Market News
Slow growth, stubbornly high inflation
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Hungary's internal and external balances are expected to improve on expectations this year. According to the latest report by think-tank GKI and Erste bank published the government deficit to shrink...
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Consumers like own-brand goods
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Almost three quarters of consumers have a positive perception of supermarket own-brand goods, a new study has found in England. Supermarket supplier Catalus questioned over 500 consumers on how they...
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Test lab in the future's restaurant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
Cameras monitor every reaction of the customers. In the new research center, devoted to exploring a both simple and complicated question: What makes people eat and drink the way they...
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10 tons food was found in the re-labeling plant
Date: 2007-12-03 00:00:00
In the Sparkle-action the supervisors pounced in a food depot in Budapest. In the illegal food depot relabeled and new dated foods: meat, sweets, eggs and softdrinks were found. The...
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Fake milkdisributor found
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
The Budapester enterpreuter operated without permissions. In Sparkler-action, collective control of several authorities, 5 tons milk product were found. The milk, cheese, cottage-cheese in value of HUF 7-8 million must...
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HUF 680 billion excise in government pocket
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Due to the continuously control increase the legal petrol, cigarettes and alcohol sales. According to industrial dates there was 7.1% higher sales in the first 10 months as a year...
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Next year's carriage must cover the lost from this year too
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
According to plans of Budapest local government trucks should pay ten times higher fees for coming into the city as now. Association of Transport Companies said this year carriage can't...
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Auchan to invest 0.5bn-euro in Romania
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French retailer targets 22 cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants by 2010. "We will continue to expand with large-scale hypermarkets, because this what we specialise in. The Discount Market store...
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Conctactles payment starts in Europe
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
French hypermarket chain to trial contactless payment of MasterCard Europe. Normal the PayPass technology is used by shopping under 25 euro, but this card could make the payment 40% faster...
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Hungarian Tax and Financial Control Administration increase the default penalty
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
Next year guilty must pay HUF 1 million because of invoice problem. The default fines increase from HUF 100,000 to 200,000, form 200,000 to 500,000. One million HUF is...
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Frankfurters are the second most popular meat product
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Over 27,000 tonnes of frankfurters are sold annually. Retail sales exceeded HUF 24 billion, in terms of value in the September 2006 – August 2007 period. According to the Retail...
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Cheap spirits in decline
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The domestic production of spirits totalled 46 million litres last year. Less than 3,5 per cent of this quantity has been exported. Imports account for 15 per cent of domestic...
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Need for renewal among frankfurter brands
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Private label products have been increasing their share in the market of frankfurters so far. This however, has lead to brand manufacturers increasing their efforts in the field of innovation....
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Christmas party concepts
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The purpose of Christmas parties is not only to close a given year, but also to serve as the beginning for the next year. There are two types of Christmas...
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Fish dead or alive
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
60 per cent of the carp distributed for retail around the end of the year is live. Part of this quantity is processed by the stores, while other fish are...
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Flour, eggs and pasta on top of the price wave
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Consumer prices showed an average increase of 0.7 per cent in September 2007. According to KSH data, prices were 6.4 per cent up compared to September 2006. Food prices were...
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Dynamic face creams, primarily in drugstores
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Retail sales of daily face creams and cleansers show dynamic growth of 13 per cent and have approached HUF 9 billion annually. According to the Retail Index of Nielsen, drugstores...
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Cattle for slaughter past the bottom
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Agricultural Business Research Institute (AKI) constantly monitors trends in the world market of poultry and meat. Data from the Market Price Information system of KSH and AKI can be useful...
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Creams for all age groups
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Manufacturers of hand creams, face creams and body lotions need to reconcile two different consumer needs. One is that products should only contain natural ingredients, while the other is that...
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Half way correction of course
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The corrective economic measures seen at present in Hungary are being used at a time of economic boom in the EU and also of growing global uncertainty. The deficit of...
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Swine sector bleeding from several wounds
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Meat production is becoming increasingly concentrated in Hungary, with less than fifty enterprises generating three-quarters of domestic sales and the major part of export. The Hungarian meat processing industry ceased...
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Animals behind
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
According to KSH data, the prices of agricultural produce were 18 per cent up in August 2007, compared to August 2006. The average price of plant produce showed an increase...
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Mild recession in the poultry sector
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
There have not been many positive developments in recent years for the poultry sector. According to data from the Poultry Product Council, 427,000 tonnes of poultry was sold to industry...
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Decline continuing
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Revenues of retail stores continued to decline in August 2007. Total sales were 3.6 per cent down compared to August 2006. According to KSH data, the volume of retail sales...
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Milk price to continue rising
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
According to Miklós Istvánfalvi, chairman of the Milk Product Council, this year has brought major changes for milk producers. Prices have begun to rise. In July for example, these were...
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Product info from the net
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
According to the Internet Insight Report of Gfk Hungária, Internet is already an important source of pre-purchase information for customers, despite the fact that online sales are still marginal in...
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Fewer but more modern mills
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Hungary is part of the corn belt of Europe. Annual production is between 13-16 million tonnes. An increasing proportion of production is warehoused and exported. As an result of the...
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(HU) Növekedési források az új piaci helyzetben
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
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Fragmented baking industry in weak bargaining position
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
The gross production of the baking industry is expected to exceed HUF 100 billion this year, which represents 5 per cent of the food market. Production remains very decentralised with...
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Dolce vita in stores as well
Date: 2007-11-28 08:00:00
Italians enjoy life and food. The rate of economic growth is 3-4 per cent, inflation is around 2 per cent and Italians are spending more on food. Private labels are...
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