Market News
WHO – pandemic alert is on phase 4.
Date: 2009-04-29 01:04:27
The WHO has raised the level of the swine influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4. Phase 1 means: low risk of human cases, on the...
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Agriculture is less affected by the crisis than other sectors
Date: 2009-04-29 00:53:01
All people need to eat, so there can not be a large decline in agriculture – Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development József Gráf said of the sector in relation...
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Support to farmers in advance
Date: 2009-04-29 00:37:46
Farmers can take up the 20 % of the already been awarded but not yet paid agricultural and rural development supports, since 23rd of April as a support in advance...
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The Hungarian pork is virus-free
Date: 2009-04-28 09:39:58
The Hungarian pork is safe for consumption in the animal health protection’s point of view, because the Hungarian pork plants has a closed production system – stated the Association of...
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Recycled drinking cartons
Date: 2009-04-28 09:26:16
In four years Hungary has increased fivefold amount of the selectively collected and recycled milk and juice cartons. This is a modern packaging without preservatives to protect the stored food...
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Ringier’s recordbraking 2008 result
Date: 2009-04-28 09:19:37
The Swiss media group has achieved strong growth especially in the digital media areas. Ringier which is present in 10 countries in Europe and Asia achieved 5,3 percent growth with...
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More social shops to open
Date: 2009-04-28 08:27:56
Further 70 social shops which selling only Hungarian produced agricultural products will be expand. Twenty-five Social shops are currently available. In May 70 further shops will be opened. The ultimate...
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Swine-flu in Europe
Date: 2009-04-27 05:01:25
A new strain of swine flu has killed at least 81 people in Mexico, according to WHO it was treating the outbreak as “a public health emergency of international concern”...
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A lack of skilled, young salespeople in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-27 04:46:21
There would be a strong need for skilled employers in trade in Hungary, but currently the majority of salespeople are those who has been not accepted by higher institutions of...
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American saving money by buying cheaper brands and consider home-grown vegetables
Date: 2009-04-27 04:37:14
More than half of the Americans asked – 57 percent – are trying to save money by buying cheaper brands, 23 percent gave up smoking while 25 percent switched to...
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25 percent VAT only helps black market
Date: 2009-04-24 05:43:54
The Association of Food Manufacturers do not agree with the concept that only certain basic food products would belong to the middle-range, 18 percent VAT-category. The association has published an...
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Meat-industry associations do not agree with new VAT-laws
Date: 2009-04-24 05:38:33
Goverment plans about VAT-changes are unacceptable and unfair, according to most associations in the meat industry. They are convinced that certain products affected by the cut of VAT do not...
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Even „basic food products” may cost more from July
Date: 2009-04-24 05:34:57
The new 18 percent VAT-rate to be introduced in July is not going to bring about significant changes when it comes to the actual prices of products: bread and milk...
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Hungarian customers are afraid of losing their workplaces, and the increase of credit and energy pr
Date: 2009-04-24 05:21:59
While 31 percent of Hungarians involved in the survey are worried about workplaces in the first place, 22 percent of all citizens from 50 countries feel the same – a...
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Retail sales volume falling
Date: 2009-04-24 05:18:27
Hungarian retail sales volume falls adjusted 3.2% in February. January-February sales volume was down 3.0% from the same period in 2008 – according to KSH's new data. KSH's retail sales...
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Women are more likely to try new products
Date: 2009-04-24 05:09:35
Special offers do not only attract female customers: in fact more than seventy-five percent of netsurfers above 18 prefer buying special offer products – VMR research by NRC Market Research...
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State Printing Company winning 66 million HUF for nanotechnological improvments
Date: 2009-04-24 05:06:52
The 66 million HUF won by the State Printing Company is going to be spent on nanotechnological devices to fight agains the black market by recognizing false prints. „This new...
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The biggest hypermarkets offer more jobs
Date: 2009-04-24 05:04:40
Even though most companies needed to decrease the number of their employees, Tesco has just announced that they are about to make 26 thousand new workplaces available worldwide, while Wal-Mart...
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Seminar about the marketing and packaging of pork
Date: 2009-04-24 03:10:12
Picturing the Future of Pork is a seminar taking place on 3rd and 4th June in Paris, with a major focus on pork production packaging and marketing. Specialists from across...
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The end of recession in Hungary is still far ahead
Date: 2009-04-23 03:54:02
The end of the recession is not to be seen in the near future, and weakening of forint may cause another wave of insolvence – a new analysis by the...
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People do more to preserve their health during the crisis
Date: 2009-04-23 03:51:12
Customers appear to be more health-conscious throught the recession: people pay more attention to strenghtening their immune-system and trying to stay fit – says a new GfK LHS HealthCare research...
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Americans drink more since the crisis
Date: 2009-04-23 03:36:36
People seem to drink more since the crisis: the USA sees a 1.4 percent increase in volume when it comes to alcoholic beverages – a new research by AC Nielsen...
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Coffee sells well, but roasters are not happy with the competition between retailers
Date: 2009-04-23 03:35:34
German coffee roasters are increasing sales as the coffee culture becomes fashionable but a retail price war puts them under huge cost pressure, the head of Germany's coffee industry association....
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auction site on the market with free uploads
Date: 2009-04-23 03:12:23
The seller doesn’t need to pay anything, there are no listing,-or commission payment costs – the operating manager of Eden-Design pointed out. According to operating manager Richárd Balogh, the portal ...
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Defining what is considered to be a Hungarian product is a shaky area
Date: 2009-04-22 04:55:54
Not even the recently introduced Food Codex defines properly what is considered to be a Hungarian product and whether items made of Hungarian ingedients fall into this category or not...
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Children's taste is less sensitive to sweets, so they eat more chocolate
Date: 2009-04-22 04:29:55
Whilst the sense organs are fully functional from birth onwards, perception is a matter of practice. Sensory tests at TTZ Bremerhaven have shown that other benchmarks apply for children than...
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A crisis-resistant marketing tradeshow
Date: 2009-04-22 04:27:28
PROMOTION is a tradeshow organized by HUNGEXPO Ltd., introducing and promoting new, crisis-resistant and efficient marketing and communicational technologies and strategies. In spite of all doubts, recession may have a...
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Everyone in Europe consumes too much
Date: 2009-04-22 04:20:42
If people switched more of their consumption from animal to plant-based food there would be a smaller impact on the environment. A paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology by...
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Wine-producers afraid of changing rules of contribution fee
Date: 2009-04-21 07:24:56
Wine-producers strongly disagree with the new plans affecting wine-laws, bringing about changes in the field of circulation-contribution fee. The main goal of the contribution is to gather money for local...
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A growing interest in social shops, a new store in Miskolc
Date: 2009-04-21 07:11:10
A new social shop has just opened in Miskolc, the nineteenth in the country already, where products come directly from the growers. Prices are lower than usual in these so...
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