Market News
eNENET-Telekom: a report on Internet Economy
Date: 2012-11-29 12:02:05
The gaining ground of smart phones is in momentum in Hungary – the service providers have exceeded last years 800 thousand sales already until October 2012, and thanks to the...
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Sopron’s wine-growing area increased last year
Date: 2012-11-29 12:00:35
Sopron’s wine-growing area increased by more than eighty hectares last year. Two hectares were cut off, while ninety-seven hectares were planted in 2011. Beside a medium yield, year 2011 was...
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Cetelem: Christmas Tablets on easy terms
Date: 2012-11-29 11:27:40
Although the businesses are ready since November, we start getting Christmas gifts later an later. We buy the chosen products in the last weeks of December on easy terms and...
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Ministry of Rural Development: there will be no food price explosion
Date: 2012-11-28 13:00:40
The Ministry of Rural Development (VM) believes on the basis of the study of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) that there will be no food price boom in the...
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Four hundred million USD investment for sustainable cocoa production
Date: 2012-11-28 11:23:08
The world's largest chocolate company the Mondelēz that belongs to Kraft Foods launches its “Cocoa Life” sustainability effort. The company plans to invest 400 million USD in the next ten...
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Gift sets for all ages
Date: 2012-11-28 10:38:33
Unilever, the market leading cosmetics gift set producer, compiles most of its sets from ‘bestsellers’ and novelty products this year. In addition to well-established gift sets, the company also prepares...
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Demonstration for the Hungarian meat industry
Date: 2012-11-28 10:36:12
The Union of Meat Industry Employees (HDSZ) organizes a nationwide demonstration in the next week. They will protest to protect the jobs in the meat industry – HDSZ told MTI...
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The market of Kolosy square was handed over in Óbuda
Date: 2012-11-28 10:35:57
The Kolosy square market was re-opened in the 3rd district of Budapest – the local government informed MTI on Wednesday. The market – that kept its former tavern, inn, stables...
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GfK Hungária expects more conscious gift purchasing
Date: 2012-11-27 16:59:43
The experts of GfK Hungária’s Retail and Technology area expect more conscious gift purchasing this Christmas from the buyers. Properly to the trends of the previous years, increase in demand...
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NGM: retail sales are stagnating or decreasing throughout Europe
Date: 2012-11-27 16:55:52
The unfavorable retail data is not only a Hungarian phenomenon, the trend is typical in many other countries and regions of Europe – the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) told...
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The Milk Marketing board would consult with the Ministry on the draft of the land law again
Date: 2012-11-27 16:53:00
The Milk Marketing Board Interprofessional Organization requests the Rural Development Ministry to consult again over the draft of the land law again with the Milk Marketing Board, because they are...
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K&H SME confidence index: liquidity is drying out
Date: 2012-11-27 16:51:06
According to the latest K&H SME confidence index carried out among domestic SME managers, the deadline of customer accounts increases again also accompanied by worsening expectations. In parallel, the execution...
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The local government of Kapuvár opens a meat store
Date: 2012-11-27 16:50:05
The local government of Kapuvár opens a meat Store, because due to the liquidation of the Kapuvár Meat Co. the closure of the company’s store caused meat supply problems in...
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U.S. “Black Friday” More customers with smaller wallet
Date: 2012-11-27 16:49:56
This year, more customers were purchasing during the “Black Friday” action in the United States. However, they spent less than last year – shows the first summary, published during the...
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Having a mobile phone will access internet – maybe
Date: 2012-11-27 16:49:26
More than half (55 percent) of the people use their mobile or smart phone devices at least once a week for online activities – shows the survey of Ipsos. If...
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Retail sales fell by 3.1 percent in September
Date: 2012-11-26 13:00:59
In September, the volume of retail sales decreased by 3.1 percent, compared to last September and in the first nine months of the year it was 1.5 percent below the...
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GfK: decreasing overspending in December
Date: 2012-11-26 12:52:06
In December, households are spending more on fast moving consumer goods, than in the other months of the year, but this difference is decreasing year after year – shows the...
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OKSZ: the amount of the decline in retail is worrisome
Date: 2012-11-26 12:50:51
The analyst of the Savings Bank and the National Trade Association (OKSZ) calculates with an average of 1.7 to 2 percent downturn in retail for this year. According to the...
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Coop is the second in the rankings after Tesco
Date: 2012-11-26 12:50:18
Relentless price competition and market restructuring taking place on the declining retail market among the retail chains – Heti Válasz writes. Earlier this year, the French Auchan took over the...
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More than 90 tons of non-perishable food donations were collected by the Hungarian Food Bank Association
Date: 2012-11-26 10:52:49
In the scope of the Hungarian Food Bank Association customers donated ninety-three tons of long-term food to families in need at the collection points set up in food stores. The...
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Potatoe prices are increasing unstoppable
Date: 2012-11-23 14:31:34
From potatoes half of the amount has grown this year. According to the estimates of the National Association of Potato Marketing Board, domestic potatoes will run out of stocks in...
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The advantages of retailers
Date: 2012-11-23 13:19:18
The advantages of the small businesses are in fresh and specialty products. They have preserved their importance in small towns, providing work for hundreds of thousands of people. The small...
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Entrepreneurs seek for budgetary resources to replace cash registers
Date: 2012-11-23 12:01:10
The IVSZ (IT, Telecommunications and Electronics Enterprises Association) and the KISOSZ (National Federation of Traders and Caterers) are expecting government subsidies for the building out of the cash register system...
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U.S. consumers will spend 586 billion USD for Christmas shopping
Date: 2012-11-23 11:30:35
The Christmas shopping season in the U.S. starts sfter Thanksgiving with the so-called Black Friday. The NRF predicts that in the next one month a total of 586 billion USD...
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Forty-six million turkeys will be eaten on Thanksgiving Day
Date: 2012-11-23 10:45:35
CNN U.S. news televison summarized interesting informations related to Thanksgiving Day. In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to the1621 celebration at...
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EU enlargement a “two-way street” benefiting both parties
Date: 2012-11-23 08:50:07
Internal stability and values shared by member states are what the European Union should “export” in exchange for “importing” diversity, natural resources, innovation potential and the prospect of economic growth,...
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Trade mark has been introduced to guarantee the high quality of Pálinka
Date: 2012-11-22 11:25:58
From now, the high quality of Hungarian pálinka will be guaranteed by a Pálinka trade mark system, which was the initiative of the Pálinka Céh Egyesület and was jointly developed...
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Interests doubled towards 'Black Friday' in Romania
Date: 2012-11-22 10:58:08
Interests doubled towards 'Black Friday' in Romania, compared to last year. 2.4 million people are preparing to take advantage of the significant discounts of the traders – shows a survey,...
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In Europe, SMEs are creating most of the new jobs
Date: 2012-11-21 14:04:09
The European Commission has found that small and medium-sized businesses are creating 85 percent of the new jobs in the EU. 67 percent of employees are employed by SMEs by...
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From kindergarten kitchens to Coca-Cola – gardeners found new markets
Date: 2012-11-21 12:50:29
“From now on, the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Dunaharaszti will produce its apple juice using Hungarian apples instead of imported ones”, announced the Minister for Rural Development in Dunaharaszti, while...
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