Market News
Hungarian pigs cannot cope with competition
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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ChocolateStory
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Shoe care brands are strong
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Economic policy dilemmas
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Most people expect the growth of the Internet
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Gloomy Sunday?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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In the developed world growth is already palpable
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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....
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Surprising changes in online content consumption
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Tracked fleets
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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Strengthening Forint, expanding food export
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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....
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Competing with the neighbours drives the garden product market
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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PDA and smartphone: about to merge
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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...
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The first quarter of the European food retailing was successful
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:40
The recovery from the crisis continued in the food retailing of the developed European countries: store turnover increased by 4, percent in value and 1 percent in volume, compared to...
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The foreign suppliers are cautious with the Hungarian firms
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:35
According to the Atradius Credit insurance; the rate of late and non payments is the hihest ever in Western Europe in early 2010, so businesses increasingly turned to claim managers....
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One shopping center for nineteen thousand Pécs inhabitants
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:00
Among the five big cities of Hungary (Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged), the highest number of shopping centers are in Pécs, the least in Debrecen, Miskolc, and (yet) in...
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Goats and sheeps may escape from the electronic chip
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:30
The European Parliament (EP), adopted the Hungarian amendment that the individual electronic identification (chip) should not be a mandatory in the cases of goats and sheeps under the age of...
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Consumer confidence is on its ten-month nadir in China
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:20
In April consumer sentiment decreases for the second month, which can be associated with the government measures taken against economic overheating. China's consumer confidence index decreased by 1.3 points to...
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Several billion storm damages hit the agricultural sector
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:45
The weekend rain caused several billion HUF damage to the country's agriculture. According to the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, more than 150 thousand hectares are under water. After the near...
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Butter has been getting more expensive for weeks now
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:11
The price of butter increases for weeks now at the international markets, in some places the price rises were about 30 percent. The global demand for butter increases at the...
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Suppliers versus Multis: differencies between law and practice
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:45
The food processors are preaparing for group complaint against the chains. According to the informations of Népszabadság; the National Federation of the Food Processors (Éfosz) requested datas from its members...
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Shopping malls: Do not close the shops on Sunday!
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:30
The limitation of the opening hours on Sunday is not timely in the current situation – assessed the Hungarian Association of Shopping Centers (MBSZ) on its Friday meeting. The association...
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Hungarian households are on diet
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:12
Public dieting continued in the first quarter of the year. People increasingly pay back their foreign currency loans, so their housing and other consumption purposes indebtedness have reduced. In the...
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The healthy lifestyle is getting more important at the workplaces
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:00
According to the research of Nestlé; the graduate students and college students expect healthier lifestyle from their workplaces. The questionnaire responses suggests that, compared to 2009, the number of those...
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Salami from old grey beef
Date: 2010-05-18 00:00:50
The Körös-Maros National Park came up with an own product. Salami will be manufactured from Hungarian grey beef, of course, from only the aging part of the stock. The salami...
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Industrial production increased by nearly 3 percent
Date: 2010-05-17 00:05:59
According to the Central Statistical Office; Industrial production increased by 2.8 percent in March 2010, compared to the same period of last year. Production volume in the first three months...
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Survey over the domestic beer consumption habits
Date: 2010-05-17 00:05:55
The KutatóCentrum surveyed 1028 beer beer consumers over their consumption habits and over the consumer attitudes connected to beer. Twenty-six percent of the online survey respondents consume beer several times...
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We have no chance without effective trade developments in the foreign markets
Date: 2010-05-17 00:05:08
A significantly better trade promotion is required for the Hungarian enterprises to keep pace with the competitors of the foreign markets – said Parragh László. The President of the Hungarian...
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The disappearance of small tenants may be risk to the malls
Date: 2010-05-17 00:05:02
Tatár Tibor, CEO of Futureal Development Zrt. expects a market boom first in the industry market, then in the housing market. He is expecting cautious expansion from the big malls...
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Retail sales increasing for the seventh month in the United States
Date: 2010-05-17 00:00:40
The U.S. retail sales increased more than expected, due to the vehicle purchases. After the upward-revised 2.1 percent March data, the growth rate in April was 0.4 percent. This value...
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Romanian Széchenyi-card: the RMDSZ would follow the Hungarian example
Date: 2010-05-17 00:00:10
RMDSZ requests the introduction of benefits package including discounts specifically reserved for small and medium enterprizes from the Romanian government – announced Lakatos Péter, MP at a press conference in...
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