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Four Paws Foundation under competition supervision procedure
Date: 2012-03-02 12:55:02
The Competition Authority initaded competition supervision proceeding against the Four Paws Foundation for unfair trade practices and for unfair manipulation of consumers – told Budai Gyula, Accountability Government Commissioner to...
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Snow saved wheat bread from frost
Date: 2012-03-02 12:32:57
The hard cold did not do significant damages to the wheat bread, sowed last autumn. The plant now shows a hopeful development – told Matula Árpád, horticulture supervisor of the...
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National food inspection ordered for GMO-content products
Date: 2012-03-02 12:18:22
Rural Development Minister Sándor Fazekas ordered a comprehensive nationwide food inspection aimed at uncovering products containing GMO's. The expert pointed out that the Central Agricultural Office would oversee the strict...
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Fizetések.hu: Diploma is worth twice as much as high school degree
Date: 2012-03-02 10:39:25
Employees with high school degree earn half the amount of what employees with a university degree make 160 thousand HUF versus 325 300 HUF – the online survey of Fizetések.hu,...
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GfK Hungária: More and more people surfing on the web with mobile devices
Date: 2012-03-02 09:00:08
On the basis of the datas of GfK Hungária’s Digital Connected Consumer study, it can be stated that by the spread of smart phones and tablet PCs, surfing on the...
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How the ideal workplace looks like?
Date: 2012-03-02 08:30:02
The employees want to find secure livelihood , continuous improvement, varied and interesting tasks in the ideal workplace, but almost one in four respondents considered professional challenges and flexible work...
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Postcard from Singapore
Date: 2012-03-02 00:09:34
Singapore is the centre of Asia – not only financially but commercially as well. With its 4.5 million inhabitants Singapore is a hard-working country where people are spending money like...
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From the walls to the furniture
Date: 2012-03-01 23:16:57
In the last two decades office buildings and warehouses have been growing out of the ground like mushrooms. Facility management experts’ task is to guarantee that these buildings operate economically...
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New hygiene service from METRO
Date: 2012-03-01 21:11:12
For METRO products with a target group from the culinary world, including cleaning products and stationery, are of major importance because these goods are fundamental elements in operating the Hungarian...
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Drugstores strengthened their market position
Date: 2012-03-01 20:54:13
From last year’s toothpaste value sales hypermarkets had a 34-percent share (no change from the previous year) and drugstores were at 33 percent (up 3 percentage points). The annual toothpaste...
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Last Easter ham retail sales improved in both value and volume
Date: 2012-03-01 20:18:49
Last year in the Easter period (March-April) Hungarians spent more than HUF 5 billion on ham, 4 percent more than in the previous year. Volume sales climbed 5 percent, to...
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Milk chocolate rabbit figures and eggs dominate the market
Date: 2012-03-01 20:02:54
According to the Nielsen Retail Index, retail sales of Easter sweets and gift packages almost reached the HUF 3 billion level last year. This was the result of 11 percent...
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Hungarians are mainly fighting overweight by changing their diet
Date: 2012-03-01 19:48:59
52 percent of Hungary’s adult population consider themselves overweight to a certain extent. At the same time only 34 percent try to lose weight and the majority of them, 89...
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Lifesaving food, drinks and lifestyle recommendations
Date: 2012-03-01 19:43:51
All over Europe we can see the expansion of health conscious behaviour, sports centres are more and more popular, exercise and healthy food are trendy, which is great news from...
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Some like it strong
Date: 2012-03-01 19:43:49
HELL’s market share (measured by the number of products sold) was a record-breaking 23.8 percent in December 2011, exactly twice as big as a year earlier. The Hungarian manufacturer celebrated...
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What finally ends up on the table: what do Hungarian children eat?
Date: 2012-03-01 19:35:57
Mona Hungary Kft., the distributor of the Montice brand, conducted a representative survey in the summer of 2011 about the dairy product consumption of primary school pupils. From the answers...
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Increased demand for wet wipes and baby oil
Date: 2012-03-01 19:29:52
From the baby care products measured by Nielsen wet wipes sell for more than HUF 4 billion a year. Last year value sales climbed 5 percent and volume sales soared...
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What is a good Easter ham like?
Date: 2012-03-01 19:29:18
When you cut good quality smoked Easter ham, it is claret-coloured inside and it tastes pleasantly salty and smoky. When touching a good ham, it must be neither soft nor...
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Heaps of baby products
Date: 2012-03-01 19:25:36
Those who set off on the wonderful journey of having a baby try to give the best to the little ones, which includes buying special products. These days many women...
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Magazine: Organic food – it is still farming and not processing that dominates
Date: 2012-03-01 19:12:22
Approximately 140,000 hectares of land is used for organic farming in Hungary, cultivated by 1,500 farmers and organisations. Hungary’s Rural Strategy sets the target of tripling the proportion of land...
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A survey on feminine values: protecting the family comes first
Date: 2012-03-01 19:02:25
GfK Roper Reports Worldwide 2011 examined which are the most important values for Hungarians and for the citizens of another 25 countries. Protecting the family was number one in the...
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Last year's food industry success can not be repeated this year
Date: 2012-03-01 13:50:24
The affect of the dry autumn and the cold of February can not be assessed yet. According to Vancsura József, president of the National Association of Cereal Growers, the next...
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The operating conditions of the pig industy should be improved
Date: 2012-03-01 13:16:23
The strategic pig program developed by the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) should be aligned with the Hungarian growth plan – said Zsolt Feldman, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of...
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Food Bank: give food a chance!
Date: 2012-03-01 12:35:35
Household food waste is estimated for an annual 400 tons in Hungary. The wasting of food is a waste of money and causes serious damage to our environment, whilst increasing...
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Raben Trans European Hungary turned into one of the biggest companies in logistics in Hungary
Date: 2012-03-01 12:13:38
The 1st of March saw the union of all Hungarian Raben-companies. This integration process means that Raben Trans European Hungary has joined the team of the greatest companies in logicts,...
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P.O.P. Hungary and Rafinanz Promotions now have an international Procter and Gamble mandate
Date: 2012-03-01 10:50:59
P.O.P. Hungary Zrt. and Rafinanz Promotions are working together in strong co-operation to lead the dentist-visitor teams of Procter & Gamble in Hungary as well as on the Czech market....
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Changes in transfer pricing: simpler but more rigorous rules
Date: 2012-03-01 01:24:08
At the end of January PricewaterhouseCoopers Hungary organised a business breakfast where Dr Gábor Laki, head of department at the Ministry for National Economy and Anita Mekler, the director of...
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Magazine: Brands – no pain, no gain
Date: 2012-02-29 14:09:55
The Hungarian Brand Association has mixed feelings about 2011: the organisation itself had a rather successful year but the business and regulatory environment turned much more rigid, creating much worse...
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Food development in practice
Date: 2012-02-29 13:40:17
The Hungarian food industry will be competitive, the only way that it can increase its domestic and export market role, if it will strengthen innovation activities, research and development –...
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KSH: the downward trend of investments, modested by the agriculture and the manufacturing industry
Date: 2012-02-29 13:20:56
Last year, the national economy investments were 4.5 percent behind the previous year's investment volume. Downward trend characterized the fourth quarter of 2011 and the whole year. In the last...
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