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Minor growth in the processing industry

In January 2010, industrial domestic sales prices were 1.8 percent higher in comparison with the previous month and 1.6 percent higher in comparison with January 2009. Domestic sales prices by...

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Ranking of retail chains stays the same: Tesco leads, followed by two Hungarian chains

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

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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Deficit in retail

In terms of volume, retail sales were 5.6 percent lower in January 2010 than in the same period the previous year. Retail sales were up by 0.6 percent in January...

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The several-year shrinking of the store network stopped last year

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

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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A decrease in prices dragged Slovakian turnover down

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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Cheese was special: value sales declined, but volume sales augmented

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

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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Facts and misbeliefs about our trade with Slovakia

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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(HU) Alternatívákat keresnek a sajtmárkák a dömpingár ellen

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With evergreen bags for the environment

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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From Michurin to Volkswagen

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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In 2009 cheap cheeses pulled the market

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

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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EuroCIS in Düsseldorf: Information technology specifically for retail

There is a constant demand from retailers for IT innovations, so it does not come as a surprise that early March the EuroCIS retail information technology trade fair in Düsseldorf...

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Small shops keep losing ground

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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Point of purchase in the capital city of fashion

Digital solutions were in the limelight at the Marketing at Retail Show in Paris. The event is held every second year and this was the seventh time that POPAI Awards...

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With a good taste in our mouths

On 26 March Barcelona’s Alimentaria, one of the world’s three biggest food and catering trade fairs closed its gates. The fair is held every second year and is now held...

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“The most successful promotion of the year” competition has finished

At the annual contest of the Trade Magazin the producers, traders and agencies implementing promotions of the FMCG sector could compete for “The most successful promotion of the year” title....

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Festival of Balaton wines in Budapest

More than one hundred wine specialties and concerts are waiting the audience of the second Lake Balaton Wine Festival, on the first weekend of May in Budapest. The goal of...

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Farm Goods shop in the capital

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

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

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

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

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

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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Rafinanz became the most successful promotion of the year

The BTL division of Rafinanz won “The most successful promotion of the year” award on the annual competition of Trade Magazin and Nielsen. The adidas-Wii promotion made for the Coty...

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OKSZ: commercial sales fell in February

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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Great exhibitor interest for Interpack 2011

The leading trade fair of packaging offers new special group of offers: “Metal Packaging Plaza” and “Save Food!” The Interpack 2011 is following the results of the highly successful 2008...

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