Business Dinner 2019: Focusing on agriculture

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

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

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?

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

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

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…

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!

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

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?

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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Magazine: May the (work)force be with you!

Surveys show that retail sales continue to grow. This is a good thing, but at the same time the trend creates an ever-bigger challenge for all members of the supply chain:...

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Magazine: Researching the future

During my university years at the end of the 1980s one of the most interesting seminars was future studies. Unfortunately I decided to take another course instead. Today I am aware that...

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Business Days 2017: focusing on the channels (Part 2)

On Thursday Trade TV continued the broadcast, but before work started in the macroeconomic section, Trade magazin’s editor-in-chief Zsuzsanna Hermann and István Matus, member of Chain Bridge Club’s board of...

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Magazine: Where is the pantry key?

László Hovánszky managing director METSPA Nowadays everybody is cooking. It is trendy to eat delicious food, to try new flavours and to search for and exchange recipes. Some culinary bloggers have become real celebrities....

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A postcard from Tapolca

We analysed every retail channel at the annual conference, but perhaps we should have focused more on the labour market. If the rumours are true that the government wants the proportion...

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‘We are always late with everything…’

The article’s title is a quote from the great Hungarian poet Endre Ady and the words he put on paper nearly 100 years ago are still true today. Wages are in...

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Digital future

In the last few years retail sales were expanding and this year the sales growth will be around 4 percent. What is more, sales in online retail surged by almost 30...

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Trend reversal

Almost every day we can read something about the dairy market: sometimes there isn’t enough milk, other times there is too much. The appearance of China as a buyer turned...

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Magazine: Let’s fight for having enough workers!

The last few years have been characterised by workforce shortage. Both the government and the market have reacted to this problem: the former introduced a minimum wage and a guaranteed...

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Geopolitical and economic visions for the period after 2020

One again Trade magazin and Chain Bridge Club have organised their popular Business Dinner event. This year the topic was Hungary’s future in the EU, mass migration’s influence on the Hungarian...

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Knowledge is power – and we should be aware of this

On 25 May 2017 Chain Bridge Club and Trade Marketing Club organised their annual Business Dinner. Guests included former Minister of Foreign Affairs Géza Jeszenszky, former president of the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB)...

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Revival

Soon winter is over and after the rather slow January-February period, the Hungarian food industry will speed up again. General expectation is that the sector’s output will continue to increase...

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All is well if it ends well

At the end of the year what we can see is that consumption in Hungary is growing faster than ever in recent years, retail sales have been increasing by around...

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Trust and investment

At the end of the Business Days conference in Tapolca I asked myself the question: Who is going to invest in the food industry? Just before the conference the government...

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Palóc Kft.’s bankruptcy

When a few weeks ago CBA’s bastion in North East Hungary, Palóc Kft. went bankrupt, most people in the trade blamed the government, saying this was the result of their...

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Because doing good makes you feel good

In 2003 the Chain Bridge Club was established with the objective of doing something for the future of the food industry. Well, the goal basically remains the same with the...

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Does technology really change everything?

I have seen how FMCG retail chains work and I have also worked in production. Now I am in retail informatics. Technology companies are the engine of development all over...

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Sport as an inspiration

US basketball player Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in his final game to end his 20-year NBA career in style. We can learn a lot from exceptional athletes about leading...

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Words fly away, writings remain

Having a conscious communication strategy is an important prerequisite of long-term success for businesses in many fields. I am trying to keep up with the speed of the infocommunication industry...

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Turn of the year

2015 was a good year in Hungarian retail: the retail index has been growing for two years and consumer confidence has reached a 5-year peak. The mandatory Sunday closing of...

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