Market News
Goose feather and the goose liver may become Hungarikums
Date: 2010-09-02 00:11:11
The new legislation will declare goose feather and the goose liver as Hungarikums – turned out at the consultations between the Poultry Product Council (BTT) and the Ministry of Rural...
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Food prices on two year peak
Date: 2010-09-02 00:06:25
Global food prices increased in August for the third consecutive month. FAO’s global price index increased to its two year peak. The FAO food price index – which records the...
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The world's second largest fast-food network to be sold
Date: 2010-09-02 00:01:02
According to the informations of the Wall Street Journal; Burger King negotiates with a British private equity company, over the sale of the company. Several companies purchased Burger King from...
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Increasing consumer spending in the United States
Date: 2010-09-02 00:00:38
Spendings increased in the world's largest economy with the highest rate, (0.4 percent) since March. According to analysts; the strengthening, is due to the slight increase in real incomes, and...
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Retail trade: We pay still less on daily consumer goods
Date: 2010-09-01 00:03:41
According to GfK Hungária; The market of daily consumer goods continues to decline in Hungary. In the first half of 2010, the market of daily consumer goods decreased by 0.5...
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Pos Media – Acquisition of Célcsoport Média in Hungary
Date: 2010-09-01 00:01:25
After it’s recent successful expansion into Ukraine and Turkey, POS Media Europe, the leading European point of sales media agency, has acquired a majority stake in Célcsoport Média Ltd in...
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The Russian government considers a price stop
Date: 2010-09-01 00:00:59
In Russia, certain foods become more expensive to the extent that it allows the government to restrict their prices. However, there are several counter-arguments against the measure, therefore, the government...
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Disappointing second quarter results in the European food retailing
Date: 2010-08-30 00:06:25
According to Nielsen’s Growthreporter analysis; European food retailing decreased in ten countries, including Hungary. In Hungary 3 percent less food, household chemicals and cosmetics (FMCG) have been sold in retail,...
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Improved economy, declining international confidence
Date: 2010-08-30 00:04:25
According to the forecast of GKI Economic Research Co. in cooperation with Erste Bank; this year’s economic growth of Hungary will be around 1 percent. The Hungarian economy, after the...
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Liquidations in Central Hungary
Date: 2010-08-30 00:03:55
According to the datas of Opten; In the first half of the year 22 percent more liquidations were carried up in the Central Hungarian Region, than in the same period...
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The area centers may be important fair locations
Date: 2010-08-30 00:02:25
Matthias Limbeck, manager for Reed Exhibitions in Austria, expects real changes on the fair markets at smaller fairs in Central Europe. He believes ,the prosperous regions can improve their own...
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Fed: a weaker-than-expected recovery
Date: 2010-08-30 00:01:25
The economic recovery from the crisis is weaker than expected, but we are ready for further steps, if it is necessary – said Ben Bernake chairman of Fed. Shortly before...
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Warm weather brought elevated prices
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Analysts were somewhat surprised by the moderate increase in inflation in June. According to KSH’s quick report, consumer prices climbed by 0.2 percent from May and were 5.3 percent higher...
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Rice turnover concentrates and the 501-1,000-gram format is dominant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Retail sales of rice diminished by 2 percent in value and by 3 percent in volume in the April 2008-March 2009 period. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, the size...
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New on-line application to calculate ecological footprints
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
BASF developed an Internet-based eco-efficiency measuring system, which makes it possible for users to examine the environmental impacts of products, for instance shopping bags. New products can be easily and...
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Emergency alert off
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, production will grow the most this year in those sectors which sell their products or services to foreign markets....
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Growing diversity on the rice and flour market
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Eating in restaurant less often could have entailed an increase in flour sales, but market players’ opinion is that demand remained stable. – The fact that flour sales did not...
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Hungarians economise on food, clothes and energy the most
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
This May Nielsen surveyed 27,000 Internet users in 48 countries. In Hungary 68 percent said they had changed their spending habits this spring, compared to the previous year; the international...
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Soaring retail growth in Malta
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
A quick estimate by Eurostat pointed out that in April 2010 the volume of retail turnover decreased by 1.6 percent in the EU-27 and by 1.5 percent in the eurozone,...
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A wide selection of organic flours is available
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Those committed to eating healthy and organic constitute a stable group of organic flour buyers. After a recent decrease in turnover, sales increased in certain supermarkets and drugstores from the...
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Washing in a café-like atmosphere
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In cooperation by Henkel and Bosch, the first laundry-café opened in Munich. Wash&Coffee boasts a modern design and the staff consists of Henkel and Bosch experts, who offer help to...
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Packaged products (CPG) in the virtual space
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
It is more likely that consumers would visit the website of a packaged product (CPG) than become the manufacturing brand’s followers on Twitter or Facebook, irrespective of the product category...
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To the dustbin it goes!
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In Hungary, the bin bag market surpasses the value of HUF 4 billion. According to Csaba Horváth, the managing director of Hok-Plastik, because of the influence of fossil fuel price...
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Lánchíd Club also urges companies to help flood victims
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Members of Lánchíd Club also decided to help the victims of flood. Their donations were transported to Felsőzsolca by trucks offered by Lekkerland. The two trucks transported nearly 60 pallets...
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Retail’s boat is still sailing on troubled waters
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to KSH’s quick report, volume sales in retail were down by 4.7 percent in the first four months of 2010 and by 5 percent in April, compared to the...
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Shaken, not stirred
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
The budget needs more money – there is less money to spend in people’s pocket: this is not the best scenario when you want to sell alcoholic beverages. In the...
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First book published about displays
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
‘Inspire people to buy more!’ is the title of the first book about displays, published by Deutscher Fachverlag. The 300-page, English- and German-language work was introduced at the Deutscher Supermarktkongressen...
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Prices in agriculture continue to fall
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
The production price level of agricultural products was down 0.6 percent in May 2010. In April the fall was 5.7 percent in comparison with the same month last year –...
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Family budgets reshaped for the umpteenth time
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
While in the European Union retail turnover fell at the same rate as in November 2008, in Hungary it decreased by 4.7 percent in the first four months of 2010,...
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Crowd trampling
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail chain has been fighting for months against paying a USD 7,000 fine, while they are spending millions of dollars to settle the case in the...
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