News and articles
Vademecum PRO Vitamin Repair 75 ml
Date: 2014-04-04 01:57:31
New Vademecum PRO Vitamin Repair is the latest member of the successful PRO Vitamin product family. It contains vitamins and natural agents, its gentle formula protects the teeth and nourishes...
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Metro: passion and expertise
Date: 2014-04-04 01:54:13
2014 is a special year for Metro, celebrating the 50th anniversary of forming the Metro Group and 20 years of Metro in Hungary. The anniversary year is made memorable with...
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Beef products from Poland
Date: 2014-04-04 01:51:03
Polish company Biernaczki held a press conference at SIRHA to announce their entering the Hungarian market with Beef Master products. The family-owned company is 20 years old and specialises in...
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In black and white (and grey)
Date: 2014-04-04 01:47:53
‘40 shades of grey’ was the title of the roundtable discussion on VAT fraud, organised by the Chain Bridge Club on 11 March. The moderator was Zoltán Tóth, managing partner...
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Insights into retail in South East Europe
Date: 2014-04-04 01:41:48
FMCG retail trends are the most positive in the region in CROATIA. Croatia has been an EU member state since last July – and that was just the time when...
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How to export to Germany?
Date: 2014-04-04 01:38:33
On 27 February 2014 the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce held an Export Forum. In the German market only well-prepared businesses can be successful, those which have an extensive...
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Welcome to Paradise: trade fairs in Germany
Date: 2014-04-04 01:36:18
Crowds of visitors at the Green Week (Internationale Grüne Woche, Berlin, 16-25 January 2014) The 79th Internationale Grüne Woche trade fair brought 1,650 exhibitors from 70 countries to Berlin and...
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Ups and downs in Turkish-Hungarian agricultural foreign trade
Date: 2014-04-04 01:30:40
Hungary’s agricultural foreign trade with Turkey was like a rollercoaster ride in the last decade. For instance our agricultural export to Turkey was seven times bigger in 2010 than in...
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Turbulences
Date: 2014-04-04 01:26:42
In Hungary the euro/forint exchange rate seems to have stuck above 310 – in perfect harmony of the interest of high politics. The government’s representatives said the weak forint isn’t...
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Erzsébet vouchers can now be used to pay in all Tesco stores
Date: 2014-04-04 01:20:51
As of 7 March Tesco Express stores also accept Erzsébet vouchers. With the 39 stores now joining the system the vouchers can be used to pay in all 220 Hungarian...
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The first few years
Date: 2014-04-04 01:17:22
In our previous issue, there was a special feature on the Branded Goods Association, recently celebrating its 18th anniversary – five full pages were merely not enough to present BGA’s...
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Support and recognition
Date: 2014-04-04 01:14:18
There are many ways of supporting someone, a good cause we believe in or something we deem to be necessary. We can also show our recognition of someone’s work, perseverance,...
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Shoppers, trends
Date: 2014-04-04 01:10:59
Google is about to open its first store at 131 Greene Street in New York. The 750m² retail unit’s opening is part of the trend called ‘reverse showrooming’ – shoppers...
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GlobalShop, Las Vegas
Date: 2014-04-04 01:07:28
Each year the American continent’s biggest POP, retail design and shopper marketing trade show is organised in turns by Chicago and Las Vegas. Between 18 and 20 March 2014 the...
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Seeing them and falling in love with them
Date: 2014-04-04 01:04:26
Trade Marketing Club’s annual ‘Trade marketing, my love’ conference is traditionally held around Valentine’s Day. This year it took place on 13 February and the theme was visual merchandising in...
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Growth can be attained in hard times too (Part 1)
Date: 2014-04-04 01:01:15
James Russo, Nielsen’s senior vice president responsible for global consumer insights states in his recent study that it isn’t easy to be a consumer these days. Although global consumer confidence...
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EuroShop breaks all former records
Date: 2014-04-04 00:57:41
Düsseldorf hosted the EuroShop trade fair between 16 and 20 February: more than 109,000 visitors came from 110 countries to learn about the latest trends and innovations, and to establish...
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Cotton wool factory
Date: 2014-04-04 00:52:06
Európa Partner Kft. set up a cotton wool factory in Bátor. The Budapest-seated family enterprise invested HUF 142 million to build the new plant and created 34 new jobs in...
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The goal is to double production capacity
Date: 2014-04-04 00:50:30
Asia Food Kft. won HUF 57.4 million from the Ministry for National Economy to increase its production capacity and employ 25 more people – from which 8 are of Romani...
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New game meat processing plant in Tata
Date: 2014-04-04 00:48:10
From nearly HUF 1 billion Fiwi-Hűt Kft. built a game meat processing plant and a cold storage facility in the Tata Industrial Park. The investment increased the number of people...
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Visiting this Szekszárd wine cellar will be a real experiencet
Date: 2014-04-04 00:46:16
Garay Winery in Szekszárd is building an ‘experience cellar’: the HUF 200 million investment is realised as part of the New Széchenyi Plan’s operative programme for the region. The new...
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At the end of last year the FMCG market expanded in value
Date: 2014-04-03 21:34:42
In Hungary the value of grocery, household chemicals and cosmetics retail turnover was up 0.4 percent in the 4th quarter of 2013 from the base period of Q4 2012; volume...
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KSH: retail sales rose by 6.7 percent in February
Date: 2014-04-03 12:10:48
In February, retail sales rose by 6.7 percent in volume, compared to a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on Thursday, on the basis of the first...
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Győr will be a salty snacks superpower
Date: 2014-04-03 11:45:38
The annual production capacity will increase from 16 thousand to 19 thousand tons in the Győr-based plant of Intersnack. The 1 billion HUF worth project was started in the fall...
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Retail sales increased in the EU and in the Euro Zone in February
Date: 2014-04-03 11:42:08
Retail sales increased in the Euro Zone by 0.4 percent and in the European Union as a whole by 0.5 percent in February, compared to the previous month. Compared to...
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The Central and Eastern European region leads the shopping center development market
Date: 2014-04-03 11:42:02
In the second half of last year, 3.6 million square meters of shopping mall was built in Europe, of which 70 percent in the Central and Eastern European region –...
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Work started in the Food Avalanche program in thirty-seven settlements
Date: 2014-04-03 11:40:09
The Food Avalanche program of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta was launched for the fifth time. Thanks to the charity initiative, this year 37 governmental and non-governmental organizations...
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MVH: the paying out of the apiary subsidies has started
Date: 2014-04-03 11:35:07
The Ministry of Rural Development (VM) and the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH), begun to pay the supports to the beekeepers, on the Hungarian National Beekeeping Program – the...
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The latest innovation of NESTEA has arrived
Date: 2014-04-03 11:30:23
Hungary's leading brand of bottled iced tea*, the NESTEA brings the new taste of the spring with the new limited edition NESTEA Cherry Blossom. The new iced tea was inspired...
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