Events
Slowly improve of the internal and external balances of Hungary
Date: 2008-03-28 00:00:00
By the end of the year the economy will be out of the slump it slipped into last year. Inflation, however, will start to decline more substantially only around the...
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Toxic mozzarella from Naples
Date: 2008-03-28 00:00:00
Italy's buffalo mozzarella industry was in crisis yesterday as a third of producers faced closure amid fears that their cheese had been contaminated with cancer-causing substances. Several batches of...
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Increasing business confidence in Germany and France
Date: 2008-03-28 00:00:00
Europe economy is running, the unemployment is in 25 year low and no crisis to see at properity sector. The euro rose against the dollar, reversing an earlier decline,...
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Regional tenfold difference between the yearly budget in the region
Date: 2008-03-27 00:00:00
Austrian has the most money, Ukrainian the less. 42% of the cost is given for food in the now growing countries, in Hungary this share moved from 29 to 23%...
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Tobacco products from under the counter
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
Retailers could be forced to take cigarettes off display, under government plans to crack-down on smoking in UK. Shopkeepers could be made to sell tobacco products from under the counter...
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Retail Market Continues Rapid Growth in Russia
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
The retail trade grew 17% to US$40bn in February this year compared to the same month a year earlier, according to figures from the Federal State Statistics Service. Retail trade...
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100 millió eurós beruházást tervez Törökországban a Metro
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
Company plans to open 10 new stores this year Metro CEO Eckhard Cordes said. Metro will open 6 consumer electronics MediaMarkt stores, 2 retailer Real stores, and another 2 retailer...
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The Russian X5 Retail To Acquire Kama Retail
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
The X5 Retail Group has announced a deal buy Kama Retail Co, a Pyaterochka franchisee in the Perm region, for about US$18m including debt. The rapidly expanding russian food retailer...
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Best results ever at Alimentaria 2008
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
Exhibition receives 158,000 professional visitors, 4% more than the show’s previous edition. One out of every five visitors came from another country. Alimentaria 2008 closed its doors last 14...
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Smart shopping trolley with dietetic advices
Date: 2008-03-26 00:00:00
Microsoft is helping design the ultimate shopping trolley: a cart that will guide you round the store, suggest recipes…and tell you if you're sticking to your diet. Developed by...
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The volume of retail sales adjusted for calendar effects decreased by 3.0% in January
Date: 2008-03-25 00:00:00
In January 2008, the domestic retail turnover (including catalog retailing) was 416 billion HUF. In January 2008, specialized and non-specialized food, beverages and tobacco retail sales declined again; sales volumes...
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Compact washing powder's price increased 20%
Date: 2008-03-25 00:00:00
According to Nielsen Research the last year the sales of detergents grow with 10% , it was over HUF 37 billion. There was a 2% decrease in quantity. Detergent is...
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In spite of higher prise the beer in can is more popular
Date: 2008-03-25 00:00:00
The sales of beer increased in volume with 6% , in value with 10% – according to Nielsen Research. The non-alcoholic segment stagneted at 3-4%, since two years. The most...
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Younger people are more fexible by changing city or country
Date: 2008-03-25 00:00:00
Kelly Services made an international workplace survey of 115,000 people in 33 countries, from Hungary 4400 people answered the questions. The research also queried how far workers would travel for...
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Young people shopping not purposeful
Date: 2008-03-21 00:00:00
70% of Hungarian consumer don't know too much about consumer protection rights, most of them know almost nothing about indemnity and warrant. According to kirakat.hu's and Szonda Ipsos's research the...
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Eggs are 25% more expensive as last year
Date: 2008-03-21 00:00:00
Eggs on tray cost each HUF 26-28, in boksz HUF 32. According to the Hungarian Poultry Product Board Hungarians buy 100 million eggs near the Eastern. The eggs' sale duplicat...
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The self service photo corner is a good business
Date: 2008-03-21 00:00:00
Dailly 1500-2000 pictures are printed by each mashines standing in Saturn stores. The photo kiosk are served by HP, the electronic stores bought them for HUF one million and the...
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The Hungarian Trade Association asks the governement to think about new consumer protection fines
Date: 2008-03-20 00:00:00
The association said it's nonsense that the National Consumer Protection Authority would give fines after yearly sales of the company. The authority's yearly report said that the fines should be...
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Gammon sold mostly in Supermarkets
Date: 2008-03-18 00:00:00
Costumers regulary choose to stand in line at the counters, while the fresh products are 40% cheaper as shrink-wrapped. One third of yearly gammon shopping realized at Eastern, costumers buy...
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Consumer protector against the new law about consumer protection
Date: 2008-03-18 00:00:00
The disposal would broaden the authority's tether, but derogate the other craft union's. According the new disposal there will be more and harder consumer protection supervising, the authority's tether would...
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Burberry and Gucci open their stores on Andrassy street
Date: 2008-03-18 00:00:00
Soon opens Burberry's shop near to Louis Vuitton, Gucci plans its store near to Opera in the former Wahrmann palace, under reconstruction now. One of the first arrival swas...
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M&S Demos Go Global
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Unite the union step up its campaign for workers in M&S's meat supply chain with international and national demonstrations outside M&S outlets. Demonstrations took place across the UK including Northern...
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Nespresso to plan 2 billion sfr sales for 2008
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Nespresso was Nestle's fastest growing business with sales rising by more than 40 pct. Based on previously published figures, this would take total 2007 sales up to around 1.6 bln...
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Piramis Center- new chain of strip malls outside of Budapest
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Casaro Hungary builts its first mall in Tiszaujvaros. The constructions works of the 6,000 sqm building starts in April, open is planed in November. The first mall will be...
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Tetra Pak and WWF Hungary's competition was popular
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
8,000 pupils take part on the competition's first round. 280 groups go ahead to the second round, where pupils have to make posters about environment protection and making photos about...
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Supermarkets More Popular Than Ever With British Consumers
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
More people than ever before in the UK, are shopping at supermarkets for items other than food, reveals new research from Verdict Consulting, a specialist division of Verdict Research reveals....
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Asda Calls For Government To Cut VAT
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
The retail company offers to reduce VAT on 100% fruit juices and smoothies to 5% Asda has launched a campaign to cut VAT on fruit juices as it says the...
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Ecostat: After Stagnation in Spring, retail quickens in Summer
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Annual inflation in July this year is expected slow to 5.9 percent, economic research institute Ecostat said on Thursday. Inflation in February came in at 6.9 percent, according to the...
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Hungary industrial output rose 6.1% yr/yr in January
Date: 2008-03-17 00:00:00
Unadjusted figures show a 10.9% rise in exports and no change in domestic sales compared to January 2007. Hungary’s industrial production rose 6.1% in January compared to a year earlier...
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