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Navigare necesse est
History books claim that Pompeius said the above sentence to sailors who didn’t want to sail off from Sicily to Rome, because there was a storm. Generations later the so-called...
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Spaghetti to-go!
Smorgasburg in Brooklyn is one of New Yorkers’ favourite summer eateries. It is a bit like a continuous culinary festival. This is the place where the spaghetti doughnut made its...
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Belarusian retail chain Eurotorg enters the stock market
Belarusian retail chain Eurotorg is about to list its shares in the London Stock Market. The chain has a 19-percent market share in Belarus and it is five times bigger...
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Alibaba enters the wine market
Seeing the growing demand for imported wine, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest almost USD 290 million in domestic wine and spirits importer and retailer 1919.cn. In...
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One billion packs of paper napkin a year
The paper napkin category represents a value of more than HUF 3 billion. Like-for-like value sales were down 3 percent in September 2017-August 2018 and volume sales dropped 8 percent...
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Magazine: Once upon a time…Business Days 2018 (Part 1)
This year we invited partners to tell and listen to fairytales at the Business Days conference in Tapolca, which was organised in cooperation with the Chain Bridge Club. Between 25...
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Digital well-being
Technology takes a lot of burden off our shoulders. What we used to spend days with can now be done in minutes. At the same time personal interactions have become...
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Nielsen: Two-digit growth in condom sales
Value sales of condom jumped 10 percent between August 2017 and July 2018 if compared with the base period one year earlier. This performance represented a value of HUF 3.5...
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Adventures for summer, nourishment for winter
According to Abigél Győri, junior brand manager with Henkel, this year ushered in many new innovations, product launches and market entries for brands. In the second half of 2018 Henkel...
Read moreAnalysts: domestic demand increases imports
Internal consumption and investments drive imports, while export growth has slowed considerably in August, which reduced the foreign trade surplus according to MTI analysts. According to the first estimate of...
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(HU) A Mars marketingvezetője visszatér szülési szabadságáról
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FMCG sales are growing dynamically online too – 15th E-commerce Conference, 5-6 June 2018, Visegrád (Part 3)
On the second day of Ecommerce Hungary’s conference the FMCG sector was analysed at a roundtable discussion, which was moderated by Zsuzsanna Hermann, our magazine’s editor-in-chief. She pointed it out...
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Price vs. speed: What is more important in the field of logistics solutions?
The results of a survey by Olcsóbbat.hu from 2018 have revealed: reliability is almost as important as the price of the service when an online shop chooses a logistics service...
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News from Poland
Spar Polska reported a 15-percent increase in sales for the first half of 2018, in the value of PLN 550 million. Last year sales were at PLN 483 million in...
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In August, the number of jobseekers decreased by 6.7 percent
The number of registered jobseekers decreased by 6.7 percent in Hungary over a year, according to the National Employment Service (NFSZ). On the closing day of August, there were 251,300...
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Changing shoppers, changing needs
The ‘Most successful promotion of the year’ competition and the related one-day conference give us a special opportunity to get to know shoppers’ opinion directly. In former years the results were...
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Huge and tiny meals in a Malaysian museum – Video of the da
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The power of design
Online trade magazine Convenience Store Decisions has analysed how a shop interior and various design solutions can influence sales performance. One of the examples was a Cruizer’s petrol station shop in...
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First there were ‘food trucks’, now there are ‘fashion trucks’ too
In an article published at the Retail Customer Experience website Will Hodgkiss, the CEO of Venture Food Trucks revealed: fashion retailers can be successful with the same concept as food...
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Podcast series about retail issues
Shop! started its own podcast series, titled Retail Decoded. The show’s host is Jo Rossman, the editor of Shop! Retail Environments magazine, and guests from the fields of retail trade, shop...
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The promise of growth
Hungarian National Trading House (MNKH) Zrt. has announced its merger with its affiliate, the Hungarian Trade Development and Promotion Kft. and the new company will operate under the name of Hungarian Export...
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First there were ‘food trucks’, now there are ‘fashion trucks’ too
In an article published at the Retail Customer Experience website Will Hodgkiss, the CEO of Venture Food Trucks revealed: fashion retailers can be successful with the same concept as food...
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Magazine: According to the shoppers (Part 2)
The mechanism of promotional games and the value of prizes that can be won have great influence on how much shoppers want to participate. Complicated rules, logoed gifts and prizes that...
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Hungarian tourism is expected to set up a record again this year
Though the high season figures are unknown, it has now become clear that in 2018, the turnover of the hotel industry will reach a record in Hungary – Indra Dániel...
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Magazine: A café in the frozen food section
According to a Mintel report published by associate director of foodservice research Amanda Topper, in US hypermarkets shoppers increasingly often come across a café or a fast food joint. One of...
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The social partners are seeking to maintain more elements of cafeteria
The social partners agreed with the government that the cafeteria system should be organized in a transparent way. But the chapter on the draft of Tax Code of the coming...
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An award for retailers that popularise Hungarian products
Hungarian Product Nonprofit Kft. and Trade magazin have established an award for retailers: those can win it who do the most for promoting the sales of Hungarian products (it is the...
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Tax policy
In the Hungarian Parliament’s early summer session the new government announced their proposal to cut the VAT on long shelf life milk and increase the rate of the public health...
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