Market News
The National Assembly adopted the report of GVH
Date: 2012-11-13 12:10:18
The National Assembly adopted the Competition Authority’s (GVH) report on its last year's operation on 12 November. Last year a number of complaints and notifications were sent to the agency...
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Young farmers are indispensable to agriculture
Date: 2012-11-13 12:10:10
elping young people is an important area of rural development policy, since running Hungarian agriculture would be inconceivable without young farmers”, said Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas on Monday...
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HITA has established the Exporter Award
Date: 2012-11-13 12:00:33
The National Foreign Trade Office (HITA) has launched an application for those domestic micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, that have their own manufactured products and their export activities greatly contribute...
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The profession calls for the renegotiation of the Waste Act
Date: 2012-11-13 11:02:59
The new Waste Act eliminates the interest of the producer in proper waste management – was said at the professional seminar, dealing with the producers’ responsibility and waste management. At...
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Declining sales and profit expectations in the SME sector
Date: 2012-11-12 12:15:49
The sales and profit expectations of the SME managers showed a decrease again for the next year, compared to the previous quarter. “The domestic companies are calculating with an average...
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The number of customers consume Christmas presents on internet has increased
Date: 2012-11-12 11:55:42
This year Hungarians plan to spend an average of 33,900 HUF for Christmas gifts – shows the online survey of Árukereső.hu, carried out with the participation of 1700 participants. The...
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Balfi: leadership in the club of thousands
Date: 2012-11-12 11:52:52
In the first half of 2012, the consumption of high mineral content (1000 mg / l liter or above) mineral waters have increased in Hungary, due to their positive health...
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Amway: Hungarians are afraid to start their own businesses
Date: 2012-11-12 11:16:12
The Hungarians are the most pessimistic to start their own companies – shows the representative survey of Amway, carried out in Europe. The assessment of corporate form of life is...
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The credit market expanded the most in the region in Slovakia
Date: 2012-11-12 11:10:27
Most of the credits have been taken up in Slovakia among the countries of the Visegrad Four group and Austria, last year – shows the analysis of Postová Banka sent...
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The most innovative product since fluorid-based toothpaste
Date: 2012-11-12 09:14:26
Procter & Gamble Oral Health is known for delivering some of the most innovative toothbrushes in the market. The company recognizes, however, that a variety of parameters influence the success...
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Top-quality letter factory at the Hungarian Post!
Date: 2012-11-10 00:46:49
Hungarian Post launched its Electronic Post Centre (EPK) service this March. The EPK system produces mails automatically, which are later e-mailed or sent as a letter to recipients. On demand,...
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Nielsen: food retail turnover increased in value, did not change in amount
Date: 2012-11-09 13:55:00
The turnover of the 90 categories measured by Nielsen increased by 5 percent to about 1,145 billion HUF in the Hungarian retail sector, between December 2011 and September 2012, compared...
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Analysts: industrial production may stagnate this year
Date: 2012-11-09 12:12:43
According to analysts, industrial production, may stagnate this year, but can increase next year but its extent is unknown yet. The Central Statistics Office (KSH) announced on Friday that the...
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Magazine: Convincing results about the efficiency of displays
Date: 2012-11-09 12:09:12
The shopper of today has less time but more money for buying FMCG products, therefore finding products has to be made easy for them: in 1995 the proportion of secondary...
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Significant wine price increase may come next year
Date: 2012-11-09 12:08:13
Due to the shortage of wine and grape prices rise increases most of the wineries will increase their prices from 1 January. According to the analysis of Varga Winery a...
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The Danish Government abolishes the tax on fat
Date: 2012-11-09 10:59:08
The Danish government wants to remove the fat tax, that was introduced a year ago – the Danish Ministry of Taxation announced on Saturday. Denmark was the world first country...
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Fish and food production program is being prepared for the area of Biharugra
Date: 2012-11-09 10:57:20
Fish and food production program is being prepared for the area of the Biharugra fishponds, based on fresh water. The program was developed by the Békés County Development and Enterprise...
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Travels around FMCG – Business Days 2012 – part 1
Date: 2012-11-09 02:03:37
Around the World in Three Days was the title of this year’s Business Days conference, held in Hotel Pelion, Tapolca. A record number of more than 450 participants attended the...
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Cleaning products: the age of the head of household greatly influences product choice
Date: 2012-11-09 01:53:15
Hungarian households do not economise on household cleaning products: both volume and value sales improved in the first half of 2012. Households where the head is older than 60 years...
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Great autumn cleaning – part 2
Date: 2012-11-09 01:48:37
Research conducted by Unilever revealed that cleanliness is less important for people than it was 20-30 years ago and the amount of time people spend with cleaning is diminishing. Today...
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Energetic cereals
Date: 2012-11-09 01:30:21
There are two big categories on the cereal market: cereal flakes and bars, and mueslis and muesli bars. The two groups have slightly different target groups and consumption motivations. Andrásné...
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Wiener season approaches with fervent price promotions
Date: 2012-11-09 01:22:59
Wiener is as popular as it used to be: according to Nielsen, from November to December in 2011 volume sales augmented by 52 percent and value sales rose by 40...
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Promising first six months in agricultural foreign trade
Date: 2012-11-09 01:18:59
The effects of the drought have been disastrous, far less wheat was harvested in Russia, the Ukraine and Hungary – consequently, prices have started increasing. Corn yield suffered even more...
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Wiener is a favourite with large families
Date: 2012-11-09 01:17:14
Wiener is a very popular product category: nine out of ten households purchased this type of meat product in the 12-month period leading up to June 2012. It is large...
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Private label sales grew in the first six months
Date: 2012-11-09 01:15:11
Food retailers’ revenue from private label products increased in the first half of the year if compared with the first six months of the previous year – reveals Nielsen’s latest...
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The level of consumption was at a standstill in the first six months
Date: 2012-11-09 01:14:02
Hungary’s economy and consumption were characterised by stagnation in the first half of 2012 – reported GfK Hungária in the Retail Analysis study conducted by its Consumer Panel Services. Hungarian...
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Production prices in the industry reduced further in August
Date: 2012-11-09 01:07:35
In August 2012 production prices in the industry were 0.3 percent below the level of July. The volume of industrial production fell by 0.8 percent if compared with the level...
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Food prices are rising above the average
Date: 2012-11-09 01:00:05
In September consumer prices were 6.6 percent higher than a year earlier. The monthly pensioner consumer price index augmented 0.3 percent and the annual index upped 6.6 percent. Compared with...
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GKI is pessimistic
Date: 2012-11-09 00:56:27
GKI Economic Research Zrt.’s forecast for 2012-2013: Hungary’ economy will lag behind the economies of the European Union and our economic policy will lead to isolation. The level of consumption,...
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Demand for Hungarian wines dropped by one third
Date: 2012-11-09 00:53:49
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that 3 percent less slaughter turkey was sold in Hungary in the first nine...
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