News and articles
Hema and Albert Heijn start joint pilot project
Two Dutch retail chains, Hema and Albert Heijn will rebuild two Hema stores to include an Albert Heijn supermarket with a complete selection of fresh produce and other foodstuffs. Hema...
Read more
Private label milk and dairy products from Amazon
Amazon.com Inc. has launched its own milk and dairy product range, called Happy Belly, in North America, Europe and Asia. They are re currently available only via AmazonFresh and the...
Read more
Jumbo: delivery service launched in Amsterdam city centre
Jumbo has started delivering groceries in the centre of Amsterdam. Customers can order using the Jumbo app or online at Jumbo.com, and pick their delivery slot. Jumbo is now offering...
Read more
Waitrose improves energy efficiency of stores
Waitrose & Partners is implementing a new design of shelf edge strips to speed up its sustainability plans. Waitrose will be fitting the Wirth Research (WR) EcoBlade™ in stores from...
Read more
Walmart and Deliv end partnership
Walmart Inc and Deliv have ended their same-day grocery delivery partnership. People familiar with the cooperation told: Deliv drivers often had to wait 40 minutes or more to collect grocery...
Read more
Coca-Cola HBC buys Serbian confectionery manufacturer Bambi
Coca-Cola HBC has announced buying Serbian biscuit and confectionery manufacturer Bambi for EUR 260 million from private equity investor Mid Europa Partners. Bambi had revenue of around EUR 80 million...
Read more
Lidl teams up with Supermercato24 in Italy
Italian e-commerce service provider Supermercato24 has announced a partnership with Lidl, which will make it possible for the discounter to offer same-day home delivery of groceries purchased online. Customers can...
Read more
Metro technologies win prize
Metro has won two prizes at the 12th at EHI Retail Institute’s Retail Technology Awards Europe in Düsseldorf in Germany. The Metro Companion app got the ‘best customer experience’ award,...
Read more
Aldi goes carbon neutral in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Aldi UK&Ireland has announced that its 900 stores and 11 distribution centres are now fully carbon neutral. The discount supermarket chain will purchase carbon credits equivalent to 160,000 tons of...
Read more
The people who decide
Members of the Product of the Year jury must be recognised economic and marketing experts, who are also familiar with the domains of product innovation and brand building. These characteristics...
Read more
Trade Marketing Manager of the Year awards presented
This year’s Trade Marketing Manager of the Year awards were presented on 14 February, at the ‘I Love Trade Marketing’ conference. Ms Trade Marketing 2018 became Tünde Laurinyecz, senior trade and...
Read more
21-22 May: trade fair for private label products in Amsterdam
This year the representatives of private label product manufacturers and retailers will meet again on 21-22 May at the World of Private Label trade show in Amsterdam. There will be more...
Read more
New offline concepts strengthen customer loyalty
According to shopping experience surveys conducted by PSFK, retailers such as Chanel and Cartier have started offering cross-services – just like FMCG retailers do. In one of their New York and...
Read more
Seventh heaven
International retail chain 7-Eleven tries to be a part of our everyday lives that stores offer everything consumers might need in Taiwan. In addition to the usual hypermarket assortment, they can...
Read more
Supermarket, c-store or filling station? All three!
Retail chain Hy-Vee Davenport (Iowa) has introduced one of the latest innovative retail concepts. Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh is hybrid commercial complex that combines the product selection of a supermarket with...
Read more
Dairy products drove food prices up
In February the FAO food price index rose by 1.7 percent to reach 167.5 points. The index hasn’t been this high since August 2018, but it is still 2.3 percent lower...
Read more
Two Hungarian SMEs have earned the GREEN BRANDS certification
On 26 February GREEN BRANDS Hungary ceremonially presented the diplomas for using the GREEN BRANDS trademark to the award winners. The winners were: enerBIO and alterra by Rossmann, cleaning supplies brand...
Read more
Hungarian CEOs: The lack of experts is the biggest problem
For the 8th time, PwC Magyarország has interviewed 236 CEOs from 8 industries, in cooperation with the Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ). In comparison with last year, one fifth...
Read more
Russia: the expansion in various channels promises growth
Since the four biggest Russian FMCG retailers are expanding in the direction of new, growing sales channels, their share from the top 20’s sales will reach 74.3 percent by 2020...
Read more
The situation is changing in the East
LZ Retailiytics – a department of Lebensmittel Zeitung – has studied the FMCG market trends of Central and Eastern Europe. They found that the Russian market leader X5 group’s Pjatyorka...
Read more
Retail sales augmented by 5.4 percent
In January 2019 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 5.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was the same – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
Read more
Prices increased by 3.1 percent in February
In February 2019 consumer prices were 3.1 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with February 2018, food prices increased by 5.2 percent. Seasonal product prices (potatoes,...
Read moreCereal prices up 14 percent in just one year
In December 2018 agricultural production prices were 5.8 percent higher in comparison with the level of December 2017 – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). This situation was the result...
Read more
Half of Hungarians are already buying premium products online
Nearly half of Hungarian consumers are already buying premium products online, and this proportion is getting closer to the 61-percent European and the 69-percent world average. What is more, 15...
Read moreNielsen: Despite the slight slowdown, domestic retail is leading in the region
The slowdown in the European economy’s growth rate has also had an impact in Hungary: the growth rate of the continent’s retail sales declined by an average of -2.1 percent...
Read moreThe Spring Pork Consumption Campaign has been launched
The Spring Pork Consumption Promotion campaign was launched. The Ministry of Agriculture support the campaign from the 440 million HUF framework intended for the marketing of pork. Feldman Zsolt Minister...
Read more
The EP adopted a directive on unfair trading practices
The a large majority of the European Parliament (EP) supported the new EU Directive on unfair trading practices – the EU Parliament announced. At the European Parliament’s plenary session in...
Read more
KSH: foreign trade in services closed year 2018 with a surplus of 8.5 billion euros
Over the past year, 514 billion euros export surplus appeared on services s the result of 25,133 billion euros in exports and 16,619 billion euros in imports, compared to the...
Read more
Mars has appointed a new Central European supply chain leader
Sophie Gaspard joins as the new Central European supply chain leader of Mars to one of the world’s leading food and confectionery companies’ regional leadership team. With her appointment, she...
Read more
Startup Safari is the largest festival in the region’s startup world in Budapest
The Startup Safari Festival to be held in Budapest for the fourth time this April. From 17 to 19 April, visitors will be able to get to know the companies,...
Read more