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Collective bargaining ended
Date: 2008-12-15 00:00:00
Employers and unions agreed at a Friday meeting of the OET to a general wage increase of 3-5% in 2009 and to establish Hungary’s monthly minimum wage at HUF 71,500...
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This year in the first 11 months price increased by 6.3%
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
According to the Hungarian Statistic Office in November 2008 consumer prices decreased by 0.2% compared to the previous month and rose by 4.2% compared to November 2007. In November 2008...
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Dutch Supermarket Sales Growth forecast only 3% in 2009
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
The supermarket sector reported sales of 28.7 billion euros in 2007, a 4.7 percent rise. The sales in the week leading up to Christmas to go up by 7 percent...
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Origin and brand is important for shopping Hungarians
Date: 2008-12-12 00:00:00
According to the GfK Shopper Insight 2008 reseach half of the shopping Hungarians always or often compare the products with different brands. Almost half of the shoppers hold on to...
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The authority controls thousands of food entrepreneurs and 80,000 products. The office made survey o
Date: 2008-12-11 00:00:00
According to a press conference of the Hungarian Agricultural Administrative Office, the authority made 6,000 penalty captions from January-October 2008. The authority controls thousands of food entrepreneurs and 80,000 products....
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57 tons dioxin- incriminating liverish in Hungary
Date: 2008-12-11 00:00:00
Kaiser-Food Kft. imported in November 42 tons liver from Ireland, from this 29 tons are frosted, but from the rest liver paste were made and sold in the retail. After...
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Dioxin poisened pork in Romania
Date: 2008-12-11 00:00:00
3 tons of toxic pork from Ireland arrived into a depot in Bucharest, it was transported to 5 South-Romanian companies – said the Romanian Food Safety authority. It's sure that...
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EU to scrutinise competition in food retail sector
Date: 2008-12-11 00:00:00
European Union regulators pledged on Wednesday to crack down on uncompetitive practices in the food retail sector. Warning of a risk that food retail consolidation might be against consumer and...
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Supermarkets are Very Popular In Baltic region
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
A new survey by Extended Performance Satisfaction Initiative (EPSI) reveals that supermarket chains in the Baltic countries receive strong approval ratings. The EPSI study found that Estonian consumers are slightly...
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Hungarians are distrastful against banks
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
Just 19% of Hungarians said they had financial savings in November, a thirteen-year low, a survey by market researcher GfK Hungária shows. The percentage of Hungarians with financial savings dropped...
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We buy travel and book on-line
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
According to the newest research the number of Hungarian on-line shoppers is over 1 million. E-Commerce Trend Report 2008, made by NRC Market Researcher, shows that 1.8 million Hungarians tested...
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Germany's Retailers are optimistic
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
According to Reuters informations, last week Germans spent 1% more, 4.7 billion euros for Christmas presents. High-quality toys as well as books, CDs and DVDs were among the most bought...
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Government contra retail chains
Date: 2008-12-09 00:00:00
The farmers and processors think, that the retailer make strength conditions and leave not possibilities and profit for the other member of the food production lane. The Agricultural comitee of...
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The toxic pork can pop up in 20 countries
Date: 2008-12-09 00:00:00
Irish Republic Recalls All Pork Over Fears Of Contamination All pork products made in the Irish Republic since September have been recalled over fears they are contaminated with dioxin. According...
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Nearing stands at minimum wage negotiation
Date: 2008-12-08 00:00:00
At the Friday meeting of the National Interest Coordination Council employers have raised their proposed monthly minimum wage to HUF 70,000 from HUF 69,000, the minimum wage for skilled workers...
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Inevitably fast improvement of internal and external balance
Date: 2008-12-08 00:00:00
The deficit of the general government in 2008 is expected to be around 3.3% of GDP, which is still high, but taking into account the balance of the pension funds...
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New developing possibilities in caffeteria system
Date: 2008-12-08 00:00:00
Accoring to the government freshest tax law plan, the top limit of the taxfree fringe benefit will disappear. According to Hay Group survey in the summer 66% of the Hungarian...
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Promotion competition
Date: 2008-12-08 00:00:00
Our publisher, the Trade Magazin together with Nielsen Research, POPAI Hungary and Trade Marketing Club invites the retailers and producers for the „Promotion of the year 2008” competition. Tenders must...
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(HU) Januártól élesben ellenőrzik a megfelelőségi szabályok betartását
Date: 2008-12-05 00:00:00
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(HU) Népszerűek a kozmetikumokból összecsomagolt karácsonyi ajándékok
Date: 2008-12-05 00:00:00
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New Hungarian Webshop on the net
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
C-enter.hu sells 25,000 products of almost 80 companies. C-enter sell since 1999 IT products, its website were visited by most than 10,000 unique users – said Zoltan Csaki, CEO for...
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Hungarian prefer domestic products
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
More than half of the consumer would pay more for Hungarian products – according to a survey, reported by Edit Herczog EP politician, consumer protection specialist. According to the research...
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Raid on the Jozsefvarosi market
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
In frame of the Sparkle consumer protection action policemen, tax revisors, food safety and workprotection specialists, excisemen arrived at the market. 90 inspector made almost 100 control, in every second...
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Hungarians buy electronic equipments for Christmas
Date: 2008-12-04 00:00:00
According to LG non-exclusive research customers know what they want to buy, wich brand and dont save money and time to find the best present. LG Electronics Hungary made a...
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More expensive foods – less consumption in Europe
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to a research by Nielsen in 21 European countries, in 11 countries people buy less food as before. In the 3. quater such countries came on the list as...
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Angry retailers
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to the Hungarian Trade Association, the Agricultural Ministry wants to make retailers pay dear because of the lack of competitive strength of domestic agriculture production. Last week the ministry...
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Price of industry jumped
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to Hungarian Central Statistic Office the domestic sales prices of industry rose by 1.2% in October 2008 compared to the previous month and were 13.2% higher than in October...
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Investments in manufacturing were down
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
In the third quarter of 2008 the volume of investments in the national economy– on the basis of preliminary data – decreased by 2.3% compared to the same period of...
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Latin America Grows in Popularity as Trade Partner
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
According to a 2008 survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, undertaken on behalf of Atradius, the leading global credit insurer, the countries of Latin America continue to be attractive markets...
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