Market News
The El Niño may bring food price increases
Date: 2014-05-05 11:40:29
The climate phenomenon called El Niño is ikely to occur this year with a two-third probability. It can cause significant increases in food prices – tozsdeforum.hu wrote. The El Niño,...
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Revolutionary changes in shower gel ingredients
Date: 2014-05-05 11:29:24
– Since the skin is one of our most precious sense organs, it is important to use the right shower gel, one that vitalises and nourishes – Szilvia Baranyi, trade...
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Market expansion in both value and volume
Date: 2014-05-05 10:32:53
Shower gel retail sales represented HUF 13 billion in March 2013-February 2014. Both value and volume sales rose 2 percent. Hypermarkets’ 42-percent share from value sales didn’t change, drugstores gained...
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Tetra Pak® is the first to use bio-based plastic for carton packaging
Date: 2014-05-02 05:49:30
For the first time in the industry, Tetra Pak® uses bio-based plastic for making drink cartons. The world leader in food processing and packaging solutions announced that all packaging manufactured...
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Milk powder production restarts in Berettyóújfalu
Date: 2014-05-02 05:43:54
This year raw milk is still purchased from Germany for milk powder production, but from 2015 the owners plan to buy from local dairy farmers. The plant, established in 1957,...
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New Alpha-Vet products reduce environmental burden
Date: 2014-05-02 05:41:12
Alpha-Vet Veterinary Kft. was awarded HUF 262.7 million within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan and realised an investment in the value of HUF 386.3 million, developing marketable macro-...
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NAV collects the tax even by the side of the road
Date: 2014-05-02 05:37:52
Attila Suller, speaker of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) informed our magazine that in March-April 2014 there were about 300 cases when excise officers seized trucks, cars, various...
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We have reasons to be optimistic
Date: 2014-05-02 05:31:33
According to Tímea Pesti, commercial director of LeasePlan Hungária Zrt. new vehicles are most of the time purchased for company fleets. However, although in recent years the ratio of corporate...
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Loans drive growth in the vehicle market
Date: 2014-05-02 05:28:18
2013 was a better year for utility vehicle retailers than 2012: sales grew in all categories – reveals data provided by DATAHOUSE. What is more, sales in the first quarter...
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Tobacco shops may realise one billion in revenues
Date: 2014-05-02 05:25:09
Tobacco shops may generate HUF 1-billion revenue for NDN Zrt. when those winning new concessions open shop. The majority of new tobacco shops will be in villages, so the annual...
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GKI: Further improving consumer expectations, business expectations unaltered
Date: 2014-05-01 12:31:02
In the first quarter of 2014 last year’s soaring of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects slowed down. According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI with...
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‘Tobacco shop – with a view?’
Date: 2014-05-01 05:20:00
Rolling tobacco and lower-category cigarillo continue to gain ground in the market. This trend results in significant profit margin loss in tobacco product retail. If we examine price ratios per...
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Nielsen: the consumer confidence index was not this high since 2010
Date: 2014-04-30 12:40:12
The Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index has reached a record level in the last period in Hungary. During the first quarter survey of this year the Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index rose...
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Improved results during the spring seasonal checks
Date: 2014-04-30 12:10:12
During the spring seasonal checks, the food chain surveillance authority was focusing on products appropriate to the culinary traditions. During the spring seasonal checks, the food chain surveillance authority (Nébih)...
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22 to 25 thousand tons of honey is produced every year in Hungary
Date: 2014-04-30 11:55:58
In Hungary, an average of 22 to 25 thousand tons of honey is produced each year – Mészáros József, managing director of the Hungarian National Beekeeping Association (OMME) told MTI...
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Magazine: Private label products: changing strategies, growing market
Date: 2014-04-30 11:28:49
According to the 2013 edition of Euromonitor’s Global Consumer Trends survey, 89 percent of consumers regularly put private label products in their basket. In the last 12 months 56 percent...
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Last year, the stores in Pozsony gave half of the retail sales in Slovakia
Date: 2014-04-30 11:28:02
Last year, the stores in Pozsony gave 47 percent of the retail sales in Slovakia – the analysis of the Poštová Banka shows, which was sent to MTI on Wednesday....
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The NAV seized more than 37 thousand packs of cigarettes near Tiszabecs
Date: 2014-04-30 10:48:18
More than 37 thousand packs of Ukrainian cigarettes were seized by the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) in the region of Tiszabecs – was writen on the organization's Facebook...
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4th GfK Day: e-consumers in focus
Date: 2014-04-30 09:33:02
On 20 February GfK Day was organised for the fourth time, this time giving an insight into the most typical e-consumption habits, with the participation of more than 60 Hungarian...
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Investing in the medicinal herb sector
Date: 2014-04-30 08:43:52
The Ministry of Rural Development signed a strategic agreement with the representatives of the medicinal herb sector. In Hungary about 5,000 people collect 110-120 medicinal herb varieties. 25 companies grow...
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2.5 billion forints for farmhouse development
Date: 2014-04-30 08:41:39
Nearly 1,000 applications were sent in for funding from the farmhouse development programme and from these 778 were eligible for support. 529 plans won various sums: HUF 1.5 billon was...
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Action plan to popularise organic farming
Date: 2014-04-30 08:39:38
The Minister of Rural Development approved the action plan to develop organic farming in Hungary on government level. By 2020 the new plan wishes to increase the size of land...
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GfK: mainly women and young people are visiting the malls
Date: 2014-04-29 12:35:49
On the basis of GfK’s analysis the visitors of the domestic shopping centers can be characterized well, considering the fact that most of them return. The guests of the plazas...
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The system of the shelf money remains in larger retail stores
Date: 2014-04-29 12:30:23
The system of the shelf money remains in larger retail stores but it will be called differently – the National Food Chain Safety Office announced. In addition the ratio of...
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The mounting of the Hungarian-developed online cash registers has started in Budaörs
Date: 2014-04-29 12:20:55
The mounting of the Hungarian-developed CashCube online cash register family has started in the new Budaörs-based production hall of the Tekinvest Holding Kft. and the LA Pénztárgép Kft.. Temesfői Zsolt,...
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The food banks are saving the food surplus for thirty years in Europe
Date: 2014-04-29 11:20:26
“I'm hungry” was the title of the newspaper article, which appeared in the French La Croix newspaper on 13 March 1984. The article discussed the sad fact that the number...
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Biogas plant to be built in Balassagyarmat
Date: 2014-04-29 11:00:07
The Sinergy Kft. builds a biogas plant in Balassagyarmat in the scope of a nearly one and a half billion HUF investment. The biogas plant will ensure the cheap heating...
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GKI: Optimism in the real estate market
Date: 2014-04-29 10:41:35
GKI conducts real estate surveys twice a year in order to assess plans, intentions and prospects of market players (realtors, developers, operators, households and companies) for the next one year....
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NGM : The 30 April deadline will not be extended
Date: 2014-04-28 12:15:44
So far tens of thousands of traders have not installed the online cash registers, even though the final deadline expires on Wednesday. The National Retail Federation would like to achive...
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So far, nearly 85 thousand online cash registers were installed
Date: 2014-04-28 12:00:56
So far, the traders have installed nearly 85 thousand online cash registers – the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) told MTI. According to the current rules, the customers of the...
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