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Co-op teams up with Newcastle Uni to open 1st franchise in north east

Co-op has teamed up with Newcastle University Student Union to launch its first franchise store in the north east later this year. The agreement will see the existing students’ union store...

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Penny To Introduce Traceable Pineapples And Organic Bananas

German discounter Penny has announced that it is to add QR codes to pineapples and organic bananas to provide additional supply chain information to shoppers. The QR codes will lead...

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Carrefour Polska Ceases Sales Of Private-Label ‘Caged’ Eggs

Carrefour Polska has announced that it has ceased the sales of eggs sourced from caged hens in its private-label assortment. The move is a part of Carrefour’s food transformation strategy...

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Magazine: Familiar flavours, new looks

Both sausage and salami sales increased in 2018: 1.4 percent more sausage and 1.5 percent more salami were sold than in 2017. Value-wise sausage sales were up 6.5 percent and...

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ULINK: 12 times make up a dozen

ULINK members met for the 12th time on 5 June. The new Unilever office is very stylish and participants started gathering 1 hour before the programme’s start. We had a superb dinner,...

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Austria: Sales stagnation for discounters

In 2019 the combined market share of discount supermarket chains Aldi (called Hofer in Austria) and Lidl dropped to 26.1 percent – in 2018 their share was 26.6 percent. At the...

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Private labels keep growing this year

In April 2019 the sales growth of private label products was 0.7 percent in France, which was bigger than the 0.4-percent strengthening of manufacturer brands – reported the Private Label...

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Felismerni a fontos és győztes kategóriákat

„Az eladáshelyi marketing forradalma” című nemzetközi sikert aratott könyv társszerzője, Toby Desforges angol kereskedelmi szakértő Közép-Európában először tartott előadást a szlovák kereskedelmi kongresszuson néhány hete, amelyről előző számunkban tudósítottunk. A...

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Mercadona enters Portugal

Spanish retailer Mercadona might be bigger than the four retail chains that follow it in the ranking, but it must invest in new channels and markets to keep its position...

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X5 vs. Magnit: 1:0

Russian fruit and vegetable retailer Magnit keeps losing ground against rival company X5 Retail Group. The price of the company’s shares has reached an all-time low and CEO Olga Naumova...

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Spar Austria is now ahead of its Germans competitors

Spar Austria has a stable second position in the top 5 ranking of grocery retailers. LZ Retailytics forecasts that Spar will continue the dynamic growth....

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International food prices are slowly decreasing

On 1 August the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations reported that in July the price index of the most important produce sold in international trade had...

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Diageo buys majority share in Seedlip

Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company has acquired a majority share in distilled non-alcoholic spirits brand Seedlip, as it seeks to serve a growing population of teetotallers in the UK....

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Campari in talks to buy French  company Rhumantille

Italian drinks group Campari has started exclusive negotiations to acquire French firm Rhumantilles SAS, in an effort to strengthen its rum business and grow its market in France. Rhumantilles makes...

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Nestlé rolls out vegan coffee mixes

In the UK and Ireland food giant Nestlé has launched a new range of dairy-free Nescafé Gold lattes, developed from plant-based ingredients. The coffee mix range is available in three variants....

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Optimistic statistics, pessimistic expectations

Data from April and May indicates that a slowdown occurred in the Hungarian economy in the second quarter, in comparison with the first quarter of 2019. However, the loss of...

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There will be more wheat in the world market

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the British government has reported that data provided by egg packaging companies reveal that egg production was up 3 percent...

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Tesco to lay off 4,500 workers with Metro’s restructuring

British supermarket chain Tesco is cutting about 4,500 jobs from its Metro stores, in order to improve the efficiency of a format that is increasingly used by customers daily –...

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Lidl: reusable bags for fruits and vegetables

Lidl has announced that it has introduced reusable net bags for fruits and vegetables in all its 119 stores across Denmark. The initiative is expected to cut the consumption of...

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JusteBio products sold in Auchan stores in Portugal

French organic retailer JusteBio has announced that its products will be available in Auchan hypermarkets in Portugal. JusteBio entered Portugal in 2018, operating its own flagship store in Lisbon, where...

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FrieslandCampina to increase the number of GMO-free milk suppliers

FrieslandCampina has announced plans to increase the number of dairy farms supplying VLOG milk from 400 to more than 600. The decision follows a surge in demand in the German...

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App-based payment in 30 Co-op UK stores

British convenience retailer Co-op is to extend the trial of its app-based pay-in-aisle technology: 30 stores are planned to be enabled for shoppers to scan and pay with their mobile phones by...

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Carrefour opens ‘bee hotels’  in Poland

Carrefour Polska has opened its first bee hotels in Wroclaw. The bee shelters are placed on the roof of its hypermarket. Initiated in association with the company Pszczelarz Kozacki, the...

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Tesco to reduce the size of Polish hypermarkets

According to media reports, Tesco is planning to downsize its hypermarkets in Poland to so called ‘compact hypermarkets’. Tesco is making this move due to the strong performance of its...

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Ecommerce Hungary programmes in the autumn

Free participation for Ecommerce Hungary members!   26 September 2019: ECOMMERCE Online Marketing Meetup: Participants will discuss how to build an advertising portfolio that reaches the right target group and...

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Few fake websites in Hungary

Ecommerce Foundation has published the results of a survey that was conducted via Scamadviser.com, a website that helps more than 2.5 million users every month to check whether a website...

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Strong customer authentication’s start won’t be trouble-free

The date is approaching fast: on 14 September strong customer authentication (SCA) rules will enter into force in Hungary. It can already be seen that the system’s launch won’t be...

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Instant payment – later

On 28 May 2019 the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB) postponed the introduction of the instant payment system in Hungary, the new date is now 2 March 2020. MNB decided...

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Comfort matters more to consumers than protecting the environment?

A 1000-respondent representative online survey by NMS Hungary has revealed that environmental protection is important for 67 percent of Hungarians. At the same time, the concept of sustainability and sustainable development...

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Traditional Hungarian cottage cheese ‘rögös túró’ gets EU designation

The Milk Interbranch Organisation and Dairy Board has announced that the European Commission granted the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) label to ‘rögös túró’, a special cottage cheese made in Hungary....

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