News and articles
International display design contest for students
Date: 2011-11-07 00:44:51
On 15 September 2011 Pepsi and POPAI announced their international display design contest for the first time. Participants have to register until 30 November and works have to be sent...
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POPAI-news from Hungary
Date: 2011-11-07 00:39:49
After the summer holiday there was a great interest about the first POPAI meeting on 15 September. Presenters came from Nielsen and the topic was ‘Measuring the efficiency of in-store...
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Kométa 99 concluded business deals
Date: 2011-11-06 23:01:04
Kométa 99 was the biggest Hungarian exhibitor and their export director, Larisza Barakka told that in five days they met all of their buyers and suppliers. There were many prospective...
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AgroSprint: their history is about persistent development
Date: 2011-11-06 22:57:20
AgroSprint Kft. of the Fülöp family from Karcag exhibited in hall No.4, where managing director Gáborné Fülöp told that the history of the 20-year-old company was all about persistent development....
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Mar-Ne-Váll: capacity expansion and even better quality
Date: 2011-11-06 22:54:36
– Our mid-term goal is to become one of the most important frozen product manufacturers in Eastern Europe – says László Markovits, managing director of the Törökszentmiklós-seated company. The company...
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The resurrection of the MIRELITE brand
Date: 2011-11-06 22:51:15
A 66-year-old Hungarian brand, MIRELITE has returned. József Losó, owner-CEO of MIRELITE MIRSA Zrt. from Albertirsa told our magazine that nearly 200 partners and interested businesspersons visited their stand. Many...
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ERU Hungária: Camping, Mackó, Margaréta…
Date: 2011-11-06 22:47:39
ERU Hungária Cheese Manufacturing company was exhibiting at the stand of its Dutch parent company. Director Miklós Ostermayer told that their Camping, Mackó, Margaréta and other well-known brands are available...
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Hungarian companies with competitive ideas and products
Date: 2011-11-06 22:27:01
Márta Kakuk, the fair’s representative in Hungary was happy that 38 Hungarian companies exhibited at Anuga. The companies used a 579m² area to present competitive ideas and products for the...
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Raw materials are becoming more expensive, prices remain moderate
Date: 2011-11-06 22:24:04
Anuga attracted 150,000 professional visitors from 180 countries from 8 until 12 October in Cologne, who had a chance to see the stands of 6,600 exhibitors – including 38 Hungarian...
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World Retail Congress in Berlin, part 1
Date: 2011-11-06 22:19:10
Consumer confidence is low all over the world and it will no improve until the situation on the job market gets better – participants and more than 100 presenters agreed...
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FMCG world congress in Barcelona (part 3)
Date: 2011-11-06 22:12:36
It is Friday afternoon and after lunch we are at the panel discussion about shaping the future of the FMCG sector. Dr. Tom Haggai, president of the Independent Grocers Alliance...
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The 75th OMÉK was really popular
Date: 2011-11-06 22:08:19
More than 85,000 visitors went to the 75th National Agriculture and Food Exhibition (OMÉK), held in the Hungexpo Budapest Fair Center until 2 October. There were more than 400 exhibitors,...
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Borsodi, Beck’s, Stella Artois, Staropramen
Date: 2011-11-06 22:01:27
‘Borsodi Brewery was happy to take part in the rally, using the opportunity to raise awareness of responsible alcohol consumption. Recently we put several new flavoured and special beers on...
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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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