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Ranking of retail chains stays the same: Tesco leads, followed by two Hungarian chains
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Nielsen’s 2009 ranking shows that Tesco is the food and chemical product retailer with the highest turnover, followed by CBA and Coop. Just like a year earlier, Spar and Reál...
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Focusing on customers inside and outside of the store
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
The space outside the store talks to us, it communicates. Walls, giant posters and citylights attract our gaze. People find hyper- and supermarkets very easily, there are signs all over...
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A decrease in prices dragged Slovakian turnover down
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
According to Lucie Hrusová, communications and customer relations director of Nielsen Czech Republic the turnover of hypermarkets in Slovakia fell in terms of both value and volume last year. Discount...
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The several-year shrinking of the store network stopped last year
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Last year Nielsen registered 19,900 general food stores in Hungary, practically just as many as a year earlier. The number of hypermarkets rose from 137 to 152, while the 401-500...
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Shelf rail came alive
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Innovation plays an ever-increasing role inside the stores too. As the result of cooperation between Toshiba Tec, CBA and Szintézis, in August 2009 electronic shelf rails were installed in Veszprém’s...
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Facts and misbeliefs about our trade with Slovakia
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Slovakia is the 5th biggest target market of our agricultural export, but it is also one of our top five import markets. Among the countries of the Visegrád Group, Slovakia...
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Cheese was special: value sales declined, but volume sales augmented
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Cheese turnover fell by 5 percent to HUF 72 billion last year, while in terms of volume a 10-percent growth was registered and retail sales surpassed the 50,000-ton threshold. The...
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Tuned to the frequency of shopping
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
In Hungarian retail more and more stores use equipment that performs the job of human workforce. Germany company Wincor and Hungarian IT specialists already developed everything the store of the...
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From Michurin to Volkswagen
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
By buying and using the Mirelite name, Mirsa not only saved a Hungarian brand, but they also proved that SMEs can be strong if they have a modern company structure....
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(HU) Alternatívákat keresnek a sajtmárkák a dömpingár ellen
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
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With evergreen bags for the environment
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
METRO, SPAR and Tesco urge their customers to quit using disposable plastic shopping bags and switch to environmentally friendly solutions. After every shopping bag sold by METRO Hungary, 5 Forints...
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In 2009 cheap cheeses pulled the market
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
As GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan revealed, we bought 12 percent more cheese in 2009 than a year earlier. The average household purchased 16.9 kg of cheese, largely due to an increase...
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With cool calculation
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Saving energy is the driving force behind innovation in cooling technology. The economical use of cooling equipment results in lower operation costs for retailers. In Hungary, the most important trend...
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Small shops keep losing ground
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Beer’s retail turnover was down 1 percent in value in the February 2009-January 2010 period. The market’s value was above HUF 102 billion. At the same time the Nielsen Retail...
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Inflation is losing speed, but it is still the highest in the EU
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
In February, the monthly average consumer price increase was 0.3 percent, but compared with February 2009 prices were up by 5.7 percent, indicating a slowing down in the inflation after...
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Beer brands have to convince hesitating consumers
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
In 2009, the beer industry realised the lowest volume sales in the past 20 years. Mostly bars and restaurants can be blamed for the minus 8 percent, the downturn was...
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Egg producers can be satisfied
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and fruit/vegetable products. Their last report reveals that in the first two months the volume of...
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The beer market contracted further last year
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Just like in 2008, the beer market kept shrinking in 2009, revealed GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, because the average household bought 6 percent less beer, 72 litres. 67 percent of Hungarian...
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Employment pessimism is subsiding
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
GKI’s economic sentiment index continued to improve moderately in February. In the business sector expectations were more optimistic, with the exception of industry – here the confidence index reduced a...
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Farm Goods shop in the capital
Date: 2010-04-27 00:02:00
Great interest surrounded the Farm Goods shop opened in February at the Havana estate. The owners of the company purchasing food directly from the producers of rural areas are planning...
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The Sunday opening hours of shops may be limited in the autumn
Date: 2010-04-27 00:01:00
The law to restrict the opening hours of shops on Sunday may be modified in the autumn – said Harrach Péter, representative of the Fidesz-KDNP in the Monday issue of...
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The market of frozen goods to transform
Date: 2010-04-27 00:00:50
Ambiguous picture emerges in the domestic market of frozen foods. Some manufacturers, distributors are optimistic, saying the sky is the limit in the dynamically developing sector. Others, however, are more...
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U.S. economy slowly turns into the right direction
Date: 2010-04-27 00:00:40
The U.S. economy recovery looks robust already we can talk about “self-sustaining recovery” – summarized the USA Today newspaper the opinions of 46 leading economists. The current 9.7 percent unemployment...
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The honey industry improving dynamically in Romania
Date: 2010-04-27 00:00:30
Romania's honey production may increase by 10 percent this year, reaching 23,700 tons. Romania’s honey production last year, was 21,500 tons, while 20 000 tons in 2008. The number of...
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The Californian Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce has formed
Date: 2010-04-27 00:00:25
The Californian Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce has formed aiming to build a bridge between the Hungarian and the Californian business interests – the Hungarian MTI informed by the Los Angeles...
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OKSZ: commercial sales fell in February
Date: 2010-04-26 00:01:18
According to the datas of the Central Statistical Office; the retail trade in February was smaller than a year earlier – states the National Trade Association. Unfortunately, not only the...
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Slowing growth in the UK
Date: 2010-04-26 00:00:45
The British economy’s growth rate has already slowed after barely begun. According to the preliminary estimation based on partial datas, growth was 0.2 percent in the first quarter, half of...
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Fewer children and more work for women
Date: 2010-04-26 00:00:30
According to OECD’s most recent report, over the Status of Women; Hungary is among the backmarkers, in terms of women employment – reports Népszabadság. Women give birth to fewer children...
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Last year’s honey crop was weak-medium
Date: 2010-04-23 00:01:59
The drought spring left its mark on this year’s results. Last year was a weak-medium year for beekepers. Over the past five years, last year's export volume was the smallest...
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The price of apples may increase!
Date: 2010-04-23 00:01:50
Due to the unusually cold weather of the recent weeks, a decline will occur in quantity of apples from China's northern part. This may easily result in a price increase...
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