Market News
Traders can choose from almost one hundred licensed cash registers
Date: 2014-04-04 12:00:35
Nearly one hundred online cash registers are already approved by the Hungarian Trade Licensing Office, so traders have the access to the right cash registers in all segments – the...
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Retail sales increased further in the Czech Republic
Date: 2014-04-04 10:59:42
Retail sales increased by 0.3 percent in the Czech Republic in February, compared to January. The annual increase was 8.1 percent in February – the Czech Statistical Office (CSÚ) announced...
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Magazine: Life beyond the scent
Date: 2014-04-04 10:52:05
Until the 1980s Hungarians preferred aerosol deodorants with exotic scents. From the early 1990s the trend shifted in the direction of more natural scents and moisturising stick deodorants. When Eau...
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Metro: passion and expertise
Date: 2014-04-04 01:54:13
2014 is a special year for Metro, celebrating the 50th anniversary of forming the Metro Group and 20 years of Metro in Hungary. The anniversary year is made memorable with...
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Beef products from Poland
Date: 2014-04-04 01:51:03
Polish company Biernaczki held a press conference at SIRHA to announce their entering the Hungarian market with Beef Master products. The family-owned company is 20 years old and specialises in...
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Insights into retail in South East Europe
Date: 2014-04-04 01:41:48
FMCG retail trends are the most positive in the region in CROATIA. Croatia has been an EU member state since last July – and that was just the time when...
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Ups and downs in Turkish-Hungarian agricultural foreign trade
Date: 2014-04-04 01:30:40
Hungary’s agricultural foreign trade with Turkey was like a rollercoaster ride in the last decade. For instance our agricultural export to Turkey was seven times bigger in 2010 than in...
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Turbulences
Date: 2014-04-04 01:26:42
In Hungary the euro/forint exchange rate seems to have stuck above 310 – in perfect harmony of the interest of high politics. The government’s representatives said the weak forint isn’t...
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The first few years
Date: 2014-04-04 01:17:22
In our previous issue, there was a special feature on the Branded Goods Association, recently celebrating its 18th anniversary – five full pages were merely not enough to present BGA’s...
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Support and recognition
Date: 2014-04-04 01:14:18
There are many ways of supporting someone, a good cause we believe in or something we deem to be necessary. We can also show our recognition of someone’s work, perseverance,...
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Shoppers, trends
Date: 2014-04-04 01:10:59
Google is about to open its first store at 131 Greene Street in New York. The 750m² retail unit’s opening is part of the trend called ‘reverse showrooming’ – shoppers...
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Seeing them and falling in love with them
Date: 2014-04-04 01:04:26
Trade Marketing Club’s annual ‘Trade marketing, my love’ conference is traditionally held around Valentine’s Day. This year it took place on 13 February and the theme was visual merchandising in...
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Growth can be attained in hard times too (Part 1)
Date: 2014-04-04 01:01:15
James Russo, Nielsen’s senior vice president responsible for global consumer insights states in his recent study that it isn’t easy to be a consumer these days. Although global consumer confidence...
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EuroShop breaks all former records
Date: 2014-04-04 00:57:41
Düsseldorf hosted the EuroShop trade fair between 16 and 20 February: more than 109,000 visitors came from 110 countries to learn about the latest trends and innovations, and to establish...
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Visiting this Szekszárd wine cellar will be a real experiencet
Date: 2014-04-04 00:46:16
Garay Winery in Szekszárd is building an ‘experience cellar’: the HUF 200 million investment is realised as part of the New Széchenyi Plan’s operative programme for the region. The new...
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At the end of last year the FMCG market expanded in value
Date: 2014-04-03 21:34:42
In Hungary the value of grocery, household chemicals and cosmetics retail turnover was up 0.4 percent in the 4th quarter of 2013 from the base period of Q4 2012; volume...
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KSH: retail sales rose by 6.7 percent in February
Date: 2014-04-03 12:10:48
In February, retail sales rose by 6.7 percent in volume, compared to a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) announced on Thursday, on the basis of the first...
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Retail sales increased in the EU and in the Euro Zone in February
Date: 2014-04-03 11:42:08
Retail sales increased in the Euro Zone by 0.4 percent and in the European Union as a whole by 0.5 percent in February, compared to the previous month. Compared to...
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The Central and Eastern European region leads the shopping center development market
Date: 2014-04-03 11:42:02
In the second half of last year, 3.6 million square meters of shopping mall was built in Europe, of which 70 percent in the Central and Eastern European region –...
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Work started in the Food Avalanche program in thirty-seven settlements
Date: 2014-04-03 11:40:09
The Food Avalanche program of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta was launched for the fifth time. Thanks to the charity initiative, this year 37 governmental and non-governmental organizations...
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MVH: the paying out of the apiary subsidies has started
Date: 2014-04-03 11:35:07
The Ministry of Rural Development (VM) and the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH), begun to pay the supports to the beekeepers, on the Hungarian National Beekeeping Program – the...
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Increasing sources for the School Fruit Scheme
Date: 2014-04-03 11:15:51
Hungary in the next academic year is expected to spend more money on the National School Fruit Scheme, which would be extended to the full range of primary school pupils...
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Say hello to a new type of consumer: the ‘smart’ buyer
Date: 2014-04-03 10:47:13
‘Smart’ consumers are better informed and expect more from the supply side than former consumer types. This extra expectation may differ across countries, e.g. in Hungary much more consumers try...
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Hungarian FMCG experts abroad (Part 4)
Date: 2014-04-03 10:43:34
József Tasi is a food industry engineer who also earned a degree in foreign trade. He started working for Benckiser, then moved on to Bonduelle, after which came stint at...
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Magazine: Positive perspectives for energy drinks
Date: 2014-04-03 10:43:21
After the superb 2011 performance 2012 brought a two-digit decline in sales – mainly as a result of the introduction of public health product tax (NETA). The good news is...
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Small shops’ market share is growing
Date: 2014-04-03 09:48:06
Energy and sports drinks were sold for more than HUF 15 billion a year in the last two years. Between February 2013 and January 2014 value sales rose 4 percent...
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Chocolate eggs outsold rabbits in terms of value too
Date: 2014-04-03 03:06:21
In the 2013 Easter period more than 900 tons of chocolate eggs, rabbits and other gifts were sold in the value of HUF 3.5 billion. Value sales were up 5...
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Highly concentrated retail turnover
Date: 2014-04-03 02:56:30
Sales in all three categories were highly concentrated in February 2013-January 2014. Mayonnaise sales valued at HUF 7 billion (stable value sales, volume sales up 1 percent), the 401-2,500m² channel’s...
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Highly concentrated retail turnover
Date: 2014-04-03 02:32:47
Sales in all three categories were highly concentrated in February 2013-January 2014. Mayonnaise sales valued at HUF 7 billion (stable value sales, volume sales up 1 percent), the 401-2,500m² channel’s...
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MAGGI celebrates Easter with peppers from Kecel
Date: 2014-04-03 02:12:56
Kecel grower Attila Csúzi’s premium quality peppers will be available in SPAR and INTERSPAR stores in the period preceding Easter. MAGGI ordered 100,000 top quality peppers from the grower who...
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