“I wrote this when the sky was still serene”…
…this is how Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty starts his poem, Prologue, which later reaches the point where “it’s winter now and death and snow and stillness”. Well, when I wrote...
Read more
Autumn, winter, Christmas
Usually these are the words we use more and more frequently in sentences at this time of the day. As the year passes, everyone is talking about autumn promotion campaigns...
Read more
An icon has passed away!
On 20 August Péter Magyar, founder and managing director of food and drug product wholesalers Interfruct passed away, at the age of 76. In 2007 he was the first to...
Read more
Thoughts on beauty contests and other things
There was a time when I thought of myself as an athlete, so I like challenges, but the things happening around us these days are more than that: new business...
Read more
Megatrend Index: It is hard to be optimistic
Equilibrium Institute has prepared its Megatrend Index for the second time. At the last meeting of Trade magazin’s Chain Bridge Club Ákos Kozák, the institute’s director of business relations and...
Read more
Who pays the ferryman?
On 26 May the Hungarian government announced the biggest-ever sector specific taxes. Retail trade’s share is HUF 60bn from the HUF 800bn government wants to collect this way (another HUF...
Read more
The Chain Bridge Club welcomes: Zoltán Poór, general manager of Puratos – Taste Tomorrow research: New trends on the horizon
At the February Meeting of the Chain Bridge Club Zoltán Poór, general manager of Puratos shared the latest European results of the Taste Tomorrow research with participants. The research series...
Read more
Do we reap what we sow?
There is was in Ukraine, the country that is the world’s 5th biggest cereal producer, and the 2nd biggest sunflower oil producer and exporter behind Russia. Ukraine is actually the...
Read more
Playground
The word playground can have many meanings and connotations. This September the theme of our Business Days conference will be exactly this, the playground. Every year we have a different...
Read more
Magazine: Future-resistant food industry: What does crypto mining have to do with stevia?
Rethinking is necessary Food futurist Júlia Dalmadi was the guest at the January 2022 meeting of the Chain Bridge Club. She told that there is growing demand for the food...
Read more
Sirha: we are waiting for you
You probably know where, at the Sirha Budapest trade show on 22-24 March. The organisers and the exhibitors are preparing with innumerable trade programmes, and this is also true for...
Read more
Help today, because tomorrow is too late!
The Chain Bridge Club was founded in 2003 and in 2016 members decided to establish the Chain Bridge Foundation – and together with it the ‘Join us and be the...
Read more
Magazine: Premium product quality and extra environmental consciousness: Nature Ville by Herbow
Our magazine interviewed Gergely Bakai, Possibility Trade Kft.’s director of strategy about the new brand, Nature Ville, which they market in partnership with eco-friendly and sustainable premium cosmetics and cleaning...
Read more
Magazine: Online retail: The big picture
In early November Chain Bridge Club members gathered and listened to Norbert Madar, the head of GKI Digital talking about how COVID changed the relationship between online and offline retail...
Read more
Business Days 2021 – The 8th wonder of the world (Part 2)
Nearly 800 participants turned up to discuss the 8th wonder of the world – the restart of the sector – during the 5 five days of the Business Days conference,...
Read more
The future is uncertain, but this is what makes it exciting!
We are already in the Christmas season and something is different than in former years: consumer behaviour in stores. Shoppers would like to spend as little time inside as possible...
Read more
The beginning of the future
At the end of each year we take a moment to look back on the past months, but right after this we already look to the future, casting our eyes...
Read more
Magazine: Business Days 2021 – The 8th wonder of the world (Part 1)
Nearly 800 participants turned up to discuss the 8th wonder of the world – the restart of the sector – during the 5 five days of the Business Days conference,...
Read more
Magazine: ‘Nobody can do it alone’
This title could be the credo of every community that works for shared goals and the members of which support each other in achieving them. Well, the last community I...
Read more
(HU) Söröskorsótöltés alulról – A nap videója
Sorry, this entry is only available in HU....
Read more
Awards and winners
This year’s Business Days conference is now over. The representatives of the market came to do a bit of construction work and on the 5th day the 8th Wonder of...
Read more
Magazine: A little bit personal
This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award founded by Trade magazin went to László Hovánszky, one of the members of the presidency of Chain Bridge Club. As I missed the occasion,...
Read more
Magazin: AI is the future
Fulbright research scholar Dr Katalin Fehér, an expert of artificial intelligence (AI) based society and culture was the guest of Chain Bridge Club. Dr Katalin Fehér explained that machine learning...
Read more
Magazine: For the first time ever!
For the first time in economic history, on the political stage and in the history of the Business Days conference, the sector’s future and possible development directions are processed in...
Read more
Lidl crosses the finish line first!
There is always a reason why it is worth waiting for Trade magazin’s FMCG retailer ranking every year. Already last year many asked the question: Will Lidl overtake Tesco in...
Read more
Magazine: Thirty years
SPAR Hungary opened its first supermarket in Tata in 1991 and today we operate a 588-store network – 324 SPAR supermarkets, 23 City SPAR supermarkets and 34 INTERSPAR stores –...
Read more
What would have happened if…
At the moment there are 7 billion and 830 million people living on planet Earth and 10 percent of them are malnourished. UNICEF’s estimation is that due to the economic...
Read more