News and articles
You can believe your eyes
Date: 2012-11-09 00:15:09
What is eye tracking good for? The answer is simple: it can be used when we would like to grab the attention of the target group visually and the product...
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Shops, POP and ruin pubs: POPAI executives’ meeting – the Hungarian way
Date: 2012-11-09 00:13:40
On 4-5 October 2012 Budapest was the meeting place of POPAI’s (Point of Purchase Association International) 16 representatives from 9 European countries, and POPAI North America president Michael Heneghan also...
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Production prices in the industry reduced further in August
Date: 2012-11-09 00:11:48
In August 2012 production prices in the industry were 0.3 percent below the level of July. The volume of industrial production fell by 0.8 percent if compared with the level...
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Clash of the titans
Date: 2012-11-09 00:11:25
Walmart and Amazon continue their battle. In September Walmart pulled Amazon’s Kindle readers from 4,000 stores and in October they started same-day delivery – a service that used to be...
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Pheed – new social media
Date: 2012-11-09 00:06:42
The new service combines different elements of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube and SoundCloud on a single platform, in order to make content creation easy. On Pheed, you can create...
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Displays: five golden rules
Date: 2012-11-09 00:02:24
Gord Collins, a strategist with Ravenshoe Packaging (Canada) defined 5 important rules, which if kept can make displays successful. On his blog, called Between the Shelves, he published the following...
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Beer is a Czech icon – a postcard from Prague
Date: 2012-11-08 23:57:53
As president of the Association of Hungarian Brewers, I recently had to participate in a regional meeting in Prague. Beer is an icon in the Czech Republic, it is everywhere...
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Superbrands prize for eisberg!
Date: 2012-11-08 23:54:36
‘More than just a salad…’ is the credo of eisberg, one of Europe’s leading enterprises in produc-ing and delivering ready-to-eat salads. The eisberg Hungary Kft. operates on 3,000m² with 115...
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Retail of the future
Date: 2012-11-08 23:51:32
The department store is considered to be the first modern form of retail, the first such unit opened in 1890 in the USA, under the still going Macy’s brand name....
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Optimists are the minority
Date: 2012-11-08 23:48:05
For the first time in the history of the Business Days conference we asked participants to answer questions about macroeconomic issues. They could use a practical handheld device to cast...
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Coop Rally rolled around the western part of Hungary this year
Date: 2012-11-08 23:25:20
A record number of competitors, nearly 90 cars from more than 80 companies drove around the western part of Hungary in the 7th Coop Rally between 13 and 15 September,...
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For a better sales performance of discount stores
Date: 2012-11-08 23:15:46
Discount stores play an increasingly significant role in sales: their market share from food sales grew 2 percentage points to 20 percent in the December 2011-July 2012 period, while discounters’...
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More than 3 thousand billion HUF EU fundings were used
Date: 2012-11-08 12:44:02
More than three thousand billion HUF EU fundings have been paid to the beneficiaries in the 2007-2013 fiscal period, from the available 8,200 billion HUF EU funds in Hungary –...
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Food has become too cheap, Unilever boss says
Date: 2012-11-08 12:40:28
Food has become too cheap, a senior executive at a global food giant has claimed, as he said that people are too ready to throw meals away because they do...
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A medium fish harvest is expected
Date: 2012-11-08 12:15:18
Despite the summer drought, the fish farms in Tolna county expect a medium fish harvest. They also reported about the narrowing of export markets to MTI. According to the leaders...
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Agricultural and Rural Development Agency: the need for support increased at the wineries
Date: 2012-11-08 12:14:52
Compared to the previous years the winemakers' interest in supports for wine machines and technological equipment have increased significantly. Even on the very first days over 500 million HUF support...
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Christmas season can bring revenue record in the German stores
Date: 2012-11-08 11:20:00
In Germany, the turnover of stores may exceed 80 billion euros for the first time this year during the Christmas season. Due to the expected consumer rush several ten thousand...
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European Court of Justice: the listing of the Slovakian Tokaji wine region cannot be challenged
Date: 2012-11-08 11:12:53
European Court of Justice dismissed the action of Hungary, which appealed against the decision of the committee which listed the Slovakian “Vinohradnícka oblast' Tokaj” wine region designation to the E-Bacchus...
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Japan increases whale meat sales
Date: 2012-11-08 11:11:04
The Japanese fisheries agency extends and enhances its whale meat sales to finance the much-criticized whaling program, that is producing more and more losses every year. According to the Mainicsi...
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Konica Minolta's huge plans in Hungary
Date: 2012-11-08 10:55:45
The Japanese giant Konica Minolta selected Hungary as the location of its regional logistics center in Central and Eastern Europe. It is also a great achievement that the company will...
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St. Martin's Celebrations in Ópusztaszer
Date: 2012-11-08 10:50:17
Goose greaves, tasting of new wine, ceremonial plug in, geese seeking competition and other interesting specialties await those who visit the National Historical Memorial Park of Ópusztaszer on Saturday. In...
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Danone's charity program for kids gathered 11 million HUF
Date: 2012-11-08 10:32:51
A total of 11 million HUF has been collected in Danone Ltd.’s “Work Together for Children” (TEGY) program this year. The program this year supports two areas, the psychological rehabilitation...
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METRO in Budaörs going through a big change
Date: 2012-11-08 10:27:55
The METRO-store of Budaörs is going through a serious change, it has three new thamtic sections now in order to make the purchasing process even more comfortable. The three sections...
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Food and wine tasting festival in Budapest
Date: 2012-11-08 10:19:21
The wines of a total of 33 Hungarian winemakers and the favourite dishes of 66 known personalities, artists, successful athletes will wait the guests at the wine festival that will...
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Coface CEE TOP 500 has arrived!
Date: 2012-11-07 16:55:20
The largest companies in each of the above countries (revenues ≥ EUR 120 million) were listed, whereby financial service providers such as banks, insurance companies, leasing firms and brokers were...
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The pig strategy would double the pig stocks in seven years
Date: 2012-11-07 13:12:55
The pig strategy adopted in the summer would double the number of pigs in seven years, which is less than 3 million at the moment. For the implementation mainly private...
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Buying online is comfortable
Date: 2012-11-07 12:10:27
The Kupon Világ carried out a survey – on the occasion of the Hungarian Dotcommerce Day – among its customer community on their online shopping experience. At nearly half of...
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Retail sales increased in the EU and declined in the euro zone in September
Date: 2012-11-07 12:03:40
The increase of the retail sales in the Euro zone, experienced in the previous months has stopped in: the volume delined by an average 0.2 percent compared to August –...
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SMEs can build a webstore with the new service of Magyar Telekom
Date: 2012-11-07 12:00:21
The Magyar Telekom introduced a shop building service in late October, for the small and medium-sized enterprises. The cloud-based service is available on a monthly fee basis. The Webshop Builder...
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