Market News
Promising start of the year – what comes next is uncertain
Date: 2014-06-07 23:31:58
According to GKI Economic Research, the favourable growth rate and inflation data at the beginning of the year are mainly the result of transitional factors, but at the same time...
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Positive trends
Date: 2014-06-06 23:20:05
In April the Trade Marketing Club invited the representatives of market research companies to look back on 2013, and to talk about the latest survey results and trends in the...
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The tobacco shop was taken away only a several meters further from the gas station
Date: 2014-06-06 12:40:09
Hundreds of tobacco shop had to move out of the supermarkets, and the vicinity of gas stations. There were some tobacco shops, that only had to be placed a few...
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To preserve the egg industry's competitiveness is an EU mission
Date: 2014-06-06 12:20:16
It is essential for all EU member states to grab the possible tools in order to preserve the egg industry's competitiveness – Kis Miklós Zsolt, vice president of the National...
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The lower-than-expected trade surplus refers to the revival of consumption
Date: 2014-06-06 12:12:17
The revival of the domestic demand suggests that the rade surplus in April became lower-than-expected – analysts told MTI. The Central Statistics Office (KSH) published its first estimate on Friday....
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Gyulay Zsolt: the tobbacconist system is operating
Date: 2014-06-06 12:10:43
The system of tobacco shops has reached its goal – Gyulay Zsolt, leader of the NDN Zrt. told MTI, stating that it is effectively preventing the underage not to have...
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A comprehensive European lifestyle program to be started against obesity
Date: 2014-06-06 11:40:51
At the end of May, the world's largest network for obesity prevention the EPODE announced the launch of a Europe-wide comprehensive project against childhood obesity. In the scope of the...
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PwC: almost half of the Hungarian managers would increase manpower
Date: 2014-06-06 11:35:37
Compared to the last year, the proportion of those managers in Hungary increased significantly by 45 percent who expect an increase in the number of the the staff of their...
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Control over my enterprise is in my hands
Date: 2014-06-06 09:44:25
Have you ever had the feeling that that you have so many things to do away from your store that you don’t really know what is happening there? An owner...
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The consumption of beer is on a slope, flavored beer does not help
Date: 2014-06-05 12:02:55
Over the past few years, the market of flavored – mainly lemon – beers have increased significantly. Last year, it seemed that it can save the players of the domestic...
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The summer consumer protection controls have begun
Date: 2014-06-05 11:30:22
The National Consumer Protection Authority (NFH) and the customers inspectorates of the county government offices have started the week in the summer tourist controls. They especially checks the taxi drivers...
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One and a half billion HUF to refine a new potato variety
Date: 2014-06-05 11:15:05
The Nyíregyháza-based Research Institute of the University of Debrecen and the Dr. Sárvári és Csendes Agrárgazdálkodó és Fejlesztő Kft. (Dr. Sárvári és Csendes Agricultural Development Co Ltd.) can spend nearly...
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Playing in focus
Date: 2014-06-05 10:34:57
In the ballroom of the Carlton Ritz Hotel in Berlin more than 400 participants were listening to the latest issues and the hottest topics in loyalty marketing in 6 languages....
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Store lighting trends: shopping experience in a cost-efficient fashion
Date: 2014-06-05 10:26:46
Multinational retail chains have realised the significant role of lighting a long time ago – this is well indicated by the fact that until recently hypermarkets were built without windows,...
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Skin care in the summer months – protection and moisturising
Date: 2014-06-05 09:52:29
Summer skin care is very important to women as this is the period when clothes cover the least of their skin. The cosmetics industry keeps conducting laboratory research to create...
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Two-digit growth in the office supplies market
Date: 2014-06-05 09:47:55
Experts estimate the Hungarian office supplies market to be worth HUF 100-120 billion a year. At the end of 2012 Office Depot was sold to Central Fund. Managing director István...
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Tablet owners are in a better position
Date: 2014-06-05 08:39:43
Thanks to the mandatory installing of online cash registers in retail units there is no shop in Hungary without internet connection. Consequently, virtual solutions are more and more widespread, for...
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The increase in purchasing power extends sales
Date: 2014-06-04 12:20:22
Analysts say that the increase in purchasing clearly affects the retail trade, and the low inflation and the whitening of the market also have a specific role in the growth...
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NAV: more than 109 thousand online cash registers were installed
Date: 2014-06-04 12:10:52
More than 109 thousand online cash registers were installed until 3 June 3 – the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) told MTI on Wednesday. The NAV emphasized that the...
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KSH: retail sales increased by 6.6 percent
Date: 2014-06-04 12:05:04
The volume of retail sales increased by 6.6 percent in April after the 8.5 percent of March, compared to the same period last year, according to the calendar adjusted datas...
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A joint initiative would terminate the mandatory marking on some foods
Date: 2014-06-04 12:02:08
A Dutch – Swedish joint initiative would terminate the mandatory marking of the durability of different types of food products. The two state argue that this would significantly reduce food...
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Record wheat harvest is expected this year may
Date: 2014-06-04 11:41:06
Apart from the mild winter, this year may be favorable for the arable farmers. After the nightmare of 2012 the professionals indicate good results for wheat. The big question, however,...
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The EU’s economy grew in the first quarter, the Hungarian growth is at the forefront
Date: 2014-06-04 11:40:57
On a quarterly basis the European Union’s GDP increased by 0.3 percent, on an annual basis the increase was 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2014 – the EU's...
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We can get cheap good quality strawberry
Date: 2014-06-04 11:38:17
Cheap and good quality strawberry is invading the markets of Budapest. You can buy strawberries for even 380 HUF per kg, while thae average price at most places is between...
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Nébih withdraw canned herrings from circulation
Date: 2014-06-04 11:35:38
The distribution of four kinds of canned herrings were banned by the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih), due to their high benzene content (PAH). According to the Wednesday statement...
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Two-digit sales growth
Date: 2014-06-04 09:44:08
There has been significant growth in grill sausage sales: value sales grew 14 percent and volume sales increased by 18 percent between March 2013 and February 2014. Annual market value...
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NAK and the IPOSZ sign strategic agreement
Date: 2014-06-03 16:37:56
NAK and the Hungarian Association of Craftsmen’s Corporations (IPOSZ) signed a strategic agreement on improving the situation of individual, family and micro-enterprises. The two organisations will do their best to...
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Advertising Tax: the professional associations are protesting
Date: 2014-06-03 12:10:08
The affected professional associations unanimously reject the submitted draft of the advertising tax. The fourteen signatories of the communication including the Hungarian Advertising Association, the National Association of Local Radios,...
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We must reach the the Hungarian agriculture’s 1990 level of production
Date: 2014-06-03 12:05:54
In the new government cycle, the Ministry of Agriculture has classified among the main tasks to reach the the Hungarian agriculture’s 1990 level of production. Fazekas Sándor Minister for Rural...
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