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Fabric softeners with exotic fragrances and attractive packaging

The market of fabric softeners is expanding dynamically in Hungary. There has been a shift in consumption towards concentrates and manufacturers are reducing the assortments of normal softeners. – Expansion...

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Notes to a book review

Not even marketing, or trade marketing tools or loyalty programs can guarantee a competitive advantage in the long run. Sales personnel are still the key figures in sales. Most companies...

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Chewing gum brands in zones

Chewing gum is a category where spectacular growth is not the result of the expansion of private labels, but of innovation. Sales of chewing gum increased by over a quarter...

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Instore Audit: a review of store space

Excellent plans are worked out for instore sales promotion and BTL communication. However, the question is: how are these implemented in everyday life? Data from Nielsen Instore Audit shows that...

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What’s on TV?

For the sake of simplicity, try to imagine a store like a TV channel, with categories of products like different programs and the places on shelves like the times when...

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Trident ready to take off

The utmost secrecy surrounded the latest product launch by Cadbury in Hungary, which took place on 11. March. Jose Bonito, regional director of Cadbury, descended from the sky commando style,...

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Inspiration for shopping in tomorrow’s stores

Over 1,900 exhibitors from 90 countries attended this year’s renewed EuroShop event. Both the number of exhibitors and visitors to the event broke all time records. Visitors were able to...

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RFID in the refrigeration chain

Demand for guaranteeing food safety has been growing for years. A monitoring system would allow the origin and whereabouts of products to be identified quickly and accurately throughout their lifecycle....

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Orange and peach on top

Retail sales of fruit juice has been stable in terms of quantity but increased by 10 per cent in terms of value in the February 2007- January 2008 period. According...

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Globetrotter store system in Köln – shopping in the 21st century

All exhibitors at Euroshop represented an approach which focuses on customers’ perspective. I had a similar experience in Köln, another German city. Globetrotter is a store specialising in sports and...

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Carried away by trends

Trend has become a trendy word. How can trends be researched, foreseen and defined? These were the questions discussed at conference organised by Dr. Törőcsik Marketing Inspiration – Consumer Behaviour...

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Fruit juices doing well

Though it is too early to say that carton boxes are the sole form of packaging for fruit juices with a higher fruit content, PET bottles are preferred for cheaper...

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Digital Signage – the future is here!

– Technological progress brings about new and specialised marketing solutions like Digital Signage, usually regarded as a form of home advertising – says–Attila Csizmadia, chairman of the Digital Signage Division...

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30–40 age group drinking fruit juice

According to data from the ConsumerScan of Gfk Hungária, the market expansion of fruit nectars and juices with 100 per cent fruit content came to a halt in 2007. The...

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Instore: the moment of truth

Cheapness is till the key consideration regarding instore tools, but at least cardboard displays are becoming increasingly attractive. Companies specialising in instore communication are confident however, that western solutions will...

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Canned beer increasingly popular

Retail sales of beer continued to grow last year, with a 6 per cent increase in terms of quantity and 10 per cent in terms of value. Demand for canned...

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Fighting instore theft

There is no such thing as perfect security. Store owners can do no more than to make life as difficult for thieves as possible. Expensive products can be fitted with...

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Constant change

The cliché that change is the only thing that is constant is especially true for the food retail sector. The appearance of Aldi will definitely have a serious impact on...

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Magnetic beer brands in hyper markets

Since beer sales grew last year, even though it was a difficult year for everybody, optimism regarding 2008 seems to be justified. As a result of new strategies, hyper markets...

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What really matters is inside

When we see that the interior of a supermarket that we regularly visit has been completely redesigned, we usually feel that it takes us longer to find the products we...

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Lessen the mirelit brick

There is a shortage of some vegetables a result of last year’s drought. When stocks run out, we will have to wait until the season arrives. Refrigerating enterprises have only...

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Date Swedes and drink beer with Romanians!

A survey has been prepared about European beer culture by the market researchers Added Value for SABMiller. 7,500 consumers have been interviewed in 15 European countries for the survey. There...

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Food still fuelling inflation

In February 2008, average consumer prices were 1.1 per cent up compared to January and 6.9 per cent higher than in the same month of 2007. Food prices were up...

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Ban on smoking?

According to Ágnes Horváth, minister of health, her ministry will submit the bill for the amendment of the law on the protection of non-smokers to parliament by the end of...

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Less households buying private labels

According to data from the ConsumerScan of Gfk Hungária, beer consumption rose last year both in terms of value and quantity. Sales were up by 5,6 per cent in terms...

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Barbecue season to start early

The Agricultural Business Research Institute (AKI) monitors trends in the world markets of meat and poultry. Data from the Market and Price Information System of KSH and AKI can be...

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Slowly improve of the internal and external balances of Hungary

By the end of the year the economy will be out of the slump it slipped into last year. Inflation, however, will start to decline more substantially only around the...

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Toxic mozzarella from Naples

Italy's buffalo mozzarella industry was in crisis yesterday as a third of producers faced closure amid fears that their cheese had been contaminated with cancer-causing substances.   Several batches of...

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Increasing business confidence in Germany and France

Europe economy is running, the unemployment is in 25 year low and no crisis to see at properity sector.   The euro rose against the dollar, reversing an earlier decline,...

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Campagne for Eating Hungarian Poultry

The Hungarian Poultry Product Broad propagate buying poultry growing up in Hungary. In part of the intagrated communications campagne a conference is organised.  The board hopes that people will protecting...

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