Market News
Less egg, lower price
Date: 2014-05-30 09:08:38
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute’s (AKI) market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that in Hungary volume sales of M and L sized eggs dropped 13 percent on weeks...
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The domestic cantaloupe melon season starts in early June
Date: 2014-05-29 12:00:36
The domestic melon season starts with the cantaloupe melon. During the first week of June, it can be purchased in commercial quantities in the markets – cantaloupe melon president of...
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The Hungarian livestock breeding is stagnating
Date: 2014-05-29 11:55:49
Despite the supports of the European Union and Hungary, the livestock breeding is stagnating, and certain sectors are shrinking – the chairman of the of the Hungarian Association of Animal...
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A record crop may be harvested this year in the country’s cherry garden
Date: 2014-05-29 11:52:54
Thanks to the favorable weather, a better than average harvest – both in terms of quality and quantity – in Nagykörű, Szolnok county, that is also called the cherry garden...
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A hundred hectares of vines were damaged by hail in the Tokaj-Hegyalja region
Date: 2014-05-29 11:22:18
The hail damaged a hundred hectares of vines on Tuesday afternoon in the Tokaj-Hegyalja region. The damages can cost several tens of million HUFs to the farmers – Csoma Ernő,...
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The 401-2,500m² retail channel is the most important
Date: 2014-05-29 10:51:25
Processed meat is the highest-turnover category from the 90 food products audited by Nielsen. Between March 2013 and February 2014 sales reached the HUF 235 billion level. BOLOGNA: sales valued...
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KSH: retail sales continued to accelerate
Date: 2014-05-28 13:00:03
In March, retail sales adjusted by the calendar effect increased by 8.5 percent compared to a year before. According to the seasonally adjusted and raw datas, the increase was 6.4...
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Online Cash Registers: 100 million HUF fines 10 closed stores due to omissions
Date: 2014-05-28 12:40:55
Problems were found at more than one tenth of the tested stores when the staff of the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) carried out targeted checks in connection with...
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GfK: the consumption indicators of people over fifty are notable
Date: 2014-05-28 12:25:14
The group of people over fifty is representing an imcreasing ratio within the ever-shrinking population, so their consumption habits are non-negligible. This age group is economically active, its financial position...
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VHT: The High Quality Pork (KMS) trade mark is the peak of quality assurance
Date: 2014-05-28 12:05:00
In recent days and weeks you could meet the Best Quality Hungarian Pork label on many billboards and at tasting in stores. The Livestock and Meat Interprofessional Organization and Marketing...
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How women are depicted in TV commercials
Date: 2014-05-28 11:59:36
We love caring, versatile and suitable for the age women in the commercials – NRC market researcher’s survey shows. The survey was conducted among 18 to 59 year-olds watching TV...
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The funding of the domestic innovative businesses to be expanded with South Korean sources
Date: 2014-05-28 11:59:30
Today, the Chairman of the National Innovation Office and the President and CEO of the KDB Bank Európa Zrt. signed a memorandum of cooperation under which the two institutions express...
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Intrapreneurs innovate in the ranks of the company
Date: 2014-05-28 09:12:00
Intrapreneurs are company employees who act as entrepreneurs in the organisation and manage their own projects, the goal of which is to come up with new ideas that can be...
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Laurel installed the cash registers into nearly one thousand tobacco shops
Date: 2014-05-27 12:20:22
The Laurel has finished the task to connect cash registers to the server of NAV. The Laurel Group installed the cash registers into nearly one thousand tobacco shops. Laurel Group’s...
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Nébih: the filing deadline of the food chain supervision fee is the end of May
Date: 2014-05-27 11:28:33
The filing deadline of the food chain supervision fee is 31 May – the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) told MTI on Tuesday. According to the notice, the payment...
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Loyalty programmes for all target groups
Date: 2014-05-27 10:52:30
TCC (The Continuity Company AG) organised its International Marketing Forum for the 13th time, where participants gathered from all over the world, including the representatives of 155 retail chains. The...
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Metsä Board – packaging, from the forest to recycling
Date: 2014-05-27 10:47:53
One of the world’s biggest forest management companies, the Metsä Group’s packaging material manufacturer Metsä Board realised EUR 2 billion sales in 2013. They employ 3,100 people in 9 production...
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GKI: In May, economic expectations decreased to the level at the begin-ning of the year
Date: 2014-05-27 10:02:46
After one and a half years of spectacular rise, the GKI-Erste economic sentiment index adjusted for seasonal effects decreased slightly in May.According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI both...
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Nielsen: food and household retail grew again
Date: 2014-05-26 12:30:46
After two years of decline, the food and household retail sales increased again in Hungary; During the first quarter of this year, the stores sold 1.6 percent more goods than...
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280 billion HUF in revenue at the meat companies that are concerned in the Russian meat ban
Date: 2014-05-26 11:55:26
In 2012, the total revenues of the 14 Hungarian meat companies that do not export their products to Russia since May 14 is 1 percent of the Hungarian gross domestic...
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The storm damage of autumn-sown cereals to be assessed
Date: 2014-05-26 11:47:17
The damages in autumn-sown cereals caused by the stormy weather are being assessed in recent days – the President of the National Association of Grain Producers (GOSZ) told MTI on...
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Mazars: the Hungarian wages are in the regional Top 3 with three children
Date: 2014-05-26 11:45:42
According to the research of Mazars by considering the burden on labor Hungary’s competitive position remains unfavorable, but with three children, the Hungarian wages are in the regional Top 3....
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Hungary fulfills 90 percent of the world’s chamomile demand
Date: 2014-05-26 11:14:15
Hungary produces about one ton of chamomile oil with a drug content of the strongest in the world, so 90 percent of the global demand is satisfied by Hungary. The...
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Nébih: four million HUF fine for turkey forgery
Date: 2014-05-26 11:10:37
The National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) found only small amount or insignificant quantities of turkey meat in eight kind of turkey products of a Hungarian food producer. The products...
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With cartonboard packaging for sustainability
Date: 2014-05-26 10:18:06
Cartonboard is not only light and easy to print on but is a sustainable packaging material as well, since it keeps getting lighter but at the same time more reliable:...
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Magazine: New packaging recycling and re-use objectives in the EU
Date: 2014-05-26 10:14:14
RECOMPLEX Association held its ‘Which way to go in manufacturer responsibility?’ conference on 1 April 2014, to call the trade’s attention to the European Union’s revision of the Packaging and...
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Imports put the balance of the Hungarian wine market into risk
Date: 2014-05-23 11:29:38
Imports endangers the balance of the Hungarian wine market, therefore the ministry would like to suppress the importation of foreign wines – Kiss Eliza told MTI. Kiss Eliza Ministerial Comissioner,...
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There is a serious chance of the Azerbaijani export of Hungarian agricultural products
Date: 2014-05-23 11:28:33
Hungary has a strong chance to export agricultural and food products to Azerbaijan – Budai Gyula, Minister of State of the Ministry of Rural Development told MTI on Friday. Budai...
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The golden jaundice can cause fatal damages to the vineyards
Date: 2014-05-23 11:10:26
Almost all pests that are dangerous to the gtrapes have survived the mild winter, including the American grape pest, which spreads the especially dangerous golden jaundice – the communication of...
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Ipsos: survey about the Union
Date: 2014-05-23 11:06:23
The majority (55 percent) of the Hungarian population believes that the EU membership of Hungary brought them benefits. One third of the people rather perceived disadvantages, and quite a lot...
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