Reopening…
Date: 2021-05-07 08:15:59
…well, as a matter of fact we have actually never closed down. There was only one day during the first wave of the pandemic when we didn’t work for a...
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Waiting patiently
Date: 2021-03-25 08:09:43
Waiting is one of the hardest things to do in the business sector. It doesn’t matter whether you are waiting for the decision on a grant application you submitted, the...
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Magazine: The 15th of March from a different perspective
Date: 2021-03-25 07:09:39
A national holiday spent in a lockdown. But the pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg: it is the effect, not the cause. Plus it very much seems that...
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We are starting!
Date: 2021-02-22 08:03:14
This is what I always say before the editorial staff start its online meeting or when I open a conference, and these are my words now, when I hand you...
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Magazin4: Apropos of an anniversary
Date: 2021-02-22 07:22:44
Soon it will be 30 years that I have been working in this sector. I started as a filling station attendant, but so many things have changed since then. The...
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We must solve this problem!
Date: 2020-12-04 10:48:20
I have been working in retail trade for 23 years. During this time I had to face many challenges, I had great experiences, worked with the best colleagues and made...
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Cautiously
Date: 2020-12-04 08:01:49
Usually this is the time when we already have great expectations about the end of the year. We are waiting for Christmas – for being together with our loved ones...
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More than ever before
Date: 2020-10-22 09:25:48
Every year we are working hard preparing, but this year we worked harder than ever before. Every year we are worrying and rooting very much, but this year we did...
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Magazine: K-shaped recession? What is happening in the labour market now and what will happen in 2021?
Date: 2020-10-22 07:01:34
COVID-19 is a horrible catalyst of the recession but not its root: we already saw last year that the economy was slowing down, for instance sales by German automotive companies...
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Coming, not coming
Date: 2020-08-31 09:17:57
We can’t be sure at all about what is waiting for us in September. Just like it was the case with the first eight months, we can’t tell in advance...
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Magazine: ‘Life in the time of Covid’
Date: 2020-08-31 07:37:30
I have lived through many decisive years throughout my career, from the political transformation in 1989 to Hungary’s accession to the EU in 2004. But I think the spring of...
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Magazine: Fifty-three years in retail trade
Date: 2020-08-10 07:28:20
Upon my request the Budapest Wholesale Market Zrt. accepted my resignation as CEO as of 30 April 2020. But how did I end up in retail trade? I was 10...
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The future is here
Date: 2020-06-29 09:03:11
Almost 15 years have passed since our readers held the first issue of Trade magazin in their hands. If I wanted to list how many things happened in these 15...
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Love in the Time of Cholera aka a warning from Mother Earth
Date: 2020-04-02 10:13:34
The famous book by Gabriel Garcia Márquez has become topical from a different perspective recently. Perhaps the most important conclusion that can be drawn from it is there is only...
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This will pass, too!
Date: 2020-04-02 08:55:42
Today my sister-in-law sent me a story that had been written by one of her colleagues. It is about a king, who was in big trouble once and the sentence in...
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Does your company have a Chief Happiness Officer?
Date: 2020-02-10 14:20:57
Obviously it is the happy worker who does a good job. Still, it isn’t easy to tell what is it that workers need? The economic, technological and social changes of...
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Uncertainty
Date: 2020-02-10 08:33:52
There wasn’t much time for relaxation at the end of the year, and we can say the same thing about the beginning of 2020. In January the market started the...
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Taste Tomorrow: Being familiar with consumption trends is the key to success
Date: 2019-11-18 09:08:49
Bakery and confectionery ingredient maker Puratos Group is the Belgian parent company of Puratos Hungary Zrt., and it has 69 affiliates and employs 9,100 people – the group is the...
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Magazine: Parliamentary reckoning
Date: 2019-10-08 07:58:06
The Business Days conference has become ‘the’ conference of the trade by now, a real ‘PRIME EVENT BRAND’ of the Hungarian FMCG sector. It is needless to say that this status...
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The big marketplace
Date: 2019-08-20 19:26:39
Already one third of sales in the e-commerce sector is realised in various marketplaces. A platform is a technology that provides certain services to more users at the same time. In the...
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Business Dinner 2019: Focusing on agriculture
Date: 2019-06-24 20:52:26
Trade magazine and the Chain Bridge Club invited Minister of Agriculture Dr István Nagy and Bonafarm CEO Attila Csányi to the traditional end-of-May Business Dinner, where more than 60 food...
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The influence of executive branding on the results of a company
Date: 2019-06-24 12:08:13
A recent survey (Weber Shandwick, in partnership with KRC Research, The CEO Reputation Premium: Gaining Advantage in the Engagement Era), conducted with the participation of 1,700 executives on executive branding...
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About the last 30 years
Date: 2019-05-15 15:31:43
My parents were running a small shop and after college I started working for Beiersdorf, as a sales representative for Nivea products. I worked really hard and spent 7 great years...
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What do those companies do well that don’t suffer from a workforce shortage in 2019?
Date: 2019-04-10 09:33:50
There are four key areas where things must work well if a company wants to avoid suffering from the problem of workforce shortage: 1. All active and passive methods and...
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Factory opening ceremony
Date: 2019-01-31 09:13:05
It was a good feeling to be present at the ceremonial opening of VIRESOL Kft.’s new factory in Visonta: they built a modern, high-capacity wheat processing plant that can be...
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Business Days 25-28 September 2018 – ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT
Date: 2018-09-02 13:42:41
Trade magazin, the No.1 trade magazine of the FMCG sector organises the biggest meeting of the trade’s decision-makers on the last week of September. This year the conference will take...
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Let’s hope for the best, but we would better start preparing…
Date: 2018-08-20 20:32:12
At this time, when retail trade is flying high and buyer-supplier negotiations are characterised by a happy mood, it is easy to forget that harder times might return in the...
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NETA for you…the sweet life!
Date: 2018-06-20 15:13:21
Hungarian businesses need to cope not only with the problem of the workforce shortage and regulations changing all the time, but also with the planned increase in the public health...
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A report from the board room
Date: 2018-05-20 05:22:26
Whatever our work is, soon software will become an indispensable part of our lives…After the recession that broke out in 2008 sales are now growing again. Although retail has to cope...
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Horticulture in focus?
Date: 2018-04-12 11:22:14
Spring is the time when two important events take place in the horticulture sector. One is the Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin (it was organised for the 26th time this...
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