Market News
Orange took back the lead from peach
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Fruit juice sale are increasingly concentrated. The 401-2,500 m² channel improved its market share by 3 percentage points to 36 percent in October 2008-September 2009. In total, the market contracted...
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Among the last in Europe
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
According to a quick estimate by Eurostat, in August 2009, the volume of retail turnover kept falling, by 1.8 percent in the EU-27 and by 2.6 percent in the eurozone,...
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A bit of vitamin for consumers and turnover
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
The juice category will surely not sleep the winter over, since these vitamin-providing beverages is about to enter the high season. According to Nielsen’s data, juice sales in September 2009...
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Hungary increased prices the most
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
In August 2009, consumer prices in the EU-27 were 0.6 percent higher than in August 2008, according to harmonised data. The biggest price increase was in Hungary with 5 percent,...
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The new trend – as nature planned it: fruit juice not from concentrate
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
More and more people follow the new trend all over the world: they love fresh pressed fruit juices. These juices do not contain preservatives, taste enhancers or additives. But first...
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Light at the end of the tunnel?
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
A regional study recently published by PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a slightly unexpectedly positive picture of the consumption markets of upcoming states. According to experts, most global companies realised before the crisis...
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Decimating in the sties
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
There are fewer pigs in the sties than any time in the past 60 years, still their price fell by 15-16 percent in a week. Pig breeders are asking from...
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We remain loyal to fruit juices
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
The fruit juice market keeps shrinking, with the exception of 100% fruit juice’s volume sales, the segment’s market share improved by 2 percentage points in the first eight months of...
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Tastes in the mirror
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Winning the trust of consumers is essential, because a certain part of the press projects a negative image of food products. A good example of this is influential German magazine...
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Increasing public demand for cheap products
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:55
According to the datas of GfK Hungária Market Research Institute; in the third quarter of 2009, the households purchased recommended daily products 1.3 percent lower than a year earlier. However,...
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Domestic food retail sales increased in value, decreased in volume in the third quarter
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:42
According to Nielsen market research company; with Hungary food retail sales volume decresed in nine European countries in the third quarter, compared to last year’s July -September. In Hungary, the...
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We are facing a money saving Christmas
Date: 2009-12-02 00:07:07
The Christmas season in the United States starts each year, the Friday after Thanksgiving day. The Equilor Investment Ltd. examined how the Christmas shopping season can evolutate in Hungary and...
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Eurozone’s unemployment rate reached its 11-year peak
Date: 2009-12-02 00:05:11
In the Euro-zone, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is currently 9.8 percent, stagnaiting on its 11-year peak level in October, after the September rate was modified from 9.7 percent to 9.8...
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GVH would pay tracking fee
Date: 2009-12-02 00:03:08
According to a law proposal; In the future 1 percent of the imposed fine, but not more than 50 million HUF would be given to the person who provides evidence...
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Year-end mall handover rush
Date: 2009-12-02 00:01:25
While less shopping centers are handed over this year, than in the last year, at the end of the year, malls are handed over; one after the another in Europe....
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One giant leap in the Chinese credit card debt
Date: 2009-12-02 00:00:35
According to the report of the Chinese central bank; The over six months credit card debts more than doubled in the first three quarters of the year in China, compared...
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The number of dangerous products are growing due to the crisis
Date: 2009-12-01 00:04:51
Although there is no accurate measurement and assessment of the impact of the crisis, in the market of counterfeit products, the turnover of the non authentic products shows an increasing...
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Environment protection product fee: a lump sum, instead of the more complex solution
Date: 2009-12-01 00:03:01
From January agri-producers can pay their environment protection product fee, product registration, record keeping, reporting and payment obligations with lesser administration, as a lump sum – thanks to the legislative...
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Stagnating industrial producer prices
Date: 2009-12-01 00:02:15
According to the Central Statistical Office; The industrial producer prices have not changed, compared to the previous month or to a year earlier period in October. The Hungarian industry's sales...
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The THM-ceiling may be the end of quick loans
Date: 2009-12-01 00:01:25
Many people agree that now it is time to tighten the conditions of the Hungarian retail lendings, including consumer credits. One elements may be the much-debated introduction of the THM-ceiling....
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After one and a half year, the prices have increased in the EU again
Date: 2009-12-01 00:00:59
Inflation returned into the euro area in November: According to Eurostat's first estimations, published on Monday, consumer prices were 0.6 percent higher than a year earlier. This is the first...
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The Americans throw out 40 percent of the food
Date: 2009-12-01 00:00:54
According to an American survey; the nation's population throw 50 percent more food into the trasher than in 1974. An average 1400 calory food per capita is thrown into the...
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Germany can put an end to the monitoring of the staff
Date: 2009-12-01 00:00:15
According to press reports in Germany at several chains of stores, the illegal monitoring of workers is a “daily routine”. Among others the workers are being monitored in the stores...
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GKI: The foreign market demand and the EU support can help in recovery
Date: 2009-11-30 00:06:28
According to the forecast of GKI Economic Research Co., in cooperation with Erste Bank; This year, in the Hungarian economy a 6.5 percent decline and future stagnation is expected. The...
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This year, Americans spent more on Black Friday
Date: 2009-11-30 00:01:01
Retail sales on Friday increased slightly, by half a percent in the United States, which is traditionally one of the busiest day of the Christmas shopping period. Retail sales showed...
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Different bargaining positions in the food industry
Date: 2009-11-30 00:00:50
The domestic food companies were not prepared for the EU's competition, the high charges, only further increase their vulnerability in competition – said Éder Tamás, President of the National Food...
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The deodorants and shower gels are the most popular
Date: 2009-11-27 00:04:59
According to Nielsen; decorative packaging toilet preparations and cosmetics are becoming more and more popular as Christmas gifts. More than 3 billion HUF worth of gifts were sold last year...
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Hungarian corruption is far above the world average
Date: 2009-11-27 00:02:01
According to the assessment of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC); The most common type of abuse is corruption in the Hungarian business life. Its 81 percent incidence rate is much higher than in...
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Growing proportion of late payments
Date: 2009-11-27 00:01:12
According to Direktinfo; the more than 90 day payment terms, over the past half year, rose from 9 percent to 16 percent. The average delay in payment is more than...
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Our cell phone can became our second wallet
Date: 2009-11-27 00:00:55
In Hungary, 23 percent of the population over 18 year, regularly use their credit card for payment, while 81-82 percent own mobile phones providing electronic payment – states the research...
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