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Magazine: Retail panorama 2018
Date: 2019-06-11 07:26:58
The biggest change in Hungarian retail trade last year was discount supermarkets becoming the No.1 channel. This was the result of long-term processes and changes in different consumption trends. Hungarian...
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ALDI: the leader in green solutions
Date: 2019-06-07 10:09:00
ALDI operates 139 stores in Hungary and the secret of their success is that people are the most important in their set of values – be it customers or workers. ...
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Magazine: 2018: Retail sales kept growing
Date: 2019-06-07 07:52:31
There was a record-level sales growth in 2018 with a 6.6-percent growth rate. In part this was the result of wages increasing by two-digit numbers in the last three years....
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Magazine: Working hard to get the attention of retailers and shoppers
Date: 2019-05-28 07:03:11
Those manufacturers are in a more difficult situation than the makers of gluten- and lactose-free and low-carb products, who have decided to make products which are free from other things....
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Magazine: Back to nature
Date: 2019-05-27 07:23:14
Special ingredients, innovative functions or being organic – these characteristics can make cosmetics special, alternative or innovative within the category. On the consumer side there is definitely demand for natural...
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Magazine: Life and food can be sweet without sugar!
Date: 2019-05-23 07:17:28
There is a growing number of conscious consumers in Hungary who pay attention to buy products made using healthy ingredients. Many products are now made without added sugar and/or with low...
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Magazine: Dietary supplements: increasing health-consciousness
Date: 2019-05-22 07:57:26
In February London-based Euromonitor International published a study about the Hungarian dietary supplement market. It revealed that Hungarian consumers know and take care more about their health than before. Companies have...
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Good sales results featured in this year’s FMCG retailer ranking
Date: 2019-05-15 14:39:07
Trade magazin traditionally publishes its FMCG retailer ranking on the first workday in June. The good sales results of former years improved further last year. Although there was no change...
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Reál opened a modern supermarket last year
Date: 2019-05-15 11:54:02
Reál Hungária Élelmiszer Kft. operates approximately 1,500 stores from which more than 300 work in a franchise system. All of the eight member companies serve as regional centres. Reál convenience stores bigger than...
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Tesco wants to be a role model
Date: 2019-05-15 11:47:15
Zsolt Pártos, operations director of Tesco Hungary told us that they would like to be a role model for everyone with Tesco’s CSR programme: the food saving programme is already...
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Responsible innovations from Lidl
Date: 2019-05-15 11:46:35
Lidl has 180 stores and employs more than 5,000 people in Hungary. The retailer pays special attention to working with Hungarian suppliers, and thanks to this almost 60 percent of the...
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CBA: Development can’t stop
Date: 2019-05-15 11:42:34
In 2018 CBA’s Príma network strengthened further and the company continued turning the franchise system into a real service provider franchise. CBA president Vilmos Lázár told that they had launched...
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Auchan anniversary, combined with a strategic renewal
Date: 2019-05-15 11:33:30
In 2018 Auchan celebrated 20 years in Hungary. Dominique Ducoux, CEO of Auchan Retail Magyarország told that they had opened new supermarkets and superstores, and today Auchan is already waiting...
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SPAR: progress in every area
Date: 2019-05-15 10:49:56
SPAR Magyarország closed 2018 with an almost 10-percent sales increase. The company invested HUF 32 billion in building 6 new stores and modernising another 17 last year. Sales of the franchise...
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Even nicer stores and better sales results from Rossmann
Date: 2019-05-15 10:49:52
Last year Rossmann celebrated 25 years in Hungary. Our magazine interviewed managing director László Flórián. Which were the most important events and results for Rossmann in 2018? – Obviously the main...
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dm: focusing on the loyalty programme and the online channel
Date: 2019-05-15 10:34:52
Sales by dm Kft. jumped nearly 8 percent in the first half of the 2019 financial year with a turnover of EUR 172.586 million. Marketing and PR manager Roland Kanyó informed...
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Magazine: Gluten-free products are more common now
Date: 2019-05-10 07:21:59
Tamás Czepanecz, brand manager of Nestlé Hungária Kft. informed our magazine that a little more than 1 percent of the Hungarian population are sensitive to gluten, but due to the...
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Magazine: The feeling of personal responsibility moves not mountains but categories
Date: 2019-05-07 07:42:00
Among consumers living a healthier life there are more and more who like to buy ‘natural’ and eco-friendly household cleaning products. Sales of these keep growing and shoppers can choose...
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Free-from fresh meats? One step closer to healthy eating
Date: 2019-05-03 10:06:07
In recent years consumers have become more conscious about what they are eating, and this trend had an impact on the meat industry too. With is premium meat products, Bonafarm...
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Magazine: The Hungarian Way
Date: 2019-04-25 16:48:52
Hungarian food trucks represent the latest trends in street food and top-level to-go gastronomy. There is great potential in this typically 21st-century form of catering. What is more, starting a...
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Bite-sized trends
Date: 2019-04-24 08:39:19
There is no generally accepted definition of finger food. When our magazine writes about finger food, what we mean is every kind of food that can be eaten without using...
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Diet and finesse
Date: 2019-04-10 20:10:17
Health-consciousness is the main direction in food and drink trends at the moment. More and more consumers follow special diets, and people aren’t simply counting calories any more: they are looking...
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Being lactose-free is useful in brand building
Date: 2019-04-10 04:09:48
According to Dóra Pessenlehner, shopper marketing manager of Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország, sales of the company’s plant-based drinks have kept growing in the last few years. The company’s new brand AdeZ...
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Magazine: Food and drink at petrol stations
Date: 2019-04-05 07:27:44
Since shopper demand is growing for quality foods, the operators of the biggest filling station chains are recruiting top chefs and using the best ingredients to prepare gourmet sandwiches, hot...
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Magazine: Festivals throughout the year!
Date: 2019-03-29 07:45:10
Festivals attract more and more people, and in recent years the older generation has also discovered them. This is another good reason why festival-goers should be served a wide range...
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Where the party is
Date: 2019-03-10 17:19:35
Mónika Szántó started the #switchoff – Mobile OFF, Experience ON movement, which recently debuted with success at bars and restaurants too. The initiative seeks to inform people about how important...
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Filling your stomach with good stuff
Date: 2019-03-10 17:12:47
Katalin Nock-Vető, marketing manager of Pek-Snack spoke to us about how they had consciously entered the world of festivals in 2018. They were building the brand at Volt, BalatonSound and...
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Collecting used packaging selectively
Date: 2019-03-10 16:48:55
Edit Nagy managing director of Wanzl Magyarország – the distributor of TOMRA products in Hungary – told our magazine that TOMRA’s ‘Collecting Solution’ systems lead the way in offering innovative...
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Our Street Food
Date: 2019-03-10 16:27:39
Our magazine interviewed Péter Disztós, one of the key figures on the Hungarian street food scene, the owner of restaurants Pista bá and PizzaMe, plus professional kitchen technology company Passion...
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A privilege of kings and a favourite of aristocrats
Date: 2019-03-10 16:27:36
Mangalica fat used to worth more than the pig’s meat and Emperor Franz Joseph himself used to own 3 million Mangalica pigs. Péter Ondré, managing director of the Agricultural Marketing...
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