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Shabby stores and bare shelves wait back shoppers
As retailers focused on e-commerce and faced supply-chain challenges during the pandemic, store appearance often became an afterthought. Market leader Walmart’s stores were downgraded by research firm and criticized by...
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Magazine: Mothers’ trust is difficult to win and easy to lose
In the baby care market the Pampers brand of Procter&Gamble has observed sales growth recently, especially in the wet wipe segment. Yvette Krubl, the company’s communications PR manager in Central...
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Analysts: inflation may continue to accelerate
In line with expectations, the rise in inflation in March and the rise in world oil prices and excise duties on tobacco products are expected to accelerate further – market...
Read moreHungarian village program – The small settlement shop development starts
From Monday, it is possible to apply for the 48 billion HUF with which the government supports the establishment and development of small settlement shops in the Hungarian Village Program,...
Read moreK&H: small businesses are becoming more and more optimistic
Despite the pandemic, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly optimistic about the next year, K&H told MTI on Monday, citing its first-quarter research. According to the survey, the SME...
Read moreThe total closure ordered for the Easter period has ended in Slovenia
In Slovenia, the full closure ordered for the Easter period ended on Monday: schoolchildren and preschoolers were able to return to education and reopen their shops and services, the local...
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Retail sales in the euro area increased in February
In February, retail sales in the euro area increased much more than expected, according to a report by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. In February, seasonally adjusted retail sales...
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The pet food market is alive and kicking
Pet food is one of those product categories where the COVID-19 pandemic caused no damage. Sales grew by more than 10 percent in 2020 too and this dynamism continued in...
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Amazon develops private label brands
Amazon has unveiled Aplenty, a new private label food brand set to eventually include hundreds of products across a variety of center store categories. Amazon is expanding its lineup of...
Read moreAn illegal cigarette factory was found in Budapest
The National Tax and Customs Board (NAV) found an illegal cigarette factory in Budapest that has caused more than 25 million HUF damage. NAV investigators have been informed by police...
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The state of play in Hungarian retail
Tünde Bujdosó, risk director of Euler Hermes told our magazine that the GDP decreased by 5.1 percent in 2020, and individual consumption dropped 2.5 percent – after the 4.2-percent growth...
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Magazine: All the colours of the rainbow at the the bar
Thanks to its low alcohol content and smooth taste, liqueur perfectly fits into the current alcohol trends. According to Sára Palcsó, Zwack Unicum’s marketing director, in the last few years...
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Future Talks with Szilvia Krizsó – Trade magazin’s Business Podcast starts now!
Have you ever thought about using a time machine to see the future? So that you know what you need to do and avoid in the present to become successful...
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KSH: retail sales decreased by 5.9 percent in February
According to raw data, retail sales fell by 5.6 percent in February and by 5.9 percent, adjusted for calendar effects, compared to the same period of the previous year. The...
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KSH: consumer prices rose by 3.7 percent in March
In March, consumer prices were on average 3.7 percent higher than a year before. Prices rose by an average of 0.7 percent in one month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH)...
Read moreAnalysts: retail does not support first-quarter economic growth
Retail is on a downward trend and, taking into account the pandemiological restrictions in March, is expected to make a negative contribution to GDP in the first quarter, analysts reporting...
Read moreVarga Mihály: we can reach a public investment peak in the EU
On Thursday, Minister of Finance Varga Mihály shared specific investment forecasts on his Facebook page, which show, among other things, that the public investment rate could rise to 6.5% of...
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A new e-commerce railway line has come to work – we are expecting 1,000 trains from China
The new trading platform will facilitate unhindered trade between countries, financial connectivity, improve the supply chain of the industrial chain, and bring about the development of the digital logistics industry....
Read moreAM: Romania is a significant partner of our agricultural and foreign trade
Romania is Hungary’s second most important agricultural-foreign trade partner, and cooperation with our agricultural and environmental partners is lively and good, which is why it is important for us to...
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Retailers do a lot for sustainability
Sustainability has been the retailers’ concern for years and how to achieve it is still the major topic. Although one might think that the COVID crises has led attantion away...
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Shopping malls can open in Serbia from Monday, classroom education resumes on April 19
“Shopping centers in Serbia will be able to open again from Monday, but restaurants will still not be able to serve indoors, only in the garden, if they have one,”...
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For the first time since the outbreak, food purchases by the Italian population have fallen
For the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in February, public spending on food in Italy fell compared to a year earlier, according to a report by...
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The food source of the future can be grown in sea gardens
The Spanish chef, Ángel León, gained his reputation by “inventing” innovative seafood. And recently, he discovered something in the seagrass that could completely subvert our previous knowledge of the sea...
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Four winners go to the Shop! Global Awards competition
POPAI Hungary Organisation has organised the POPAI Student Design Awards competition for university students for the second time. The main sponsor was SPAR and the thematic sponsor was Zewa. The...
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Magazine: Tomato’s conquest
Tomato is one of the most popular cooking ingredients, which isn’t only available fresh but also in canned, ketchup, sauce, condiment and cream formats. In general it can be said...
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The Ceres Oven for the Needy
Ceres ZRt. 2021 delivered bread for Easter to families in need and to 300 employees of an institution for the elderly in Győr. Ceres ZRt., based in Győr, in cooperation...
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OKSZ The vast majority of stores have opened
The vast majority of the stores opened on Wednesday because some of the tasks required for opening according to the law could be completed in advance by the shopkeepers –...
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KSH: about 234 thousand farms are operating in Hungary
Nationwide, about 234,000 farms participated in the Central Agricultural Office’s full in the the 2020 Agricultural Census – Patay Ágnes, project manager of the Agricultural Census said at an online...
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FAO: food prices are rising for the tenth month in March
In March this year, world food prices rose to their highest level since June 2014, for the tenth consecutive month in a row, according to calculations by the Food and...
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Agricultural and rural development payments increased by more than 10 percent last year
The amount of agricultural and rural development payments has been growing dynamically since 2017, increasing by 10.8 percent to 918.9 billion HUF in one year in 2020. The increasing trend...
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