Market News

Magazine: A significant proportion of households only buy one type of toothpaste

GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan survey reveals that not everyone uses toothpaste: every year eight out of ten households (78 percent) buy the product. In 2011 the toothpaste market remained stable and...

Read more

The small breweries enrich selection

The small breweries in Hungary enrich the domestic supply of the beer market, with producing beer specialties. Their production is 0.2 percent of the total annual Hungarian beer production –...

Read more

Experts consider the retail sales growth as a positive turning point

Experts consider the January increase of retail sales as a positive turning point, but they also draw attention that it is not yet possible to conclude a year-round process from...

Read more

KSH: retail sales increased in January

The retail sales volume in January of this year was 0.6 percent above the same period of the previous year; sales increase in food stores, as well as in the...

Read more

The Hungaricum Association initiates changes to the bill

The Hungaricum Association (Husz) initiates the change of the hungaricum bill, because they do not see that the financial basis of the administration is insured – said Birinyi József, President...

Read more

Avalanche researchers studies the changes in ice cream

Avalanche experts are helping to study how ice cream's structure changes when it is stored in a household freezer. Samples of ice cream have been scanned with an X-ray machine...

Read more

Free number to call if foodchain-safety irregularities found

Starting from 26th March 2012, the National Foodchain-safety Authority (NÉBIH) will offer a green number free of charge to call for citizens finding an irregularities. The launch of the service...

Read more

PayU conquers Europe

The Polish Platnosci.pl system owned by PayU SA, being the leader of the domestic online payment market, enters new European countries. Together with expansion, the company implements a new image-building...

Read more

The market of household chemicals and cosmetics remained 300 billion HUF

Household chemicals and cosmetics retail sales amounted to 300 billion HUF between March 2011 and Febrary 2012, the same extent as last year. According to Nielsen’s Retail Index, stores sold...

Read more

Pro Europe initated EU inquiry in connection with the environment protection product fee

The Pro Europe organization sent an another complaint letter to the European Commission in connection with the conversion of the Hungarian environment protection product fee. The Pro Europe in its...

Read more

Campaign for the native regional fruit species

Rural Development Minister Fazekas Sándor has signed the regulation on the propagation and distribution of the native regional fruit species. The regional fruit species will be added to the National...

Read more

NGM: nearly 6 percent real wage increase in 2011

The average national economy net earnings in 2011 increased by 9.9 percent, compared to the previous year. Beside a 3.9 percent inflation, it is a 5.8 percent real income growth...

Read more

IAB Hungary: 30.4 billion was spent on online advertising last year

According to the datas of IAB Hungary: last year, the companies spent 30.4 billion HUF on online advertising, which is 3.2 billion and 12 percent higher than in the previous...

Read more

The Balatoni Crown voucher has been introduced

Navracsics Tibor Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Public Administration placed the voucher that is replacing money on the market. The Balatoni Crown is the first system, which operates...

Read more

Food trade and drugstores also benefited from the OTC turnover in Germany

The retail sales of nonprescription drugs and medicinal preparations (OTC) reached 8 billion euros in Germany last year. According to Nielsen market research company; this is a  2 percent increase...

Read more

Third of the Easter meat comes from SMEs

About a third of the meat products marketed during the Easter holidays are from Hungarian small and medium sized enterprises – said Babati Zoltán, board member of the the Livestock...

Read more

Consumer and business confidence improved in Hungary

In March the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects rose to its 2011 late summer level following a continuous decline of almost one year (except the last two...

Read more

150 billion HUF spent on domestic advertising last year

One hundred and fifty billion HUF was the domestic advertising cake in 2011 – was said at the Media Market and Research 2012 conference in Tapolca. On the forum of...

Read more

Food controls from farm to fork

A new authority, the National Food Chain Safety Office controls the Hungarian food from farm to fork from the middle of this month – Fazekas Sándor, rural development minister announced...

Read more

The construction works of the Hegyvidék Center are completed

The implementation of the Hegyvidék Center in the 12th district soon to be finished. This year’s only new and modern retail development is scheduled to open its doors in mid-October....

Read more

Beer production increased again after three years in the Czech Republic

Last year, beer production increased again in the Czech Republic after three years of decline. The annual increase was 2.7 percent, compared to 2010  – the Czech Brewers Association announced...

Read more

Only 13 percent of the domestic SMEs are operating a webshop

Only 42 percent of the domestic small and medium-sized enterprises have internet sites. Only 13 percent of them are running a webshop. Since more than half of the domestic consumers...

Read more

Water is one of the safest type of food

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2...

Read more

Application for consumer protection logos

The consumer protection authority announces the consumer-friendly logo, in order to promote quality conscious purchasing: the trademark can be won under strict conditions, in the scope of a competition –...

Read more

Program for the revitalisation of the onion production in Makó

The Ministry of Rural Development with the involvement of the producers develops a Makói Onion Program in order to revitalise the worldwide known and high value onion production in Makó....

Read more

Fruits and vegetables also beautifies you

The vegetables and fruits are not only health guards, but also beautifies you – by using them “internally”, for example not as packing cucumber on your skin. British researchers at...

Read more

Twenty-four thousand hectares of wheat is in critical condition in Békés county

Winter wheat is in critical condition on about 24 thousand hectares in Békés county. This is 25 percent of the county’s sown area. The crop is poorly developed, and because...

Read more

MGYOSZ: the environmental product fee does not point towards simplification

The Federation of Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ) has recently received several indications that the environmental product fee – introduced in 2011- puts excessive administrative burden on domestic companies in its...

Read more

Poultry meat prices is expected to increase in three steps

Poultry production and processing costs have significantly increased since 2006, while consumer prices grew in a much lesser extent – shows the analysis of the Poultry Product Council. Therefore, due...

Read more

The food chain surveillance fee can disadvantage the domestic products

The regulation that controls the food chain surveillance fee is expected to enter into force from late March, early April – the experts of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ltd. published at a...

Read more
Oldal