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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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The first quarter of the European food retailing was successful

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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