Market News
Széchenyi Card: 7.6 billion debt, from 750 billion
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:20
The Hungarian companies has reached 750 billion HUF credit line through the Széchenyi card system. Currently 1600 companies are on the black list, but the bankruptcy rate is relatively low.The...
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Hungary's competitiveness has improved
Date: 2010-05-21 00:01:15
Hungary improved from last year’s 45th place to the 42nd in IMD’s 2010 competitiveness rankings – reports the Swiss IMD, the world's leading business school. According to the latest ranking;...
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The Ifo-index shows an improvement the global economic sentiment
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:40
The global economic sentiment index of the German IFO Institute for Economic Research improved further. The index of the second quarter rose to 104.1 points, from the former 99.5 points...
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The European Parliament does not support meet glueing
Date: 2010-05-21 00:00:10
The European Parliament vetoed the European Commission's decision, which made it possible to use the thrombin enzyme as food additive. The thrombin was used to glue the meet parts that...
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The most frequent places for buying certain categories
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hyper- and supermarkets are the most frequent places for buying categories such as carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, beer, household cleaners and chocolate – states Nielsen ShopperTrends....
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Food prices stepped on the brake
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In March 2010, the monthly average consumer price increase was 0.7 percent, but compared with March 2009 prices were up by 5.9 percent On average, prices were 6 percent higher...
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Larger packaging units experienced a bigger decline
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Data from GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan indicates that 40 percent of Hungarian households bought some kind of family size ice cream in 2009. The average household purchased this cold delicacy 6...
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‘Fishing net instead of fish!’ – a new element in the Food Avalanche programme
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Syngenta and the Hungarian Food Bank Association launched their Food Avalanche programme for the 3rd time in February 2010. There were 26 applications and 9 winners were announced. Municipalities and...
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Industrial prices decreased
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
lthough in February 2010 industrial export prices were 0.9 percent higher than in the previous month, they were 5.4 percent lower in comparison with February 2009. Prices in the food...
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Growth in terms of both value and volume
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Nielsen Retail Index revealed that mineral water’s market position strengthened in retail: in April 2009-March 2010 value sales improved by 3 percent and neared HUF 47 billion, while Nielsen...
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Members of the food chain are more disciplined year by year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In Hungary people’s trust in food products has never been shaken. Not even six years ago, during the paprika scandal. Nevertheless, the bird flue did some harm to chicken farmers....
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Inflation in Hungary is the highest
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In February 2010, in the EU-27 consumer prices were 1.4 percent higher on average, compared to prices in February 2009. The biggest increase was measured in Hungary (5.6 percent) and...
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This year’s mineral water season may bring elevated prices
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Last year mineral water sales were the only one to increase among high-volume non-alcoholic thirst quenchers: the category improved by nearly 5 percent, in a large part due to a...
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Consumer trust
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Food safety is important for every second Hungarian in deciding where to do their shopping, informs a Nielsen survey. Six out of ten Hungarians think the products they buy in...
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Industry in the EU shows signs of recovery
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Eurostat’s report indicates that in the last quarter of 2009 the economy of the eurozone was stagnating. However, the annual decline of 2.2 percent was bigger than expected. In January...
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Whitening toothpaste is stable in popularity
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Toothpaste volume and value retail sales grew only in hypermarkets and in the 201-400 m²-channel in March 2009-February 2010 – the Nielsen Retail Index informs us. Hypermarkets’ value share reached...
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Rapid alerts
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) operates in the member states of the EU. Through this system member states report to the European Commission if human health hazards...
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Variations on eco-bottle
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Andrew Kim, an 18-year old designer unveiled a new concept, which uses squared Coca-Cola bottles that can be folded when empty – they become up to two-thirds smaller than when...
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The teeth situation
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hungarian people’s oral hygiene is still below par. Márton Pál, brand builder with Unilever Magyarország Kft. shared some data with us: toothbrush usage is 1/person/year, toothpaste consumption is 3 tubes...
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Heartening domestic retail data
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to KSH’s report, after a 0.6-percent growth in January, retail turnover in Hungary stagnated in February, but the annual downturn diminished from 5.6 to 4.3 percent. In terms of...
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Cheese in chocolate-type multi-block form
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Chunka Cheese’s experts had two things in mind when they created a cheese block design that is similar to a chocolate bloc or bar: convenience and simplicity. Smaller sections of...
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Functionality gets a leg up
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The economic recession hit the foot care category hard, buyers were forced to make decisions by looking at the prices only, which resulted in a fallback amongst premium brands. Renáta...
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Hungarian pigs cannot cope with competition
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
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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