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MNB: due to food prices, inflation accelerated to a brutal extent
Date: 2022-10-11 13:54:36
More than half of September’s inflation is explained by the rise in prices of food and regulated price products and services. The monthly increase in core inflation, calculated without processed...
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This is how customer habits have changed according to SPAR, Tesco, Penny, Auchan and CBA
Date: 2022-10-11 13:50:44
We are not giving up anything, but people have started buying down and because of the high food inflation of 35.2 percent. More and more people are complaining that the...
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KSH: food prices rose by 3.5 percent in September, and by 35.2 percent in one year
Date: 2022-10-11 13:05:44
In September, consumer prices were on average 20.1 percent higher than a year earlier. In the past year, the prices of household energy and food have risen the most, the...
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Toilet paper can even cost twice as much compared to last September
Date: 2022-10-11 13:00:27
Hygienic paper products may double in price by the end of the year compared to last September, Vajda-Papír Kft. told MTI, adding that there is no need to fear a...
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For Czechs, meat went up by 23.6 percent, milk, cheese and eggs by 25.8 percent
Date: 2022-10-11 12:00:35
In the Czech Republic, annual inflation rose to 18 percent in September after 17.2 percent in August. Inflation higher than this was last seen in December 1993, the Czech Statistical...
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Will the price of eggs continue to rise, or will it just become cheaper?
Date: 2022-10-11 11:36:31
Based on a quick overview of Népszava, eggs were sold for 104-150 forints depending on size and quality in the larger grocery stores on Monday, but you can also get...
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Aldi also scraps best before dates on fruit and vegetables
Date: 2022-10-11 10:47:22
Aldi has become the latest retailer to remove best before dates from around 60 of its private label fruit and vegetable products, in order to help fight food waste. As...
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Slower growth rate in e-commerce in the first half of 2022
Date: 2022-10-11 10:37:53
Domestic online sales were worth HUF 570bn in the first six months of 2022, having grown by 14.5%. In the last two years the pandemic gave a boost to digitalisation,...
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Carrefour Italia opens first remodelled hypermarket
Date: 2022-10-11 10:31:11
Carrefour Italia has started remodelling its hypermarkets in Italy and has reopened its store in Turin. The project seeks to provide a newer and more complete shopping experience, in order...
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Our country and Dunaföldvár have become the epicenter of European grain biorefining in the last 10 years
Date: 2022-10-11 10:29:43
Climate change, food security, energy crisis. The world’s leading companies are constantly looking for solutions to this triple challenge in a constantly changing market environment. Europe’s largest biorefinery, Pannonia Bio,...
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Coop Sweden offers cheaper electricity to partners
Date: 2022-10-11 09:44:00
Coop Sweden is partnering with Fortum, so that it can offer a lower electricity price to members, as well as the opportunity to earn points on their electricity use. The points...
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Walmart rolls out October holiday deals event
Date: 2022-10-11 09:40:47
Retailers are offering early holiday deals to incentivize shoppers to make their holiday purchases well before Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Like Walmart, other retailers like Kohl’s, Amazon and Target...
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SPAR International Opens First Kazakhstan Outlet
Date: 2022-10-11 09:36:04
Retailer SPAR International has announced the brand’s entry into Kazakhstan following the opening of the first EUROSPAR Supermarket in Almaty. The license to operate the brand in the country...
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Ferrero UK rolls out new Tic Tac Fresh
Date: 2022-10-11 09:35:24
errero UK is launching a new product range, Tic Tac Fresh, into grocery and convenience stores now, available in three flavours – Cool Cherry, Strong Mint and Grapefruit Mint. The...
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Railway freight traffic increased eightfold
Date: 2022-10-11 08:01:45
While less goods were transported by road and water in the first half of this year than a year earlier, the railway maintained its performance, and the volume of pipeline...
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Growing demand for needles – increased controls
Date: 2022-10-11 07:20:02
Due to the surge in needle thread demand across the country, deliveries also increased. In the spirit of this, the EUTR authority of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih)...
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European customers are under pressure, but Christmas can be a ray of hope
Date: 2022-10-10 14:54:07
According to two NielsenIQ studies, even though inflation has a strong impact on European shoppers, they are sticking to their Christmas shopping plans for the time being. NielsenIQ Consumer Insights’...
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Black Friday 2022: this is how our willingness to spend changes during the livelihood crisis
Date: 2022-10-10 12:21:42
Despite the economic and livelihood crisis, half of the population plans to buy something during Black Friday. Hungarians would spend an average of HUF 41,000 during the pre-Christmas sales period,...
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How do online stores take advantage of this year’s peak season?
Date: 2022-10-10 11:17:16
Inflation rates have skyrocketed, but this is not reflected in the decrease in the number of online purchases, claims Bogdan Colceriu, head of Frisbo. According to the CEO of the...
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42 percent of Hungarian SMEs do not have a sustainability plan – Generali’s EnterPRIZE program encourages good examples
Date: 2022-10-10 11:03:21
The Generali Group recently published the first results of its SME survey with Bocconi University. While a quarter of businesses keep environmental and social sustainability aspects in mind during their...
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The first two-Michelin-star restaurant in Hungary and Startup Plastic Surgery are launching a joint challenge for environmentally friendly catering
Date: 2022-10-10 10:25:29
The challenge of the incubation program is for young teams who could help with an innovative idea to replace vacuum packaging in an environmentally friendly way. In November 2022, Startup...
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BDO: The EU’s “green” obligations are a serious burden for companies
Date: 2022-10-10 10:23:07
The EU’s green transition strategy imposes significant tasks not only on large companies, but also on companies in the SME sector and their managers, which essentially has not eased despite...
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More muscular body care segment
Date: 2022-10-10 10:15:58
According to Zsófia Gózon-Karajz, L’Oréal Magyarország Kft.’s trade marketing manager, global demand keeps rising for body care products. “Body care is important in every season, even though our skin is...
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New plant-based store concept from Billa
Date: 2022-10-10 10:12:50
Billa has developed a new store concept called Billa Pflanzilla, which focuses only on plant-based products and has more than 2,500 SKUs. The store is located on Mariahilfer Strasse and...
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Grubhub and Gopuff team up for grocery and alcohol delivery
Date: 2022-10-10 10:10:58
Grubhub and Gopuff are partnering to provide fast delivery of grocery items, alcohol and essential items. The new partnership will see the Chicago-based food delivery platform tap into Gopuff’s warehouses...
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Boots vows to deliver the most affordable Christmas ever
Date: 2022-10-10 10:04:07
Boots has said this Christmas will be its “most affordable ever” as shoppers are expected to spend less due to the cost-of-living crisis. According to its research, two thirds of...
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Diageo Acquires Coffee Liqueur Brand Mr Black
Date: 2022-10-10 09:58:43
Diageo has announced the acquisition of Mr Black, an Australian premium cold brew coffee liqueur brand. Mr Black was launched in 2013 by designer Tom Baker and award-winning distiller,...
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Signature 40: Brand and trade marketing manager ranking
Date: 2022-10-10 09:54:45
This year is the first that Signature 40, the ranking of brand and trade marketing managers is published, based on the idea of Ádám Vaszary and Márton Nagy. No less...
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Profession.hu: shop assistants and cashiers, and those working in trade and sales positions also apply for cleaning jobs
Date: 2022-10-10 09:41:27
There is an increasing demand for skilled and manual workers, but there is a labor shortage in this area. Career abandonment is significant, players in various industries suck away the...
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Price cap on essential products in Netto, Bilka and Føtex stores until the end of the year
Date: 2022-10-10 09:31:14
Denmark’s Salling Group has extended the price cap period on more than 300 products across the Netto, Bilka and Føtex chains until the end of the year. The price cap...
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