Events
New EU rules ahead on plastic food packaging
Date: 2011-02-09 11:58:14
New EU rules for food contact in plastic packaging are on the horizon. A proposed regulation known as the Plastic Implementation Measure (PIM) has been approved by the EU’s Council...
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Ahold and Tesco battle in Czech Republic
Date: 2011-02-09 10:47:25
Two of Europe’s biggest retailers, Ahold and Tesco, are battling to be the market leader in the Czech Republic. Each retailer currently holds about 20% of the market, according to...
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Different roles in the sales area – Nielsen workshop about category management
Date: 2011-02-08 23:39:35
How can the performance of a category can be improved in store sales? Paris Galanis, Nielsen’s regional category manager consultant gave answers to this question at a 2-day workshop in...
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Budapest Calling
Date: 2011-02-08 23:36:45
On 23-24 November 2010 Budapest Calling, the first Hungarian call centre trade fair took place, where 36 companies and organisations of the dynamically growing sector introduced themselves. Direct Marketing Association’s...
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Does holiday season spending generate profits?
Date: 2011-02-08 23:25:50
After a 6-percent growth in November, in the US Wall Street analysts expect a 3.4-percent average growth from leading retail chains for December. What investors would like to know is...
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The bankruptcy wave is still here
Date: 2011-02-08 23:20:02
In real economy the crisis is far from being over and a large number of companies are still expected to grow bankrupt. With 20,000-30,000 bankruptcies a year, Hungary is still...
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Fruit prices increased the most
Date: 2011-02-08 23:15:25
Agricultural product prices significantly elevated in the past year. The production price level of agricultural products was 31 percent higher in November 2010 than a year earlier: vegetable product prices...
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blind leading the blind
Date: 2011-02-08 23:10:30
Consumers want to find new sources of information instead of those with expertise. Companies lose control over consumers and over the information flow. People turned their back on experts and...
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sustainable quality of life
Date: 2011-02-08 23:09:00
After the recession consumers still want to sustain their standard of living. They reject obscure and vague promises, advantages and brands. Consumers set reachable purposes and look for more down-to-earth...
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Packaging units shrank on the frozen product market
Date: 2011-02-08 19:47:08
Due to last year’s unfavourable weather there is a product shortage on the market of frozen fruits and vegetables all over the world. Prices elevated on the domestic market too,...
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socio/control
Date: 2011-02-08 18:52:19
Society’s social control – that is how we can sum up this trend in short. Consumers are forming communities to force companies to become transparent and socially responsible. They use...
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skeletonising
Date: 2011-02-08 18:51:34
We have just started recovering from the recession and a new kind of asceticism controls our attitude. Producers have to return to the basic competences and get rid of unnecessary...
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Out of rock bottom
Date: 2011-02-08 18:49:06
Retail volume sales were down 2.7 percent in the first ten months of 2010. According to the latest data by KSH, the volume of sales in October was at the...
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Alcoholic beverage and tobacco product prices increased above the average
Date: 2011-02-08 18:48:04
In 2010 consumer prices were up by 4.9 percent on average, compared with 2009. Prices of ‘other products’ were up the most, by 8.8 percent, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products...
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Romania is on top of the EU’s inflation ranking
Date: 2011-02-08 18:47:08
In November 2010 in the EU-27 consumer prices were 2.3 percent higher on average, compared to prices in November 2009. The biggest price increase was measured in Romania (7.7 percent)...
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Sharp increase in the turnover of Polish shops
Date: 2011-02-08 18:46:08
According to a quick estimate by Eurostat, the volume of retail sales grew in October 2010: by 1.8 percent both in the EU-27 and in the eurozone, compared to the...
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Export drove industrial prices up
Date: 2011-02-08 18:45:12
Domestic industrial sales prices were 1.2 percent higher in November 2010 than in the previous month. If compared with November 2009, they were 10.8 percent higher. Industrial export sales prices...
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The majority of the population expects a rise in prices
Date: 2011-02-08 18:44:12
As opposed to earlier increase, the Consumer Confidence Index fell by 18 points in the last quarter of 2010, similarly to the Consumer Expectation Index that plummeted by 34 points...
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Retail turnover may expand by two percent this year
Date: 2011-02-08 18:42:30
According to a forecast by GKI, the Hungarian economy is about to leave the crisis behind. Unfortunately, in order to formally meet the 2010-2011 budget deficit target Hungarian economic policy...
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Production expanded in the food industry too
Date: 2011-02-08 18:38:36
Compared with November 2009, industrial production rose by 15 percent in November 2010. Production was 11 percent higher in the first eleven months of 2010 than a year before. According...
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More than two million card holders in the SuperShop Programme
Date: 2011-02-08 18:08:05
SuperShop Loyalty Programme is 10 years old and celebrates with more than 12 billion points and 2 million cards issued. We talked to managing director Norbert Hovanyecz. T. M.: –...
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Branded Goods Association: serving brands and quality for 15 years
Date: 2011-02-08 18:03:00
BGA’s 15th anniversary meeting took place in the famous Lotz room of the Párizsi Department Store on Andrássy Boulevard, on 15 December 2010. In his opening speech President Tamás Ács...
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Diversified cleaning product distribution across households
Date: 2011-02-08 17:54:06
In the first 10 months of 2010 83 percent of Hungarian families bought some kind of product from the household cleaning product category. However, the importance of individual segments showed...
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The position of chemical product stores became stronger
Date: 2011-02-08 17:52:17
In general we can say that the market of cleaning products contracted last January-October. The only exception was disposable paper towel, sales of which increased by 11 percent in terms...
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