Nielsen: food retail turnover increased in value, did not change in amount

The turnover of the 90 categories measured by Nielsen increased by 5 percent to about 1,145 billion HUF in the Hungarian retail sector, between December 2011 and September 2012, compared to the same period of the previous year. In terms of volume sales remained unchanged – the market research company announced.

Among the ten best-selling food products the sales value and volume increased at beer, cheese, mineral water, cooking oil, and sour cream in a ten-month comparison.

The analysis highlights that the trend of dairy products was favorable: their sixteen categories achieved about 220 billion HUF turnover in the measured ten months, Nielsen registered an increase at eleven of them.