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Retail sales were developing well at the end of last year
Date: 2019-01-31 13:53:03
In November 2018 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 5 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 4.9 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Non-food sales...
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Growing market, expanding research
Date: 2019-01-31 13:46:48
Ágnes Szűcs-Villányi, market leader of Nielsen in Hungary told Trade magazin that last year Hungarian stores had sold 7 percent more FMCG products than in 2017. Sales by discount supermarkets...
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Last year was the best of the decade
Date: 2019-01-31 13:38:14
According to GKI’s estimation, the Hungarian economy grew by 4.6 percent in 2018 – this growth rate was exceptionally good in the European Union (ranked 2nd or 3rd in the...
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Good performance from the poultry sector
Date: 2019-01-31 13:31:09
According to the latest market report of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI), the European Commission forecasts that the EU’s poultry meat production will keep growing until 2030. Between January...
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OECD: positive outlook, with risks
Date: 2019-01-31 12:11:12
According to the latest OECD report about the Hungarian economy, economic growth will be 3.9 percent in 2019 and 3.3 percent in 2020. The report was presented to the public...
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McKinsey: online FMCG retail is in a vicious cycle
Date: 2019-01-31 11:59:34
New York-based global consulting firm McKinsey has analysed online FMCG sales in Europe. Their report states: the fact that masses of European consumers haven’t started buying food and drinks online...
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Provident: only every tenth buyer has financed Christmas and New Year’s expenditures from loans
Date: 2019-01-31 11:40:40
Participants of the Provident Pénzügyi Zrt.’s 600-person telephone research typically spent the holidays at home, preparing for Christmas and New Year’s Eve expenditures, and this time they also considered the...
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PwC CEO survey: the trust in global economic growth is shaken
Date: 2019-01-31 11:39:55
According to the latest Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), trust in a global economic growth has become smaller in almost every country. 30 percent of executives think that global...
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Analysts: policy intervention is needed to increase employment
Date: 2019-01-31 11:20:03
The Hungarian economy practically reached full employment last year. The 3.6 percent unemployment data of the fourth quarter of 2018 indicate a tight labor market, and a further policy intervention...
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The amount of the Farm Development Program has doubled this year
Date: 2019-01-31 11:10:30
The total amount of the Farm Development Program was doubled compared to last year to 2.4 billion HUF in 2019 – the Deputy Minister State of the Ministry of Agriculture...
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Euro area GDP growth is on a four-year low
Date: 2019-01-31 11:05:54
In the fourth quarter of last year, economic growth in the euro area stagnated at a four-year nadir, according to a preliminary estimate of the European Union’s Statistical Office, Eurostat,...
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The EU-Japan Trade Agreement comes into force
Date: 2019-01-31 11:01:49
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement will come into force on 1 February, which will abolish the vast majority of customs duties of about 1 billion euros per year for the...
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(HU) GfK: Merre halad a magyar digitális fogyasztó?
Date: 2019-01-31 10:49:51
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A new trend: in-store greenhouses
Date: 2019-01-31 10:36:15
Auchan has teamed up with Agricooltour to grow herbs and lettuce in a Torino store, which the customers can pick themselves. The 30m² greenhouse was built in November 2018. Casino...
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The problems with cashless payment
Date: 2019-01-31 10:20:17
A British study calls attention to the problems with cashless payment: ‘Access to Cash’ informs that in the United Kingdom the proportion of cash payments is 34 percent at the...
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Mobile payment platforms are spreading in Europe
Date: 2019-01-31 10:14:51
After the US launch four years ago, Apple Pay is now available in Germany too. Partner companies already included Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank, Bunq and Boon, Comdirect, N26 and O2 banking....
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Portugal plans to make PET bottles returnable
Date: 2019-01-31 09:34:08
The Portuguese government has launched a programme to encourage the return of non-reusable plastic bottles: a new bill states that from 1 January 2022 a system for the storage of...
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GKI: 2018 was probably the best year of the decade for Hungary
Date: 2019-01-31 09:20:50
GKI estimates that Hungary’s GDP expanded by 4.6 per cent in 2018 and this rate was remarkably high in the EU. The growth cycle is likely to have reached its...
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Wrangling about the profit
Date: 2019-01-31 09:13:11
At the end of January the European Commission (EC) decided to go to court about the Hungarian rules for the retail sales of agricultural and food products – the EC’s...
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Retail Decoded continues
Date: 2019-01-31 08:57:06
Shop!’s podcast series already has six episodes: in the latest one Jean-Pierre Lacroix, president of the Toronto-based agency Shikatani Lacroix gives an insight into how artificial intelligence technology can be...
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nIm – milk in Klingonese
Date: 2019-01-31 08:50:40
Fozzy Group, one of the biggest food retailers in Ukraine has opened a 1,170m² Star Trek-themed supermarket in Kharkiv. In the store product categories are also indicated in the Klingon...
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Magazine: Blockchain is waiting for retail to discover it
Date: 2019-01-31 07:39:34
On 16 October the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK) organised a conference about the not yet utilised opportunities offered to retail by the blockchain technology. Zoltán Házi, the...
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More young people bought Christmas presents using apps
Date: 2019-01-31 06:37:56
The latest report by Selectivv has revealed that more and more consumers are using some kind of smartphone app to buy gifts. In the last quarter of 2018 the number...
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How does the introduction of Payment Services Directive 2 in 2019 affect retailers?
Date: 2019-01-31 06:24:50
The European Union gave a green light to the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in November 2017, which is basically a collection of regulatory technical standards (RTS) enabling consumers to...
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There is no one to carry out the digital revolution
Date: 2019-01-31 06:19:06
Digital transformation affects basically the whole Hungarian SME sector, but only a few of these companies can exploit the opportunity created by the digital switchover, because there aren’t enough experts....
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GKI: Real estate market races without braking
Date: 2019-01-31 02:20:53
n January of 2019, the GKI real estate indices for Budapest and Hungary stood at 9 and 11 points respectively. Budapest index decreased by almost 2, the national index rose...
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Nielsen: manufacturer brands and discount stores are the most popular in retail
Date: 2019-01-30 11:53:59
Manufacturer brands and discount stores were the most popular participants of retail in 2018, according to the retail survey of Nielsen monitoring 90 food and 80 household chemicals and beauty...
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We are running out of domestic potatoes
Date: 2019-01-30 11:49:42
According to the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 192.7 thousand tons of potatoes were produced on 8046 hectares last year. The average yield ranged from 13.4 to 50 tons – Világgazdaság...
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The Ministry of Agriculture is the partner of farmers in the apple issue
Date: 2019-01-30 11:40:32
The Ministry of Agriculture (AM) wants to be a partner for apple growers to solve the apple market situation, but farmers need to decide how they want to produce in...
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KSH: the number of employed increased in the fourth quarter of last year
Date: 2019-01-30 11:30:00
In October-December last year, the average number of employees was 4 million 481 thousand, 34 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of 15-64-year-olds increased by 0.7 percentage...
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