Market News
Pineapple from orange
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
The Winter Fruit Carneval is to be held for the first time between 27. January and 10. February in the Europark mall. Gigantic sculptures made from tropical fruits will be...
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Natural brunette is in, but blonde is still popular
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
The segment of hair dyes has been expanding for years. Natural colours are the present trend. Marketing budgets of sufficient size play an important role in the present expansion. Competition...
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Flour and cooking oil on top of the price wave
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Consumer prices rose by 0.4 per cent in December 2007, while prices were up by 7.4 per cent compared to the same month in 2006. Inflation had slowed down during...
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Environmental competition
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Tetra Pak Magyarország and WWF Magyarország launched an environmental competition for primary schools in February with the aim of increasing awareness about environmental issues. The final with the best five...
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Dynamic expansion in the market of electric toothbrushes
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
Retail sales of toothpaste show stagnation, though sales grew by 5 per cent in terms of value last year and approached HUF 10 billion.. The sales of toothbrushes declined somewhat...
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When the inspectors come
Date: 2008-02-29 08:00:00
In recent months, we have seen numerous reports about “dawn raids”, unexpected inspections carried out by the Business Competition Office (GVH). As such raids can be carried out without prior...
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Healthy Growth in Functional Food Market
Date: 2008-02-29 00:00:00
Consumers are becoming more skeptical about the health claims made by food and drink manufacturers. Datamonitor analysis estimates that the combined US, Western European and Asia Pacific functional food and...
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January's unemployment rate of 8.1 percent
Date: 2008-02-29 00:00:00
In the period of November 2007–January 2008, the number of employed people was 3,873 thousand and the number of unemployed people was 343 thousand. In the given period, 54.6 percent...
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European companies have to decrease their sugar output with 1.14 millio tons
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
If they fail to make satisfactory cutbacks, companies risk a final cut with no compensation being imposed on them. Until now, 4.8m tonnes have been renounced within the restructuring scheme,...
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FMCG prise cartel in France
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
If found guilty of anticompetitive practices, the companies could face fines of up to 10 percent of their annual worldwide revenue — possibly amounting to billions of euros. Le Figaro ...
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Not tumult at Janury clearance sales
Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:00
According to Media Research Company in spite of the prise actions and sales outs people don't buy anithing. 75% of the answerers said that don't want and will to shop...
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Grain's Prise on the Top
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
Wheat for May delivery rose to $12.145 a bushel in after-hours electronic trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Global wheat stockpiles will probably fall to a 30-year low this...
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Tax authority assigns to use the old cash registers
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
According the Hungarian Tax Authority the older type of cash register, which can't rounding are availability. Authority brings in a verdict, that the rounding doesn't qualified as money-making, so traders...
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Retail wings in Poland
Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00
January Retail Sales Up From 2007 Polish retail sales in January rose a strong 20.9% year-on-year, but fell 18.7% when compared to December 2007. According to figures from the national...
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In-store credit market to grow
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
According to Cetelem research, the most in-store credit have got the Englishs and Germans. In Middle-Europe Polishs, Hungarians, Serbians and Russians have huge credit to pay back. In Hungary the...
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Illegal sausage plant in Pilisszentivan
Date: 2008-02-26 00:00:00
Controllers found the manufacturer by the bill of delivery. The sausages were produced in a back accommodation of a villa in Pilisszentivan. The plant hasn't any admission, the raw material...
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The Most Easter Eggs are Sold in the hypers
Date: 2008-02-25 00:00:00
According to Nielsen Research Company the sales in the 401-2500 sm stores growth from 25 to 28%.Last year the sales of easter choko figures fall down with 9%, altough 900...
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Subway Ads with Full-service Agency
Date: 2008-02-25 00:00:00
ReVISION won the tender of the restaurant chain. The exclusive ad partner of Subway plans and buys the media for the company. Nearby the casual communication effects, the winner tender...
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The food retail decreased in December
Date: 2008-02-25 00:00:00
In the year's last month the retail sales enriched HUF 690 billion, it was 11.2% of year's volume.The volume of retail sales adjusted for calendar effects decreased by 3.0% in...
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Interest In Fairtrade Doubles in Britain
Date: 2008-02-22 00:00:00
Ethical shopping is moving into the mainstream as shoppers become increasingly informed about how food is produced. British shoppers bought Fairtrade products, people are taking a renewed interest in where...
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The new consumer protection action started on the market at Feny street
Date: 2008-02-22 00:00:00
On the first station of „Springtime” operational the authorities didn't find big anomalies. 30 kilo meat was suppressed and some vegetable were must to be controled, but nothing was...
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Hungarian Trade Association believes in strong supervising but…
Date: 2008-02-22 00:00:00
The association agrees with the goal of the control chain, but ask the authorities to harmonize the default and the fine. The association advises to its members not to allow...
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Real wages decreased in 2007
Date: 2008-02-21 00:00:00
2 million 760 thousand persons were employed by enterprises employing at least 5 persons and by budgetary and social institutions, as well as assigned non-profit organizations in January–December 2007. ...
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Tea price on historical top
Date: 2008-02-20 00:00:00
The cost of a cup of tea is set to soar to an all-time high following production problems in Kenya, the UN warned. Violence in the world’s largest exporter...
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Marketers want to get inside consumers' heads
Date: 2008-02-20 00:00:00
The biometric research are cheaper and easier as the normal way. Coca-Cola Co. and Virgin Mobile USA are among the top marketers to use neuroscience and biometric research to understand...
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EU ministers at odds over approval of GMO foods
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
European Union farm ministers fell short of a consensus agreement on Monday to allow imports of five genetically modified (GMO) products, paving the way for default approval by legal rubberstamp,...
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Rigid competition control at Edeka-Plus merger
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
Not only the two companies, but the whole supplier chains is analyzed, firms not to answer must to pay fine. The fusion plant for Mai, is under rigid control,...
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French Consumers Eat Less Dairy Products
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
According to governmental data, French consumption of dairy products has declined by 7% between 1997 and 2006. The government explains the drop by two factors. Firstly, consumers are more and...
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Employment in Hungary well below EU average
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
Only 57 percent of Hungary's 15-64-year-olds are working, well below the European Union average of 64 percent. It noted that in 1989 5.4 million Hungarians were on the workforce compared...
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