                    iPhone-soap
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Gadget lovers will adore this soap innovation: by using this they do not have to make do without their favourite iPhone. The popular smartphone is now available in soap form...
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                    Hungarian consumers plan their shopping in advance
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Hungarian shoppers are some of the most conscious in Eastern Europe: 82 percent of our compatriots say they plan their shopping in advance. More than half of Hungarian shoppers (55...
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                    Consumers did not feel more inclined to buy in the summer either
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to KSH’s quick report, volume sales in retail were down by 4.7 percent in the first six months of 2010 and by 4.6 percent in June, compared to the...
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                    The food industry was one of the losers again
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to KSH, in 13 sub-sectors of the processing industry 9 experienced volume growth. The third biggest sub-sector, food, beverage and tobacco production declined by 5.6 percent because of falling...
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                    We continue to spend less on FMCG products
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In the first half of 2010 households spent 0.5 percent less on FMCG products, compared with the same period a year before, revealed GfK Hungária’s Retail Analyses. This entailed a...
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                    ‘It is ending precisely now…’ (Part 5)
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                This new, 6-part series by Trade magazin and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute focuses on price trends, pricing policies and consumer expectations in terms of price. The nominal value of...
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                    Hungarians are rather optimistic: more of us see a way out of the crisis than last year
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to a Nielsen survey conducted in May, Hungarians are more optimistic than the international average: while in 48 countries 21 percent of people said their countries will leave the...
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                    The turnover of retail chains’ private label products amounts to 165 billion forints in six months
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In six months the private label products of food retailers generated a HUF 165 billion turnover – 2 percent less than in the first six months of 2009. Private labels...
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                    Foreign markets – the Balkans States Volume sales are shrinking in many countries
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Nielsen Growthreporter, a trend report published quarterly, states that in FMCG retail the second quarter brought disappointment. Basically, Western Europe is still stronger than Eastern Europe. In the 21 developed...
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                    The 401-2,500 m² channel strengthened
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Coffee retail sales decreased by 5 percent in value and by 9 percent in volume in the December 2009-May 2010 period. The six-month coffee market neared HUF 24 billion. However,...
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                    Coffee brands use prize games to win consumers
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Although coffee is still one of the most popular products, in the recent period the market contracted significantly. Despite this trend Beatrix Pálvölgyi, Sara Lee Hungary Zrt.’s PR manager is...
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                    Coffee is still a popular and specific drink
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In the first half of 2010, 84 percent of Hungarian households bought coffee. Most of them, 65 percent bought ground roasted coffee; the second most popular was 3in1 and cappuccino...
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                    Non-alcoholic and single-flavour pralines strengthened their position
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In December 2009-May 2010 praline retail sales diminished by 19 percent in volume and by 13 percent in value, in comparison with the same period in 2009. The size of...
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                    It is now that brand building among pralines bears fruit
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Economic recession hit praline sales rather late, in last October-November. Data by Nielsen indicate that average prices grew significantly and small packaging units strengthened their position, while private labels also...
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                    Demand turning to fondant candy in small packaging unit
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Fondant candy sales declined: in the period between last November and January 2010 nearly 3,000 tons were sold, 14 percent less than in the same period a year earlier. Nielsen...
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                    In a better market position than the average
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Chilled candy bars belong to the group of food products with the biggest turnover: its annual HUF 24 billion market it is the 12th biggest among the 90 measured by...
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                    Brand building at full speed among chilled candy bars
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Pöttyös is the best known túró rudi brand, what is more, a survey by Braun & Partners and GfK Hungária in the spring of 2010 revealed that it was also...
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                    We like to buy chilled candy bars for our children
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, the consumption of chilled candy bars is closely connected to the presence of children in the family. While families with children are responsible for buying...
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                    Demand is shifting towards higher lemon content
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Lemon juice sales decreased in volume but increased in terms of value in the past period. Ágnes Chvojka, Maspex Olympos Kft.’s junior brand manager explained this with this year’s unfavourable...
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                    40-percent lemon juice is the most popular
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Nielsen Retail Index reveals that lemon juice retail sales grew by 4 percent in terms of value in December 2009-May 2010, compared to the previous period a year before. The...
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                    At half-time
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-09-22 08:00:00
												                    
				
                If somebody takes a closer look at the selection of wines Hungarian restaurants and wine shops offer, they would think we live in a prospering country with a large middle...
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