Market News
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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Hungarian Agraracademy last weekend
Date: 2009-04-21 06:59:59
Representatives of Hungarian agriculture and food industry gathered for a two-day long program last week in Pápa. According to József Gráf agricultural and rural development minister, 2010 is going to...
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Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
Date: 2009-04-20 03:47:54
Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for...
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Nearly one billion euro sales on the Romanian beer-market
Date: 2009-04-20 03:04:50
The four multinational companies of the Romanian beer-market are closing a year with a nearly one billion euro sales – as announced in the Friday issue of Ziarul Financiar. Eighty...
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Domestic FMCG market turndown in Q4 in 2008 and in the first two months of 2009
Date: 2009-04-17 03:21:13
Daily consumer-products value has rosen faster than inflation, yet in October when worldwide economic crisis had been announced, the market fell back with 3.7 percent – a survey called Commercial...
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Garantiqua raising guarantee limit to 90 percent
Date: 2009-04-17 03:18:26
Garantiqa Hitelgarancia Ltd. has raised its guarantee limit from 80% to 90% for companies whose loans do not exceed their annual payroll costs, and the EU has accepted the company's...
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Lack of poultry-products on the Hungarian market
Date: 2009-04-17 02:59:16
Deficiency may take shape in the next months when it comes to certain chicken products on the domestic market as inland demand for certain poultry meats is getting more and...
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Prices falling in Spain, too
Date: 2009-04-16 04:17:42
Prices have been confirmed to have fallen in Spain for the first time in March, down by -0.1% in the annual IPC released by the INE, National Statistics Institute. The...
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At least eight organic farmers a month are quitting their scemes
Date: 2009-04-16 04:14:12
At least two organic farmers a week are leaving the movement as consumer demand for premium food stagnates and costs rise – according to The Guardian1s article, this tendency continues....
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Senior citizens and young people are not likely to change their shopping habits
Date: 2009-04-16 04:07:10
With the latest news showing that most Americans are continuing to hold back on spending, it looks as if Gen Y and senior citizens may be the exceptions, according to...
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Food-to-Go shoppers say quality is more important than price
Date: 2009-04-16 03:53:54
Shoppers who buy food and beverages to go are more concerned about quality and freshness than price – according to a new consumer trends report released by United Kingdom-based IGD....
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Agricultural Chamber says a good crop is to be expected
Date: 2009-04-16 03:50:25
Due to the sudden warm spring, nearly all hosts involved in agriculture have fallen behind with their work to do, including plant-protection – the Hungarian Agricultural Chamber has pointed out....
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Online marketing blooming in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-15 09:50:12
2008 saw a 7 percent increase in the amount of money spent on advertisements, with online marketing gaining a 10 percent part of the entire market – Hungarian Commercial Association...
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Free counsel-series on environment protection product-fee
Date: 2009-04-15 09:42:26
The amendment about the environment protection product-fee came into force on 1st January, still there are numerous questions about it to be answered within the compass of a free counsel-serie...
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Food prices increased again
Date: 2009-04-14 09:51:32
In March 2009 consumer prices increased by 0.5% compared to the previous month and rose by 2.9% compared to March 2008, according to fresh data by KSH, Hungarian Statistical Office....
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Food Codex violating competition-rules according to Hungarian Competition Authority
Date: 2009-04-14 09:44:47
Food Codex has only been signed on Thursday, yet the Hungarian Competition Authority is examining the agreement as certain details may be viewed as a restraint of competition. Hungarian Competition...
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Tunafish being popular in spite of increased prices
Date: 2009-04-14 09:43:16
Even though tunafish-prices have increased in the past few months, there is az increased interest in buying tuna as well. Alliance Tuna International, Inc. from the Philippenes have announced a...
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Balaton-wines received most awards again
Date: 2009-04-14 09:39:33
Wines from the Balaton-area have received most awards at one of the strictest international wine-competitions Vinitaly inVerona, Italy. Seven out of thirty Hungarian competitors have received Gran Menzione-award, and four...
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87% of shoppers are making changes in reaction to the recession
Date: 2009-04-14 09:35:57
87% of UK households are making changes in reaction to the recession – according to new research by Shoppercentric, an independent agency specialising in shopper behaviour research With more than...
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New EU-rule scaring Hungarian wine-experts and manufacturers
Date: 2009-04-14 09:32:51
European Union is about to launch a new regulation which may mean serious danger to Hungarian winery, allowing manufacturers to produce rosé by mixing red- and white wine – Hír...
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Slovakian customers doing all major shoppings in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-14 09:29:08
More and more stores in Győr allow customers to pay in euro, whereas Slovakian supermarkets near the border are missing their old customers and see a 40 percent decrease in...
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