Posts From trademagazin
                    Green message instead of a brand name
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                A German businessman tries to grab the attention of consumers with the message ‘Stop The Water While Using Me!’, which is printed on toothpaste tubes, shower gel and shampoo bottles...
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                    With flower seeds for bees
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Bees are an endangered species that play a vital role in preserving the balance of our environment. UK drinks company Innocent, the National Trust and the Irish Beekeepers’ Association started...
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                    Garden stores flee forward
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                No precise data is available on the size of the domestic garden plant market, but experts’ estimate is that there are about 100 wholesalers in the country. Most of them...
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                    Turnover increased in the country of supermarkets this June
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In Austria food retail turnover grew by 1.5 percent in value in the June 2009-May 2010 period, compared with the same period a year earlier – informs Sigrid Göttlich, the...
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                    The Internet helps in buying medicine
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Hungarian medicine and medicinal product buyers use the Internet to gather information more often than other nationals. A Nielsen survey (conducted in 55 countries) found that 34 percent of Hungarian...
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                    Shoppers who buy vodka are likely to put other drinks in the basket too
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Nielsen’s Retail Index reveals that discount stores realised 17 percent of value sales in the 90 food categories measured in the December 2009-May 2010 period. As for the 60 household...
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                    Skills and thrills: METRO’s Customer Academy is about to open
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Next to the Budaörs METRO store the chain’s Customer Academy will open in October. The Customer Academy’s head of department Piroska Balestra shared the details with readers of our magazine....
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                    Traditional shops increased their market share
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to the Nielsen Retail Index, 8 percent less salami and 4 percent less sausage was sold in value by retailers in January-April, in comparison with the same period in...
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                    Long-established Hungarian meat brands stand firm
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Although meat is one of the essential food products, the market was unable to evade the effects of economic recession. Zoltán Nagygyörgy, PICK Szeged Zrt.’s product manager told us that...
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                    The average volume of cured products bought per household keeps shrinking
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to ConsumerScan data from GfK Hungária, 87 percent of households bought sausage or salami last year, 3 percent more than a year earlier. However, in the past couple of...
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                    Rice turnover concentrates and the 501-1,000-gram format is dominant
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Retail sales of rice diminished by 2 percent in value and by 3 percent in volume in the April 2008-March 2009 period. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, the size...
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                    Growing diversity on the rice and flour market
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Eating in restaurant less often could have entailed an increase in flour sales, but market players’ opinion is that demand remained stable. – The fact that flour sales did not...
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                    A wide selection of organic flours is available
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Those committed to eating healthy and organic constitute a stable group of organic flour buyers. After a recent decrease in turnover, sales increased in certain supermarkets and drugstores from the...
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                    To the dustbin it goes!
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                In Hungary, the bin bag market surpasses the value of HUF 4 billion. According to Csaba Horváth, the managing director of Hok-Plastik, because of the influence of fossil fuel price...
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                    Shaken, not stirred
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                The budget needs more money – there is less money to spend in people’s pocket: this is not the best scenario when you want to sell alcoholic beverages. In the...
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                    Family budgets reshaped for the umpteenth time
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                While in the European Union retail turnover fell at the same rate as in November 2008, in Hungary it decreased by 4.7 percent in the first four months of 2010,...
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                    The revolution of mobile technology
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                ‘Mobile technology revolutionises the relationship between the business sphere and consumers!’ was the motto of the first GS1 MobileCom Day conference where experts introduced the latest mobile applications. GS1 member...
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                    GINNT EXPO – DIGITALEXPO – SIGNEXPO: Intelligent business solutions
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Visit the GINNT EXPO (Global Innovation Technologies Expo) in Budapest’s Syma Event Centre on 15-17 September 2010. This year DIGITALEXPO and SIGNEXPO will accompany the main event. The three exhibitions...
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                    Electronic communication: an investment with rapid return
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Consumers remain the most important for a company even in the worst economic period, and a comprehensive, fast and accurate business management system with electronic devices creates advantages for them...
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                    Information updated daily
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Péter Csík, the managing director of Compton Informatikai ZRt. is of the opinion that in the dynamically changing competition only IT-supported flexible data processing can serve all the needs of...
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                    The background of the future
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                ‘Future Store’ is not only about the equipment on the shop floor: an integrated IT system also forms part of it. These days when retailers try to keep only a...
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                    Hungaricum Corner in CBA Plaza
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                This July CBA Sopron Plaza opened the first Hungaricum corner where wines, pálinkas, sweets, fresh and preserved food products from Hungarian manufacturers can be found. Pricer electronic labels were used...
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                    Pricer shelf label in the Hungaricum Corner too
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                CBA and Szintézis Informatika proved that they not only lead the way in innovation (CBA was the first food store to use electronic shelf labels), but also in promoting Hungarian...
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                    Packaged expectations
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                According to data from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), the global packaging material market represented a value of USD 564 billion in 2009, from which the consumer packaging market was...
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                    HUNGAROPACK 2010 packaging competition
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                There were 56 entries from 28 companies at the 27th HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition. The jury evaluated 51 works in the consumer and collective packaging category and 5 in the...
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                    The silent shop assistant
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Trends in the packaging of daily goods are influenced by global processes in world society and economy, creating new opportunities and demand, but posing new challenges as well. Experts have...
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                    Ready to be transported and put on the shelf
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Global trends influence the Hungarian collective packaging market. One of the current trends is using lighter cardboard products, especially on developed markets. In Europe demand is constantly growing for below...
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                    Rondo Kft. has been a key player in the Hungarian packaging material sector 
since 1995
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
												                    
				
                Cardboard is used by basically all industries, for collective, individual or shelf-ready packaging. Rondo’s partners are food and non-food companies manufacturing in Hungary. Rondo has also been IKEA’s European supplier...
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                    The Farmer Expo opened in Debrecen
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-27 00:05:02
												                    
				
                With the participation of three hundred domestic and foreign exhibitors, the country's largest annaul agricultural, food and horticultural exhibition, the Farmer Expo opened its gates in the agri-centre of the...
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                    The Farmer Expo opened in Debrecen
                    
                        
																								Date: 2010-08-27 00:05:02
												                    
				
                With the participation of three hundred domestic and foreign exhibitors, the country's largest annaul agricultural, food and horticultural exhibition, the Farmer Expo opened its gates in the agri-centre of the...
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