Events
Freeze against speculative prise increase in Slovakia
Date: 2008-06-19 00:00:00
Slovakian government may freeze the prices of 20 basic food items to shield consumers from unjustified price jumps after the planned euro adoption in January 2009. According to Reuters the...
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Today's youth is more active and mobile as the generation before
Date: 2008-06-19 00:00:00
96% of young people between 15-25 years has a mobilephone, they have more electric equipments than the average. According to GfK Roper Report the today's youth are open minded, ambitious...
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Vietnam resumes rice exports
Date: 2008-06-19 00:00:00
The world’s second-largest exporter of rice allow limited sales and reiterated a limit of 3.5m tonnes of exports for the first nine months of the year. Vietnam this year...
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Hungarians spent less money for clothes in 2007
Date: 2008-06-18 00:00:00
The most popular shopping place were the average clothes shops, but the far-east shops and the buy on the street was also beloved source of supply . According to...
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Retail Sales Growth Better-Than-Expected in the US
Date: 2008-06-16 00:00:00
Sales in every merchant category increased in May. Excluding autos, sales rose 1.2%. Sales of electronics increased 0.7% and sales at department stores jumped 1.2%, the most since March 2007....
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Industrial gross output increased in April
Date: 2008-06-16 00:00:00
The growth was 11.8% compared to April 2007, the index adjusted by working days rose by 6.5%. The volume of the production was higher by 8.1% in the first four...
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Agricultultural products are expensive
Date: 2008-06-16 00:00:00
In April 2008 the producer price level of agricultural products was 32.6% higher than in April 2007. The price level of crops and horticultural products increased by 41.9% while that...
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Bulgaria Milk Producers Protest because of Low Prices
Date: 2008-06-13 00:00:00
Dozens of Bulgarian milk producers rallied in the capital Sofia to press for government guaranteed minimum purchase prices for milk due to increasing animal feed prices. Farmers in the new...
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HUF 8.3 billion sales from energy and sportdrink
Date: 2008-06-13 00:00:00
According to Nielsen research to sales of segments grow by 60% in value and 70% in volume between Mai 2007-April 2008. The biggest market share have the privat labels energy...
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Beer Culture Champion Wanted!
Date: 2008-06-13 00:00:00
Tasting beers, beer show, scenic exhibitions and jazz concerts wait the visitors of Sant Arnold's Beer Festival in Buda Castle on 15th June. Also famous radiopersonality Levente Harsanyi takes part...
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Mobile Phone to Be New 'Fourth Channel' for Revenue
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00
Mobile devices represent a major growth opportunity for the retail industry by providing a new purchasing channel for consumers, a Cisco study reveals. The company's third annual e-commerce study...
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Factories close, supermarkets empty and jets run out of fuel in Spain
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00
Strike action by thousands of Spanish and Portuguese truckers produced ominous knock-on effects on food supplies, aviation and industry in Spain. Authorities at Spain's two biggest wholesale markets, Mercamadrid,...
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Food price increase over the average
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00
In May 2008 consumer prices rose by 1.1% compared to the previous month and increased by 7.0% compared to May 2007. In May 2008 compared to the previous month food...
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Bread price increase by HUF 20-30
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00
According to the Association of Hungarian Bakers the cost of production (loan, energy, fuel etc.) grow so much, that the bakers must to increase their price. The association said minimum...
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Hungarian companies pay to late
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00
Among the researched contries in Hungary is the biggest different between the planned and real payment. Atradius made this research at 1200 companyies from SMEs to giants in Austria, Hungary,...
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Hungary is the seventh most popular investment target in Europe
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00
Only Poland has a better position in the region, as shown in the survey by the professional services firm Ernst & Young, made on a sample of over 800 executives....
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Food safety control starts soon
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00
Before the inspection the Hungarian Food Safety Authority gives out information bulletins about how to evade the food poisoning. In the near next week begins the summer clean-up by specialist...
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Surplus at Hungarian trade balance
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00
Over the course of January–April 2008, the value of exports was HUF 6,394 billion, while that of imports totalled up to HUF 6,309 billion, according to preliminary results. The...
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The export of manufacturing continued to grow
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00
According to quarterly calculations gross domestic product of Hungary increased by 1.7% in the first quarter of 2008, and by 0.9% when adjusted for calendar effects. The economic growth of...
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Bye-bye Greengrocers
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00
The Daily Telegraph reports that nearly 3,000 greengrocers have closed in the past decade in UK. The newspaper said that shoppers have been left considerably worse off, with the...
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Dairy farmers won, retailers increase prices
Date: 2008-06-09 00:00:00
German dairy farmers say they have ended a 10-day strike protesting low milk prices. Milk federation union chairman Romuald Schaber said Thursday, "We dairy farmers are finally being met at...
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Eurozone Retail Sales Report Surprise Fall In April
Date: 2008-06-09 00:00:00
Retail sales in the 15-country eurozone fell unexpectedly in April, the third straight month of lower sales. Data from the Eurostat data agency showed that retail sales fell 2.9% year-on-year...
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Small stores closed also in Austria
Date: 2008-06-09 00:00:00
Last year more than 1,000 small shops finished their work in Austria, the number of small retail units fell to 52,690. According to the Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce (WKO)...
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Improving Expectations in May
Date: 2008-06-09 00:00:00
In May the seasonally adjusted Economic Sentiment Index of GKI-that have been published since 1996-increased explicitly from the lows of April that have never been seen before. The survey of...
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(HU) Bizalmi elvet és nem túlellenőrzöttséget várnának a kereskedők
Date: 2008-06-06 00:00:00
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Industrial gross output increased in April
Date: 2008-06-06 00:00:00
According to preliminary data of Hungarian Statistic Oficce in April 2008 the industrial gross output increased by 11.8% compared to April 2007, the index adjusted by working days rose by...
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Hungarians traveled less than a year before
Date: 2008-06-06 00:00:00
In January-April 2008 guest nights fell 3 percent, while revenues at current prices grew 2 percent in public accommodations compared with the same period in 2007. International guest nights –...
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British government considers ban on cigarette packet branding
Date: 2008-06-06 00:00:00
The proposed ban is part of a consultation document that marks the start of a 12-week debate on how to cut the number of people smoking in Britain. Britain's Department...
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German Milk Farmers Relax Blockade of Dairies
Date: 2008-06-05 00:00:00
Thousands of striking German dairy farmers started to relax their blockades of dairies staged, but they continue the protest in front of retail shops. Dairy farmers in Germany and other...
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