News and articles
The PepsiCo also invests in Chinese agriculture
Date: 2010-05-25 00:00:10
The U.S. PepsiCo. will invest 2.5 billion USD in China in the next three years – announced Indra Nooyi, president and CEO of the company in Friday in Shanghai. The...
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The food industry should be treated as a strategic sector
Date: 2010-05-21 00:03:41
The food industry may ruin, if we fail to boost innovation – states the Hungarian National Food Technology Platform. According to their calculations; 45-50 billion HUF should be invested in...
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There is no ceasefire between the stores and the suppliers
Date: 2010-05-21 00:02:32
Next week, the suppliers will make a statement against those food retail chains, that are most violate the unfair trading practices law. The two major problems with the food retail...
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Széchenyi Card: 7.6 billion debt, from 750 billion
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:20
The Hungarian companies has reached 750 billion HUF credit line through the Széchenyi card system. Currently 1600 companies are on the black list, but the bankruptcy rate is relatively low.The...
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Hungary's competitiveness has improved
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:15
Hungary improved from last year’s 45th place to the 42nd in IMD’s 2010 competitiveness rankings – reports the Swiss IMD, the world's leading business school. According to the latest ranking;...
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We can trust only in certified organic products
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:50
The Biokontroll Hungária Nonprofit Ltd. will install mobile laboratories in order to test organic food production and the products. The three vans will carry out at least 500 checks in...
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The Ifo-index shows an improvement the global economic sentiment
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:40
The global economic sentiment index of the German IFO Institute for Economic Research improved further. The index of the second quarter rose to 104.1 points, from the former 99.5 points...
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The Hungarian Food Bank Association surprises 28 thousand children
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:30
As the result of the fundraising initiative of the Hungarian Food Bank Association a total of 28 thousand needy children will receive gifts on the occasion of children’s Day. The...
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Recognized artists in the national jury of Henkel.Art.Award 2010
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:20
Henkel Hungary Ltd. invited four artists to assess the works of Hungarian artists who take part in the Henkel.Art.Award 2010 competition, and to select three of them who can participate...
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The European Parliament does not support meet glueing
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:10
The European Parliament vetoed the European Commission's decision, which made it possible to use the thrombin enzyme as food additive. The thrombin was used to glue the meet parts that...
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The most frequent places for buying certain categories
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hyper- and supermarkets are the most frequent places for buying categories such as carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, beer, household cleaners and chocolate – states Nielsen ShopperTrends....
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‘Fishing net instead of fish!’ – a new element in the Food Avalanche programme
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Syngenta and the Hungarian Food Bank Association launched their Food Avalanche programme for the 3rd time in February 2010. There were 26 applications and 9 winners were announced. Municipalities and...
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Krombacher Pils Beer
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Germany’s No.1 premium brand, some say it is one of its ‘ambassadors’....
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Unemployment hits a peak
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Unemployment hit a 16-year peak in December 2009-February 2010: KSH measured the unemployment rate to be 11.4 percent, with 3,726,000 people being employed and 479,000 unemployed in the 15-74 age...
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Ice cream sales by shops took a favourable turn
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Ice cream managed to better its market position: according to the Nielsen Retail Index retail turnover increased in terms of both value – by 3 percent, reaching HUF 18 billion...
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Hungarian POP contest
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
POPAI Hungary joins the international POPAI Awards series by announcing a competition for POP tools. The jurying will take place at the next Business Days in Tapolca. Winners will participate...
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Wage increase at Kométa
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Kométa ’99 Zrt. was the first meat-industry company to start negotiations with trade unions and to increase the wages of employees by 3.5-4.5 percent as of 1 March. The average...
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Coffee in a hundred different ways
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
On 23-25 April, Magyar Kávétársaság Kft. organised the Marvellous Coffee trade fair. Bravos, Pellini, Mauro, Musetti, SaraLee, Semiramis, Pasco and Nestle were all present. The event’s objective was to facilitate...
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Firsthand market research
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Firsthand market research data’ was the title of Trade Marketing Club’s meeting on 15 April in the BKIK headquarters. Leading experts from GfK, Nielsen and Ipsos analysed the past year...
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Food prices stepped on the brake
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In March 2010, the monthly average consumer price increase was 0.7 percent, but compared with March 2009 prices were up by 5.9 percent On average, prices were 6 percent higher...
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Ice cream experiences from branded products
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
It seems like the crisis does not affect ice cream sales – Nielsen reported improvement. If we look behind the trend, we can see that private labels are slowly expanding...
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Private life made public
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
While shopping, customers can now use their smartphones to compare prices with prices offered by other shops. Shopkick, a recently established California enterprise uses the phones’ location-sensing abilities to send...
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Bestillo is the favourite of Gyula dwellers
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Bestillo Pálinkaház’s raspberry pálinka was the spectators’ favourite at the 11th Kisüsti Pálinka festival in Gyula, where the jury tested 851 pálinkas and distillates. Boldogkő Fruit Kft., the manufacturer of...
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Industrial Oscar for Tetra Pak
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Budaörs plant of Tetra Pak is the first Hungarian packaging material manufacturer that has won the Manufacturing Excellence Award of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance. The industrial ‘Oscar’...
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Members of the food chain are more disciplined year by year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In Hungary people’s trust in food products has never been shaken. Not even six years ago, during the paprika scandal. Nevertheless, the bird flue did some harm to chicken farmers....
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Industrial prices decreased
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
lthough in February 2010 industrial export prices were 0.9 percent higher than in the previous month, they were 5.4 percent lower in comparison with February 2009. Prices in the food...
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Larger packaging units experienced a bigger decline
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Data from GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan indicates that 40 percent of Hungarian households bought some kind of family size ice cream in 2009. The average household purchased this cold delicacy 6...
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The fourth screen
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
It caused a lot of excitement when in Nielsen’s first quarterly report the company audited the efficiency of programmes and ads in so-called 4th-screen broadcasts – these run on displays...
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Riceland’s prize game continues!
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
This year started well for one participant of Riceland’s loyalty programme – players only had to collect 5 Riceland logos – as in both January and April one lucky winner...
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