Market News
Horsemeat scandal: new chapters in Romania
Date: 2013-03-08 09:28:29
The Romanian National Foodsafety Authority has published on its website: horsemeat has been found last week at the lake of Tarnica near Cluj. The meat is of 922 kilograms and...
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Television advertising revenues have fallen with 11 percent
Date: 2013-03-07 12:25:40
The TV market closed a difficult year in 2012 – shows the results of MEME. Television advertising spendings were below 50 billion HUF for the first time in 2012. The...
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Nébih: a bi-monthly investigation was ruined by the news coverage on horse meat scandal
Date: 2013-03-07 11:22:53
The independent investigation of the press and the recently published news baffled the two monthly jointly investigation of the National Food Chain Safety Office and other authorities – Oravecz Márton,...
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MVH: the 2012 EU Food Aid Program is near completion
Date: 2013-03-07 11:01:02
The aid organizations contracted with the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) in the scope of the EU Food Aid Program will complete the delivering of food products mid-March this...
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NAV: the tax authority investigates new areas this year
Date: 2013-03-06 12:00:18
The MAZARS international audit and consulting firm raises the domestic enterprises’ awareness to the fact that the NAV launches investigations in new areas in 2013. According to the MAZARS, investigations...
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Discounters have taken the leading position
Date: 2013-03-05 21:34:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Household Panel survey, in 2012 Hungarian families spent 2 percent more on household cleaners than in 2011. Despite the growth in value sales consumers rationalised their...
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Health and intimate hygiene
Date: 2013-03-05 21:24:58
Mariann Varga, brand manager with Alveola believes that if we want to be healthy, we have to keep our body clean – not forgetting about intimate hygiene either. The company’s...
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Manufacturer brands significantly increased their share from sales
Date: 2013-03-05 21:22:14
Energy and sports drinks sales have been growing fast for years, but last year brought an 8-percent decline in retail volume sales and a 2-percent drop in value sales (December...
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Energy drinks slowly leave the tutti-frutti flavour behind
Date: 2013-03-05 21:09:05
After the two-digit growth of previous years last year shocked the energy drink market with a one-digit sales drop. However, this decline could easily be forecasted after the details of...
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Reasonable changes in the fruit-vegetable sector
Date: 2013-03-05 21:03:40
The fruit and vegetable sector is becoming increasingly polarized: on the one hand the role of retail is more and more important in selling fruits and vegetables, and this requires...
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Even better price/value ratio squeezed out of those plastic bottles
Date: 2013-03-05 20:58:45
Due to the elevated packaging material and ingredient prices, to a certain extent wet condiment prices rose in the spring of 2012, which obviously led to a bit lower volume...
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Ministerial visit to the SPAR TANN meat plant
Date: 2013-03-05 20:55:35
On 5 February 2013 Minister of Rural Development Dr Sándor Fazekas paid a visit to the TANN meat plant. The minister and representatives of the press had a chance to...
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METRO prepares for Easter with new products and services
Date: 2013-03-05 20:48:30
For METRO the meat/meat product category has always been of great importance and in 2012 regional, homely flavours were in the limelight: in many stores local flavours have been added...
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Easter may also be a time of fasting on the ham market
Date: 2013-03-05 20:41:00
Elevated animal feed prices and the drop in the pig stock may put manufacturers in a difficult position and increase the consumer prices of meat products. This season yet another...
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Ethical advertising
Date: 2013-03-05 20:37:23
Act 48 of 2008 on the Basic Requirements and Certain Restrictions applying to Commercial Advertising Activities regulates and in theory prohibits advertisements targeting children that would be harmful to their...
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Recommended to young people too
Date: 2013-03-05 20:29:10
The Think Healthy Programme is a non-governmental initiative with the objective of creating a safe family and institutional environment for all children in Hungary, giving them the chance to develop...
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Milks in the stores are safe
Date: 2013-03-05 12:20:38
It is safe to consume milk products marketed in Hungary. The authorities have actually found products contaminated with aflatoxin, after the Hír TV revealed that aflatoxins were found at a...
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The good potato crop and low import price may bring price decrease for the autumn
Date: 2013-03-05 12:11:41
Due to last year's drought the domestic potato crop will not last much longer, but because of the structure of imports rise is not likely to continue in the retail...
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The Hungarian sugar industry should be revitalized, at least for self-support
Date: 2013-03-05 12:08:33
According to the Minister of Rural Development’s written response to questions from MPs, the establishment of new sugar factories can be considered in the next seven years. Due to the...
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The local market in Gyula to be renewed
Date: 2013-03-05 11:00:05
The local market will be renewed in Gyula. The construction works have been started on Monday and will be finished at the end of April – Görgényi Ernő (Fidesz) mayor...
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Religious-themed Easter eggs in the British stores this year
Date: 2013-03-05 10:59:11
Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and the Co-Op bowed to pressure after a three-year “pestering” campaign by figures including the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. Dr Sentamu used his Easter...
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Varied results for Technical Consumer Goods market in 2012
Date: 2013-03-05 10:34:43
The overall Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) market in Western Europe achieved a sales volume of EUR 55.9 billion in Q4 2011. This corresponds to a decrease of 4.1% compared to...
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VAT reduction: Product Advice Marketing Boards ask for the resolution of the government
Date: 2013-03-04 13:20:29
The Product Advice Marketing Boards are urging the government to decide in case of VAT reduction and called them for the disclosure of the decision. In their joint communication, the...
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KSH: trade surplus was nearly 7 billion euros in 2012
Date: 2013-03-04 12:20:08
Last year, export in euros was 0.1 percent higher than in 2011, while imports rose by 0.5 percent. The trade balance surplus was 6.8 billion euros, 237 million euros less...
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Nielsen: Costumers purchased easter sweets for about 3.3 billion HUF last year
Date: 2013-03-04 12:18:03
Hungarian food retail increased its turnover on the field of Easter sweets: almost 900 tons of chocolate bunnies, eggs and other holiday sweets were sold in teh shops in the...
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Analysts: Hungarian foreign trade performance was poor in 2012
Date: 2013-03-04 12:10:10
Analysts polled by MTI considered the performance of Hungarian foreign trade in 2012 as poor, referring to the Central Statistics Office’s flash report published on Monday. The Ministry of National...
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GKI: Falling behind more and more
Date: 2013-03-04 10:23:03
The 2012 forecast of GKI Economic Research Co. proved to be almost completely accurate: GDP fell by 1.7 per cent in Hungary. Only stagnation can be expected this year, and...
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50 m2 és kisebb
Date: 2013-03-02 20:14:24
Stores with a floor space of 50m² and below held on to their 9-percent market share from grocery value sales in the December 2011-November 2012 period – reported the Nielsen...
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Innovation: word of mouth propaganda, product sample, store shelf
Date: 2013-03-02 20:01:33
Two out of three products are doomed to fail on the market and half of innovations cannot perform as well in the second year as in the first. There is...
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Twofold oversubscribe on the National tobacco shop tender
Date: 2013-03-01 13:00:28
About twice as many applications were submitted for the tobacco shop tender than the number of licenses can be given. The picture, however is deceptive: in big cities oversubscribe was...
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