Market News

Variations on eco-bottle

Andrew Kim, an 18-year old designer unveiled a new concept, which uses squared Coca-Cola bottles that can be folded when empty – they become up to two-thirds smaller than when...

Read more

The teeth situation

Hungarian people’s oral hygiene is still below par. Márton Pál, brand builder with Unilever Magyarország Kft. shared some data with us: toothbrush usage is 1/person/year, toothpaste consumption is 3 tubes...

Read more

Heartening domestic retail data

According to KSH’s report, after a 0.6-percent growth in January, retail turnover in Hungary stagnated in February, but the annual downturn diminished from 5.6 to 4.3 percent. In terms of...

Read more

Cheese in chocolate-type multi-block form

Chunka Cheese’s experts had two things in mind when they created a cheese block design that is similar to a chocolate bloc or bar: convenience and simplicity. Smaller sections of...

Read more

Functionality gets a leg up

The economic recession hit the foot care category hard, buyers were forced to make decisions by looking at the prices only, which resulted in a fallback amongst premium brands. Renáta...

Read more

Hungarian pigs cannot cope with competition

The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and fruit/vegetable products. Their last report reveals that this year we can expect a global growth...

Read more

ChocolateStory

These days one of the strongest consumer trends is transparency. US company Original Beans plants a tree after every bar of chocolate they sell. Documents in the packaging indicate the...

Read more

Shoe care brands are strong

The Nielsen Retail Index registered 13 percent lower value sales in shoe care product retail, while volume sales were 20 percent lower in comparison with the previous year. Average price...

Read more

Economic policy dilemmas

According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the Hungarian economy will stagnate in 2010 and a moderate growth is expected only in the second half of...

Read more

Most people expect the growth of the Internet

Hungarian Mediaindex, a survey by Marketing&Media and Ipsos revealed that 83 percent of those asked expect growing advertising revenues on the Internet for the second half of 2010. The heads...

Read more

Gloomy Sunday?

The battle in the past 10 years between retail chains and trade unions about Sunday shopping seems to settle for a draw in Hungary. However, the debate continues on a...

Read more

In the developed world growth is already palpable

According to an analysis by credit insurance company Coface Hungary, in the first quarter of 2010 companies’ insolvency indicator augmented by 12 percent, compared with the same period in 2009....

Read more

Surprising changes in online content consumption

Data from the gemius/Ipsos Audience online audience measurement system shows that the Internet using habits of certain target groups and the character of consumed content has changed considerably. While the...

Read more

Tracked fleets

Many companies distribute solutions such as vehicle tracking system, satellite fleet management system or GPS fleet tracking. In everyday conversations GPS (Global Positioning System) means a navigation system installed in...

Read more

Strengthening Forint, expanding food export

According to a preliminary estimate by KSH, our foreign trade surplus was EUR 374 million (HUF 103 billion) in February, up EUR 78 million (HUF 14 billion) from February 2009....

Read more

Competing with the neighbours drives the garden product market

Experts say that the development of people’s gardens depends on how much they earn and on their rivalry with neighbours. From year to year, the garden product market expands by...

Read more

PDA and smartphone: about to merge

The market of PDA devices, which are capable of transmitting data directly from the store via the Internet, has been standing still for quite a while. Neither Microsoft nor Symbian...

Read more

Agricultural prices augmented at the beginning of the year

KSH’s report informs that the production price index of agricultural products went up by 0.2 percent in February 2010, compared with the same period a year before. This February vegetable...

Read more

Germans shoppers buy comfortably in a pleasant environment

Edeka Group, the market leader in German food retail improved its turnover by 17 percent, compared with the previous year, and its sales revenue surpassed the EUR 39.6 billion threshold...

Read more

Behind the scenes

The crisis generated cost efficiency measures and structural changes, which affected sales teams too. Work has been outsourced at several companies, either completely or in part. According to Ágnes Csiby,...

Read more

Increasingly conscious decisions by shoppers

Last year the complete turnover of daily consumer goods bought by Hungarian households remained stable in nominal value, in comparison with 2008. However, in terms of volume turnover lowered –...

Read more

A stable yoghurt market with strong manufacturer brands

Manufacturer brands strengthened their position in yoghurt retail sales: they improved by 1 percentage points in value (reaching an annual HUF 29 billion) and by 3 in volume against private...

Read more

Down on your knees or standing up?

‘How many of you are convinced that win-win business relationships are good for you?’ 90 percent of people in the room raised their hands. ‘Your minutes are numbered!’ – said...

Read more

Television advertising campaigns’ reach can now be measured electronically

GfK Panel Services Germany expanded its Web Efficiency Panel service: it now involves monitoring the reach of television advertising campaigns. Panel members were given special mobile phones which are capable...

Read more

Yoghurt drinks are coming up

The yoghurt segment which focuses on health managed to expand despite the crisis, only the medium price segment contracted a bit. Beáta Kiss, external relations director at Danone Kft., is...

Read more

Private life made public

While shopping, customers can now use their smartphones to compare prices with prices offered by other shops. Shopkick, a recently established California enterprise uses the phones’ location-sensing abilities to send...

Read more

‘It is ending precisely now…’ (Part 2)

This new, 6-part series by Trade magazin and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute focuses on price trends, pricing policies and consumer expectations in terms of price. Last time we called...

Read more

Households spent less on yoghurt last year

Last year 86 percent of households bought yoghurt – shows ConsumerScan by GfK Hungária. As for fruit yoghurts, 81 percent of consumers bought one flavour or another, so sales remained...

Read more

The fourth screen

It caused a lot of excitement when in Nielsen’s first quarterly report the company audited the efficiency of programmes and ads in so-called 4th-screen broadcasts – these run on displays...

Read more

Net wages escalated by ten percent

At enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people and at budgetary institutions, gross average wages were 3.7 percent higher and net average wages improved by 10.3 percent in the first...

Read more
Oldal