News and articles
Most mothers are optimistic about a better future for their daughters
Date: 2011-11-06 21:51:37
All over the world, women see better opportunities ahead of them than their mothers did when they were young. These days it is women who make the majority of shopping...
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Good weather helped the food industry
Date: 2011-11-06 21:48:08
In August industrial production was 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier. Domestic sales have not grown in any of the months since October 2010. Industrial export augmented by 9.8...
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WLB – Work Life Balance after the summer
Date: 2011-11-06 20:45:10
Constant pressure at the workplace urges everyone to take a break in the summer. Creating the Work Life Balance – the healthy balance between one’s work and private life –...
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Happy box days
Date: 2011-11-06 20:30:11
In two days nearly 320,000 beverage carton boxes were collected at the third Happy Box Days in the Budapest Zoo, an event organised by Beverage Carton Environmental Union, in the...
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Demand shifted towards cheaper gift packages
Date: 2011-11-06 20:19:35
In the 2009 and 2010 seasons retail sales of gift packages containing body lotions and other cosmetics products were around HUF 3 billion. In the last season values sales dropped...
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Sweet biscuits are more and more popular
Date: 2011-11-06 20:11:23
In the first half of 2011 sweet biscuits managed to increase sales in terms of both value and volume. There was an increase in the number of category buyers as...
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Hypermarkets bettered their position
Date: 2011-11-06 20:06:03
With annual sales around HUF 24 billion, sweet biscuits are the 14th most important from the food categories audited by Nielsen. Value sales soared by 4 percent but volume sales...
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We tend to buy muesli and breakfast cereals in the modern retail channel
Date: 2011-11-06 20:04:19
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, 45 percent of Hungarian households bought cereals (muesli, breakfast flakes and muesli bars) in the fist half of 2011. This proportion is lower than it...
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Breakfast cereals tolerate economic recession better than muesli
Date: 2011-11-06 20:02:34
According to data from Nielsen, breakfast cereals and cereal bars managed to grow, while muesli sales fell a little and muesli bar sales dropped considerably. One of the former key...
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On Hungarian roads for Hungarian food products
Date: 2011-11-06 20:01:46
This September Coop Rally was organised for the sixth time, and the 94 cars travelled from Bőcs to Gyula, representing 15 percent of the retail market and 20-25 percent of...
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Manufacturer brands improved their position
Date: 2011-11-06 19:56:45
The annual market of cereals audited by Nielsen is around HUF 10 billion. Cereal flakes/bars are the biggest category. Retail sales were up 3 percent in terms of both value...
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Can the FMCG market face the challenges of the digital age?
Date: 2011-11-06 19:55:51
In February 2011 GfK Hungária published their study ‘Digital Consumer’, plus in August-September 2011 they did a joint online B2B survey with Trade magazin among business decision makers; 65 people...
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Exporters are riding on the back of the weak Forint
Date: 2011-11-06 19:53:45
Compared with the same period one year earlier, in August 2011 the value of export and import expanded by 8 percent. In August we exported in the value of HUF...
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Bad summer for retailers
Date: 2011-11-06 19:51:42
In July 2011 the volume of retail fell by 1.3 percent, if compared with July 2010 – reports KSH. In the first seven months of the year volume sales in...
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25, 27, 30?
Date: 2011-11-06 19:45:49
The government announced that as of 25 January, the highest rate of VAT will increase to 27 percent. This step would bring an extra HUF 360 billion to the budget....
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Meet prices keep rising
Date: 2011-11-06 19:42:23
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that in Hungary the purchasing of broiler chicken augmented by 19 percent and its...
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Coffee and Co. Ltd.
Date: 2011-11-06 19:18:18
It was not by accident that Starbucks dropped the word ‘coffee’ from its logo – the company’s new president-CEO Howard Schultz told Der Spiegel in a recent interview. Starbucks’ plan...
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Tesco Mobile: the first virtual mobile service provider will be launched soon
Date: 2011-11-06 16:43:10
Tesco Hungary and Vodafone Hungary established Tesco Mobile, their joint – 50-50% ownership – independent mobile service provider. The company will offer its services in Tesco stores, using the technology...
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Several acknowledgements and prizes for Dunapack in 2011
Date: 2011-11-06 15:39:58
In the last few years significant changes occurred in the operation of the Dunapack Group. On the one hand, the company shifted its focus to corrugated product manufacturing, while on...
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New opportunities for the food industry!
Date: 2011-11-06 15:35:08
Under the HUN-GREEN brand name, Ugrin Pack-Erdősi Kft. launched new types of packaging materials. These ÖKOFOL (eco-foil) products are manufactured using special technology. The company was one of the first...
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Resources and intentions are given for offering lending solutions to small enterprises
Date: 2011-11-06 15:28:47
The SME sector is made up of many different types of businesses, which have various financing demands. Tibor Csonka, the head of OTP Bank’s Micro and Small Enterprise division told...
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(HU) Új innováció a Vision Box 1.1.2. áruvédelmi és prezentációs rendszer
Date: 2011-11-04 23:27:31
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Magazine: Heroes and survivors (part 1)
Date: 2011-11-04 19:50:02
Trade magazin and Lánchíd Club organised their 5th Business Days conference in Tapolca on 21-23 September. More than 400 participants convened at the event, where on the first day Trade...
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Hungary has the lowest customer confidence index
Date: 2011-11-04 18:57:09
Hungary's customer confidence index scored 37 points, according to a new survey carried out in 56 countries by market research company Nielsen. This is the lowest result in the world,...
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The Hungarian population consumed an average of 50 kilograms of bread last year
Date: 2011-11-04 13:20:49
On the basis of the purchasing datas of the Hungarian households; the per capita bread consumption was 50 kilograms, 60 pieces of crescent 150 pieces of rolls in 2010. Households...
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Corn yield in Tolna is lower than expected
Date: 2011-11-04 13:00:45
Corn yield is lower than expected in Tolna county, harvest not yet completed in more than one tenth of the plantation area. According to the November datas of the Tolna...
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Barramundi fish should be bred
Date: 2011-11-04 12:30:45
There is an enormous economic potential in the barramundi fish. With the breeding of these species Hungary could use its thermal water potential – wrote the Magyar Hirlap on Friday....
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German industrial orders decreased significantly
Date: 2011-11-04 12:28:54
German industrial orders fell by 4.3 percent in September, compared to the datas of the previous month, mainly due to fewer orders for the Eurozone countries. Analysts expected only a...
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The value of China's foreign trade is on record level
Date: 2011-11-04 12:20:16
The value of China's foreign trade amounted to a record high three trillion (3,000 billion) USD in mid-week, according to preliminary calculations – states the Beijing customs office. The symbolic...
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Locally purchasing is encouraged by winning action in Fertőd
Date: 2011-11-04 12:10:30
Fertőd's municipality and more than forty local entrepreneurs encourage the local residents to buy locally with winning action. In the scope of the action, runs until December 22, the costumers...
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