Market News
MobileCom Day: mobile solutions for a successful supply chain and sales
Date: 2011-08-30 10:48:45
GS1 organised its MobileCom Day with great success in 35 countries. The goal was promoting B2B solutions, standards and product tracing solutions, together with their increasingly important B2C activity. In...
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KSH: increase in the number of employees
Date: 2011-08-29 12:42:50
The number of employed people aged 15-74 was 3 million 832 thousand in May-July 2011, 43 thousand (1.1 percent) more than in the same period of the last year –...
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The proportion of empty shops reduces in the downtown
Date: 2011-08-29 12:40:55
The proportion of empty shops reduces in the main shopping streets of the downtown: in and around the Váci Street and its in the Andrássy Avenue and in the central...
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What has happened to the Hungarian sugar factories?
Date: 2011-08-29 12:39:57
More than 20 years ago, 12 sugar factories were operating in Hungary, now only one left in Kaposvár. The government decided to investigate the privatization process of the domestic sugar...
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The chocolate is more delicious, if we believe that its Swiss
Date: 2011-08-29 12:21:41
If you check is scientifically, it turns out, that people do not feel the Swiss chocolates, the famous and expensive wines of California, more delicious, but a Chinese piece of...
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Magazine: Celebrities in-store and in hailstorm
Date: 2011-08-29 11:39:22
On 2 June Trade Marketing Club members convened for their traditional season starting barbeque party. Due to a heavy downfall participants were forced to find shelter inside Szépkilátás confectionery. Zewa,...
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Many people wait for the last days to purchase school supplies
Date: 2011-08-29 10:04:04
Hungarians usually get their back to school shopping done during the summer, but 20 percent of the population waits for the last days before school starts to purchase everything for...
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Get zoo-tickets for selectively collected cartons
Date: 2011-08-29 08:13:32
Selectively collected beverage cartons are worth free children's ticket to the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden on September 10th and 11th. Now everybody who brings at least 10 empty milk-...
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Retail area will increase by six million square meters until 2013 in the Central European countries
Date: 2011-08-26 13:20:57
The countries of the region will increase retail space to its one and a halffold by 2013. Romania and Bulgaria, rumbles, while Hungary is progressing very slowly. The Bulgarian and...
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New EU rules about tobacco production
Date: 2011-08-26 13:06:22
On 16 June 2011, the Commission launched a new campaign, Ex-smokers are Unstoppable, to encourage young adults in the 25 to 34 age group to stop smoking. The campaign shifts...
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35 new Hungarian products added to the Hungarian Traditions – Tastes – Regions collection
Date: 2011-08-26 12:37:50
35 products were added to the traditional Hungarian Traditions – Tastes – Regions collection, bringing the total number of products bearing the trademark to 83. Typical Hungarian and special regional...
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The strong Swiss franc affects the chocolate and emmental export badly
Date: 2011-08-26 12:15:42
The best-selling daily consumer goods manufacturers the chocolate and emmental cheese manufacturer Swiss-firms feel mostly the effect of the strong Swiss franc. Due to the decline in their exports, their...
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Extensive collaboration against tobacco smuggling and counterfeiting
Date: 2011-08-26 12:14:52
The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) signed an agreement with the member companies of the Hungarian Tobacco Industry (MDSZ) and with the Philip Morris Hungary Ltd. to prevent the...
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Magazine: private label products are unstoppable
Date: 2011-08-26 10:51:01
PLMA’s World of Private Label, the biggest annual private label product trade show in Europe was held in Amsterdam on 24-25 May 2011, with 3,600 exhibitor stands from 70 countries...
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NGM: fixing the exchange rate may prevent a dramatic fall in consumption
Date: 2011-08-25 12:50:36
The Hungarian government did not anticipate that as a result of the dramatically strengthened Swiss franc, consumption would fall – said the Ministry of National Economy (NGM) to MTI. The...
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Chips-tax can be avoided with new recipes
Date: 2011-08-25 12:32:30
Where it is possible, the manufacturers are developing new recipes to avoid the chips-tax. The salt grains ncan win, energy drinks may fall – reports Index, after Figyelő. Perhaps the...
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The payment deadline reduces at the domestic firms
Date: 2011-08-25 12:31:50
The survey results among the domestic businesses show that in the last quarter, the deadline for payment of customer bills towards small and medium-sized enterprises decreased. The expectations are appear...
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The retail property market remained stable
Date: 2011-08-25 12:28:37
Hungary's retail real estate market continues to show signs of stability in the first half of 2011, after having reached this state last year. “The market participants have adapted to...
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The number of chip bankcards increased by almost two-thirds
Date: 2011-08-25 12:14:37
The spread of the EMV chip bank cards accelerated in Hungary: at the end of the first half their number reached 4.65 million this is the 53 percent of ther...
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Huge price drops may come in Swiss shops
Date: 2011-08-25 12:10:23
The retail chains of Switzerland foreseen a significant food price reduction: due to the very strong franc, many customers spend money in Germany and France. According to the informations of...
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Magazine: An increase in prices and more promotions characterised the wet condiment market
Date: 2011-08-25 11:50:02
What is new on the wet condiment market? Well, premium brands managed to evade a significant decline in sales and private labels were getting stronger – only the medium category...
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Retail sales fall again
Date: 2011-08-24 13:15:07
The volume of retail sales – on the basis of the calendar-adjusted datas – in June 2011 declined by 0.5% and essentially stagnant in the first half of the year,...
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The heat wave brought massive mineral water and beer sales
Date: 2011-08-24 13:00:53
The beer and mineral water are consumed more often in the heat. In the stores surveyed by MTI 20-30 percent more was consumed of these drinks in recent days, and...
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Domestic melon consumption accelerated
Date: 2011-08-24 12:50:11
50 percent of the about 180 thousand tons of the produced watermelons were consumed by the Hungarians this year. Thanks to the successwful watermelon promotion, the domestic consumption increased significantly....
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Milk consumption can increase in long-term, in short term the sector's survival is at stake
Date: 2011-08-24 12:48:29
Although according to the projections; domestic milk consumption can increase in long-term, it is unlikely to reassure the farmers of Somogy county – writes sonline.hu. Expensive feed, surging purchase prices...
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GFK: Schoolbags and notebooks sell well
Date: 2011-08-24 12:29:09
In the current economic situation, a successful season is particularly appreciated, and the start of school is one of these times. The beginning of the school year opens up new...
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More than half of the population would not spend more than 10 000 HUF on school supplies
Date: 2011-08-24 12:26:47
53 percent of the population is not willing to spend more on school supplies than 10 000 HUF, and 50 percent of those asked are waiting for a state support...
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Sales are distributed evenly
Date: 2011-08-24 11:47:38
Spice retail sales grew by 1 percent in April 2010-March 2011, from the previous comparable period. Volume sales were down 1 percent on the HUF 13-billion market. In 2009 manufacturer...
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VAT on food will not reduce next year
Date: 2011-08-23 13:20:45
In medium terms VAT on food, will not be reduced, the case was removed from the agenda of the government – reports Népszabadság. In the spring, the rural development ministry...
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Looking for the cheap, canned beers
Date: 2011-08-23 13:10:07
The big losers of last year were the glass packed, and alcohol-free beers were, but overall, the total domestic beer market was shrinking in 2010, as in previous years. Within...
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