Market News
Bird flu in Russia
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
More than 230,000 birds have been culled at a poultry farm in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory. The lethal H5N1 virus was identified at the farm on 4th September. Following an...
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China has the third-largest economy
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
Since 2002 China has advanced from the world's sixth-largest economy to No. 3, overtaking the U.K. and Germany and India and narrowing the gap with the world's two largest economies:...
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Politicians against throw-away bottles
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
MDF, Hungarian party said the traders should take back every kind of bottles. According to partei's opinion extension of the deposit cost for throw-away bottles would help to increase the...
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A shipment of 47 tons of frozen sardines was rejected
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
The sardines, imported from a Japanese trading company originally from the United States were infected with disease-inducing bacteria. The report said sample inspections showed the sardines were infected with listeria...
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Deal with POS
Date: 2007-10-03 00:00:00
A new website, megallitotabla.hu, started by Conint-Print. The site shows wide range of BTL tools. megallitotabla.hu can be a good start point for people interesting or working for BTL, retail...
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7% decrease at the Confidence-index
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
55% of managers expect domestic demand to remain unchanged and 27% expect decreasing demand. The monthly Ecostat Top-100 index, a gauge of confidence at Hungary's biggest hundred companies dropped to...
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Less ready meals in Britain
Date: 2007-10-02 00:00:00
According a survey despite time pressures, the majority of mothers are said to prefer to cook meals from scratch rather than open a jar or heat ready meals. The research,...
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HUF 12 million conraband
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
Customs officers seized 31,000 cartons of cigarettes in a van. The worth of contraband cigarettes was 12 million forints, the products brought into the country from the Ukraine. The officers...
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Germans don't do shopping
Date: 2007-10-01 00:00:00
In Surprise Fall German retail sales fell unexpectedly in August, affected by the impact of higher oil prices and the credit-market turmoil. Sales, adjusted for inflation and seasonal swings, fell...
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Warm food voucher is popular
Date: 2007-09-27 00:00:00
According to GKI research company, in 2003 only 300,000, this year 570,000 employees get warm food vouchers. 58% of the competition sector's employees get cold food vouchers and 18% warm...
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Summer raid – HUF 500 million fine
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
In the course of the 10 weeks control the inspectors spied at the Lake-Balaton, on the biggest events – as Sziget Festival and on the famous holiday places. Inspectors found...
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Milk producers make the pace
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
Subsequent upon the price war there are empty shelves at the supermarkets milk sections. The processing industry and the exporters run against each other and jack up the price. There...
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New owner and developing at the Bertrans logistic park in Kecskemet
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
Australia's Goodman Group buys logistics park in Hungary. Goodman, an integrated property group listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, has acquired the Kecskemét-based logistics park of Hungarian logistics service provider...
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Heineken introduces new light lager in Russia
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
The new brand will be positioned in the premium class beer segment and will be supported by a wide promotion campaign across various mass media. Heineken has introduced a new...
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Ribena to go green
Date: 2007-09-25 00:00:00
The company said that it will become the first in UK's soft drinks industry to increase the recycled content of its ready-to-drink bottles from 40% to 100%. All Ribena bottles,...
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Facts and arguments
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
Compared to August 2006, food prices rose by 10,9 per cent, which is above the average rate of inflation. Food prices are also rising drastically in the world market, as...
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Intimate hygiene tissue: expansion above average
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
The market of intimate hygiene tissues is small but growing dynamically. According to the Retail Index of Nielsen, retail sales show an increase of 16 per cent in the July...
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Growing loyalty towards supermarkets and discount stores
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to the Shopper Trends study by Nielsen, the significance of modern store types has continued to grow. Hyper markets, super markets and discount stores are becoming the primary places...
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Price limits
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
It is hard to tell yet exactly how much damage has been caused by the drought. Farmers talk about losses amounting to hundreds of billions, whereas another calculation recommended by...
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Period of introduction for wet wipe tissues
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
As this product category has only recently been introduced, the objective is dual: educating consumers and widening the range of applications. The market of wet wipe tissues is growing dynamically...
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Sunshine, songs, logic
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to Greeks, Crete is the birthplace of European culture and having taken a look at the palace of Knossos, I find this an absolutely credible claim. Since Cretans are...
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Private label bio product for the British
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to a survey by TNS, seven out of the ten most popular bio products in the UK are private labels. In chains like Tesco and Sainsbury over 1,000 bio...
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Barely packaged merchandise, conservative consumers
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to Béla Kertész, general secretary of the National Packaging and Moving Association, the quantity of packaging materials used by the Hungarian economy is still only half of the European...
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From store to store in Shanghai (part 2.) – Lotus flower
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
We have visited Shanghai to attend the CIES conference which gave us an opportunity to take a look at retail trade in China. Lianhua (Lotus flower) is a 703 square...
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Omni consumers coming?
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to a recent survey conducted by IBMin the US and the UK, a new type of consumer is emerging. “Omni consumers” are quite immune to traditional advertising, as they...
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Continuing argument over environmental charge
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
Packaging has been subject to an environmental charge for ten years, but the amendment of relevant legislation in 2005 stirred up a heated argument. According to earlier legislation, the environmental...
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Discount stores behind the growth of private labels
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
As a result of the advance of private labels, one out of five HUF spent on food is paid for a private label product. Private labels are less successful among...
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Lebensmittel Praxis: special edition about Hungary
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
According to the special edition of the prestigious German magazine, Lebensmittel Praxis, devoted entirely to Hungary: „Though the trading business focuses on China, India, Russia and The Ukraine nowadays, Hungary...
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Creativity in a bottle
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
Being practical is not all that matters in packaging of soft drinks, as a boldly innovative bottle can boost the image of a brand remarkably. Coca-Cola Magyarország introduced the aluminium...
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Shop & Roll
Date: 2007-09-24 08:00:00
Shop&Roll rolling basket is an ideal tool for regular shopping....
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