Market News
The sowing area of melon has increased
Date: 2013-05-14 12:30:36
The planting and sowing of melon has completed. In 2013, the producers can produce melon on a ten percent larger area than in the last year – Simonka György (Fidesz),...
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Buying retail spaces in Budapest is a good business for Europeans
Date: 2013-05-14 12:15:36
Hong Kong remains the most expensive retail store market of the world. The rents are 150 percent higher than in New York and 400 percent higher than in London and...
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Parragh: the expectations of the companies are moving towards a positive direction
Date: 2013-05-14 12:10:46
After a long time, the expectations of the Hungarian companies are moving towards a slightly positive direction with decreasing uncertainty ratio – Parragh László, president of the Hungarian Chamber of...
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Agreement was born between NAV and the mobile companies
Date: 2013-05-13 11:45:11
Slowly it becomes clearer, which companies will run data connection between the online cashiers and the server of NAV. The tax authorities have concluded the contract with the four domestic...
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Online cash register manufacturers are ready to produce
Date: 2013-05-13 11:41:34
The Minister of National Economy consulted nearly 30 cash register manufacturer on Friday evening. At the meeting, the experts of NAV, as well as the experts of the Hungarian Trade...
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The sown area of soy increased to its five-fold in Veszprém county in the last five years
Date: 2013-05-13 11:11:48
The sown area of soy increased to its five-fold in Veszprém county in the last five years, autumn forage crops are promising – the Veszprém County Government Office told MTI....
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Retail sales increased in the world's largest economy
Date: 2013-05-13 11:07:57
U.S., retail sales rose in April, instead of the expected loss, forecasted by experts. According to the Monday communication of the U.S. Ministry of Commerce, retail sales increased by 0.1...
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It's never wise to buy food if hungry
Date: 2013-05-13 10:41:10
Temptation is lurking around every corner for dieters and many find that shopping for food is fraught with problems. Now researchers have spelt out how disastrous it can be to...
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Onion-cheese chocolate is a success
Date: 2013-05-13 10:14:21
Flavors we in the U.S. might consider strange are becoming ever more popular abroad, which perhaps explains the success of a new cheese and onion chocolate bar sold by Irish...
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Médiapiac 2013: cooperation, new markets and FMCG focus
Date: 2013-05-12 02:51:37
There were more than 400 participants at the Médiapiac (Media Market) 2013 conference and its accompanying event (held for the second time), Research Conference. This the time organiser Mediapiac.com created...
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Fleet tracking with GPS
Date: 2013-05-12 02:39:49
iData Kft. provides tracking and fleet protection services and their iTrack GPS Tracking System is mounted in 13,000 vehicles – we learn from marketing manager Linda Szaladják. Both the tracking...
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Grüne Woche in Berlin (part 3): speculation in raw materials prices
Date: 2013-05-12 02:20:32
Jürgen Fitschen, co-CEO of Deutsche Bank told at Grüne Woche that after a thorough examination they came to the conclusion that the increase in food prices wasn’t the result of...
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Value for money is the most important influence in store choice
Date: 2013-05-12 01:40:32
If the majority of people try to cut down on their grocery spending – according to our first-quarter survey 72 percent of them do – these efforts have a major...
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Direct marketing goes digital, too
Date: 2013-05-11 03:02:05
The Direct and Interactive Marketing Association conducted its DM Sensor research this year too. It revealed that the size of the domestic direct marketing market was HUF 30.8 billion in...
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Hungarian strawberry’s superb performance
Date: 2013-05-11 02:59:03
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) show that 11 percent more cattle was slaughtered in Hungary (calculated in live weight) in...
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50m² and smaller
Date: 2013-05-11 02:48:15
Altogether 17,808 general food stores sell household chemicals and cosmetics too, and 54 percent of them (9,580 shops) have a floor space of 50m² or smaller – 5 percent less...
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Online retail sales will be 200 billion HUF this year
Date: 2013-05-10 11:55:27
2.7 percent of the Hungarian retail sales were transacted through the Internet in 2012 – eNET’s recently published annual survey shows. The 177 billion HUF turnover continues to grow strongly...
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Foreign trade poses a serious potential for SMEs
Date: 2013-05-10 11:42:58
“According to the latest foreign trade datas the value of export calculated in euros decreased by 2.8 percent this March, compared to the the same period of the last year....
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The weather and the import affect the domestic peppers and tomato growers badly
Date: 2013-05-10 11:40:08
Greenhouse tomato and pepper are grown on nearly five hundred thousand hectares in Hungary. This season started badly for the domestic producers. This year's spring caused extraordinary difficulties for the...
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MEOSZ asking for the accessibility of the disabled people in tobacco shops
Date: 2013-05-10 11:00:00
The National Federation of Disabled Persons' Associations (MEOSZ) calls the government to review the unsuccesful retail concession tenders of the disabled people – the organization told MTI. The MEOSZ emphasized...
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A tea bag weights one and a half hundred kilogram
Date: 2013-05-10 10:58:09
A one and a half hundred kilogram tea bag was made in Australia. The content of the pyramidal filter is sufficient to 100 thousand cups of tea. The gigafilter, containing...
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Szintézis traffic system for national tobacco store
Date: 2013-05-10 09:40:40
Szintézis Ltd. has launched its solution for the freshly opening national tobacco stores. The solution contains its necessary devices, softwares, even for networks. The system contains a full technical support...
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OTP: trillion HUF investment need in animal breeding
Date: 2013-05-09 12:10:13
In the next seven years, approximately one trillion HUF needs to be invested in livestock production in order to raise the Hungarian pig, poultry and cattle breeding and dairy sector...
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If you do not want online cash registers, than you should avoid the anonymous buyers
Date: 2013-05-09 11:58:56
A reader of onlinekassza.hu posed the question, that is it necessary to have online cash machines for those who are giving handwritten invoice receipts instead of invoices from machines? According...
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Bisnode: major sales but losses on the tobacco market
Date: 2013-05-09 11:58:14
The sales of the tobacco wholesale companies are constantly increasing since 2009, while both their pre-tax profit as well as their net profit declined significantly in recent years: for example...
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What does the consumer like?
Date: 2013-05-09 11:56:24
Cetelem has been investigating global consumer trends for more than 60 years. According to their latest survey, 2012 has been about everyday life in the midst of recession, and how...
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Cofidis: no change in the buying sentiment of the population
Date: 2013-05-08 12:17:47
According to the first quarter survey of the Cofidis Credit Monitor, the buying sentiment of the population has not changed compared to the previous quarter, but the number of those...
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Magazine: International Sweets Business Forum (part 3)
Date: 2013-05-08 12:10:38
On the first day of the forum Dr Philipp Schöller, vice-president of the Zurich-seated company Barry Callebaut (the world’s biggest chocolate manufacturer) gave a lecture on the future of chocolate....
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Tobacco shops may sell ice cream
Date: 2013-05-08 12:01:18
The Budget Committee of the Parliament will continue to expand the range of products, that can be solf in tobacco shops, allowing them to sell ice cream. On the basis...
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The tobacconists will be the first to face the delay of the new cash register replacement
Date: 2013-05-08 12:00:02
The mandatory replacement of cash register is expected to delay further, because the repeatedly modified deadline does not seem to be sustainable. The equipment authorization has begun only recently. The...
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