Exciting 15 months from a market researcher’s perspective
On 15 April Trade Marketing Club (TMC) organised its popular market researchers meeting online. This year 145 participants registered for the free event. Zsuzsanna Hermann, one of the club’s founders and editor-in-chief of Trade magazin welcomed participants.
TMC: An open professional forum
Another TMC founder Ildikó Kátai talked about the club’s work, the 4 events the open professional forum organises every year, and the networking opportunities members can benefit from. She told: in 2009 TMC founded that Trade Marketing Manager of the Year and the Trade Marketing Team of the Year awards.

Ildikó Kátai
co-founder
TMK
Ágnes Csiby, the third founder of TMC told: In 2020 we launched the Master of Trade Marketing programme, which uses a credit system to reward those participants that like to acquire new professional knowledge.

Ágnes Csiby
co-founder
TMK
In the shadow of the pandemic
Tünde Turcsán, GfK’s FMCG director was the first speaker, who analysed the impact of the pandemic on households. GfK is already auditing 4,000 households in Hungary.

Tünde Turcsán
FMCG director
GfK
Fruzsina Dászkál, NielsenIQ’s senior analyst spoke about the drop in the consumer confidence index and analysed the changes in shopping habits.

Fruzsina Dászkál
senior analyst
NielsenIQ
Andreas Christou, RetailZoom’s managing director introduced the upturn-stagnation-upturn cycles of recent months, using Hungarian retail chains as an example.

Andreas Christou
managing director
RetailZoom
Norbert Madar, GKI Digital’s lead consultant spoke about the characteristics of online shopping, the recent boom and the channel’s FMCG segment.

Norbert Madar
lead consultant
GKI Digital
After the presentations a discussion and a question and answer session ended the day’s programme. //
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