News and articles
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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The first quarter of the European food retailing was successful
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:40
The recovery from the crisis continued in the food retailing of the developed European countries: store turnover increased by 4, percent in value and 1 percent in volume, compared to...
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The foreign suppliers are cautious with the Hungarian firms
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:35
According to the Atradius Credit insurance; the rate of late and non payments is the hihest ever in Western Europe in early 2010, so businesses increasingly turned to claim managers....
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Tesco recruits regional suppliers
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:20
Tesco Global Stores Ltd. invites the local producers of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Zala, Vas and Veszprém counties to a supplier meeting. The Regional Supplier Forum, that will be held on the 3rd...
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One shopping center for nineteen thousand Pécs inhabitants
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:00
Among the five big cities of Hungary (Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged), the highest number of shopping centers are in Pécs, the least in Debrecen, Miskolc, and (yet) in...
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Wal-Mart's first-quarter profit is a positive surprise
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:40
The world's largest retail company, the Wal-Mart performed over the market expectations, primarily due to the good indicators of foreign sales, which offseted the weak domestic market performance. The company's...
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Goats and sheeps may escape from the electronic chip
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:30
The European Parliament (EP), adopted the Hungarian amendment that the individual electronic identification (chip) should not be a mandatory in the cases of goats and sheeps under the age of...
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Consumer confidence is on its ten-month nadir in China
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:20
In April consumer sentiment decreases for the second month, which can be associated with the government measures taken against economic overheating. China's consumer confidence index decreased by 1.3 points to...
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Flexibility remains the most important feature of the Cryovac ® BDF
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:10
The new Cryovac ® BDF SOFT and Cryovac ® BDF Easy Opening solutions open up new horizons for product design, such as packaging and reducing costs. The new Cryovac ®...
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Several billion storm damages hit the agricultural sector
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:45
The weekend rain caused several billion HUF damage to the country's agriculture. According to the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, more than 150 thousand hectares are under water. After the near...
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Another gold medal for the Demeter Winery
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:33
The Demeter Winery of Eger was highly competitive at the Bordeuax-based Challenge International du Vin competition this year. The winery’s Hanga 2009 wine received Gold medal at the prestigious wine...
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Kür Club: help to build up confidence
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:20
The SMEs, that want more attention are in a very difficult situation. It is difficult to excel among the competitors, find new customers or even retain the old ones. The...
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Butter has been getting more expensive for weeks now
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:11
The price of butter increases for weeks now at the international markets, in some places the price rises were about 30 percent. The global demand for butter increases at the...
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Tesco helps the victims of the flood in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:50
Several million HUF worth donations were allocated by Tesco for those who live in the North-Eastern region of Hungary. Tesco helps the families, who are in trouble, because of the...
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Quick Help from Borsodi to the municipalities that have difficulties
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:40
In order to solve the catastrophic situation of the settlements of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, caused by the extreme weather, Borsodi Brewery Co. donated a 3 million HUF worth extraordinary donation. The...
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Tchibo gained Superbrands Award
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:35
Tchibo, one of the leading distributors of the coffee market gained Superbrands Award . Superbrands The program is designed to raise awareness of the importance of the unity of brand,...
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New Turkey liver delicacies from Sága!
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:30
The Sága in 2010 will use a new image. One of the important elements of the renewal is the new, more modern Sága logo. With the introduction of the new...
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Tube seal with diploma
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:20
Henkel Loctite ® 55 Tube seal Tape gained a recognizing diploma on the 16th International Industrial Exhibition, the Industria. The Henkel Loctite ® 55 is a polyamide filaments twisted, silicone-based...
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A new, revolutionary Fa Men 3-D: A long-lasting freshness for men
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:10
A modern man faces a lot of expectations. A good appearance is not everything, the scent should also be pleasant. The Fa Men 3-D Protect deodorants were developed for men...
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