Market News
Our everyday bread from the neighbourhood store
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to data from the GfK Shopping Monitor, small, neighbourhood stores account for the largest part of sales and their market share has increased from 48 per cent in 2004...
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Revival in the poultry market
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Agricultural Business Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors developments in the world market of meat and poultry. Data from the Price Information System of KSH and AKI can be useful for...
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Bread dominant
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to data from the Hungarian Association of Bakeries for 2006, per capita consumption of bread was 80 kilos with another 14 kilos of other bakery products. This proportion has...
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Economic growth at its lowest
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a forecast prepared by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. with Erste Bank, economic growth will be slower this year than expected previously, while the rise of gross wages and the...
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Extreme wine labels spreading
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Labels make a big difference when customers do not have a definite idea of what kind of wine they are looking for. Today, the trend is to make labels simple...
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Corn prices: + 45 per cent
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a KSH report, the prices of agricultural produce were 10.4 per cent up in July 2007 compared to July 2006. Plant produce showed a price rise of 20.8...
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Internet banking not very popular among Hungarians
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to an international, online survey conducted by Nielsen, Hungarian Internet users rarely use the net for banking transactions and use ATM machines less frequently than the international average. Only...
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Food boosting inflation
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a KSH report, consumer prices remained unchanged in August 2007, compared to July, but the rate of inflation was 8.3 per cent. Prices were on average 8.5 per...
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Szechenyi Card on the short list of European Enterprise Awards
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
To be on the short list is a big honor for Szechenyi Card and the organisations behind. A 13strong shortlist has been selected for the European Enterprise Awards 2007, which...
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Functional food market grown dynamic in the UK
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
Some 97% of British consumers have bought some sort of food with an added health benefit, according to a survey from Nielsen. According to the research company, the UK functional...
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Store chain privatisation in Serbia
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
The country's biggest department store chain, Robne Kuce Beograd, was sold to a local businessman for 360 million euros. The bankrupt state-owned chain owns some 240,000 square metres of retail...
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Metro wholesale center in Far-East
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
The assortment, service and architecture of the Metro Cash & Carry wholesale center in Lahore have been tailored to the specific needs of commercial customers in Pakistan. More than 20,000...
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Barcode for agricultural products in China
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
During the campaign the government said more than 300,000 technical staff went to rural areas in the last month, nearly 200 illegal food companies have been shut. The system of...
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Diabetic grain producing in Szeged
Date: 2007-10-30 00:00:00
This week started the producing again in Gabonatermesztesi Kutato Kht- famous of guar gum cases. A row material and the plant, producing diabetic grain is strongly supervised, the feed made...
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Idea of a Barcode trolley is on the top
Date: 2007-10-29 00:00:00
Consumers are more interested than ever in the details of the products they consume. According to a Shopper Research by IGD 30% of shoppers would be interested in using barcode...
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Carlsberg to distribute Budvar
Date: 2007-10-29 00:00:00
Danish brewer has signed a distribution deal with Budejovicky Budvar to distribute its products in Denmark. Carlsberg's independent company, House of Beer will take over the distribution of the Czech...
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Pig –farmers to strike
Date: 2007-10-26 00:00:00
On 15th November the pig-farmer want to protest in front of stores against supermarket chains. The feed price growth but not the agricultural procurement price, which make the pig-farmers bitter....
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New relabeling story
Date: 2007-10-26 00:00:00
This time more than 15 tons of coffee and candies would be relabeled for 2008 in a distributor's depot. The authority found a relabel machine too. The products would be...
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Conference about Mystery Shopping
Date: 2007-10-26 00:00:00
Aim of The Mystery Shopping Day ,organized by Client First Consulting Kft. , wanted to focus the leaders interest on the benefits of mystery shopping and to show to good...
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Kremlin orders a freeze on food prices
Date: 2007-10-26 00:00:00
Food producers and big retailers have agreed to freeze prices on milk, bread, eggs and other staples until January 31 in a deal announced by the Agriculture Ministry. The price...
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(HU) A beszállítók nem panaszkodnak, féltik az éves szerződéseket
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
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More people than ever enjoy health benefits of milk but not in Hungary
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
The overall growth in milk consumption comes at a time when demand is outstripping supply, prompting higher milk prices. New Tetra Pak figures, released in advance of World Osteoporosis Day...
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Next year will come 15% wage minium increase in retail
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
Representatives of retail enterprises said HUF 86,000 too high for them.According to aggrement in 2005 workers in retail should get minimum 15% wage increase in 2008. Trade Union is open...
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Illegal slaughterhouse in Orkeny
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
The authority took 2,7 tons of chicken meat. The owner has to pay more million HUF fine. 10 years before there was a legal slaughterhouse, which had to close because...
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Beer consumption decrease in Germany
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
We should force 50% price increase in the next five years to cover our cost – said Richard Weber, president of German Beer Association. Prices climb higher because of the...
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Final negotiations in December
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
EU ministers reopened old divisions over how to overhaul Europe's vast wine sector, clashing over plans to dig up centuries-old vineyards and rekindling a north-south rift on using sugar in...
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Small stores are on the way to change the price tables
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
According to Federation of Hungarian Food Industries a new price increase in volume 10-15 % will come in the next weeks. There is a climbing at price elevation in food...
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