Market News
Ads expected to inform, rather than influence
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to a survey conducted by GfK Hungária in February 2007, 4 out of 10 people are open to innovations and willing to try new products. Advertisements are primarily expected...
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Changes in legislation concerning the environmental charge
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
This year, the Customs Authority has taken over tasks related to the environmental charge from APEH. As László Deák, one of the directors of PricewaterhouseCoopers has told us, this will...
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Yoghurt sales showing higher concentration than fruit yoghurts
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Owing to the popularity of healthier dietary trends, yoghurt consumption is popular. According to Nielsen data, unflavoured yoghurts produced growth of 6 per cent in terms of quantity in the...
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Click and win!
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Marketing campaigns can no longer be successful without using the Internet as well. The Internet has become part of our everyday life and our media consumption. Internet penetration in the...
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Co-ordination, legislation – together
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
VPOP has called for setting up of a Strategic Committee composed of representatives of all the competent Ministries, and the trade organisations, to work out recommendations and amendments to the...
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Yoghurt drinks happy in the bottle
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Pro-biotic is not a new word, but it seems to have become the main driving force behind the expansion of the yoghurt market, as this seems to be the most...
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Sponsoring helps brands to overcome background noise
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Sponsoring allows a brand and a program to be linked in a creative way, according to Krisztián Kovács, sales director of TV2. Sponsoring is an important part of their integrated...
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Entities liable to pay environmental charge:
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
– first distributor of product, in case of domestic production, or entity using it for its own purposes; – first domestic distributor of product, in case of import from EU,...
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Yoghurt consumed in over three-quarter of households
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to data from the ConsumerScan of GfK Hungária, 8 out of 10 Hungarian households bought yoghurt in 2007. Though total sales grew somewhat as a result of the 9...
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Advertising in stores
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
It has many names: POS, POP, in store, POP communication etc. , but we all know what it is about: reaching consumers in the stores. This is becoming increasingly important...
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Tax return changing
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
As of 1. January, annual returns concerning the environmental charge were replaced by monthly, or quarterly returns, depending on how VAT returns are submitted by the taxpayer....
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Mineral water over HUF 44 billion
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Sales of mineral water grew by 10 per cent in 2007 in terms of quantity, approaching 900 million litres. Sales increased by 14 per cent in terms of value and...
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Hungarian Post Office in the dm market
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
The Hungarian Post Office established its lifestyle data base in 2007. This allows companies to use a far more effective solution for reaching potential clients. The data base which holds...
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Solutions offered by OTP Bank for corporate clients and local governments
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Favourable financing opportunities refinanced by EIB are open for local governments and companies. Pál Kovács, managing director of the Commercial Banking Division of OTB Bank has told us about the...
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Customers looking for innovation in mineral water as well
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to Nielsen data, expansion has been unbroken in the market of mineral water. Consumers want innovation in this category as well. “Unbroken” expansion means double digit annual growth. However,...
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Success guaranteed
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
We are usually surprised to receive unexpected packages like catalogues, samples or the like. The objective of direct marketing is to make personal contact with consumers. Direct marketing can be...
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Tunisia – the most European Arab country
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Tunisia is a popular tourist destination among Hungarians. It has no oil like its neighbours, yet its economy based primarily on tourism, produced 8 per cent growth last year. Progress...
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9 litres of mineral water consumed by households
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to data from the ConsumerScan of GfK Hungária, the quantity of mineral water consumed by households was up by 15 per cent in 2007, compared to 2006. Sales grew...
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Interactive pictures and data for protecting forest
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
1to1 or interactive direct marketing is a form of communication based on digital printing technology and allows two-way communication between sender and receiver. M. C. Direct, an expert in this...
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Hans-Georg Häusel: Brain Script (Why do customers buy?)
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
What is the actual driving force behind customers or consumers? Why do they buy? What can we do to make them buy more? This book by Häusel Brain Script is...
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Deodorant market expanding both in terms of quantity and value
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to Nielsen data, sales of deodorants grew by 10 per cent in terms of quantity in the March 2007–February 2008 period, while overall revenues grew by 9 per cent,...
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Food industry gathering momentum
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Domestic industrial prices were up by 0.5 per cent in February 2008, compared to January and 10.6 per cent higher than in February 2007. Average price in the food, beverages...
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Trapped by distribution costs
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
An entire business sector has been built around telling us what the best solution is. The usual solution to the problem of cutting costs is employing subcontractors. What can those...
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Rigour, with exact regulations
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Soon, retailers and manufacturers might be fined billions instead of millions, when found to be in breach of food safety regulations. They believe that the proposed fines are excessive. Hungary’s...
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Year of sport benefiting men’s deodorants mainly
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to experts, an expansion is practically guaranteed to take place in the market of deodorants in future years. Nielsen data seems to support this prediction. Though women’s products account...
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Deficit in cattle and poultry in the EU
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Agricultural Business Research Institute (AKI) monitors the global trend sin the market of meat and poultry. Data from the Market and Price Information System of KSH and AKI can be...
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How do we choose? The optimal light commercial vehicle
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Buying a light commercial vehicle is unlike buying a car. We are not only buying a vehicle, we are buying a package, which should offer the best possible solution for...
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Insolvency continues to spread
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
The number of companies becoming insolvent grew by 21 per cent in the first quarter of the year, compared to 2007. Construction and commerce remain the riskiest industries. According to...
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Stabilisation among women’s hygiene products
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
Sales of women’s hygiene products are increasingly concentrated in drugstores, but hyper markets also hold a substantial market share. According to Nielsen data, the market share of drugstores expanded by...
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Worse rating for Hungary
Date: 2008-05-01 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, both the internal and external balance is expected to show significant improvement in 2008. A significant reduction in the...
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