Market News
Ham purchase saw a growth both in terms of value and volume
Date: 2012-03-14 14:34:58
More and more ham is being purchased in the stores during Easter-time. Last year, customers spent nearly 5 billion HUF on ham, which is 4 percent higher than in the...
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The Central and Eastern European economies will have a weak year
Date: 2012-03-14 13:02:11
The Central and Eastern European economies will have a much weaker, “challenging” year than last year. Many of them – including Hungary – is expected to spend year 2012 in...
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KDNP: marketing conditions of foodstuffs may be tightened
Date: 2012-03-14 13:00:03
According to the Christian Democratic Party (KDNP), the National Assembly can acept the bill on the rules of food marketing with consensus. Tarnai Richárd, Member of Parliament highlighted at a...
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Euro area’s industrial production increased in January
Date: 2012-03-14 12:25:24
Industrial production of the Euro area and the EU increased in January on a monthly comparision – announced the European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, on Wednesday. In January, the industrial...
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The new rules of the agri damage mitigation
Date: 2012-03-14 12:22:55
The first pillar of new agricultural risk management system was published in the Magyar Közlöny. Those producers who were hit by agricultural damages between the 1st November 2011 and 10th...
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An annual 11 million tons of food is thrown out by the Germans
Date: 2012-03-14 12:20:50
According to new study presented on Tuesday, in Germany, an annual 11 million tons of food is thrown away, 81 kilograms per person. Most of the food that ends in...
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GfK: Costumers spend the most on food in hyper-and supermarkets
Date: 2012-03-13 13:50:28
The GfK Market Research Institute conducted its GfK Shopping Monitor Research 2011-2012 in December 2011. The goal of the annually prepared study is the mapping of the motivations and purchasing...
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KSH: mainly energy and food prices moved inflation in February
Date: 2012-03-13 13:30:43
Consumer prices in February were 5.9 percent higher than a year earlier. In a month, prices rose by 0.8 percent, due to the significant jump of household energy and food...
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Online purchase on the podium of online activities
Date: 2012-03-13 13:10:25
MasterCard's latest research shows that online shopping and the associated browsing are the third most popular online activity in Hungary, only preceded by reading news and e-mailing. 38 percent of...
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Manpower: fewer employers planning redundancies
Date: 2012-03-13 13:00:37
According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, 17 percent of Hungarian employers intend to reduce their workforces during the second quarter of 2012 while only 14 percent of employers plan...
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U.S. retail sales increased
Date: 2012-03-13 12:40:08
U.S. retail sales increased the fastest extent in February in the last five months; a 1.1 percent increase occurred, compared to January. As analysts expected U.S. retail sales increased seasonally...
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Chips are not responsible for the salt intake
Date: 2012-03-13 12:20:30
How is it possible that in Hungary, salt intake is twice twice as much per capita than in the U.S., despite Americans consume 23 times more chips than the Hungarians?...
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Frost damage is around twenty percent in the Tokaj Wine Region
Date: 2012-03-13 12:15:52
On average, 20 percent of buds has damaged, due to this year’s hard frost in the Tokaj Wine Region – states the researchers of the Vine and Wine Research Institute...
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Germans eat forty kilograms of pork annually
Date: 2012-03-13 12:08:09
Last year, the revenues of the German meat distribution and event services increased by 3.2 percent. According to the Tuesday published datas of the German Meat Processors Association, consumption of...
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Weak domestic consumption continues to hold back imports
Date: 2012-03-12 14:00:59
According to the preliminary datas, the foreign trade value, calculated in euros, slightly increased by 2 percent in January, compared to the previous year's high levels – the Central Statistical...
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Increasing risk of bankruptcy
Date: 2012-03-12 13:45:50
According to Hungarian companies, the number of bankrupt businesses will slightly rise this year as well, following an all-time high of last year. They expect a particularly strong wave of...
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Costumers travel for special flavor vegetables and fruits
Date: 2012-03-12 13:28:48
The old Hungarian fruit and vegetable varieties will reappear probably on the local and regional markets, which establish the reputation of the Hungarian horticulture. In recent decades, the old, local,...
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Warsaw is the second most attractive commercial real estate market in Europe
Date: 2012-03-12 12:40:40
According to CBRE international consulting firm, Warsaw is the second most attractive commercial real estate market in Europe. The survey’s results were published in the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. In 2012,...
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Revenues of Somogy county merchants and restaurateurs declined
Date: 2012-03-12 12:06:11
According to the survey of the Trade and Tourism Advocacy of the Entrepreneurs in Somogy County (KISOSZ), more than half of the merchants and restaurateurs of Somogy county reported about...
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Russia bans the European pork imports
Date: 2012-03-12 12:05:16
From the 20th of March, Russia bans pork imports from the European Union, due to the Schmallenberg virus emerging in Europe. The Russian veterinary authorities explained on Monday that the...
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GDP forecasts for 2012
Date: 2012-03-09 13:45:26
The external demand, the performance of agriculture and the lack of credit can be the biggest risks in the evolution of next year’S GDP, which according to analysts interviewed on...
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Hungarian-Russian trade close to its pre-crisis level
Date: 2012-03-09 13:35:01
The Hungarian-Russian trade dynamically evolving and it is getting close to the pre-crisis levels – said Alexei Kazacskov, deputy commercial counselor of the Russian Federation at a conference in Győr...
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GM crops: still no EU compromise
Date: 2012-03-09 12:40:03
The EU member states still not reached a compromise about the proposal, which would allow that individual Member States to decide to gave permission, or to ban the production of...
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Stores and the authorities to join forces against rodents
Date: 2012-03-09 12:35:44
The Agricultural Office (MgSzH) and the National Public Health Chief Medical Office (OTH) developed a joint program in order to fight off of rodents. The forthcoming inspections will include the...
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Winemaker face new challenges due to the climate change
Date: 2012-03-09 12:07:57
Due to effects of global warming, sugar content of wine is increasing. The team of the French scientific research institute the INRA therefore developed a method, that allows to reduce...
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The Hungarian medicinal and aromatic herbs industry is looking for opportunities
Date: 2012-03-09 10:10:32
Medicinal and aromatic herbs are cultivated on about 18 thousand hectares in Hungary, contrary to the 37 – 42 thousand hectares of the 1990s – said Mártonffy Béla, Chairman of...
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Magazine: Easter ham consumption: a shift towards quality products
Date: 2012-03-08 17:23:26
There are two mains seasons for selling smoked meat and smoked-cooked meat: one is in March-April and the other is in November-December. In these periods consumption is 3-4 times bigger...
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Retail food sales in Hungary rose 5% in value terms
Date: 2012-03-08 12:23:19
Retail food sales in Hungary rose 5% in value terms in the twelve months to last January from the previous twelve-month period, market research company Nielsen published in its new...
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Salt counterfeiting may reduce the foreign demand for Polish food products
Date: 2012-03-08 12:00:26
The Polish food industry worries about the reduction of foreign demand, because Czech and Slovak food producer chambers called for a boycott of Polish products, due to widespread counterfeiting of...
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The fish population of the Lake Tisza will be enriched by native carps
Date: 2012-03-08 12:00:23
The Lake Tisza Sport Fishing Non-Profit Ltd. provides the carp resupply, with the propagation of native carps – announced the company's managing director at a press conference in Tiszafüred-Örvény on...
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