Market News
‘It is ending precisely now…’ (Part 2)
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
This new, 6-part series by Trade magazin and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute focuses on price trends, pricing policies and consumer expectations in terms of price. Last time we called...
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Households spent less on yoghurt last year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Last year 86 percent of households bought yoghurt – shows ConsumerScan by GfK Hungária. As for fruit yoghurts, 81 percent of consumers bought one flavour or another, so sales remained...
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The fourth screen
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
It caused a lot of excitement when in Nielsen’s first quarterly report the company audited the efficiency of programmes and ads in so-called 4th-screen broadcasts – these run on displays...
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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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ÉFOSZ recommendation for the renewal of the food industry
Date: 2010-05-14 00:01:50
The decreasing of food VAT and the administrative burdens, the reduction of food imports and black trade – among other things, the National Food Processors Association (ÉFOSZ) recommends these issues...
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In one year, milk and egg prices increased, meat and fruit became cheaper
Date: 2010-05-14 00:01:37
The producer price level of agricultural products decreased by 4.1 percent in March 2010, compared to the same period of last year – reports the Central Statistical Office. The price...
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The 70 percent of tax benefits given to foreign companies
Date: 2010-05-14 00:01:00
Both the business share and the tax benefit share of the hundreds of thousands Hungarian small enterprizes are minimal. On the basis of the 2008 year corporate tax returns; the...
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Enough of the consumer foreign currency loans
Date: 2010-05-14 00:00:45
In the Eastern European countries the short-term, unhedged, foreign currency lendings for consumption purposes should be deleted – said the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)....
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The Hungarian economy caused a big surprise
Date: 2010-05-13 00:01:45
On the basis of the flash estimation of the Central Statistical Office and Ecostat; in the first three months of this year, the Hungarian economy's performance rose by 0.1 percent,...
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Poverty and consumption: cheaper products, instead of campaigns
Date: 2010-05-13 00:01:30
According to GfK Hungária’s latest research; the lower-priced products are popular among the poorer groups of the consumers, but that is not specific that they are looking for campaigns. Today...
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Policy promises a more effective consumer protection
Date: 2010-05-13 00:01:22
“Consumer protection should be brought closer to the people” – said Koszorús László, Member of the Parliament, at the annual general meeting of the Hungarian Brand Alliance. According to the...
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The domestic firms are cautiously optimistic
Date: 2010-05-13 00:01:10
According to the survey of the Economic and Business Analysis Institute (GVI) of the Hungarian Trade and Industry Chamber (MKIK); The expectations of the Hungarian companies for the next half...
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The population is optimistic after the elections
Date: 2010-05-13 00:01:00
According to the survey of GfK Hungária and the Corvinus University; both the complex Consumer Confidence Index and the Consumer Expectations Index increased significantly, compared to the previous quarter results....
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